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How Can We Bring Down the National Security State?

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Every living thing must struggle for existence, and human beings are no exception. Men and women survive on this Earth only because their energies constantly convert other forms of energy to satisfy human needs, and constantly attack the nonhuman energies that are dangerous to human existence. But — only an individual human being can generate human energy. And — only an individual human being can control the energy he generates.
Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress [1953]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG

February 15, 2024
How Can We Bring Down the National Security State?
Upon reading my article of yesterday about master worrywart Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the retired head of the NSA, a longtime supporter of The Future of Freedom Foundation asked how it would ever be possible to bring down an omnipotent governmental structure like a national-security state and replace it with our founding governmental system of a limited-government republic.  It’s a …
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