Ed and Elaine Brown are now in jail because they dared to challenge the legality of the federal income tax. Countless brave souls showed the same or greater courage during the reigns of Hitler and Stalin. But not enough people did. Badnarik's point is in no way demeaning to Jews. One can quibble with his inaccuracies, but he forcefully illustrates the complacency of the oppressed and the dark realm into which that complacency eventually leads. It is also a relevant observation of those in America who are perfectly happy with the steamrolling of their unalienable rights in the name of feeding off the national teat and partaking of its offers of "protection."
"It would seem that if only that kind of shout had been raised, all the stage sets would have collapsed, the plaster masks would have fallen off, the Producer would have fled down the backstairs, and the prompters would have sneaked off into their ratholes." - Solzhenitsyn
