At that first meeting, forty-seven years ago, Bob said that his goal when he started his program was to get just one person to agree with him. He knew that to change the world you needed to change individuals. He said he’d be happy to change just one.
We have less personal freedom than when I met Bob. About fifteen years ago, I wrote this:
Everyday we lose a bit of freedom in this country. We lose freedom every time a planning commission meets. We lose freedom every time a city council or a legislative body convenes. We lose freedom every time a bureaucrat goes to work. We lose freedom every time a businessman wants an advantage from government. We lose freedom every time people exercise power over property they don’t own. We lose freedom whenever someone asserts control over another person’s actions.
We have already lost most of our property rights. We fool ourselves to think we have civil liberty. Even so, the Statists chip away daily at the bit of freedom that remains.
We have less freedom than when I wrote that. We have less freedom than we had yesterday. This blog will be about Freedom. It may not be as clear and concise as Bob’s teachings, but it will be my honest attempt to convey the message of personal freedom in a practical way. Bob prided himself on being logical and logically consistent. While I won’t be able to match his purity of thought, I’ll give you my thoughts about how the world ought to work from a libertarian perspective. I’ll cover items that I find of interest and give my interpretations that I hope are tinged with some of Bob’s principles.
I’ll close this opening blog with a message from Lao Tzu:
A leader is best
When people barely knows that he exists
Not so good when people obey and acclaim him.
Worst when they despise him.
“Fail to honor people,
They fail to honor you”
But of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled
They will all say,” We did this ourselves”.
John Roscoe
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