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If you think you have freedom today, my emotionally effusive comrade, then you are FREE to do the following:
1. Stop paying your property tax. After all, you OWN it, not rent it forever. Your local RentWay would love to get terms like those the fedgov receives when it taxes your property, the stuff you need TO LIVE, FOREVER
2. Leave the country when you please. NO, you will need the govt to approve it first. You may NOT just come and go as you please. The govt gets to decide (freedom? Uh, yeah.)
3. Faced with some terminal illness and want to end YOUR life to stop the suffering? YOU can't. But wait, you are free, remember? You just don't own your life. The State does. It ALONE has the final say.
4. What is a peasant? If you don't know, consider that you are working FIVE months, OR MORE, to pay your TAX to the govt. Just like a serf. But NEVER like the founders did. That nonsense was WHY they revolted. Look it up.
5. Under God? That is so hilarious it defies discussion. YOUR tax money went to public schools that turns out human detrius at great expense while banning ALL religions EXCEPT the one that this country was founded on.
6. Elected leaders commit treason daily, while the media sits idly by and discusses the banal. The populace is so busy either working or mentally masturbating that they never notice, or don't care
7. Serious discussion of the creeping socialism of America is diminished and ridiculed, referred to as "conspiracy nuts" or other denigrating terms. As with the jews in Nazi Germany, the passengers of this socialist train sit idly by, noticing the dramatically changing scenery, but never wanting to admit WHAT such changes are inevitably leading to. Instead they opt for denial of one form or another: either reckless patriotism, one form of evasion, or mindless indulgence in range of the moment sensory pleasure, another form.
8. Massive abuse of governmental power was witnessed by all here during the klintoon admin, and by anyone paying even marginal attention. That the fedgov had too much power was indisputable. Yet now, the fedgov has grown even more powerful and intrusive, to the cheers of the very crowd that decried such behavior only a short time ago. Apparently, some are operating under the premises that humans will not abuse power, and, our presidents are infallible. Domestic terror, you say? The same charge was laid against the so called patriots in this piece by the English Crown. Our founders were villified as terrorists, pirates, rogues, savages, and every epithet ever leveled at an insurgent. Looks like the fedgov has created it's own life support system. One wonders how long it will be before blanket charges such as "revolution against the State", made in secret courts by unnammed accusers, will be leveled at US citizens themselves. Who gets to decide if the charges are legit? Someone, somewhere, they tell us. But never us. It sounds like Soviet Russia, North Korea or Saddam's Iraq, but really all it is is OUR version of the same old tryants song. Bad when THEY do it. GOOD for us, somehow.
You pay more in taxes, for less in services, than ever. Meanwhile, the border is wide open, which means you are paying for half the world, along with the old, the doomed, the stupid and the lazy here at home.
How's that freedom doin' for ya? Back to work on Monday. Hey look, a parade! lets all feel warm and fuzzy. Who needs reality when the great lie feels so nice?