Remember This? ‘Belonging to’ the Government

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Like medieval serfs, we toil every day to make our lords and masters even richer and more powerful than they already are. No one comes home poor from Capitol Hill.

They are public servants. They’re looking out for us. Uh-huh.

But every now and then the mask slips. Every now and then the truth comes out. One such moment occurred during the 2012 Democrat Convention, when a video proclaimed,

“Government’s the only thing we all belong to.”

And boy, O boy, haven’t we seen the truth of that, this year! We must literally belong to the government. they own us. Otherwise, how else could they so easily shut down thousands of our businesses, force us to wear masks and stand six feet apart at all times–

Except if you’re participating in a riot. COVID won’t touch you if you’re rioting.

–And shut down our churches, our lousy public schools that we pay for (no loss, that!), and all of it without even a hint of legislation: all of it by Mandates handed down by the masters.

They can do that because we all “belong” to them.

And we let them do it to us. We must be freakin’ crazy.

When any government loses its fear of the people, tyranny is only a breath away.

Trying to Catch Up!

atheist | Atheist Dave

If you follow this blog very closely, you may have been wondering, “Hey, where did Lee go? He posts a hymn and a best-of, and then disappears?”

Well, yeah! I had to confer with my doctor via telephone–they don’t want you in the office unless it’s really necessary; and I don’t want to pick up even a little COVID-19 Chicom Death Virus–and then I have to go into the stores for all our errands because Patty has COPD and can’t breathe if she wears a mask. Next thing you know, it’s 11:30.

It’s going to rain, I want to get a bit of my new book written before it does, I want to add another post or two, and I’ve got an article to write for Chalcedon… Oy, Rodney! How to catch up?

Meanwhile, everywhere you go around here there’s a sign on the door, you can’t go in unless you’ve got a face mask, BY ORDER OF the Police, due to GOVERNOR’S MANDATE… What the devil? “By Order of the Police”? Did we wake up in North Korea? And what are all these blanking “Mandates”?

Whatever happened to laws? You know–publicly debated, publicly voted on by our chosen representatives, signed by our elected executive. Do we just not do “laws” anymore?

I don’t think the word “mandate” is found anywhere in the Constitution.