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> Tryanny Personified
> by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
>
> During the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for
> attorney general
> nominee
> John Ashcroft, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-O’Shea’s
> Saloon) threw a fit
> over
> a
> perfectly correct statement once made by Ashcroft
> regarding how the
> founding
> fathers advocated the Second Amendment right to bear
> arms because of
> their
> belief that a well-armed citizenry constituted yet
> another check on
> governmental tyranny. "What, us, tyrannical?"
> Kennedy bellowed. He then
> demanded that Ashcroft "apologize to the American
> people" for having
> made
> such an outrageous statement.
>
> Senator Kennedy is perhaps the most important member
> of Congress because
> in
> incidents like this he reminds Americans of how
> truly corrupt,
> tyrannical,
> deceitful, and rotten to the core the US State has
> become. To Kennedy,
> murdering some 80 people, including several dozen
> children, with poison
> gas,
> machine gun fire, and flames in Waco, Texas, because
> they allegedly
> violated
> a minor gun control law (which is unconstitutional,
> of course) is not an
>
> act
> of tyranny.
>
> An FBI sniper shooting a new mother holding her baby
> in her arms at her
> home
> in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, right between the eyes because
> her husband
> allegedly
> violated a minor gun law is not an act of tyranny.
>
> Murdering literally thousands of innocent civilians
> in three different
> foreign countries with cruise missile attacks just
> to deflect American
> media
> attention from Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial is
> nothing to be
> concerned
> about in Ted Kennedy’s mind.
>
> The tax police in recent years have audited over a
> dozen outspoken
> conservative and libertarian organizations that have
> criticized
> government
> intervention, but has not investigated any left-wing
> groups. There is
> supposedly nothing at all suspicious or tyrannical
> about this, as well.
>
> The tax cops have a training videotape in which an
> "instructor" gives
> the
> following advice on how to treat taxpayers: "Make
> them cry. We don’t
> give
> points around here for being good scouts. . . .
> Seizure and sales.
> That’s
> our
> mind set . . . . You’re not out there to take any
> prisoners. . .
> enforce
> collection until they come to their knees." And
> people like Senator
> Kennedy
> insist on referring to the federal income tax as
> "voluntary" and the tax
>
> collection office as a "service."
>
> According to the government’s "glancing goose"
> standard, if a goose
> flies
> over one’s property and glances down at the
> smallest mud puddle, the
> government has a right to control the use of that
> property under the
> commerce
> clause of the Constitution because the goose is
> likely to cross state
> lines
> and be shot down by a hunter, which would constitute
> interstate
> commerce.
> This is not a joke. This is an integral part of the
> EPA’s "wetlands"
> policy
> of unconstitutional property confiscation. Nothing
> tyrannical about
> that,
> either, Senator Kennedy?
>
> Communities all over America have attempted to
> return to some semblance
> of
> equality under the law by prohibiting racial hiring
> quotas, only to be
> vetoed
> by a single federal judge, educated at one of the
> left-wing propaganda
> mills
> known as Ivy League law schools, and granted
> lifetime tenure by
> unscrupulous
> and downright criminal politicians like Bill
> Clinton.
>
> Based on mere hearsay, heavily armed, flak jacketed
> federal Drug
> Enforcement
> Administration agents can break into one’s house
> in the middle of the
> night
> and confiscate all of one’s property if an
> "informer" tells them that
> there
> may be marijuana plants there. Property is
> confiscated without recourse,
>
> and
> it takes years for innocent parties to get it back,
> if they ever do.
> Many
> innocent citizens (and even their pet dogs) have
> been gunned down by
> federal
> agents in such raids.
>
> Beginning in 1999, the National Security Agency ran
> a spy satellite
> program
> named "Echelon" which scans millions of phone calls,
> e-mails, and faxes
> from
> all around the world, ostensibly looking for
> "national security
> threats."
> The
> Soviet Union’s secret police were never so prying
> and abusive of
> citizens’
> privacy.
>
> Despite the Second Amendment’s protection of the
> right to bear arms,
> in
> recent years laws and regulations have been passed
> that ban millions of
> guns,
> create thousands of "gun-free zones," retroactively
> turn more than a
> million
> gun owners into felons by declaring their firearms
> "illegal assault
> weapons,"
> and created a national registry of all people who
> have purchased
> firearms,
> historically the first step to gun confiscation. All
> of these laws and
> regulations are a blatant attack on the
> Constitution, our most important
>
> safeguard against tyranny.
>
> These are just a few examples of horrifyingly
> tyrannical behavior of the
> US
> government that has become routine. Politicians like
> Ted Kennedy are
> Orwellian caricatures who apparently believe that
> TYRANNY IS FREEDOM,
> for
> they are the architects of all these despicable acts
> of tyranny. If the
> American public ever wakes up to this fact, these
> political charlatans
> will
> hopefully suffer the same fate as the defunct
> tyrants of the former
> communist
> countries.
>
> January 19, 2001
>
> Thomas J. DiLorenzo is Professor of Economics at
> Loyola College in
> Maryland.
>
> Copyright 2001 LewRockwell.com
>
>
>
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