LIBERATE AMERICA NEXT!

NewsWithViews.com ^ | April 7, 2003 | By Roger Fredinburg

[fight_truth_decay]

Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.-- THE LAW by Frederic Bastiat, 1850

[fight_truth_decay]

But.. the grass is still greener on our side of the fence.

[monkeywrench]

"I just want my freedom back. I don't want to overthrow the government, start a civil war, protest in the streets or terrorize my fellow Americans. I just want my freedom back!"

Bttt!

[firewalk]

good post

[HankReardon]

Just today, after waiting and watching a man (with a mechanics fingernails, grease underneath) and woman each pay for their food with seperate state welfare cards and leave together ( I know, don't assume, they may have been brother and sister), the cashier asked me, "How are you today?" I replied, "Generous", She smiled and said, "I say if you can cheat the government, go for it". I told her I'd be thinking of her remark as I write my 4 figure check this month. Get the country out of the charity business! .60 on the dollar goes to run it. Then how much of the .40 is cheated out? It's susposed to suck to be poor, let it, then people will be quicker about doing things for themselves. Am I off topic? Just wanted to vent, maybe get some input.

[arasina]

We can retain and re-establish our freedoms by NOT voting for legislators who "progressively" whittle them away and by demanding that our president reduce government regulations.

[Colofornian]

How often have you been casually driving along & spotted a police car in your mirror, grabbed for you{r} seat belt, worried if you had your license, registration, proof of insurance, "your Papers" in order. Is that really freedom? I wonder how many car wrecks causing death & injury result from that tyranny.

All right, all right, we have enough to put up w/by the liberals bandying about that term of "tyranny." What you're describing is "tyranny"? I'm reminded of when Richard Wurmbrand, author of TORTURED FOR CHRIST as a Romanian pastor under communist rule...was asked about pro-lifers suffering in the late 80s when they peacefully sat in front of abortion clinics if they were indeed a persecuted lot. Wurmbrand's response was, "Tortured? Maybe inconvenienced {for Christ}."

Anyone describing the " 'your Papers'" in order" scenario as tyrannical has not experienced true tyranny. It reminded me of the Knight Ridder article that ran in my local newspaper Sunday 23, "Demanding to be heard: To disagree is an American right, but dissenters often drowned out."

Knight Ridder article excerpt: "Critics of this war on Iraq have discovered the truth of what Alexis de Tocqueville, the French commentator, observed about America 160 years ago, that 'the tyranny of the majority' often 'represses not only all contest, but all controversy.' "

So, there you have it: The liberal media observing that when we boycott Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks or label the Columbia University prof as a marxist that America is engaging in outright tyranny.

Traditional left-wing double standard: The left can dissent from support of the war; but dare anybody dissent--separate by distance--from the dissenters and, look out, tyranny is running amok.

Somehow, liberal doctrine preaches that there is a protective sanctuary for dissenters. It's OK for them to verbally attack any and all institutions, but, somehow, they are free from verbal combat.

I recall our local paper doing the same thing after 9/11, running a Dallas Morning News article on 10/1/01 that there were "Dissenters under attack"...Woah! Really? Wow! That's bad! "Why, that's rarely happened before in modern times. Normally, we dissenters can get away with saying anything wacky that we want to and now, you mean, somebody just might hold us accountable for what we say?"

In that Dallas Morning News article back in '01, it quoted National Review editor Jonah Goldberg as saying "Dissenters now have an obligation to think twice about saying some the stupid stuff they say in peacetime."

The Dallas Morning News then went on to whine about a University of Texas prof who wrote a letter to the editor in the Houston Chronicle that the 9/11 terrorists were on par with the "massive acts of terrorism the U.S. government has committed during my lifetime."

The response? That prof received 2,500 e-mails in two weeks time--"Many were filled with obscene denunciations...while others called him traitorous and un-American." And the prof's (Robert Jensen) response to those e-mails?

"What does it mean," he asked "to be an American if not to talk and argue? This has revealed the impoverished political culture we have in general. People don't know how to dissent."

It sounds to me, Mr. Jensen, that close to 2,500 (and more that ensued) did know how to argue (not all of them richly) and dissent from your opinion. You just couldn't stand acknowledging that your prized right to dissent doesn't stop upon your presumed final word!

[HankReardon]

For those who have careers in government, government is there business and they achieve success when they expand and grow their "business". They must meet resistance at every level. especially when the economy is thriving and the revenues are high. If the surplus is not returned by lowing taxes then, the govenment people will expand their "business" with it and we will be heading for another recession, then it will be like it is now. They'll need to raise taxes to cover the expense of their expanded budgets because of lower revenues. And the more people they can get dependent on government welfare and services, the more votes for the democrats. They buy votes with social programs using our money. What a racket! Please, someone tell me where I'm wrong, I'd love to be wrong about all this.

[Renegade]

A few years back I was in line in the grocery store . The couple in front of me were dressed to the nines and sported much visible jewelery. They had a full cartload of goodies and to my amazement , paid for it in food stamps . I had only a few items and decided to see what they were driving . They proceeded into the parking lot and loaded up the BRAND NEW CAR with their loot ....Really put a bad taste in my mouth .

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The USA can't be that bad otherwise why would everyone and their brother be trying to immigrate here? Even so I'd say political correctness, which is the real problem that's going on today is way worse than it's ever been with no sign of going away.

[taxtruth]

I find it strange that there are few replies on this thread.

[Lady Eileen]

bump......well said.

[Lady Eileen]

Political Correctness will end when the USA returns to its Christian roots.

[fight_truth_decay]

Perhaps,there is a hopelessness here.
It's easy to depict and acknowledge
the problems,
but to fix them,
the audience becomes silent.

[sinkspur]

I find it strange that there are few replies on this thread.

I don't. I quit reading the article when this clown referenced some daffy woman in his office who didn't even know that April 15 was the day to file income tax returns!

There's no "tyranny" in America. And everybody on this website, save a few tinfoiled zealots, know it.

[sinkspur]

I asked myself as Bernice left the office the other day just how many people die from heart attacks, strokes, panic attacks and suicide every year due to government intervention.

The breathless stupidity of this article is overwhelming, to say nothing of the author and his goofy business associates!

I think I am right, but the Libertarian message is looking better to me all the time.

Yep. Those Libertarians are so cool! Why, if we listened to the Libertarians, Saddam Hussein would still be jerkin' Hans Blix around and making fools of the civilized world.

[Revolting cat!]

The author is right even if he don't know how to pluralize the word "Iraqi" (inexcusable, if you axe me!) His comparisons are right on target too. Political freedoms ain't everything, and today in America they mean we can publicly b!tch and B!tch with no consequences one way or another! Recall our successful and inconsequential b!tchin' fest during the impeachment fiasco or the recent Estrada confirmation no-confirmation!

I've had people who came here from Communist countries tell me they hadn't seen this much government intrusion into the citizens' lives in their native lands. It's hard to accept, isn't it, but the truth is, as tyrannical and bureaucratic those governments were, as human organizations they weren't as mature and advanced as ours are today! Most of the immigrants these days are economic immigrants and you see how many refuse to assimilate, living here with the point of reference of their lives outside the borders of America. In the meantime, the law factories in the state capitals and in DC just keep churning out new absurd laws, new insane regulations, new taxes. Many here expected Dubya to roll back some of the gubmint and are now deeply saddened (so to speak)! They should have remembered Ronald Reagan's "successes" implementing the same project.

[Kenny500c]

" A book that criticizes the Federal Reserve is banned, while smut shops are allowed under freedom of speech. "
Please sir, what is the title of the book, I would like very much to read it and break the law.

[thepitts]

Our hired help has run amuck.

Indeed.

[briant]

I've had people who came here from Communist countries tell me they hadn't seen this much government intrusion into the citizens' lives in their native lands.

I'm sure they'll be on the next boat back.