{"id":5302,"date":"2007-12-16T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2007-12-16T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T17:56:00","slug":"our-own-petty-tyrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/our-own-petty-tyrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Own Petty Tyrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/opinion\/columnists\/boudreaux\/s_542653.html\" title=\"Sweet land of Liberty? -- Don Boudreaux writes\">Don Boudreaux writes<\/a> in <i>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this sweet land of liberty it is surprising how readily we modern Americans let others rule us. I&#8217;m not talking about Americans letting some foreign government rule us. That won&#8217;t happen anytime soon. There&#8217;s no risk that, say, we will quietly surrender to an invading army sent from the likes of Moscow or Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about being ruled by homegrown politicians and petty tyrants who butt their noses into the sizes of our toilets, the amount of salt we consume and countless other provinces of our daily lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, why should being oppressed by a local or national government be any less humiliating than being oppressed by a foreign power? Why?<\/p>\n<p><b>Also read<\/b>: An essay I wrote in August, <a href=\"\/the-republic-of-apathy\/\" title=\"The Republic of Apathy -- Amit Varma\">The Republic of Apathy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/opinion\/columnists\/boudreaux\/s_542653.html\" title=\"Sweet land of Liberty? -- Don Boudreaux writes\">Don Boudreaux writes<\/a> in <i>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this sweet land of liberty it is surprising how readily we modern Americans let others rule us. I&#8217;m not talking about Americans letting some foreign government rule us. That won&#8217;t happen anytime soon. There&#8217;s no risk that, say, we will quietly surrender to an invading army sent from the likes of Moscow or Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about being ruled by homegrown politicians and petty tyrants who butt their noses into the sizes of our toilets, the amount of salt we consume and countless other provinces of our daily lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, why should being oppressed by a local or national government be any less humiliating than being oppressed by a foreign power? Why?<\/p>\n<p><b>Also read<\/b>: An essay I wrote in August, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-republic-of-apathy\/\" title=\"The Republic of Apathy -- Amit Varma\">The Republic of Apathy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our Own Petty Tyrants - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/our-own-petty-tyrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our Own Petty Tyrants - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don Boudreaux writes in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: In this sweet land of liberty it is surprising how readily we modern Americans let others rule us. 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