[MD] NHS? No thanks

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
AHHHH yourself. You ignored the fact that our police and military 
preserve, not destroy, liberty. Critical thinking strikes again.

[Arlo]
Not at all, Platt. You said, and I quote, "You do not see that the 
power to tax is the power to destroy." I don't see any provisions in 
that statement. Indeed, by saying now that "our police and military 
preserve, not destroy, liberty", you are in fact saying the opposite, 
namely that "the power to tax is the power to preserve liberty". I 
agree, Platt, and now you've just proved my point. Thanks.

Or let's take another one of your statements. "Taxation, an assault 
on man's pocketbook, is an assault on a man's liberty." Obviously 
not, since taxation as you point out above funds a program that 
preserves, not destroys, liberty. So again, you proven my point, 
taxation supports social infrastructure that enables, not destroys, liberty.

Funny how you mock critical thinking, but it makes sense seeing as 
all you offer instead is rhetorical distortion and inconsistent 
little propagandistic one-liners.

[Platt]
Government brings wonderful things? Right, like concentration camps.

[Arlo]
Public libraries, free roads and waterways, public lands, museums, 
municipal services, social safety net, consumer protection, 
environmental protection, land management, yes, I'd say government 
brings us wonderful things.

[Platt]
I don't see those professors being fired for defamation like Imus. Why not?

[Arlo]
Tenure, for good or bad, protects the liberty of the academy to speak 
out against injustice without fear of reprisal. But again, this was 
not the first time in American history an angry lynch mob with 
torches and pitchforks went after someone. Why does it surprise you 
now? It's the American way. Conservatives, liberals, blacks, whites, 
makes no difference. You did the same thing, in many ways, with your 
proclamation about the NHS, determining guilt before reading the 
article or understanding the facts. And you called a challenge to do 
so "preparing a thesis". But at any rate, I'm sure there will be many 
more angry mobs in our future. Shock sells. We love to scapegoat and 
blame "an enemy", whether its immigrants, blacks, the white man, 
Jews, Arabs, commies, Nazis, whatever. Welcome to America.