Common Sense Commentary: Those who hold high the torch of Liberty and The U.S. Constitution are not anti-American but anti-Everything that would destroy America.
Most people are hopelessly confused on this important distinction but it is critical to understand . Confusing government with country is one of the adverse side effects that works to advance the power and influence of the abhorrent statist perversion of country. Why is it so hard for people to understand this? Upton Sinclair put his finger on the answer.... “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.”
Von Mises wisely pointed out:
No one can find a safe
way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore,
everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the
intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of
everyone hangs on the result.”
Thomas Jefferson, a vital USA founder understood this, as his own comments prove:
"When the people fear
their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there
is liberty."
"I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is
always oppressive."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable
on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be
exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all."
"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a
crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up
the foundations of society."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"Most bad government has grown out of too much
government."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the
tempestuous sea of liberty."
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and
government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so
the second will not become the legalized version of the
first."
The Government we have today was elected by a majority composed of professional politicians, their partison supporters, professional welfare recipients and benefactors of huge amounts of government largess. This government bribed them with promises and proof of free stuff and free money and blinded them to the loss of Constitutional rights and freedoms. They are a majority and that is what a democracy, without the restraints of a Constitutional Republic of Law, is.
In our Constitution, as originally and wisely conceived, the people of the USA were supposed to have inalienable rights that can't be voted away by the mob. As originally and wisely conceived, congress could not make any laws it pleased, but only in allignment with the Constitution. RB
Various historic commentary on government:
"The best argument against a pure democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill
“The Fathers who invented it [democracy], if they could return ..., would never recognize it. It was conceived as a free government of free men; it has become simply a battle of charlatans for the votes of idiots.”-H.L. Mencken
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” ~ Gustave Le Bon
“The government is great at breaking your leg, handing you a crutch, and saying 'You see, without me you couldn't walk.’” – Harry Browne, Libertarian Party candidate
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiast (1801-1850)
“The opinions of ten thousand men are of no value, if none of them know anything about the subject.” – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of the Roman decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggles and failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, and consuming wars.–The Story of Civilization III (1944)
"Mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, and from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges…which are employed for their benefit." –Andrew Jackson
“When a well packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” – Donald James
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. Henry L. Mencken, 1926.
"Money, when considered as the fruit of many years’ industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow’s dowry and children’s portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency."
–Thomas Paine
"Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves." Norm Franz
“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” ‐‐Tacitus
“Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide…” John Adams 1814
“It is not an endlessly expanding list of rights ‐‐‐the “right” to an education; the “right” to health care; the “right” to food and housing. That is not freedom. That is dependency. Those are not rights. Those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle.” ‐‐Alexis de Tocqueville
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies" - Ron Paul
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