Idiot Response GroupTrudeau is meeting this afternoon with his Idiot Response Group. When the white man came to North America the natives lived in a glorious state of nature ( see Jean-Jacques Rousseau). The men hunted and fished all day, paid no taxes, and the women did all the nasty work. The white man came and thought he could improve the system. Indian men have never forgiven white folks for destroying this lost paradise. Hobbes, on the other hand, was less impressed by humans living in a state of nature where life was "nasty, brutish and short, to paraphrase. We seem to be reverting to a lawless society where thugs and bullies destroy the wealth and comforts of others. Hobbes believd that laws were necessary to restrain destructive behavior, but our clownish government chooses to ignore injunctions and protect the lawless to the detriment of the law-abiding.