This necessarily entails defining what freedom is, identifying the governmental infringements on freedom, and making the case for dismantling, not reforming, such infringements. While my primary focus is on the fact that people have a natural, God-given right to be free, my secondary focus has been on making the utilitarian case for freedom — that is, showing how a free society generates positive benefits, such as higher standards of living and societal harmonies.

This multipart article is intended to do something different, albeit complementary. It will focus on the concept of evil, specifically by showing that evil has concentrated itself within the federal government through the attachment of evil systems. It is these evil systems, I contend, that are destroying America. This article will be a supplement to the video series that I am doing that has the same name, "The Evil Within," which can be found in the multimedia section of FFF's website.
Of course, there might be people who don't believe in the concept of evil. For those, this article will probably not have much meaning. But as a devout Catholic, I firmly believe in the concept of evil — and I have no doubts that it is a force that is constantly at war with good.

One of the most profound books I have ever read was People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck (1936–2005), which is a study of evil. I discovered this book after reading Peck's book The Road Less Traveled, which I also highly recommend.
Peck, a devout Christian, firmly believed in the concept of evil. He pointed out that evil tends to concentrate in places where it can do the most damage, including in both the private sector and the government sector. My focus in this article will be on the government sector, given that this is the sector that wields the power to kill and destroy people, including through the initiation of force.

I wish to make it clear that I will not be focusing on evil people in this article. I'm not competent to determine who is evil and who isn't. My focus will be exclusively on the evil systems in which both good and evil people operate. It is my contention that when good people are working within an evil system, the system will always win out.

In fact, I contend that among evil's greatest triumphs over good is that evil has been able to get good people — say, devout Christians — to work within an evil system and attempt to reform and improve it, oftentimes not even realizing that they are working for an evil system. In this way, evil has been successful in getting good people, including devout Christians, Jews, Muslims, and others, to advance evil, even if unknowingly and unwittingly.