I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

Now's not that time.

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

Oh, why everything?

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

Let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

Don't be afraid.

I'm going to unshackle your mind.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

Your professor has arrived.

Tom Woods.

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It is Monday, February 3, 2014.

My thanks to all you wonderful and faithful listeners who have been making your Amazon purchases

through our Amazon widget at Tom Woods Radio.com. By entering Amazon from there, you help us pay

our bills at no cost yourself, and I certainly appreciate that. For today's episode, I am sharing

with you the remarks I delivered at the Mesa Circle in Houston, January 18, 2014, on the subject

of the police state, and my topic was the economics of the police state, so it's a lot about the drug war and interesting topics like that. So I hope you enjoy it, and here we go. Today, of course, I'm talking about police militarization, but also the war on drugs, because I think one has fed into the other.

And every time I hear the federal government use some phrase involving war, it just sounds

so Kremlin-esque to me. It reminds me of Richard Nixon's war on cancer. Now most people have probably forgotten Nixon's War on Cancer because, of course, we cured cancer under the Nixon administration, so why would we need to think about it?

But he did promise, though, that at least by 1977, we would have wiped out cancer.

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