As we approach the new century, it might be noted what has been said
in the past by people that appear to have been a whole lot smarter than
we. How far must the bough of freedom bend before it breaks
irretrievably.
May all of you have a most pleasant holiday and remember that this
time of the year is devoted to peace and goodwill. The best to all of
you from I and my wife, Mary.
Jack
In order to give credit where credit is due, I found the following on
the home page of the "1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Constitutional
Militia."
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating
contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your
counsels or your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set
lightly upon you, and
may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
--- Samuel Adams
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny; where the
government fears the people, you have liberty."
"The Constitution has secured these [individual rights] in the
Executive and Legislative
departments; but not in the Judiciary. The Judiciary of the United
States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working
under ground to undermine
the foundation of our confederated fabric. The federal Judiciary; an
irresponsible body
(for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night
and by day,
gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its
noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all
shall be usurped from the States, and the government shall be
consolidated into one. When all government, in little as in great
things, shall be
drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless
the checks provided of the government on another and will become as
venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. Judges
should be withdrawn from the bench whose erroneous biases are leading us
to dissolution. It may, indeed, injure them in fame or fortune; but it
saves the Republic."
--- Thomas Jefferson, the Third President of these United States
The Communist Manifesto represents a misguided philosophy, which teaches
the citizens to give up their rights for the sake of the "common good,"
but it always ends in a police state. This is called preventive justice.
Control is the key concept. Read the following
summary carefully:
Abolition of private property.
Heavy progressive income tax.
Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels.
Central bank.
Government control of communication and transportation.
Government ownership of factories and agriculture.
Government control of labor.
Corporate farms, regional planning.
Government control of education.
Does this list look hauntingly familiar? Well it should. This is
practically the platform of our current government with it's hoards of
bureaucracies. They take property without compensation. They tax us
until we bleed. They get involved with our personal affairs. They
control the financial markets with interest rates. They control our air
waves and means of transportation with miles of regulations. They pay
farmers not to produce and workers not to work. And worst of all, they
take the minds and hearts of our children away from us with their out
come based education. Is this the kind of government that we
want? Do these values represent our own?
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