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Posted on 01/18/2022 3:01:29 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s tempting to look at any major city in this country and think, “This is horrible, these corrupt politicians need to fix this.” It would also be wrong to do. Because no matter how huge parts of bad Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Los Angeles, etc., get, it is important to remember that the people who live there voted for the moronic politicians who did it to them. The same goes for Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, etc. Citizens voted for the totalitarian boobs arresting them or promising to “piss them off” if they don’t comply with every whim of the government.
People assume places like Australia are very similar to the United States because we share a language, like the same movies, and so on. But Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, anywhere else, is nothing like the United States. Our government does not grant us rights like these other places. Our Constitution guarantees our government cannot infringe upon the rights with which we were born. If our rights were granted by the government, there would be no rational case against the government taking them away. Nothing would make Democrats happier than to be able to do that. Thank God our Founding Fathers had the foresight to protect us against that.
The rest of the world, even the parts of it that are similar to us, aren’t so lucky.
Canada is making moves against citizens who won’t get the COVID immunity booster shot (it’s inaccurate to call it a vaccine), as is France, where their President has pledged to use the power of government to “piss off” anyone who won’t obey.
And then we have Australia. It’s tempting to think of them being just like us – Nicole Kidman married a country music singer, what could be more “American”? Hugh Jackman IS Wolverine! But they aren’t anything like us when it comes to individual rights.
The former prison island has reverted back to one, not only for those who haven’t gotten the shot, but even for those who have. The elected officials there are quite vocal about what they’re willing to do to anyone who won’t obey.
So when tennis star Novak Djokovic was going through the drama of trying to play in the Australian Open, it wasn’t a surprise. Australian citizens are routinely placed under house arrest and tethered to a small radius around their homes, why should some rich tennis player have it any better?
Djokovic was eventually deported because an example had to be made. Honestly, I don’t really care because I’m not Australian, nor do I like or watch tennis. But the concept is worth noting – they are not like us.
You can sit there and be shocked by how Australia and these other countries are acting, how they’re treating their citizens, but you have to remember that the people in these countries elected these politicians.
It’s tempting to look at Detroit and feel bad for the people living there, but the people living there empowered the politicians who ripped off and ruined the city, reelecting them over and over. How do you look at someone banging their head against a wall while complaining about having a headache and give a damn? Once you tell them their head might not ache if they’d stop hitting it against the wall, you’ve done all you can. You’re not obligated to buy them a helmet, get them therapy, put a pillow against the wall, nothing.
Some actions or decisions have to be arrived at on their own, and throwing off tyrannical or corrupt politicians is one of them. Liberty given is never as appreciated or protected and liberty won. That’s true for war, and it’s true for politics.
As you watch the various dramas unfold down under, know the same things could be happening nearly anywhere you think of as “just liked us.” Because nowhere is “just like us.” America is unique, and it is that uniqueness that makes us special. It is our tradition of, and commitment to, individual liberty that separates us from the rest of the world, making us the target of envy.
It is also what needs to be protected from those on the left who would love nothing more than to make us like the rest of the world. That cannot be allowed to happen.
Regards,
I look at who is in the WH who controls congress by a hair and how SCOTUS and almost the entire US fed gov. is going and the US can revel in the uniqueness.
Kinda off topic, but the only two guys I’ve ever met from Australia were utter scum. Sized me up in a bar as a mark, with a .38 in my pocket. I peacefully ended the interaction. Anecdotal, I know. I’m sure they are all just wonderful.
Maybe so; but is another document that explains our process to follow if it DOES try to do so:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a designto reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
After 2020, we should stop assuming that any of our fellow Americans in these cities voted for this nonsense. To do so gives those who would do evil great credibility.
unalienable Rights, read it, learn it, live it.
If it wasn’t for states like Florida the U.S. would be just like Canada and Australia.
What happens when we no longer consent?
If the past 30 years are any indication, The Ruler and his Party will send their Stasi or Storm Troopers or even the military to arrest or kill you.
No, I am seeing less & less difference between the dis-United States and the other western nations.
Try selling a toilet that flushes more than 1.6 gallons at a time and you’ll see exactly how free you are in the US.
Australia has turned out the worst. I have been thinking about this with their Novak Djokovic drama. How the population likes their lockdowns. Bizarre people out in the Pacific.
In that regard, the people of Chicago have very few constraints that would limit what they want their government to be.
They have made their collective beds.
Actually, it sounds like you are pretty free here after all.
When you rely on others for the essentials of life, you've already ceded a lot of freedom. I often wonder if the U.S. Constitution ever could have been written outside an agrarian culture.
A piece of paper does nothing. It is the government that grants us our rights if it decides to. God declares us our value and in the end bring us into His presence if we choose right.
They gave up their guns. Oh well...
Will my well go dry?
Detroit? This guy doesn’t get out much does he. Currently, I’d rather visit Detroit than: NYC, Chicago, DC, Boston, Seattle, LA, Portland, San Francisco. Did I miss any? Head downtown Detroit, midtown, no vaxx requirements (maybe some suggested), no mask mandates, restaurants busy, young people everywhere. Remember when Detroit was being burned and looted during George Floyd along with all those other cities? Yah, me neither.
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