"Nope, this will happen the day I have sex with Janet Reno and Ted Kennedy apologizes to the country for Mary Jo." Better break out the condoms and the bag, because its coming (no pun intended, aw maybe).
That's the same attitude people used to have when gun control, driver's licenses, mandatory registration, mandatory insurance, etc was first introduced in this country;
- * Never happen
* Over my dead body
* Not unless you can pry it from my cold dead fingers, etc., etc., etc.
Cities like New York, New Jersey, D.C., etc have strict gun control, yet the worse crime problem.
If one wants to carry a canceled weapon, one has to APPLY for permission (i.e., license) to do so. The real funny thing about it is, people actually believe they have liberty when they beg permission to do what they have a God given right to do. 'Hey I live in a State where I'm "free" to go get a concealed carry permit.' Huh, how can one be "free" if one needs permission?
An aunt of mine (who just died at 102 years old) used to tell me when I was a young man how one never needed a drivers license, insurance, etc to own or travel in ones car. Now theres mandatory this, that and the other thing.
The entire point I'm trying to convey is, people of the past used to say the same thing and did nothing too stop it and look at what we have now.
It used to be a crime to do something or act, now we have crimes for not doing something, such as;
- 1). We used to be able to travel (drive) by right. Now it is a "crime" to NOT ask the State for permission.
2). It is now a "crime" to NOT make a yearly confession on a piece of paper called a tax return.
3).It is now a "crime" to NOT act as an un-paid tax collector for the State 4).It is now a "crime" to NOT buy auto insurance.
5).It is now a crime" to NOT ask the State’s permission to operate a common law business or enjoy certain common law occupations. 6). It is now a "crime" to NOT buy a permit to build a house.
7).It is now a "crime" to NOT buy a permit to plant certain crops.
8).It is now a "crime" to NOT buy a permit to harvest your own timber.
9).It is now a "crime" to NOT have social security numbers for your children to use them as dependents.
10.).It is now a "crime" NOT to be licensed, insured and bonded to advertise your services.
11).It is now a "crime" to NOT ask the State permission to teach your children at home
Pretty soon it'll be a crime to NOT beg permission from your loving WORLD government to have access to the internet.
A WORLD (NEW WORLD ORDER) government (under the loving whip of the UNITED NATIONS) is coming and unless there's a mass wakeup in this country, then there's NO WAY to stop it. The people of this country are so comfortable in their gilded cages (not even realizing they're living in a cage) and will do anything to keep themselves surrounded by that comfortable cage all the while believing they have liberty.
- "Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken....There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Ch. III, "White Blackmail"
- "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke (1784).
- "Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt
- "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, unalterable through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."
Thomas Jefferson
- What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
- "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
John Hay (1872)
- "The Constitution will never be restored by appeals to Idealism or Patriotism. It might only be restored IF the people believe it is to their personal economic advantage to do so.”
-- Mark Felton, political philosopher and activist