The Camel’s Nose: Cell Phone Bans, Medicare, and the 16th Amendment

‘But back to the proposed cellphone ban. NTSB Chairwoman Hersman said: "It's going to be very unpopular with some people. We're not here to win a popularity contest. We're here to do the right thing." C.S. Lewis warned us about people like Hersman, saying: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ‘ - Walter E. Williams, from the essay Gullible Americans, 12/28/2011.

Link to the complete essay appears below:

http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/12/28/gullible_americans