Posted on 04/07/2023 8:45:32 AM PDT by consult
Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest—of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Sooner or later, governments augmented their power of its sword with the power of its religion, forging an iron union of throne and altar. In olden times, not uncommonly, the rulers were themselves declared to be gods. Government were seen as protectors of the populace from external attackers and from internal disorder, both of which are portrayed as ever-present threats. This at times involved blaming some element of the population—scapegoats such as traders, money lenders, and unpopular ethnic or religious minorities. In modern times this became the catastrophic effect of communisms, then terrorism, then climate change, pandemics, political extremisms etc. This drumbeat of fear is constantly pounded out by the mass media. People learn that need the security-related regimentation, support and taxes the government seeks to justify. Governments then commission studies when they are content with the status quo but desire to write hefty checks to political favorites, cronies, and old associates who now purport to be “consultants.” At the same time, in this way, the government demonstrates to the public that it is “doing something” to avert impending crisis X. The governments main route to power is telling the poeople that only they can help. This is their main route to power. All governements use fear to control conduct. Fear works best during conflicts (interal or external). Sewing division and discord in a population is their ultimate source of power as it prevents them from uniting and deciding things should be done differently. The FBI is a core agency in protecting and enhancing the U.S. government’s health. (https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1510 By ROBERT HIGGS May 17, 2005).
In recent times we was COVID fear expanding government power. Particualy this was the forced closing of religious gatherings. We saw that in the name of "science", the science was actually being withheld and suppressed on mask mandates, social distancing and lockdowns are not because there’s a willful ignorance of science, but that no real science is being presented. The forced vaccinations were also exploiting a fear, this includes young kids getting COVID19 or teenage boys getting the HPV vaccine (to prevent cervical cancer). Some suggest that a switch to digital currency will complete the net of tyranny. (https://newagora.ca/how-the-government-uses-fear-to-control/ By Joseph Mercola, DO. Sep 23, 2020 )
Thank God the media never lie !!!
Fear has many definitions and flavors.
You are driving down the interstate and a semi crosses the median and is heading right toward you. You are flying in an airplane and it drops 3,000 feet.
What are the common factors? Your life is on the balance and you are not in control.
See V For Vendetta.
That movie was Prophetic.
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Unfortunately these past few years under Biden are already the dystopian future we feared.
The current regime uses fear and division. Blames and persecutes conservatives. They are currently propelling the doom of climate change and using the Trans movement to further divide us. The elitists are destroying this great country (and others).....
During the C19 pandemic many govt’s used fear. Many people can’t tolerate the smallest risk. These drove the controls, the closures, the restrictions, the plexiglass, the stickers/signs, the panic-mongering, the distancing announcements, the ubiquitous commercials, the forced masking, the vaccine mandates. The ones clamoring for masks discount the fact that masks can be mostly ineffective, they are the ones who fall into ‘every little bit helps’ or the ‘if it saves one life’ categories. These are the leaders who mandate you wear them.... out of an “Abundance of Caution”. This mantra persists mostly to justify anti-science, draconian policies with no rational science basis. Avoiding all normal activities (dinners, parties, lectures, meetings, museums, restaurants, travel, weddings etc) in pursuit of health means giving up living in order to stay alive. Almost every action that the government took was rooted in the idea of preventing death. The famous Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata famously said, “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” Death is inevitable for all. It is the one concept that unites all the people of the world. Rather than living your life in fear of that inevitable day, live your life with your chin up, knowing that any day could be your last. Live each day to your fullest. Interestingly, the ACLU went so far as to justify mask/vaccine mandates, stating, “Far from compromising civil liberties, mandates actually further them.”
Rather than living your life in fear of that inevitable day, live your life with your chin up, knowing that any day could be your last. Live each day to your fullest.
In a bigger picture, that fear is a proper encounter with God. But again, we don’t live in that fear because..............
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
All of which help explain why the Union government and subordinate blue states want so desperately to disarm us.
Right! Guns are the great equalizer. Without the right to keep and bear firearms, we the people have no recourse against a tyrannical government. Conversely, the government cannot oppress us if we have the means to defend ourselves. By arming ourselves, we keep the government in its place.
Remember the oft-ignored words of the Second Amendment: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Never in human history has there been a government that did not eventually turn on the people.
Granted the USA may be special (an exception) but having the “insurance” of knowing we have the ability to stop tyranny is a constitutional right that our incredibly forward thinking for fathers sought to pass on to us. We all have to realize that the world is a dangerous place and we have to be prepared to defend ourselves the best we can, or else, let ourselves be slaughtered like sheep.
A short-sighted and demonstrably untrue. Power of government is also based on its promise to persecute the people you don't like. That fact is well in evidence in today's demoncrat party.
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