Paranoid or Prescient?

Townhall.com ^ | May 23, 2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

Government is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founders.

Is that perennial fear an exaggeration? Survey the current news.

We have just learned that the Internal Revenue Service before the 2012 election predicated its tax-exempt policies on politics. It inordinately denied tax exemption to groups considered either conservative or possibly antagonistic to the president's agenda.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Venturer]

It is much worse than this article suggests.

It is no Conspiracy Theory. It is fact.

[Kaslin]

Only the deniers, or those with their heads stuck in the sand would say it is a conspiracy theory

[exDemMom]

Any more, it appears that many elected in government believe that the citizens are there to serve their needs and desires. They have utterly forgotten that the purpose of being in government is to serve the citizens.

And we, the citizens, keep sending them back, no matter how corrupt and power-hungry they are.

[livius]

Who knows, but yesterday's wacky conspiracist is becoming today's Nostradamus.

Good summary! Every day we find the revelation that yet another bizarre, through-the-looking-glass action on the part of our government really did happen, just the way the Cassandras among us thought it would.

[Thane_Banquo]

Hey Victor, get a clue. The Obama DHS is buying all that ammo just in case more information gets out about what they’ve done. If their political opponents get too loud, then Obama will just resort to politics by other means.

[Rummyfan]

The problem with an all-powerful, rogue government is not just that it becomes quite adept at doing what it should not. Increasingly, it also cannot even do what it should.

[Rummyfan]

Hey Victor, get a clue. The Obama DHS is buying all that ammo just in case more information gets out about what they’ve done. If their political opponents get too loud, then Obama will just resort to politics by other means.

We've got guns and ammo too.

[muir_redwoods]

In Churchill’s words, civil servants are no longer either servants or civil. The Founders left us armed for a reason. Is there any longer a shred of doubt that we are facing that reason right now?