You get the government you deserve
Excerpted from "A Fool and His Liberty Are Soon Parted" by by Retta Fontana, at Strike-The-Root.com
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You get the government you deserve
Americans have gotten fat and lazy, there’s just no question about it. The Constitution was a contract for a Cadillac, but delivered a lemon. We fell hook, line and sinker for the oldest pigeon drop in the world. We’ve traded a little liberty for the empty promise of some security and just look where we’re at now. Besides being bogged down in yet another in an endless stream of military conflicts that cannot be won and which are bankrupting us, we are less secure than ever. We’ve looked away for a moment and now we’re in shackles. Two for flinching, America !
Modern man is guilty of depraved indifference when it comes to the vigilance required for liberty. He’s fallen for the get-rich-quick scheme of the hucksters in Washington with their snake oil promises of freedom in the homeland (if they can just spy on us enough), equality (if we all sacrifice enough), democracy (you simply get The Man to tell your neighbor how to live), immigration (The Man decides who gets invited to the party), justice (Big Pharma and the DEA choose your medicine and your punishment) and security (torture Muslims and rape and kill their women and children too). This is considered a solid basis for the procurement of liberty?
Most people can’t admit they’ve been had because it’s too humiliating and painful, especially if you’ve lost a limb or a loved one to the war machine. It’s too much work to try to extricate one’s self from the machine of government now. It reminds me of a woman I once knew who had supported Jim Bakker and his Praise The Lord house of cards. She kept sending in her payments even after he was arrested for fraud! Her reasoning was that if she stopped “donating,” she wouldn’t get her free stay at the PTL Hotel, which I doubt she got anyway and had already more than paid for. They had sold far more “free stays” than they could accommodate anyway. They must have taken a leaf out of the government Social Security playbook. Just keep paying, cross you fingers and maybe you’ll get yours.
The U.S. Government is so far in debt it can never dig itself out even if it wanted to, which it doesn’t because “deficits don’t matter.” It has inflated away 95% of the value of its currency by manipulation of the money supply and in so doing has created one fragile economic bubble after another. It has overextended its empire into nearly every corner of the globe and made mortal enemies every step of the way.
Here in metro Detroit , real estate is in the toilet – houses are cheaper than cars. Auto industry jobs are disappearing by the tens of thousands and the evaporation of livelihood goes out in waves in supporting industries. I have lived here all my life and I’ve never seen so many empty houses; some don’t even have “for sale” signs. Economically we are heading for ground zero without a shot fired, due totally to the “something for nothing” world improvers and the dupes who fell for their song and dance. Anyone half awake is wondering if they can’t just “get theirs and get out” unscathed like in a deal going sour. It doesn’t work that way. My Dad always said that if you dance to the music you have to pay the piper, and boy, oh boy, have we racked up a tab!
No piece of paper protects my liberty, just as no piece of paper kept me faithful to my husband or protective of my children. If something greater isn’t fueling my living, then what I am is not free nor worthy. That something greater is sadly uncommon in modern America . Government is basically made up of thieving, morally decrepit whores who come in the night to steal, kill and destroy. Like Snow White, humanity, en masse, has been put into a poisonous slumber of dependency on government. Contrary to popular belief in the second coming of the Clintons , there is no princely wake up kiss coming in the 2008 election. There is a kiss coming, but it’s more like the one the doomed guy gets from the Godfather. The average politician, as my Dad would say, has the “morals of an alley cat,” and I’m not talking about their sex lives.
Anything valuable is worth fighting for, and freedom is valuable indeed. Without it, there is really nothing else worth having. Freedom won’t come to you in the mail like a cheap life insurance policy, and it won’t protect you from inside a frame under glass in the halls of Congress or from the sworn statement of politicians no matter what you believe. It won’t ride up on a white steed. It is paid for in blood and its cost is dear. Many have died to obtain it. You may have to die trying to retrieve and protect it. This is not an appealing idea, but many people die under the heel of tyranny too.
If liberty is valuable enough for thieves in government to come after, isn’t it worth another look, America ?
