The war on pretty flowers?
First, the Rand quote is beautiful:
There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals. When there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking the law. Create a nation of lawbreakers and then you can cash in on the guilt. Now that’s the system!
After that, I continued to read this and once I finally got over the fact that the US Fish and Wildlife Services carried weapons, I was shocked. A man was detained, had his property confiscated but was not arrested. This was because he may have grown some kind of orchid.
