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Big Government as the New Terminator
Townhall.com ^ | August 20, 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/20/2015 6:34:16 AM PDT by Kaslin

Edited on 08/20/2015 7:12:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Social observers from Aristotle and Juvenal to James Madison and George Orwell have all warned of the dangers of out-of-control government. Lately, we have seen plenty of proof that they were frighteningly correct.

The Environmental Protection Agency spilled 3 million gallons of toxic sludge into a tributary of the Animas River in Colorado. The stinky yellow flume of old mine waste -- rife with cancer-causing mercury and arsenic -- threatens to pollute the drinking and recreational water of three states.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; epa; erinbrockovich; goldkingmine; hillaryclinton; irs; navajonation; water

1 posted on 08/20/2015 6:34:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Servant of the Cross

Ping


2 posted on 08/20/2015 6:34:52 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Civil disobedience is looking good all the time.


3 posted on 08/20/2015 6:41:05 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Kaslin

bump


4 posted on 08/20/2015 6:41:46 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Biggirl

It sure does, doesn’t it?


5 posted on 08/20/2015 6:42:55 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

...but some are above prosecution!

6 posted on 08/20/2015 6:45:09 AM PDT by null and void (Support Islamic Repatriation)
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To: Kaslin

Remember, Kyle: GOPe is Skynet.


7 posted on 08/20/2015 6:47:00 AM PDT by papertyger (When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office)
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To: Kaslin

The woman has the look of a lesbian. Are all nobama appointees mentally unstable degenerates?


8 posted on 08/20/2015 6:48:35 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Kaslin

Yep, it sure does!


9 posted on 08/20/2015 6:52:42 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: hal ogen

That was my thought too


10 posted on 08/20/2015 7:07:45 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Admin Moderator

Oops sorry, I forgot to excerpt the article. My apology


11 posted on 08/20/2015 7:09:30 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: papertyger

Do you mean Chris Kyle? What does he have to do with the subject of the article?


12 posted on 08/20/2015 7:14:28 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

It’s a line from “Terminator: Genisys.”


13 posted on 08/20/2015 7:16:29 AM PDT by papertyger (When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office)
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To: Kaslin

Perhaps Kyle Reese, character in the movie “The Terminator”.


14 posted on 08/20/2015 7:19:30 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

Big government has been, and is always a killer. Nothing new here. Just review history.


15 posted on 08/20/2015 7:22:03 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Kaslin

Fed Govt = Death to Amrricans


16 posted on 08/20/2015 1:57:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Kaslin

Fed Govt = Death to Americans


17 posted on 08/20/2015 1:59:03 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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