Thoughts on Tyranny From Smart Dead Guys

Here are few little thoughts to chew on this weekend as you slide into a quiet Easter/Passover weekend. Whomever your God, pray for us all. King Georgie the 2nd and his band of merry felons are hard at work planning their next move. They'll tell you lies and try to make you believe its for your own good. They'll blame it on bad people...people who look, or sound, or dress, or worship, or love, or smell, different from you or I. They'll push your fear button and then tell you its okay to be afraid, that they'll protect you. But they won't. They'll send your children to war to die in strange places. They'll fill their coffers by stealing from you. They'll bankrupt your children. They'll tear up the earth and leave no log, or mountaintop, or glacier untouched. They'll protect their own interests and those of their highborn friends and silence everyone else with threats. They'll eavesdrop on their own people. They'll hide evidence. They'll discredit the honest. They'll excuse the criminal. Worst of all, they'll label as unpatriotic anyone, ANYONE, who dares to disagree with them. They are driving this country and this world to the brink of disaster.

Enjoy your jellybeans.

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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in th guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
--James Madison

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
--Plato

"The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion."
--Edmund Burke

"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini...This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains."
—Herbert Hoover