Random Questions

I'm just catching up on the week's headlines, and it's hard to know where to start digging in to the wealth of absurdities being covered in the media. Below are just some random thoughts I have over crazy current events.

1. Can Mayor Bill de Blasio really be a "Trekkie" if he doesn't know which main character wore the blue shirt?
2. If Alec Baldwin had hired a NRA gun safety instructor for his movie, do you think he would be in the news right now?
3. If the spending bills in Congress cost "zero dollars," why are the Democrats frantic to pass new taxes?
4. If American citizens are being fired from their jobs for not being vaccinated, why are unvaccinated illegal immigrants overrunning the US southern border with impunity?
5. If the vaccinated are afraid of the unvaccinated, is there much of a "vaccine" worth fighting about? 
6. Don't you agree that Queen Elizabeth, aged 95 and still working, is entitled to a few days of rest without all the panicked pearl-clutching?
7. Why is Joe Biden always either whispering or yelling at us?
8. And finally, well--IS the pope Catholic?

Fighting for Freedom

 

I wonder if King Biden has ever read the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Biden and his subservient minions are very busy dismantling whatever vestiges were left of our democratic republic. It would be nice if he had some knowledge of what is being destroyed, but I know that's a reach.

The First Amendment has already been trampled into dust. There is no freedom of speech tolerated in the kingdom of Biden. Any public speaker brave enough to diverge from approved Leftist talking points will be canceled and/or fired, the clear message being: Sit down and shut up; we know best. When the government closes churches and arrests congregants, free exercise of religion has become a quaint piece of history. A free press? Stop, you're being silly. And as for freedom to peacably assemble? Ask parents attending school board meetings to protest vaccine and mask mandates or curriculum about that one. Don't even mention petitioning the government for a redress of grievances; that's fast becoming a one-way street with Left turns only.

The bloated spending bills that Democrats want to force down our throats will include IRS surveillance of our personal bank accounts, with no warrant or probable cause necessary. So much for the Fourth Amendment. Welcome to the new American police state.

Yet in the Tenth Amendment, we learn that the Federal government has no right to issue sweeping nationwide mandates on vaccines or employment requirements. Decisions about masks, jobs, and most other issues in a citizen's life belong to each individual state--or "to the people." That's us. According to the Constitution, we get to decide how our daily lives will go. Not the government, not its agencies, not its self-appointed emperor.

I see a growing amount of pushback now from everyday people in many states against the government's tyrannical overreaches. That's a good thing, a green shoot of hope for our country's survival as the land of liberty. It seems that somewhere in our national DNA, the vast majority of Americans understand the need to be free. It's sad but not surprising that Biden doesn't get it.

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Getting Schooled

When a country falls to tyranny, it happens quickly.

That is what my late mother-in-law always said when she recalled her flight from Stalin's takeover of her homeland with only the clothes on her back. Over the decades, I had heard all her stories of the fear, despair and horror of experiencing the iron grip of Communism so suddenly squeezing the breath out of a nation. Helen spoke also of the wreckage of human life that followed a Communist takeover--longterm confinement in refugee camps, enduring hunger, total poverty, and ubiquitous death. It all seemed so foreign, so remote from life in the United States.

Not anymore.

Think about the authoritarian changes to our country in the past year and a half: sweeping, liberty-killing mandates imposed nationwide on citizens--but not on illegal immigrants; a wide-open southern border; organized destruction of law enforcement; employment termination due to a differing opinion; arbitrary Big Tech censorship in all of social media, to name but a few.

There was a green shoot of hope in parental resistance to the left-wing agenda in our schools. People were speaking out, objecting to the filth and lies being force-fed to their children. It was a bright spot in the chaos, a truly American moment.

We can't have that now, can we.

With absolutely no Constitutional authority to support him, so-called Attorney General Merrick Garland is unleashing the FBI on parents who "threaten" school boards and educators. Merely objecting to curriculum could be considered a "threat." This is a brazen violation of every parent and taxpayers' First Amendment rights to free speech. It is a blatant totalitarian move to squelch all dissent by parents and frighten them into silence so that the radical Left can continue to poison and indoctrinate America's children. It is a chilling step towards transforming the US in to a police state.

You thought it couldn't happen here? It is happening here. And, as I was warned by my mother-in-law, it's happening fast. What happens next, if America allows this tyranny to stand?

Let's think about the track record of Communist dictators throughout the last century. Start with the violence of the Russian Revolution, continue to the establishment of the Soviet Union and its ongoing rape of Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. Think of Mao Zedong's Chinese Revolution and ensuing control. Remember the many decades of suffering in North Korea and Castro's Cuba. One hundred million people were slaughtered under Communist dictators within a 100-year period--an average of one million people killed per year. Quite an achievement, wouldn't you agree?

Aside from all who were murdered, millions more were imprisoned; misery and poverty abounded for those unfortunate people remaining behind. All these survivors ever wanted to do was escape their oppressive government.

I leave you with one question for homework. If the Left--the Communists, the Marxists, call them what you will but realize they are tyrants--have such a better idea for managing government, why does history prove that they always need to impose it by brutal force?