So When Do We Get the Enlightened Part?

It isn't theft only because the government says it isn't.

But it is wrong. Free people should not endure this.

Apparently we already have the autocratic part of Tom Friedman's dream of being ruled by reasonably enlightened autocrats.

UPDATE: Or this. King George III wouldn't have treated us this way. (Oops. I thought I was adding this line to a scheduled post. Now it needs to be an update.)