Posted on 03/03/2022 3:51:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Not so many years ago, few people in the West were speaking or writing about “freedom.” Although civil rights battles have existed in the United States for as long as there has been a united country, Americans for several decades have more or less consigned to the pages of history the great struggles pitting “freedom” against “tyranny.” Once the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Cold War came to an end, the hard-fought wars for liberty appeared won.
This misplaced confidence that freedom once obtained will remain secure without continuing sacrifice has been ruinous. As with any boxing match where one pugilist stops fighting while the other continues slugging away, friends of freedom have found themselves getting pummeled by growing State tyranny ever since. “Freedom” may have won the war but it certainly lost the peace.
Nowhere has this been more obvious than in the way the United States and its Western allies have responded to the COVID panic of the last two years. Almost immediately after government health authorities began furiously ringing emergency alarm bells, politicians just as furiously began stripping citizens of their protected rights.
The speed with which officials dispensed with the most basic building blocks of any free society—free speech, freedom of association, the rights to travel and earn a living according to free will—has been staggering. Censorship and the government’s “war on misinformation” have replaced discussion and debate. Government mandates have cataloged and controlled citizens’ movements. Government “permission” has become required to go back to school or work. The near-universal conclusion from presidents and prime ministers, congressmen and members of parliament, has been that rights and freedoms simply disappear when those in power decree it so. What a travesty!
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He mentions a Canadian pastor who resisted.
America has her own resistance pastor, John MacArthur!
California badly wanted to shut down his huge church and arrest him
He stood firm.....I was watching his sermon online when he talked about this and commented fearlessly he might become a jailed pastor and will continue to preach!....from jail....( the man is in his 80’s)
He held his ground.
He opened his church!
Patriots have been responding fearlessly here in the US....Canada....and many other nations in the world!
Parents are more aware than ever before what is being taught to their children.
There is a silver lining.
Biden’s ‘handlers’ have woke us up and pushed us too far!
You can’t defend the headline with scripture. The first century church did not rise up against the empire as they were being crushed.
“Rebel (rebellion) scum!”
-Darth
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