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security. parents whose only explanation was “Because I
said so”? Why do we allow bureaucratic drones to
I shouldn’t really be surprised. Our country
similarly dismiss our questions and concerns? I’d
is in the hands of people who demanded full
like to think that those of us who are not children
protection of the Constitution for foreign
deserve and should demand better answers. Why
terrorists, but not for mostly peaceful protestors.
don’t we?
I must draw a distinction here between protestors
who were ACTUALLY mostly peaceful, and I suppose it’s because we want to believe

those who were merely described as such by the that the people in charge will do right by us.
lapdogs in the mainstream media. It’s discomfiting to accept the notion that
government in this country is anything but
“Certainly anyone who has the power to make
benevolent. Yet, we now have more government
you believe absurdities has the power to make you
bureaucrats who are armed with automatic
commit injustices”
weapons than we have U.S. Marines. Should we

~Voltaire take the Alfred E. Neumann approach to this
when an IRS agent shows up at our door with a
How far down the rabbit hole have we fallen?
machine gun, and say “What – me worry?”
For how long will we continue to listen to those
who tell us all to go to hell, but in such a way that It is long past time in this country to shrink
we should believe that we will enjoy the trip? our burgeoning bureaucracy and champion the
rights of the individual over those of the state. If
As the nameless, faceless bureaucrats in
you disagree, I’d appreciate it if you would provide
government continue to defy the Bill of Rights
an example of ANY country in history in which
almost in its entirety, how long will we all sit
a strong-arm government produced peace and
idly by? How much longer will the ramblings
prosperity for its citizens.
of the talking heads in the media be accepted as
undeniable truth? When will it be time to say Alluding to my previous column in which I
“enough!”? referenced the proverbial old lady who swallowed
a fly, I have to believe that we may finally be
I often wonder how people can demand
swallowing a horse. My virtual crystal ball is
rigorous control of their fellow citizens, while
telling me that all of what is happening now
simultaneously celebrating freedom. It would
is merely a precursor to the implementation of
seem that in these cases, freedom is in the eye
Agenda 2030 (formerly titled: Agenda 21). We
of the beholder. Few people understand that
have now reached the point at which the United
restricting one man’s speech is an infringement
Nations had hoped to have us enable this agenda.
upon the speech of all men. How is it that in
I won’t spoil the surprise; rather than take my
a public forum, only certain opinions, or even
word for it, visit the UN website and read up on
statements of fact, can be determined to be
it. Nothing is more effective than hearing the
unacceptable?
truth straight from the horse’s mouth… which we
The weak-minded among us favor silencing need to do rather than swallowing said beast.
their opposition over engaging in honest debate.
How many of us rebelled when being raised by

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