Every normal man must be tempted at times, to split on his hands,hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats!
H.L. Menkin
Good stuff!
That is PRECISELY how modern totalitarian systems operate.
No need for a machinegun toting agent or soldier on every street corner.
No food coupon? NO FOOD!
No work permit? NO JOB!
No residency permit? LIVE UNDER A BRIDGE (for as long as you can)!
No travel permit? NO TRAVEL!
And the penalties for those who aid one of the “disenfranchized” are typically as severe as they are for the “non-citizen.”
Must have examples, you know!
And here’s a little verse taught to me by a now gone patriot of my acquaintance:
All men lose when freedom fails,
And good men rot in filthy jails.
And those who cried “Appease, appease...”
ARE HANGED BY THOSE THEY SOUGHT TO PLEASE.
Sound familiar??
If Obama keeps pushing, it will!
Actually, I have found the poem most apt for the present time to be Kipling’s “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”.