GUEST COLUMNIST Week of July 19, 1998 |
CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED
by Robert Tracinski
Senior Writer, Ayn Rand Institute
FULTON'S COMMENTARY ON THIS ARTICLE: |
Statists shamelessly use children as pawns in their deadly game of expanding their power over your life. In Fatal Blindness, I devoted an entire chapter to this evil ploy by statists and made the following observation:
"You cannot protect the right to life of a child (in the sense in which it applies to a child) by violating the right to life and liberty of an adult, as we are doing today. Unless we reverse the direction of this country, children who are born today will, in 21 years, arrive into legal adulthood only to discover they have grown up to be some sort of serf, to live a life in which they will be forced into a kind of involuntary servitude to pay for the goals of their statist rulers. The mind-boggling irony of this future situation will be that these children will have been delivered into serfdom in the name of "protecting" them as children. As children, they had the "right" to education, food and housing and the "protection" against "abuse," "protection" against the dissemination of "dangerous" ideas and products. As adults, they will discover their right to live their lives as they see fit is not to be protected, but abused, by the state."
Tracinski's excellent article makes clear that America is in the process of delivering its children to the terror of tyranny.
Fulton Huxtable
July 19, 1998
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