It’s so much more scientific to control people rather than letting them run free. C’mon–free-range human beings? Can’t be allowed!
For sure, Britain is farther down this road than we are. But Democrats drool with envy when they see some of the speech-restricting laws that Britain’s got. Oh! Wouldn’t it be just so gratifying, to force people to say things they know are total lies, and throw them into prison if they won’t!
Why do police enforce those laws? Beats me. You’d think they’d be ashamed.
In a word, no. In a fallen world populated by sinners, where you can win applause by rejecting God, freedom is a plant very easily shriveled.
The Romans frittered away their republic and wound up with an emperor.
The English beheaded King Charles and wound up with a Parliament that assigns sovereign power to itself and ignores the result of a supposedly binding referendum because it didn’t like the way the people voted.
The French beheaded their king and wound up with first a lot of little creeps who were beheading everybody, and then Napoleon.
The Chinese tossed out their emperor and wound up with warlords, Mao, and the mob of tyrants who succeeded him.
In the 20th century, tyranny bloomed like kudzu. It would take up too much space just to list the perpetrators. there were so many tyrants in that century, you could have had them in a boxed set of bubble-gum cards.
Our own country’s founders tried their level best to avoid these errors and create for us a republic ruled not by tyrants, but by laws that were the same for all. A terrible civil war rid us of the curse of slavery. But as the Bible teaches us, if we won’t serve the true God, the only author of our liberties, we will surely wind up serving false ones.
All over the world today, freedom is under attack. Even here, we have elitists, we have Democrats, who believe in, and try their damnedest to create, a government colossus to rule over virtually everything–for our own good, of course, and with themselves doing the ruling. And because our education establishment is fully committed to that course, it trains young Americans to be ignorant of civics, ignorant of history, ignorant of God’s word, terrified of Global Warming and a host of other made-up boogeymen, and receptive to the idea of unlimited government.
By Almighty God’s decree, all of this is doomed to fail. He will not yield His place to a lot of grubby little puffed-up bugs who went to Harvard.
But it would be good for us, good beyond words, if we would only just stop voting for them.
At the moment it seems better to look at some of God’s stuff than man’s. Winter will pass and spring will come, and life will bud forth again.
The more I think of it, the more it troubles me.
Why have Democrats stopped pretending to be human?
Oh, now, what makes me say that! Well, suddenly they want to kill babies as they’re being born. That’s pretty unnatural, don’t you think? They can’t get enough of Drag Queen Story Hour in all their local libraries: who can imagine a reason for that? And now they’ve got their Green New Deal, which proposes to destroy the economy, wipe out every freedom we have (except for the freedom to fornicate: they want to keep that), and which has already won the endorsement of every Democrat who wants to run for president next year. Can it be true? They’re all champing at the bit to forbid us to have our own cars? Can that be possible? ‘Fraid so.
For years and years liberals pretended to be ordinary folks whose ideas were just a little more advanced. Suddenly they have cast off all pretense and stood up straight and tall for infanticide, moral anarchy, and the overthrow of our country as a free republic. Why? Why have they stopped pretending?
Has God simply given them a delusion that they’ll follow off the cliff, and trouble us no more? If only! He could, you know. He could. But has He?
Or are they convinced there are enough lazy and immoral bastards in this country who’ll vote for them no matter what, as long as some free money is part of the deal?
Maybe they think public school and the colleges have done their job, and programmed millions of young Americans to want their country to be like Red China in the 1960s. Programmed them and totally dumbed them down.
Have they mastered the arts of voter fraud to the extent that they now believe they’ll never lose another election, no matter how odious or ridiculous their platform, no matter how revolting their candidate, no matter how disastrous their policies?
I admit it: I’m scared that a major national political party has embraced positions ranging from the appalling to the preposterous, from the eye-rolling daft to the outright evil, with nothing in between. Why have they stopped pretending?
You’d think the American people would massively reject the Democrat program of socialism, censorship, late-term abortion, “Open Borders,” transgender, and turning every nook and cranny of America into the equivalent of San Francisco or Detroit. You’d think they couldn’t get a hundred votes for that.
But they don’t think so. And we need to know why.
Forbidden!
This controversy has faded in five years, but one thing hasn’t faded: the whole idea that the purpose of government is to “change behavior.”
By “behavior” they mean anything and everything you say or do, in every aspect of your life. They don’t mean just making sure you obey the laws and don’t frighten the horses. This is more in the line of how much soda you can drink.
Uh, those jerks up there in the private jets–could we change their behavior first?
After sin itself, humanity’s biggest problem is the government.
If they call it “smart,” beware!
A writer for The Atlantic bought a brand-new Samsung “smart TV” set recently and has been having all sorts of problems with it (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/smart-tvs-are-dumb/581059/).
“Your TV is now a computer, but not in a good way,” she entitles her essay. In addition to the TV crashing now and then, because it’s full of artificial stupidity technology, it comes complete with a CBS News app that can’t be deleted. So every few minutes, what you’re trying to watch on TV is marred by a nooze flash up in the corner of the screen. Heck, you wouldn’t want to miss the latest attack on Donald Trump, would you? And you can’t delete the freakin’ thing because it’s a done deal between CBS and Samsung in which the buyer of the set is not included.
Consulting a forum, the writer found a host of “outraged responses of other Samsung TV owners.”
Once again, the Pro-Choice crowd has made our choices for us. We’d just choose the wrong thing, don’t you know, just like we chose the wrong president.
I remember my father and my Uncle Ferdie, when our TV went on the fritz, taking it apart and testing all the vacuum tubes to find out which ones were shot and needed to be replaced. They replaced them, put it all back together, and it worked.
But this can’t be done anymore. We now have more technology in our lives than we can control or even understand–and I find something sinister about that. Who’s going to use our smart TVs–I’ve warned you to steer clear of anything that leftids call “smart”–to spy on us, and who’s going to get the information about our viewing habits, buying patterns, and whatever else they can dig up on us?
We don’t have a new TV set. Anything we want to watch, we watch on disc or on the Internet. We certainly don’t have a “smart” TV, we don’t want one, and we’re not going to get one.
Will technology make it finally possible for power-hungry loons to exercise total control over millions of people?
They’re working on it as we speak.
I hope you don’t think this is out of date because I first posted it four years ago.
You don’t think they’ve given up on this stuff, do you? Just let the Far Left Crazy get back into power, and you’ll know otherwise.
“Hi! We’re the Pro-Choice Party! We’ll make all your choices for you from now on…”
Juan Guaido: survive and win, or fail and die
Venezuela’s “socialist” dictatorship, founded by the late and unlamented Hugo Chavez and continued by his sock puppet Maduro, complete with a ruined economy and people scrounging for food in unlikely places, like zoos, has been rocked by riots this week and may be on the verge of going belly-up (https://www.apnews.com/52bb7f774bc94f439df0606eb96bab4e).
The United States is backing opposition leader Juan Guaido, who will either survive and win, or fail and die. Guaido has declared himself president. Maduro, backed by Russia, China, Iran, and other international bad guys, says he’s going nowhere. Some of Venezuela’s top generals have pledged their loyalty to Maduro. Why does that remind me of George Steinbrenner saying “Bucky Dent is like a son to me” just before he traded him?
A Prediction: If Maduro is overthrown, watch for wailing and gnashing of teeth among the American Left–aka the Democrat Party, Hollywood, and the nooze media. They’ll say President Trump connived to oust their favorite left-wing dictator and redouble their efforts to oust our president. They’re going to carry on like maniacs.
You’ve got to give the villains credit: they stick together.
Deciding what is “unacceptable”
Y’know, covering news is just no fun anymore. Which one of dozens of equally depressing stupid stories do you blog about? Well, let’s try this one…
The “European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers, and Gender Equality” (oh, brother) says it may soon become necessary for government to “regulate” the media to keep out “hate” and “exclusion” and “a bad version of nationalism” (https://pjmedia.com/trending/eu-justice-commissioner-says-media-must-be-regulated-to-prevent-hate/). In fact, she says, government had better draw up plans for “smart regulation” of the things that people write.
Be very, very afraid of anything a leftid pitches to you as “smart.” And watch out when they talk about “justice,” too. Because their “justice” ain’t so just.
The media, you see, says the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers, and Gender Equality, is very important in “defining the limits of what is unacceptable in a society.” Hoo, boy. Would you want Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, or any other noozie jackanapes, deciding what would be “unacceptable” in our society? I’m sure they have equally nauseating counterparts in Europe.
Except under God, liberty is most emphatically not the natural condition of mankind–and these varmints certainly don’t see themselves as being under God. Someone’s always trying to devour our liberties.
And someone always has to stop them.
Now that they have a President For Life, the Red Chinese are gonna crack down on… video spoofs (https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-laughing-matter-china-regulator-bans-tv-parodies-052528200.html). That is, on all content “deemed to be in violation of socialist core values.”
That screaming you hear in the background is Western liberals suffering paroxysms of envy. It’s just pure agony for Democrats to see this being done in China but being unable–yet–to do it here.
Deeming what you can see on TV and what you can’t is a “media regulator.” So that’s where Loretta Lynch went! Especially taboo will be any content that may “distort, mock, or defame classical literary and art works.”
And they mean business. “Those who don’t comply in time will be immediately closed down.”
Somehow this makes China sound like an oversized American college campus. Or the pipe dreams floating in the air above a New York Times editorial board meeting.
Beware. It can happen here.
