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My Newswithviews Column, July 14 (‘Big Government, Small Liberty’)

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Too late to flee! The monster’s loose

Yes, this column started out life as a blog post right here. I took my wife’s advice and expanded it.

Because the whole world’s being pushed under the steam-roller of tyranny!

Big Government, Small Liberty

In many cases, our ruling class has actually succeeded in making government evil. It wages war on prosperity, disrupts the civic order, and does everything it can to damage the general welfare. You know–like Democrats have been doing to our country  for the past year and a half. They have enjoyed every minute of it.

Read the freakin’ nooze. Do you ever get the feeling you somehow wandered into a Peter Sellers movie and can’t find the way out? (Shooting farmers for growing too much food! Trying to convince little children to “transition”! God help us.)

Masters of Dystopia–that’s who they are.

This really has to stop.

Big Government, Small Liberty

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Sri Lanka: they’ve chased their “president” out of the country.

You’ll own nothing, have no privacy… and you’ll be happy. That’s the promise made to humanity by Klaus Schwab, Mr. World Economic Forum.

How’s that vision shaping up for us?

In Sri Lanka, booming inflation and severe shortages of food and other necessaries have outlasted the people’s ability to tolerate it; so a few days ago they stormed the presidential palace.

In the Netherlands they’re shooting at farmers who are protesting government plans to Save The Planet by destroying farmers’ livelihoods. No sign of this mess calming down anytime soon.

In Canada the Trudeau Regime wants the government to monitor “private communications” (which won’t be private anymore) so they can come down on anyone who has a difference of opinion with the rulers.

Is this whole world sliding into tyranny?

Our Declaration of Independence proclaims that we “are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.” That means our rights are given by God and must not and may not be sold or taken away. It does not mean a government won’t try to buy them out or take them away. God knows they try. Our FBI intimidates parents who don’t like what the teachers’ union schools are teaching their children. Our borders are ruptured, and the Biden Regime still has its sights set on creating some kind of “disinformation governance board” to gag us.

As Plutarch once observed, it’s not terribly hard to set up a tyrannical government. The hard part is to keep it.

“Let freedom ring!”

And as the rulers try to stifle it… sing louder: and appeal to a righteous God who sets up nations and sets them down as He sees fit.

 

Erasing Our Freedom

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[See Why Tech Totalitarianism Threatens to Turn America into Canada or China Unless We Stop It, by Kara Frederick in The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/23/why-tech-totalitarianism-threatens-to-turn-america-into-canada-or-china-unless-we-stop-it/) ]

So it seems that the glaringly misnamed Dept. of Justice is setting up a “terror unit” focused on “anti-government or anti-authority” sentiment. By which they mean anti-them and anti-their pretensions.

Have they forgotten how our country was founded? Maybe they simply don’t know. Let me clue you in, DOJ–the American colonies rebelled against both the government and the authority of Great Britain. We did not say “May I?” We did not wait for permission to set up our own country.

And the one that we set up, according to the Declaration of Independence, derived its powers from the consent of the governed. Do you see the difference? They, the freakin’ government, are the ones who are supposed to say “May I?” They need our permission!

But we seem to be drifting away from that lately, don’t we?

Yesterday was George Washington’s birthday. If he were alive today, he would be leading an army against the city that so unworthily bears his name.

Government and Big Tech are colluding to become our masters.

Give them your profound distrust.

They Were Supposed to Protect Us!

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In the Declaration of Independence, our country’s founding document, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

So we set up organizations like the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, to protect us from our enemies. While I was growing up, I was taught that the CIA and the NSA were there to protect us from the communists–the Soviet Union, in particular. We trusted them to protect us.

Now what do they do?

Spy on us. Tamper with our elections. They protect America from Americans. They don’t protect us from communists anymore; they’ve become the communists. They’ve evolved from protectors into predators. A former NSA and CIA director wants to deport us to Afghanistan for supporting President Trump. And some toad in the Justice Dept. wanted to force all small business operators to sign a “pledge” defending the 2020 election as fair and just and pure as the driven snow.

It’s hard to shake off the impression that we are now governed by persons who don’t particularly like us and don’t care whether they have our consent or not. They don’t strike me as the kind of governmental agencies Jefferson had in mind when he wrote the Declaration.

They ought to be working to earn our trust.

Because once it’s lost, it won’t be coming back.

The Declaration of Independence

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(She thought she was shredding the Declaration…)

Imagine trying to discuss the Declaration of Independence with some stone-headed university twollop.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident…”

“Self-evident” means that no one but a Marxist meat-head would try to deny them.

“That all men are created equal…”

Yes, we said “created,” not “evolved.”

“And endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights…”

What–threatening to sue us because we mentioned the Creator? And that He gave us our rights. Not you, not the state, not the government, not some international panel of jidrools. Our rights come from God Himself. And “inalienable” means we can’t give ’em away and you can’t take ’em away. You can imprison us and you can kill us; but all that makes you is a wild animal that will be brought down someday by a stronger wild animal.

“Among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Yeah, somehow “rights” to abortion, sodomy, pedophilia, and “environmental justice” (still trying to figure out what that is!) somehow got left out. They certainly weren’t proposed to our ancestors as anything worth fighting for. Nobody set foot on Omaha Beach so men could play in girls’ sports leagues.

The Declaration is written on our hearts by the finger of God.

‘You Heard It from a Noozie: Man Is God’ (2015)

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Please just go away. Both of you.

Good grief. Have the Cuomo brothers really been vexing us for only five years? It feels more like forty.

Here we have the brother who’s a noozie postulating that our rights come to us by gift of the state, instead of by the sovereign grace of God.

You Heard It from a Noozie: Man is God

The brother who’s governor of New York is in very hot water these days. Is there any way to retire both of them at once?

Anyway, that much statism is totally incompatible with Christianity.

‘How They Take Away Our Rights’ (2017)

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What part of “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” do tinhorn tyrants in government not understand?

Well, all of it. Show a liberal copy of the Declaration of Independence, and he’ll shriek, levitate, and his head will spin 360 degrees.

How They Take Away Our Rights

So governments have been developing a new doctrine, claiming for themselves the authority to “balance rights” against each other, deciding winners and losers. Government will decide whose rights matter on any given day. Like, yesterday we had free speech and today we don’t, because today someone else’s rights are more important than ours.

They do not intend for us to be free and will go to almost any lengths to enslave us. Don’t ask me why. It’s one of those Original Sin things. May God deliver us out of their hands.

Nooze-Free 4th of July!

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There are millions of public-schooled noddies out there, potential Democrat voters all, who could look at that document up there all day and couldn’t tell you what it is if their lives depended on it.

It’s the Declaration of Independence; and it needs to be proclaimed and reaffirmed.

No, I’m not doing any nooze today. Our country’s birth, that’s the news! “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights…” That’s the news.

What? We annihilated Hitler and Tojo, only to be conquered by the New York Times? We watched the Soviet Union slide into oblivion–and Nancy Pelosi’s gonna push us after them?

Be faithful to God, and He will be faithful to us.

The dangers we are in today are all of our own making; but only repent, and God will deliver us.

To this very day our fallen, sinful, deluded world rejects and fights against the whole idea of there even being a Creator, much less a Creator who endows His created beings with inalienable rights. It’s poison to them; but salvation to us. They would swallow us whole; but He has redeemed us with the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son.

For our sins we have the New York Times, the teachers’ unions, and transgender.

But our hope is in the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Is it really that hard a choice to make?

 

President’s New Executive Order Protects Religious Liberty, School Prayer

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We’ve got to keep declaring our independence

Lost in last week’s hubbub with the “impeachment” circus was a new executive order by President Trump which “details scenarios in which school officials must permit prayer and clarifies the consequences if they don’t” (https://www.winknews.com/2020/01/16/president-trump-boosts-expanding-religious-prayer-in-public-schools/). No wonder all the bad guys hate him so.

The order states that now students may pray alone or in groups during lunch or other free periods.

It also eliminates a rule requiring religious groups to refer clients to “alternative organizations on request.” What that does is rein in the government’s insistence on telling you what you must say in certain circumstances, even if it goes against your conscience. Liberals love telling you what you must say, even while they compile long lists of things you can’t say.

Finally, the order will make it easier for religious groups to access federal grant programs.

Bear in mind that the president is not “giving” us anything that we don’t already have. We belong to God, who has endowed us with certain inalienable rights. What President Trump has done is to push back against humanists’ long campaign to restrict religious speech and practice. Which we should never have let them do in the first place.

He has also struck a blow against the unspoken but plainly communicated proposition that America’s state religion is secular humanism (which is a nice name for atheism).

Far Left Crazy has wailed and gnashed its teeth over this. Expect court cases to follow.

Facebook: Declaration of Independence ‘Hate Speech’

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Facebook celebrated America’s founding by ruling our founding document “hate speech” (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/4/facebook-flags-declaration-independence-hate-speec/)

A small-town newspaper was posting the Declaration of Independence, piece by piece, a day at a time, until Facebook scrubbed the last post–which was the Declaration’s charges against King George III, which included the charge of inciting “merciless Indian savages” of making war on Colonial civilians–quite a sore point in 1776.

Facebook’s censorship was executed by its computer algorithms, an exercise in Artificial Mindlessness. The robots couldn’t appreciate the historical context of Thomas Jefferson’s statement.

After a day of public protests and complaints, Facebook caved and restored the post.

The robots have the excuse of being mindless. Liberals, who say such things on purpose, don’t. If I only had a nickel for every leftid who called the Declaration of Independence “hate speech,” I could buy Facebook and adjust its attitude.

They can’t even sort of like America on the Fourth of July.

Just another bit of that Great Blue Wave that’s supposed to sweep these anti-American schmendricks back into power in November.