Posted on 01/05/2024 5:36:07 PM PST by MtnClimber
A YouTube video presents the story of the El Salvadoran dictatorship that has eradicated the criminal gangs, which, for decades, tormented families in that small nation. A lawless nation has, for now, been tamed by a lawless government. Will it happen here? Must it?
In El Salvador, the problem of gangster crime had become unbearable for most of the population. The murder rate was extremely high and growing. The killers were unspeakably brutal. Tortures were often gruesome beyond description. Rapes were all too common, even in public places. Extortion was breaking the back of private enterprise. Children were sometimes killed for the amusement of remorseless snipers. The government seemed helpless to control the worsening crisis.
History has shown that when such conditions exist, the political situation is ripe for the emergence of a “strong man.” Some of the most infamous dictators have seized power in that milieu and, whether in countries large or small, have wrought misery on the population that once had clamored for them to take firm action.
The philosophy expressed during the American Revolution is that those who value peace and security more than they value freedom will soon lose both. It is true, but in El Salvador, the situation is different, in degree and character, from the American experience of 1776. As insufferable as was the British oppression of the Colonies, the “Tommies” were not barbaric. Their officers were civilized gentlemen. The Salvadoran gangsters associated with MS-13 are cruel savages. President Trump referred to them as “animals.”
Democratic, constitutional efforts in El Salvador had previously failed to relieve the citizenry of the agony wrought by the gangs. Moreover, the prevalence of unrestrained barbarism had posed the possibility of anarchy, a failed state, or some other existential threat.
The question then arises: which is the worse evil?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We already have one..the 80,000 Bureaucrats in D.C.
The Founding Fathers knew our system depended upon a moral citizen to keep it intact. John Adams, “moral and religious people…” yada yada yada
“We lost this country when they removed the Ten Commandments from the town square.” - Tom Wolfe
There is no coming back from this. We have no shared values, no common goals with the “progressives”. We have compromised , giving them half. They keep coming back for the other half over and over.
“ They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”.
Trump for El Presidente.
Let me qualify my remark, just for the context of this discussion.
No one that wants to run for office alive today, has the moral character of George Washington.
I can’t say no one at all, because there may be a couple private individuals, but they aren’t going to run for office and nobody probably knows who they are.
I think it is... today, it looks like it will come from the left. Maybe it will require a dictatorship from the right to counter it. I will uphold The Constitution.
Her!
Excellent interview and this guy nails what is about to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MIESbBnA2k&t=1s
Yes. We had the typical 250 year run most nations get.
I have the moral character of Benjamin Franklin on crack watching porn and smoking cigarettes while driving a sport utility vehicle drunk.
Make me president.
You got my vote! You sound like a Man of The People.
Ben Franklin was a huge Influencer of his day.
Think Henry Kissinger, but partially bald, with a Mullet.
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