Posted on 11/06/2020 3:13:07 PM PST by Twotone
In many years of lecturing at Mises University, Judge Napolitano has given the same—terrifying—ending to his introductory speech. Not until the horrors of this year did it dawn on me that perhaps his point has its basis in reality.
The dear judge often mentions, almost like a joke, the libido dominandi—the desire to dominate, or the will to power, harking back to Augustine of Hippo’s centuries-old writing. We find similar notions in Friedrich Hayek's "Why the Worst Get on Top" chapter in The Road to Serfdom and most certainly in the eerily relevant writing of Robert Higgs.
The memorable ending in Napolitano’s lecture is:
I expect that I will die, faithful to my first principles…in my bed, surrounded by people that love me. Some of you may die, faithful to first principles, in a government prison. And some of you may die, faithful to first principles, in a government town square to the sound of a government trumpet blaring.
The few times I’ve been fortunate enough to hear him speak those words live, they always struck me as a little exaggerated. Even though the room fell dead quiet, I felt sick to my stomach, and had goosebumps all over my skin, it couldn’t possibly get that bad, could it?
The madness of 2020 has had me reconsider.
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Nevada apparently has a requirement for masks. The airport announcements said that it did not matter what the mask was made of, and based upon enforcement while it had to be worn, it did not have to be worn over mouth and nose.
Can you imagine how many people are in on this cheating?
That is discipline.
“Comrades! Are you ready to enslave and slaughter your fellow citizens?”
“Yes! If you give us free stuff!”
Governor of Maine has today mandated by executive order that masks be worn everywhere. Is a state governor’s executive order a law?
My Grandfather went through the Bolshevik Revolution. Yes it can overnight.
According to Gramps their battle cry was "For the people" as they took everything they had....
Same battle cry as Kamala Harris.
History repeats itself.
In 2012 the late Cardinal George of Chicago said, regarding the attitude of the state towards believers, “ I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.”
And then he said: “His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.”
We’ve got to hang on and pass our history forward as long as we can, because it will be restored, no matter what they do to us. You can’t keep the truth down forever.
I might have to be sober to read this. Maybe tomorrow.
l8r
Its the same people too.
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