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To: SeekAndFind

We’re seeing the natural progression of Liberals’ need to control and regulate everything.

That their ideas are now coming into direct conflict with each other is lost on all but the elite few who know that the regulation and control is simply a path to power.

Cue the Atlas Shrugged quote about making everything illegal.


22 posted on 09/27/2014 10:18:04 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against—then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there it that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers—and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
51 posted on 09/27/2014 9:24:01 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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