>>>This excellent article should be distributed far and wide. We have the gift of the internet for such a time as this...and while we have it, we should use it to help fight this war against the smothering tyranny of the Nanny State and its hatred of liberty.<<<
Which I plan on doing this afternoon. Ask 10 friends to send it to 10 friends... and tell them that their wish will come true if they do it within the next 15 minutes!!! LOL
Seriously, though, I think this guy had hit the nail on the head. In Ledeen’s scenario, we’ll still have our guns and Rush and the church down the street. Ever try to fight a guy in a cubicle several thousand miles away? Or a line on the phone bill? Or a tiny law inserted into a little bill that just calls for you to do one small thing, not much, really, that slowly erodes your liberty?
I remember this class on Rome in which the prof told us that the first thing Augustus did upon becoming emperor was to restore the Republic - both a symbolic and meaningless act, since a republic isn’t ruled by a monarch, and the monarch could do what he wanted without regard to rule of law.
I often think about Obama the same way. The struggle for African-Americans to achieve liberty is, ironically, reaching its fruition at the same time that liberty has become meaningless in American society. If that’s not a sad thought, nothing is.
later