Posted on 04/28/2020 9:20:05 AM PDT by Sheapdog
This current balance of power in America is unsustainable and will not hold much longer. We just slinked past the 245th anniversary of the "shot heard round the world," and most Americans were too busy hunkering down and obeying government directives to remember how heavy the price for liberty always is. There is a rumbling right now below our feet, though, and these tremors may well split the earth around us if our elected leadership do not yield to common sense and shared American purpose.
This moment in history is opening up before us two paths — one in which we reclaim for ourselves the truth that all legitimate power begins with individual consent and another that deviates sharply from our shared past by giving to the State the ultimate authority for determining what rights each one of us may freely call our own. Down the path of freedom we must take solid steps, for the other path promises to swallow us whole.
I have no illusion that American liberty is destined to prevail over this new breed of socialism and government-by-fiat. Life gives us no certainties — only choices and opportunities. It's the other side that denies the existence of God while insisting that our historical fate is predetermined.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is a really nice article however the comments underneath the article are some of the best in any thread I’ve read for a long time.
NO, they let the word “birther” do that.
No!
Yes,
Already did - Patriot ACT, FISA courts, etc.
This is just yet another nail in the coffin.
Americans have bought into the idea of giving up liberty for security years ago, both liberals AND conservatives.
True, and bloody recompense is soon to erupt.
Apparently we are - Just like we fell for 911 and they built DHS - we are the sheep staying hidden in our homes until we are told we can go on about our lives when there is nothing out there to really stop us from doing so now and they are GOING TI STEAL THE ELECTIONS IN NOV!!! TRUST ME!
No sure TRUMP cares at this point - have the two DOCS told him to yet?
The cook banged the pots at midnight and the herd has stampeded.
Not enough cowboys to turn the herd so it will just have to run until it stops from exhaustion.
We have thus far
Yes. Without question. The morons are going to drag us down with them.
Yes!! We should have had millions taken to the streets these few weeks protesting the over done unconstitutional lockdowns, instead we are hiding behind closed doors hoping the invisible enemy boogieman don’t come after us! Have we lost our courage..seems like it! Prove me wrong!
“You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
-Robert Heinlein
YES
What do you figure the hold up is?
Will they? They already have. The more pressing question is the extent to which they will let it get worse. Then again, things are going to get a lot worse no matter what action is taken now.
News flash: Americans already HAVE given up their liberty... Day 40-something at this point.
They already have. Next question?
Most already have
ah too late, we already have.
And most are still really happy about doing it. It’s for the “greater good”, or are you a heartless jerk that only cares about money?
That is what I find the majority of people are still saying.
That is because the economic reality of all this is still abstract to them, but will soon bite them very hard!
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