Posted on 11/04/2009 9:14:28 PM PST by stolinsky
Life-and-death decisions for ourselves and our loved ones will be left to the whims of a swarm of remote, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. But this isn’t the first time such a thing has happened:
"He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of FATIGUING THEM INTO COMPLIANCE with his measures.
"He has erected a MULTITUDE OF NEW OFFICES, and sent hither SWARMS OF OFFICERS TO HARASS OUR PEOPLE and eat out their substance."
--Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. [Emphasis added.]
We used to know what to do when our elected representatives are pressured into complying with the whims of others. We used to know what to do when swarms of bureaucrats are sent to harass and control us. It is time we remembered.
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