Posted on 08/21/2022 4:49:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Perhaps only the agony of liberty lost could remind Americans why liberty is theirs by right.
When I was a child, I stumbled upon philosophy through a tummy ache. I had eaten too much or run around too hard and found myself feeling miserable outside on a hot summer day. While I was in my own private agony, I remember thinking, "I'll never take all the hours I've spent without stomach pains for granted again." And I never did. Sometimes when other childhood problems had me down, I'd think, "Well, at least you don't have a stomachache," and I'd nod in agreement to the voice in my head. I learned to appreciate something simple — living without pain. Yet I also remember wondering, "Did I really have to go through that momentary misery just to appreciate normal existence?" I think the answer is "yes."
SNIP
"Freedom isn't free." It's a great bumper sticker, a message of sublime truth. Do most people actually understand it, though, if they haven't become personally acquainted with its painful meaning? Or must they first lose what they were freely given before learning why liberty is so dear? The past two years of COVID-1984 madness and Western governments' increasing obsession with "climate change" fear porn necessitating today's food and fuel rationing suggest an obvious, if dispiriting, answer.
If Americans required a State-sanctioned stomachache to remind them of freedom's natural bounties, they have certainly suffered the mother of all ipecac remedies. As frustratingly difficult as it is to watch American politicians befoul the land with their Green New Deal communism and allegiance to the World Economic Forum's New World Order, their attacks on Americans' freedoms are simultaneously stirring in the collective American consciousness an equal and opposite effect that might not have previously been possible.
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Those who try to force their totalitarian governments on us will pay with their blood.
I'm not advocating for this. I'm just saying it is the Natural Law.
On the contrary - it only encourages them.
I can’t figure out how the feudal lords of the Big Reset are planning to survive the anarchy incited by famine. Are they going to retreat to their bomb shelters and wait out a big die off? I remember an article by a futurist who was hired by hedge fund billionaires. He said that their biggest problem is how to keep their security forces loyal.
marched with the Freedom Riders, burned my draft card in Boston to oppose the Vietnam war, and rejected the domination of the Students for a Democratic Society by the American Communist Party in 1967.
As a Methodist minister I stood against the arrogance of the Bishop and his Superintendents. The price of my stubborn independence was the loss of a precious ministry 40 years ago.
I have seen fascism and oligarchy and the insidious deceit of Marxism. Today tyranny by monstrous powers is blatant and obvious. Still, there are foolish comfort seekers who deny their own dignity to keep a modicum of resources over which they have little control. Now that they are in danger of losing everything they have carefully built, eyes begin to open and understanding begins to seep into their addled minds.
This is the time when we will fight to regain the dignity that has been lost or it will remain lost for a long, dark night.
AMEN!
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And far too many still do. Foremost among them are the “vaccine” shills, plenty of whom post regularly here on FR.
Whenever you read the word “expert”, you can be sure that what follows is complete and utter bovine excrement.
...and WHY IS JAMAL WEARING A DRESS?
"As a result of western governments’ taking collective action under the auspices of a ‘climate change’ agenda, we are on the cusp of something happening with ramifications that no one has ever seen before."
Perfect meme!
Because it’s 2030.
That’s also why John is now named Jamal.
Just saw it on Gab.
Wife got it. She said that’s scary. One of her jobs is running the adolescent behavioral programs and she says these things are really driving some of the issues she is seeing.
He is just viewing a part of the 80 million voters that elected Biden.
yep!
...sad, but...yup!
Best 2 minute video rant/explanation I’ve seen in a long time.
Adam Tate on how the world really works.
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1561135192747544577
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