How can a people once so free, so willingly allow that freedom to be flushed away piece by piece?
Then:
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Now:
“You can have all of my liberties. We need checkpoints, I tell you! Just make sure that those druggies cannot get high! That’s not possible? Well just make sure it’s bloody inconvenient for them to get high! Remember, drugs are bad for them, so this is for their own good; and by the way I need permission to terminate them with extreme prejudice if they annoy me!
Liberties be damned!
Now let’s go stop those liberals from growing government!”
What gripes me the most about Wickard v. Filburn is that at it’s core, it’s basically a government declaration that it’s wrong for a person to try to be self-sufficient.