Thursday, August 18, 2016

Venezuelan Gun Destruction Shows Danger of ‘Just Following Orders’ Culture

It should surprise no one that Reverol has been indicted in the U.S. on drug-trafficking charges, or that drug money fuels much of the criminal violence plaguing Venezuela. Nor should it surprise us that socialist President Nicolás Maduro calls a Marxist Spanish professor “the Jesus Christ of economics.”
So is anyone surprised a tyrant, desperate to hold on to power, demands a monopoly of violence?  Or that such an imbalance in power results in a murderous military/police state? [More]
Harvesting the fruits of "progressivism"...

1 comment:

Matthew the Oilman said...

Unfortunately as long as the enforcers have 30 year mortgages, their allegiance to the Constitution remains shakey.