Posted on 01/18/2011 6:19:47 AM PST by CharlesThe Hammer
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson
It's said the composers of the Constitution intended to constrain the central government by charging it with protecting the rights of the citizen. This was clearly a lapse in judgment, a pratfall actually, the kind requiring many tankards of the previous autumn's cider. Since those wonderful days of yesteryear, generations of our best and brightest have not merely alienated our inalienable rights, they've criminalized most of them. The work has been exacting and exhausting but it's yielded a dark parallel to the Constitution worthy of the veneration it receives in learned circles.
But alas, we're told an emergency is at hand.
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Thanks - Good find.
BFL
“Brilliant writing.”
Yes! And accurate, too!
Good Read Ping
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