What I'll Never Forget  Exclusive to STR   It was the
culmination of a long journey. I have felt a sort of instinctive
revulsion seeing someone shoved around, bullied, or dominated
for as long as I can remember. I can still recall how shocked
and dismayed I was when, as a boy, I learned what 'taxes' were.
There were actually guys who went around forcing people to give
them money, and throwing people who refused in jail? And the
police didn't stop them? Learning about 'eminent domain' a few
years later during a construction project in my town was an even
bigger shock. Money was still mostly an abstraction for me, but
the idea that the government could force people to sell their
house and move somewhere else made a more concrete impression.
My grandfather was a sort of Goldwater Republican, and I spent a
lot of time visiting him and reading books I borrowed from him.
This started to provide my underlying instincts with a more
concrete framework. I began moving in a steadily anti-statist
direction more or less