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You may not read this book because we consider it nasty. You may not
have an abortion because we don't think it's right. You may not own a
gun because we are opposed to that. Like-minded people may not band
together and form their own government because we won't let you.
(However, we are perfectly within our rights to force our views on you.)
On and on and on.

Gimme some money! Gimme a free ride! Gimme food! Take care of me from
the womb to the tomb or we'll riot and burn and destroy.

Eventually, that's what happened.

And like Humpty Dumpty, it could not be put back together again.

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If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor
offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of
sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a
country, and that a free country.

-John Adams

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Ben was glad when he could no longer see the smoke from the fires of
discontent. The big transport plane had entered Rebel-controlled
territory. For hundreds of miles, the scene had been even worse than
Cecil had described.

"We should never have left the country," Ben muttered. "I went against
my own philosophy."

But he knew that even had he stayed, he could not have changed the
course of events.

Ben dozed off and was awakened by the pilot's voice. "We'll be landing
in about twenty minutes, General. The airport is secure."

"Landing into what?" Ben whispered.

Chaos. Rebellion. Upheaval. Mindless acts of violence and destruction.
Civil war. Mobs of people running amok, after having reverted back to
barbarism. Burning and looting and killing and raping. White against black.

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Black against white. White against white. Black against black. Senseless