Well stated.
I am reposting this gem you wrote, in hopes that a few more people read it. It is suitable for framing. One of the best I have ever read.
Great job!
Tyrannical despots may disguise their desire for power under many guises.
The ultimate totalitarian goal remains until power is accumulated and individual liberty is no longer a roadblock.
Fool the people by whatever means, tactics, and semantics are available, even the use of distortion of religious teachings, as long as it serves their purpose.
“Fair share,” “health care,” “gay marriage,”reproductive rights,” “racial justice,” “social justice”—all are simple tools in the kit of an ideology which seeks to elevate government power seekers.
“Health care” was a Trojan Horse for a power grab, just as “gay marriage” is the formation of another entitlement group of voters.
“Fair share” is just “slavery” by another name. Government “masters” buy votes in exchange for retaining their “master redistributionist” status, while their “voters” yield up freedom for themselves and future generations.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis
All who doubt the wisdom of Lewis might watch the video of the President’s recent remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. There, Obama arrogantly misappropriated Jesus’s spiritual challenge to individuals, claiming those words as validating and authorizing abusive use of coercive power by himself and his cronies to “take” from some in order to buy votes and accumulate more power to themselves—all in the name of “helping” the beneficiaries of such unconstitutional “takings.” Jesus never advised “community organizing” to force individual action. His appeal was, as Jefferson put it, “laid hold of actions only. . . .” “He [Jesus] pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.”
Hear Samuel Adams:
“Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
Using a commonly friendly word like “shared” to describe a government policy of force and coercion is despicable on its face. Then, again, isn’t that descriptive of how all totalitarian regimes initially present themselves in order to gain power?
In the course of his research for “Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile” (Harper Collins), Joseph Pearch traveled to Moscow to interview the writer. The excerpt below is from that interview:
Solzhenitsyn: “In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as “we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology”. The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion.” Solzhenitsyn