I don’t spend a lot of time at NRO because all statists taste the same to me. Having uttered the obligatory exculpation, I’ll go ahead and admit that Kevin Williamson is an excellent writer and something of a guilty pleasure. Yeah, he’s a conservative statist but he always seems so enticingly on the brink of joining us here in the wilderness. Maybe someday he’ll become Joe Sobran.
This morning I read his column Meet the New Serfs: You. There’s nothing in it regular TUAK readers are likely to find new, but he seems to have found the discovery jolting and he writes about it well. Enjoy.
If you’re an ordinary schmo, a typo can land you in jail. If you work for the government, you can burn the face off a baby and walk.
Even in medieval times, the distinction between lords and serfs was not so pronounced.
I can’t even imagine what the IRS would do to me if they wanted to investigate my action and I told them that I “lost” all of the evidence surrounding that action, conveniently, right around the time I fund out they were going to investigate me.
My guess is that I’d be up for a dark hole in a prison somewhere where they don’t care if the bubbas are gentle or not.
Lois Lerner, on the other hand, is up for a promotion.