Tag: losing our liberty

‘Acting Guilty’ (2015)

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“Honest, the cat did it!”

John Kerry’s out there, the former prime minister of New Zealand is out there, calling for the erasure of the First Amendment–like freedom is just a luxury we can’t afford right now and we’re all gonna die unless an all-powerful government “saves” us from Climbit Change, etc., etc.

Acting Guilty

Really, there has to be something wrong with you if you believe any of these shysters. They want to enslave us. They’ve always wanted to enslave us. They’ve worked for it for centuries. For millenia, even. And they never stop. Just a bunch of playground bullies writ large.

And millions of voters will consent to being bullied.

‘Down With Free Speech? Really?’

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Giant birds aren’t the only thing that’s gone extinct in New Zealand. 

Quotes that will live in infamy! Let’s start with this one.

“We cannot let free speech get in the way of fighting Climate Change.”

Down with Free Speech? Really?

Also spracht Jacinda Ardean, former prime minister (!) of New Zealand, now with a cushy berth at Harvard , now and then addressing the United Nations.

“Hey, sorry about those concentration camps–but we’re fightin’ Climbit Change! Freedom of speech is just a luxury, y’know! A luxury we can’t afford just now.”

And next thing you know, the whole Bill of Rights is in the shredder.

Do people, any people, actually want this? I’m afraid to find the answer to that question.

‘They’re Still Getting Away With It’ (My Newswithviews Column, Sept. 19

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Public education! Ain’t it the berries?

The abuses of public education that we suffer and take for granted today, were not tolerated once upon a time–as late as the 1970s. They never, never, never would have been able to do these things to us… once upon a time.

They’re Still Getting Away With It

Yes, there was a time when communities owned the schools that they paid for. There was no State Dept. of Education. Nor any federal Dept. of Education. Holy moly, there was freedom! And the people who had it vigorously defended it.

I was there; I saw it. I was a reporter; I reported it.

But I still don’t understand what happened to it.

‘Sinking into Tyranny’ (My Newswithviews Column, Aug. 29

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Pharaoh smiting those who resisted him–it goes back even farther than that.

It takes a strong stomach to scan the nooze, these days. You’d swear there was a concerted effort being made, by all the villains in the world, to wipe out our freedom once and for all.

Sinking Into Tyranny

But not to worry–Mark Zuckerberg has seen the light, he won’t be a bad guy anymore, honest, he’s promised… Can you gimme hallelujah?

I’m supposed to understand politics. I’ve got a degree in it. Is it really all about clobbering anyone who won’t get with the program?

‘How Dare You Criticize Public Officials?’

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Rebekah Massie, minutes before her arrest

The mayor of Surprise, AZ, recently ordered a woman arrested for her criticism of the government body (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/above-accountability-arizona-mom-arrested-council-meeting-mayor/).

They have a “rule,” you see, forbidding any citizen”to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the city to members of the [city council].” Uh, to whom else would you complain?

Wow. And here was me, a reporter, thinking one of the actual purposes of a council meeting was to hear complaints–and answer them. I must have covered literally hundreds of those public meetings (in New Jersey, no less) and never saw anyone arrested for voicing a complaint. I wonder how many thousands of complaints I heard, over the years.

Rebekah Massie, with her 10-year-old daughter in the audience, was arrested and charged with “criminal trespass.” I don’t know how you “trespass” on a public building supposedly open to members of the public. Is this the legacy of January 6, 2021?

Is this happening around the country, or is Surprise, AZ, uniquely marxist? Have our municipal officials been placed above and beyond criticism? Welcome to Venezuela North.

Why is King George III smirking at us from the grave?

 

 

‘Back to the Playpen’ (2021)

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We were still celebrating COVID when this column came out–on the heels of Australia deciding “There will be no talking!” until the government says you can.

Back to the Playpen

Where do you go to find a government that respects the individual, and admits its own limits? The answer to that question used to be “America.” I don’t know what it is now, I don’t know where you go to get their dirty hands off your neck.

‘The Price of Citizenship’ (2015)

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You have the (heh-heh!) “freedom” to obey them! Or else.

Back in 2015 a federal judge declared that “the price of citizenship” is… “tolerance.” What did he mean by that?

‘The Price of Citizenship’

You saw that coming, didn’t you? Of course he meant “Obey the gay.” That’s what they always mean. “Cough up your freedom! Do as you’re told!” That’s the price he wants to charge us for citizenship in his people’s democratic republic.

And if you don’t think that’s precisely what our Democrat Party stands for, and aspires to–you just don’t pay attention, do you?

 

‘Have They Finally Gone Too Far?’ (2020)

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“School officials” in Rutherford, Tennessee, wanted parents to sign a pledge not to “interfere” with the teaching of their children… ‘Cause the schools were closed for The Great Pandemic and the kiddies had to stay home and (ahem!) “learn online.”

Have They Finally Gone Too Far?

No, I’m not nostalgic for the masks and shutdowns. I’m re-running these pieces because guess what, it’s another election year–time for another Terrible Disease that leaves us no alternative but mail-in ballots! And guess who’ll win.

They got away with it in 2020. Can they get away with it again? Or have they got another fantastically dirty trick up their sleeves? How about mass terrorism here at home, necessitating the replacement of the polls with drop boxes?

Be assured of this: Democrats will kill America if that’s the only way they can own it.

‘Another Brilliant Idea! “Predictive Policing”‘ (2019)

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Wouldn’t it be great if government could toss you into prison before you committed any crime?

Well, they’re working on it!

Another Brilliant Idea! ‘Predictive Policing’

I have come to believe that government’s great mission is to enslave the human race. Our Founding Fathers tried to create a republic where every citizen would be safe from being devoured by the government–tried, and made a wonderful effort. But human greed, folly, vice, and wickedness continue to erode the structure that they left us in the Constitution.

Oh, if only crimes could be punished before they were committed!

Ta-dah! [Trumpet fanfare]

Artificial Intelligence says we can!

Bring out the guillotine.

America Bewitched

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More “saving Our Democracy”

You don’t need me to tell you what the nooze is today. Besides, I try to set aside Sunday as a no-nooze day. Reserve a day to the LORD.

It’s not so easy to do. Suddenly millions of people who’ve been paying no attention discover that assorted nameless, faceless “handlers” in the White House have been gaslighting America since 2019. Telling us our so-called president was smart as a whip, nothing wrong here. When all the time he was but a step or two from being an animated mummy. And not animated that skillfully, either.

All lies, all the time. You’d think someone has hexed our country. How else to explain the last four years?

Pray the Lord will do some weeding-out, Pray the Lord will save us.