Posted on 08/13/2018 1:31:36 AM PDT by Jacquerie
History is replete with good things to emulate and horrid things to avoid. The first thing to emulate in free government is to assume everyone in it is a rogue, a knave, and is willing to ruin the nation for personal gain. To ignore high criminals in government is to invite national ruin.
Like constitutional patriots today frustrated with the lack of accountability of Deep State operatives from Obama on down through the DOJ and FBI for high crimes and felonies against the sovereign people, so too did Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) admonish a system in which the kings magistrates often abused the law for their own profit and influence.
Sidney:
In well-designed governments the remedies against criminal magistrates are easy and safe. When the law and institutions are poised to confront and punish wrong-doers in power, the wrong-doers will take pause and reconsider. Sidney believed such systems of government led in large part to the longevity of Sparta and republican Rome. Importantly, past heroic deeds by kings or generals did not immunize them from current crimes.
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The link presented will eventually go stale. Heres a better link to the article:
http://articlevblog.com/2018/08/algernon-sidney-and-the-deep-state/
Algernon was preceded by Robin Hood. The liberal lore was that he “took from the rich, and gave to the poor”. In fact, he took from the Deep State, and gave it to the poor.
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