Terrorism is a game in which every player wins—everybody, that is, except for the ordinary people who do the bleeding and dying -- and it's a bastard child of democracy, as surely as Tammany Hall and total war, predicated on the cruelly false notion that everybody in a democratic country, even little babies in their cradles, has a part in running it, and therefore deserves equal punishment for whatever it does.

It's also a trifle more complicated than it appears to be on the surface, and it's often hard to tell the difference between winning and losing.

Robert LeFevre, undoubtedly the most underrated thinker, leader, and teacher of the libertarian movement, had most of it figured out as early as 1972, when I attended an unforgettable seminar he conducted in Wichita, Kansas.