Thanks for the ping/posts. History and how did we get to this point BUMP! The Law. How did we lose everything? Slowly, then all at once. Battles lost everyday on the asymmetric war battlefield. Art of the Deal vs. Art of War. Some criminals never stop unless incarcerated or eliminated. The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal. SOPHISTICATED SUPERCRIMINALS with plausible deniability AND SMART SYCOPHANTS in their battle plans. NO DEALS.
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
“It depends on what the what the meaning of the word “is” is.” “CHARTER OF NEGATIVE LIBERTIES” (ask not, what your country can do for you...ask what your country can do to you)
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Yes, yes! And did Ben Franklin, John Adams, or Thomas Jefferson foresee the internet, jet travel, mobile phones, and undersea fiberoptic cables?
Likely not :- )
Would they have anticipated Hollywood, Theme Parks, satellite and fiberoptic cable service?
Would they have anticipated that one media company owner, Bloomberg, would be worth $55 billion -- an amount equal to the USA GDP in 1933 with a population of 125 million (31 times that of 4 million in 1787)?
Would they have calculate that media would become a key tool of oligarchs and the bureaucratic State to circumvent the will of the People?
Probably not. But they would have been surely outraged at this turn of events and would instantly know it as a great danger to the free republic they set up.
BTW, I edited and excerpted parts of Bastiat's The Law (English translation) and put it in a Word Document. The Law remains the simplest way to understand Liberty and the human society is supposed to work.
Here is for download.