Posted on 06/06/2013 7:13:17 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
In his 1980s comedy routine, Yakov Smirnoff celebrated America’s free society and equality before the law, joking, “In America, you can always find a party. In Russia, party always finds you! In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you!”
In the wake of scandals involving the abuse of governmental power, Americans must Think Again about Smirnoff’s ironic wordplays. As we’re learning, the ruling party can find and break you — despite constitutional protections.
Today, our federal government is the nation’s largest spender, debtor, lender, employer, contractor, property owner, insurer, health care provider and pension guarantor. What it doesn’t directly control its unchecked bureaucracy can ban or mandate. Moreover, the Justice Department’s wiretapping of journalists and the demotion of Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks at the State Department have impeded the media’s ability to assure a free flow of information between the people and our government. Even New York Times reporters aren’t getting calls returned.
Meanwhile, large swaths of America are in no mood to party — especially the tea party...
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The 80s - what quaint times they were!
Sorry, this is the link to the viral video — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuEOr2D8wo
Smirnoff also said, “In Soviet Union, you have freedom of speech. In America, you have freedom after the speech.”
That’s changing, too.
In “Chapterhouse Dune” Frank Herbert wrote:
“Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even the spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands.”
I quote this often, these days.
synopsis?
Power attracts those who seek to use it - against their fellow humans.
And unaccountable power, more so.
“At its most advanced stage, domination functions as administration… This is the pure form of domination.”
Herbert Marcuse
“Power attracts those who seek to use it - against their fellow humans.”
IOW, the corrupt.
Those morons in the video have no idea they’re ping pnked by a conservative outfit. Funnier than carp.
This guy is going around with a large (3x4 ft.) greeting card thanking the IRS for singling out those tea party bastids, and lots of LIV’s delightedly signing it and making incredibly stupid comments about how wonderful it is the IRS has been grinding conservatives down.
Makes you understand that they envision that the left will never again lose control of government.
They’re making peaceful change impossible.
Correct. They assume once they get all the cards, they'll never lose them. This celebration of IRS tyranny is a dead giveaway to their nefarious plans to break the system as soon as they can control all the levers.
Deep inside every leftist is a vengeful tyrant that seeks to use the power of the government to punish those who oppose them.
They are viscerally angry that their worldview isn’t a reality that others can be convinced of,
so those others must be eliminated or exterminated.
Yes, they want their utopia, and they finally figured out the only way to get it is to kill or subjugate the rest of us.
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