Posted on 03/23/2023 5:45:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In Jonathan Nolan's excellent television series, Person of Interest, stars Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson intervene each episode to avert violent crimes predicted by an artificial intelligence.
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This much is clear: in both the television series and America today, Big Government is not the victim; it is the perpetrator.
Around the country, almost every problem Americans endure is a result of Big Government action or inaction. Government overspending and central bank money-printing have crushed the value of ordinary Americans' income and savings. The Intelligence Community's use of the PATRIOT Act and other unconstitutional tools to violate Americans' Fourth Amendment rights against warrantless searches has not only eliminated privacy, but also made every citizen a suspect. The Biden administration's choice to leave America's borders wide open has exacerbated crime, drug addiction, and identity theft while breaking city budgets and local communities.
Washington, D.C.'s endless bureaucratic rule-making touches every part of every American's life. What products can be bought and sold? What can a citizen do on or with his private property? What speech should be censored because the government judges its content "hateful" or unacceptably contrary to the bureaucracy's official point of view? While Congress never stops passing laws, agencies never stop exponentially compounding those laws with new standards, rules, and regulations that micromanage everything Americans do. Bureaucrats never ask, "Is this government coercion worth the additional loss of a citizen's liberty?" In fact, one Biden agency head bluntly admitted recently that his army of government workers were "having fun" writing new regulations to control the American people. Protecting personal freedom could not be farther from his mind.
In an essay entitled "Why the Left Is Pro-Mask," Dennis Prager wrestles with why so many leftists refuse to abandon face coverings
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
COVID was very interesting in how it brought out the leftist true believers.
The larger the Bureaucracy, the fewer qualms it has about destroying individuals and families.
“COVID was very interesting in how it brought out the leftist true believers.”
Many of them are right here on FR.
Excellent article.
It sure did.
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