Posted on 05/19/2022 5:55:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
Wednesday morning began with Seattle gray here in the Soviet of Washington State but quickly morphed to Puget Sound splendor with the arrival of the Sun. To celebrate the occasion, I added a little Frost (Robert, that is) to my morning coffee. My well-worn volume naturally fell open to "Mending Wall".
There, I read:
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't like a wall,Thus springs to mind the issue of the propriety of government secrets — that is, the propriety of walling out the citizenry from the knowledge of some things the government knows and wants to hide from the unwashed.
Naturally, one's view of that issue is colored by one's view of the relationship betwixt the citizen and the government. In my own personal time frame, my perception of that relationship has recently morphed from 2016 (when an FBI knock on the door would have been greeted by an invitation to come in for coffee) to 2022 (when the relationship is grasped as one of predator/prey, as J.B. Shurk nicely illustrated).
Numerous specifics present themselves. I elucidate two. That wants it down.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It’s because of the the lies from the senate, congress, the White House, the media and Hollyweird.
What we see on TV is like a Hollywood fake street.
bkmk
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