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If We the People Were Actually in Charge
American Thinker ^ | 8 Oct, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 10/08/2023 5:06:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber

When should a government be properly understood as a threat to the lives and liberties of its citizens?

Perhaps no greater delusion stubbornly persists from one generation to the next than the idea that governments can be trusted. Sure, they conduct their affairs in secret, spy on their own people, and arm themselves to the teeth — but, by all means, trust them as you would a dear relative. Sure, they steal from productive citizens, manipulate markets, and swell their bureaucratic armies with ever-growing taxes — but, by all means, trust them as you would a close business associate. Sure, they impose their beliefs on our culture, ban the public expression of unfavored religions, and interpose their agents between parents and children — but, by all means, trust them as you might a pastor, rabbi, or priest.

Even after the global wars, genocides, engineered famines, and kill squads that made the last century the most barbaric in human history, it is exceedingly common to hear Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and others from the Church of Big Government mock ordinary citizens for not putting absolute faith in government institutions. Distancing themselves from the State-sanctioned atrocities of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao while nonetheless pursuing policies that similarly elevate the organs of government and intimidate citizens into compliance, today's ruling-class cult leaders pretend that the twentieth century's mass slaughters could never be repeated here and now — as if the predisposition toward mass murder were a peculiarly German, Russian, or Chinese prerogative and not a tragic ailment endemic to the whole human race.

Oh, sure, Justin Trudeau confiscated the bank accounts of Canadians who resisted his tyrannical COVID lockdowns, but such rank authoritarianism was necessary to protect the public's health...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 10/08/2023 5:06:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Who is hands-down the worst mass murderer in human history? In a single word: government. When it is not finding ways to kill people beyond its borders, it is crafting justifications for killing citizens within.
2 posted on 10/08/2023 5:07:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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....Trump would be President.


3 posted on 10/08/2023 5:08:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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4 posted on 10/08/2023 5:08:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The globalist left is working to attain absolute power. The mass migrations being inflicted on western nations is an example of the pure evil of the globalist left’s absolute power.


5 posted on 10/08/2023 5:18:18 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The globalist left is working to attain absolute power. The mass migrations being inflicted on western nations is an example of the pure evil of the globalist left’s absolute power.


6 posted on 10/08/2023 5:18:18 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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A good piece. One of his best, I think.


7 posted on 10/08/2023 5:18:33 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber

Death by gubbermint.


8 posted on 10/08/2023 5:21:22 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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A good piece. One of his best, I think.

Yep, me too.

9 posted on 10/08/2023 5:22:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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“Justin Trudeau confiscated the bank accounts of Canadians who resisted his tyrannical COVID lockdowns, but such rank authoritarianism was necessary to protect the public’s health”

As others have said:

“My body, my choice”

If a vaccine works, I shouldn’t have to care if you’ve been jabbed with it.


10 posted on 10/08/2023 5:26:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Secede. The only option left.


11 posted on 10/08/2023 5:28:03 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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“And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” - Thomas Jefferson - 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams


12 posted on 10/08/2023 5:30:52 AM PDT by StrictConstructionist
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Biden got into the Oval Office by illegality:

1. vote buying of student loan debtors and to a lesser extent seniors and parents wishing to have subsidized childcare
2. alien invasion
3. unconstitutional naturalization
4. unlawful judicial election meddling
5. election fraud of various types


13 posted on 10/08/2023 5:31:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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We’d be drilling for one thing. Nordstream would be bypassing Ukraine. We’d have another 500 ft of wall on the border. And we’d have a couple million less illegals mooching off of us.


14 posted on 10/08/2023 5:32:51 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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“Secede. The only option left.”

Wales and Scotland have considerable autonomy.

Scottish voters got a chance to vote for independence.


15 posted on 10/08/2023 5:35:41 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

your point?


16 posted on 10/08/2023 5:36:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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“Secede. The only option left.”

Income and property tax caps are other options.


17 posted on 10/08/2023 5:37:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

The other option is the bayonette.


18 posted on 10/08/2023 5:38:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Brian Griffin

and worst of all. No visible means of support. Campaign events couldn’t draw flies much less supporters.

I’m supposed to believe that a senile, little girl sniffing, aged, pervert, basement dwelling individual running to be President of The United States of America is capable of eighty million more votes than a viable much loved former President capable of drawing tens of thousands to his campaign event.

Somehow I’m just not believing what the media is asking.


19 posted on 10/08/2023 5:47:56 AM PDT by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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That is a damned good essay. Should be read and heeded by every true citizen.


20 posted on 10/08/2023 6:12:27 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America will need de-liberalization just as Germany had de-nazification.)
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