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From ancient times to the present, politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups have gained resources and control over the public by playing to people’s fears of various “crises” and by offering “solutions” that often only make problems worse.
Ivan Eland discusses the Russian school siege and Vladimir Putin’s policies for addressing terrorist attacks in an interview with Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN.
