As recently reported by Sundance at
theconservativetreehouse.com: “Discussing the
implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA), Ireland’s Media Minister defends
the decision that a government appointed entity will ultimately decide what
speech is permitted by citizens.” Sundance then opines, “This is the next phase
in the control of opposition to the expansion of government controls. We
are all traveling at the front of one long continuum toward tyranny.” Sadly, he
is correct.
Totalitarian
governments such as China’s, North Korea’s, and Iran’s-- among many others—have
long been the arbiters of truth and have gone to great lengths to control what
can be said and where. Tragically and despicably, many formerly open and
liberal governments of Western nations have begun doing much the same thing…with
a twist. Each in turn claim they must take these autocratic, tyrannical,
and anti-democratic measures…”to save our democracy.” This should immediately engender
a response of “bullshit!” from every sane person. Unfortunately, due to the modern
media’s fanatical unwillingness to speak truth to power when that power is left-leaning,
combined with the apparently rapidly dwindling numbers of sane persons, those
in these governments are getting away with this ridiculous and reprehensible
ruse.
Skeptical
of my skepticism? Believe Biden, Trudeau, et. al., are basically telling us the
truth? Just look at what those in government have told us in recent years:
“I never had sex with that woman, not
one time!”
“If you like your doctor, you can keep
your doctor!”
“Trump colluded with Russia! The
Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election to get Trump elected!”
” We are just asking for two weeks to
flatten the curve! Social distancing and mask mandates work! So do the
vaccines! And they are completely safe!”
“COVID-19 came from a bat and/or pangolin,
not the Wuhan lab” that was researching and experimenting with precisely those
types of viruses…at Fauci’s direction and with his funding!
“Hunter’s laptop bears all the
hallmarks of a Russian misinformation operation!”
“Unlike the 2016 presidential election--
which was clearly stolen by the Russians-- the 2020 presidential election was
the most accurate, fair-- literally beatific-- election in American
history!”
“Progressive?” Contrast these notions…these
lies…with statements from our founders. And then ask yourself who was more
learned? Who possessed more integrity and character? Who was more courageous? Who
spoke the truth?
*“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this
ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or
to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially
drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field
of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.”—Thomas Jefferson, 1791
*“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is
not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and
public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”—John Adams, 1787
*“Government is instituted to
protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights
of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the
end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to
every man whatever is his own.”—James Madison, 1792
*"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social
duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of
your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man
ought to take from us."—John Hancock
*”Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a
right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”—Benjamin Franklin
*“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name,
and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its
name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson
*”Either you will control your government, or
government will control you.”—Ronald Reagan
The founders’ wisdom has never been
more sorely—I would say desperately—needed than it is now. Which is precisely
why they have been slandered and cast out by the radical leftists who now run
this country and its major institutions. At some level, they intuit that the
founders make them look unspeakably ignorant, even evil, by comparison.
I snuck a quote from Ronald Reagan in at the end of my
“founders statements,” though Reagan, of course, wasn’t a “founding father.”
However, after the disaster that was the 1970s, Reagan went a long way towards
“re-founding” the United States, by returning it to its founding principles.
So I close with two more quotes from
the Gipper, both particularly pertinent to our current situation.
*Reagan, with typical good humor, rhetorically asked what the nine
most terrifying words in the English language were. He would answer: ”I’m from
the government and I’m here to help.” (If this no longer elicits knowing laughter,
we are in such trouble.)
*”Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
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