rodeoveteran - 2016-02-05 10:02 AM
Heer is evidence that BOTH sided of the political spectrum are the same coin. It has become more obvious with our present POTUS who changes LAWS without Congress' consent. The sneakier version of this is the Patriot Act, passed through people's fears for their safety. Up to that point, I was ambivalent about Bush, gave him the benefit of the doubt in the weapons of mass destruction thing, but the PA was outright in taking more and more of our freedoms. Even MORE disturbing
(and I remember seeing support of it on this board in the form of things like...I have no problem with a pat down or xray before boarding a plane to keep me safe....
) are the number of people that enthusiastically supported it in the name of their own safety. I don't know about y'all but I do NOT feel safer. Guns and bombs slip through while they search random innocents because the "law" prevents them from targeting likely suspects.
And it has lead to this EXACT situation. Home grown, American citizens excercizing their RIGHT to Civil Disobedience are now classified as terrorists and no longer have access to due process. They can be held for ever, with no access to a lawyer or the legal system, with no contact to the outside world. This is NOT a function of the Country that I grew up in. It is on it's way to the USSA
(thank you to the Socialists and Progressives in our midst
).
It's that slippery slope. Force the states to pass speed laws or withhold Federal money. Pass seat belt laws in the name of safety, leading to the eventual ability of law enforcement to stop anyone at any time with no real probable cause. Voting booths have disappeared, replaced by tables with flimsy, small cardboard dividers and paper ballots linked to your voter ID#
(want to keep track of how we vote?!
). Take over the standards and practices of public schools, teaching increasing propaganda and practices and had already lead to children turning their parents in for actually parenting their children under the guise of the child's well being.
(Teaching kids that this country was founded as a Democracy...it was NOT. It was founded as a Republic of Independent states, each with their own laws. The Federal government was instituted for the protection of the whole from OUTSIDE threats, and to allow free passage from one state to another without restrictions. Not quite what I was taught a long time ago and eons from what is being taught now.
) So the slippery slope steepens and we are dangerously close, if not past the point of stopping the slide to the ending of our Country and life as we know it. This is exactly WHY the Constitution was written, by some of the best minds of their time. Well educated in history, they tried to put in fail safes to protect their future countrymen and women from the fall of this civilization we are careening towards at an ever increasing pace.
I shudder in fear every time I hear catchphrases like "safety" and my favorite, "For the good of the children". Many laws are passed under the guise of safety and welfare, but even if the law is proposed and passed by well intended people who would never dream of ABUSING and misusing that law to gain more power and control over the people. Unfortunately, it is human nature. Even more unfortunate in this day and age , is the massive amount of data that can now be gathered, collated and monitored......no microscopically examined and interpreted so that ANY of us could be shown to be an enemy of the State.
I do have small hope that people are starting wake up and give voice to their rights. This and mainly THIS is, I think, why Donald Trump has seen the support he has enjoyed so far. People are tired of political correctness and politics as usual and have embraced him as an anti-politician. I can only hope that he would use his
position , if elected, for the good of the people and this Country, instead of furthering Government's seizing power from the very people it was formed to protect.
All of this is what Lavoy Finecum died to protect. What the protestors
(not terrorists
) in Burns. Not just for individual ranchers, but for ALL of us.
I fear that we are headed for either Government domination and control or a revolution. I don't see much room in between.
Sorry, didn't mean to write a book.
Edited to ad: I do not think that ALL in government and law enforcement are corrupt. I do think that many get in to it for the right reason, but never forget , Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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