Safer Streets 2010: Elite Panic, Part I.

LA Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 6 January, 2010 | John Longenecker

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For decades, American liberty writers have been warning of an inordinate reaction from public servants in time of crisis. We also know that you don't let a good crisis go to waste, because it is an opportunity to do things the electorate would never let you do otherwise. The Founding Fathers warned that a government which does not trust its people itself cannot be trusted.

The acting out of public servants for what they mistakenly believe about the electorate is something they elect to back by force, as in gun control. Public servants are this way tragically mistaken about the electorate. There were confiscations in New Orleans, and not-so-mysterious loss of weapons during evacuations in Greensburg, Kansas, 2007. Greensburg saw one of the biggest scams ever under color of authority May 4th, 2007 when a Category 5 Tornado whipped through and uniforms came knocking to evacuate citizens from their homes. Even though homeowners declined, they were escorted out under threat of gunpoint or arrest and not permitted to return for days and days. When they did return, their weapons were missing along with all sorts of other valuables.

As I say often, and I'll say it again, a disarmed people comes under the mercy of both thugs and the system. It becomes especially dangerous when the elite begin to panic.

Though the Founders believed that it's better for the government to fear the people rather than the people to fear their government, the American people haven not acted out on their fears and the government has.

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"Progressive" philosophy is founded in the belief that government is smarter and better than the people.

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"Progressive" philosophy is founded in the belief that government is smarter and better than the people.

The relationship between government and the rest of society is not symmetrically symbiotic. We are the host to a parasitic organism. The difference can be illustrated by the asymmetry in dependence on each other. Government couldn't even continue to exist without at least our grudging assent; in contrast our lives might be more chaotic, more dangerous, or in many ways less desirable without them, but since we make things and grow things essential to life, we COULD survive without them.

We must be always alert that the balance between the necessary (us) and that which is at best potentially beneficial (them) never shifts too far in the wrong direction. We can never forget who is the parasite and who tolerates them.