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An Open Letter to the Australian Community in Behalf of Ron Paul: Ron Paul in an Australian Context

Everyone seems convinced that they have got to do something about everything, because everyone else is and because things are not perfect. They do not realise that there are errors of omission and errors of commission; although they do realise that there are errors of commission by others. It is to make themselves heroes and [...]

In this article by Thomas Szasz, both C.S. Lewis and Bertrand Russell are quoted using a lunatic who thinks he is a poached egg as real evidence of insanity, but they acknowledge the difficulty of the situation. Here is the Russell excerpt: It is therefore important to discover whether there is any answer to Hume [...]

Someone should ask Tim Costello whether he believes third world citizens should be allowed to vote in Australian elections. If he does, then he denies any concept of sovereignty and private property and having any limits on government at all; if he does not, then he must not believe in the principles of foreign aid [...]

This titillating attempt toward tastefully toasting a terrible teetotalling totalitarian tyrant is from G.K. Chesterton, The End of the Armistice, ch. XXXI, in vol. V of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1987), pp. 640-42: