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According to press reports, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is relying on Matthew Scully <\/strong>(among others) to craft tonight’s speech to the GOP convention. <\/p>\n

Scully is a talented writer but would never be accused of libertarian tendencies. Here is a 1999 review he wrote on Freedom in Chains<\/strong><\/a> for National Review. Don’t worry about Leviathan because “even with all the taxes, meddlesome regulations, and officious bureaucrats, the slaves still have it mighty good here.”<\/p>\n

And the best way for citizens to preserve their freedom is to submit to government decrees and never arouse suspicions in federal agencies: “You can still avoid all the legal traps Bovard describes by steering clear of marijuana and other illegal drugs, just as the folks at Waco could have avoided their grief by steering clear of stupid cults or as most of us avoid no-knock ATF raids by not turning our homes into arsenals.”<\/p>\n

National Review<\/strong> May 3, 1999<\/p>\n

HEADLINE: Tyranny Lite
\nby Matthew Scully; Review<\/p>\n

Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen, by
\nJames Bovard (St. Martin\u2019s, 326 pp., $ 26.95)<\/p>\n

The dust jacket to James Bovard\u2019s Freedom in Chains lists a dozen high federal officials who have \u201cpublicly denounced\u201d the author\u2019s writings, from the FBI director to the secretary of agriculture. Bovard, a correspondent for The American Spectator and contributor to Playboy, earned these distinctions by a rare willingness to slog through government reports, budgets, hearing transcripts, and highway bills to expose fraud and waste in federal programs most of us have never even heard of. It takes diligence, and has left Bovard with a visceral distrust of government you don\u2019t get from philosophy books.<\/p>\n

He earned his rebuke from the FBI by investigating the federal raids at Waco and Ruby Ridge, and he sees in those events only the most dramatic proof that \u201cthe threat of government punishment increasingly permeates everyday life.\u201d Picking up where his 1994 Lost Rights left off, Bovard tells us that the IRS wrongfully collects some $ 7 billion in penalties a year, \u201cmore than is stolen by all the burglars and robbers [in America] combined.\u201d The average citizen pays almost 40 percent of his income to the government. Federal regulations, which multiplied even during the Reagan years, threaten livelihoods and the right to property, giving government \u201cadditional prerogatives . . . to trammel, shackle, and punish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drug-enforcement laws have led to abuses of police power, spreading \u201clike a computer virus through the statute books.\u201d Federal attempts to regulate the Internet have \u201cmade it a felony for 17-year-old teenagers to exchange by e-mail the same type of zesty love letters that teenagers have sent each other since at least the time of Romeo and Juliet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bovard reminds us over and over again that government always comes down to coercion-the gun-and the state can grow only at the expense of individual freedom. \u201cThe greater the state\u2019s legal superiority over the citizen,\u201d he writes, \u201cthe closer the citizen is to a slave. . . . Political slavery is revealed at those moments when the paths of the citizen and the state cross, and the citizen suddenly becomes aware of his complete insignificance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waco had a big influence on Bovard, and often he writes as if law-enforcement officers were a greater menace to the average citizen than criminals. If his point were simply that the caliber of personnel even at the FBI isn\u2019t what it used to be (though your average G-man or cop on the beat is still a pretty good character), one would have to agree. But he goes well beyond that, to the point of exaggeration.<\/p>\n

I agree with him that laws against marijuana are a massive waste of time and money. But you can still avoid all the legal traps Bovard describes by steering clear of marijuana and other illegal drugs, just as the folks at Waco could have avoided their grief by steering clear of stupid cults or as most of us avoid no-knock ATF raids by not turning our homes into arsenals.<\/strong> In Bovard\u2019s libertarian vision of the world, all the evildoers work for the government-there are only innocent citizens trodden upon by malevolent government agents, never just foolish people who bring their troubles on themselves. Like the title itself, Freedom in Chains is a little overwrought, reading for stretches as if composed during a long wait at the local DMV: \u201cWhen law itself is the means by which the citizen is stripped of the fruits of his labor, confined to ever narrower portions of his own existence, and subjugated to a thousand insect authorities-then \u2018freedom under the law\u2019 means simply freedom by submitting to your worst enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a point where the libertarian streak of the Right meets the libertine streak of the Left in a chorus of whining against government intrusion, as for example on the question of Internet regulation. \u201cZesty love letters,\u201d his term for threatened speech on the Internet, is libertarian-ese for pornography circulated by the Romeos at NAMBLA [North American Man-Boy Love Association] and others who are not coerced nearly enough by government.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court rulings on police procedure have been generally \u201csalutary\u201d in protecting individual freedom, Bovard argues. But it would be hard to think of a more coercive act by government than the exclusionary rule,<\/strong> a contrivance Bovard seems to approve of (though it is nowhere to be found in the Fourth Amendment) and that in the name of individual rights leaves people free to be attacked or murdered by criminals loosed upon society by the state. As evidence that we don\u2019t need federally protected wilderness areas, he writes, \u201cThe proliferation of contracts for hunting on private land [shows] that, with a sound incentive system, access to private land can easily be negotiated.\u201d In practice this free-market approach to conservation has made a giant industry of canned hunting, allowing every lout who pays his fees to shoot fenced-in and usually baited wildlife.<\/p>\n

Bovard is right, of course, to warn against \u201cthe moral glorification of the state.\u201d But the glorification of autonomous man has a few problems of its own. When he gets around to explaining his own credo the quotes start pouring forth from the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, and John Stuart Mill-not my idea of sound moral guides. \u201cA free society,\u201d writes Bovard, \u201cgives people the chance to be their own disciplinarians. Liberty permits each person to build his own moral utopia or to wallow in his own moral squalor, to live according to his own moral values or lack thereof.\u201d True enough, and doubtless his Playboy readers would agree, except that the squalor has a way of spreading into a tyranny all its own, and typically it\u2019s the wallowers who call on the coercive powers of the state to hold their neighbors at bay.<\/p>\n

Still, the book offers a principled and often eloquent vision of the minimalist state. There is an integrity to it, and it is always refreshing to find a man who takes his freedom straight. Only he ought to go easier on the talk about chains and shackles and slavery. Even with all the taxes, meddlesome regulations, and officious bureaucrats, the slaves still have it mighty good here<\/strong>, and a country where you can make a living writing books like Freedom in Chains can\u2019t be all that bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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