Bowing to the Assyrian king and licking his boots: some things never change.
(All right–no nooze tips came in, but I’m back to work anyway.)
I can no longer fight off the conviction that everywhere in the world, what we know as freedom, as liberty, is under attack.
Canada. Germany. United Kingdom. It’s a long list–countries where “government” seems determined to wipe out basic freedoms. Like, let’s all go back to giving the state absolute power over us and our property. Free speech? Naah–people say the wrong things! Honest elections? Forsooth, no! Democrats would never win.
Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka… I can’t keep track.
And right here at home: Can’t beat the Republican candidate? Get him jailed! Conservatives on social media? The State has no authority to censor them–so they’ll get assorted cats’ paws to do it for ’em. “We can’t shut you up, but our friends and toadies in the corporate world can!”
Well, it never was going to be easy, was it? Rome had a republic–and they wrecked it. “Power” means power over others; and the human race is addicted to it. Every now and then something like the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights comes along and spoils their fun; but they’ll keep on attacking those principles until they wear them down.
Pray for freedom.
And work for it.