If a revolution occurs in the United States it will occur because we’re all fed up with the system. It is not the harsh and cruel tyranny that Russia has. I know. It is what Tocqueville described as the tyranny that flows from too much democracy— “absolute, minute, regular, provident, mild.” And, Tocqueville added, “meddlesome.” Meddlesome indeed. For some years now I have been getting angrier and angrier, and more helpless and more helpless, as the paperwork avalanche out of Washington has cluttered up more and more of my desk top, my working hours, my emotional energy, my statistical resources. You do not perhaps believe me.
My name is William Rickenbacker. Married. Two sons, Thomas and James, from previous marriage. Taxes all paid. No criminal record. Here is what the governmental system sent me in calendar 1973. Go ahead, read it word for word:
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