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From the page: "Though the proponents of socialist schemes of compassion want us to forget the fact, government action is distinguished from that of other human associations by the implicit threat of coercion behind all its lawful acts. Government uses money taken from citizens under coercion. The same implicit coercion backs up the actions of its duly authorized agents. Everything done by government therefore smacks of constraint. The underlying reality of its power is, as I think Bentham suggested, the prospect of the gallows that overshadows everything it does. The root of its executive power is the right of lawful execution.

Government as such is not an expression of human freedom. It in fact reflects the constraints required to make freedom compatible with peace and order. As the sphere of government domination and control grows, the sphere of free human action shrinks. But if freedom is an essential element of love, the sphere of human love shrinks with it. This means that, for all their talk of compassion, those who promise utopia by means of socialist schemes of government power are either tragically deluded or simply lying. The track record of someone like Obama certainly points to the latter.

Socialism isn't about compassion simply because you can't legislate love. If we can somehow get well-meaning Americans of every stripe to ponder this simple fact, common sense will deflate the pretensions of all the socialists and so-called liberals overnight �" at which point people will have to face the simple truth that Christ just as simply conveyed. Without love, all the works
of the law count for nothing. The law can discourage evil. Only hearts truly transformed by the power of love can do true works of compassion.
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