A Commonplace Of Political Rhetoric Has It

So Many Of The New Nations Which Were Established As Democracies After The Second World War, During The Decolonizing Process, Have Now Changed Their System To State-socialism. Small Elites Run Them, And They Aren't Sharing Societies. They Aren't Even Socialist. The Power Of The State Has Been Merged With Business Property And You Have The Greatest Concentration Of Power That's Possible.

The Work Of Democratic Government Is Routinely Concerned With Matters Defined As Troubles. In "the Presidency And The Press" I Make The Point, Familiar To Anyone Who Has Flown About The World Much, That The Best Quick Test Of The Political Nature Of A Regime Is To Read The Local Papers On Arrival. If They Are Filled With Bad News, You Have Landed In A Libertarian Society Of Some Sort. If, On The Other Hand, The Press Is Filled With Good News, It Is A Fair Bet That The Jails Will Be Filled With Good Men.

There Is One Unmistakable Lesson In American History; A Community That Allows A Large Number Of Young Men To Grow Up In Broken Families, Dominated By Women, Never Acquiring Any Stable Relationship To Male Authority, Never Acquiring Any Set Of Rational Expectations About The Future - That Community Asks For And Gets Chaos.

What The Press Never Does Say Is Who The Leaker Is And Why He Wants The Story Leaked. Yet, More Often Than Not, This Is The More Important Story: What Policy Wins If The One Being Disclosed Loses?

The Amount Of Violations Of Human Rights In A Country Is Always An Inverse Function Of The Amount Of Complaints About Human Rights Violations Heard From There. The Greater The Number Of Complaints Being Aired, The Better Protected Are Human Rights In That Country.