Premise: Government’s indelible, enlightened mandate is to keep the citizen free.

1. Freedom is safety.

2. This means keeping the citizen safe.

3. This means managing the citizen’s risk.

4. This means deciding for the citizen what is risky.

5. This means being the citizen’s conscience.

6. This means being the citizen’s consciousness.

7. This means being the citizen for him.

8. This means the death of the citizen.