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Individual Liberty vs. Big Brother

By Mike Straw

Orrin “Booby” Hatch, stealth Democrat from Utah, said on June twenty-forth 2003 during a hearing on copyright s that he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of, first, people who improperly download music from the Internet.

Using the law of unintended consequences, this type of thinking will produce startling results.

Retail giant Wal-Mart, whose board of directors, just happens to include the arch-conservative Hillary Clinton, has begun using RFID chips in Gillette products in, of all places its Brockton Massachusetts store.

These are the computer chips produced by electronics leader Phillips, smaller than a grain of rice, which can actually be implanted under the skin.

It’s no great leap to visualize a tax-funded Mark of the Beast that receives as well as monitors your every move, tattling to evil social fascists like Hatch, so that when mommy “government” thinks you’ve been “bad,” can remotely administer a fatal heart attack, or perhaps just a more-humane stroke, to both teach you a lesson you won’t soon -if ever -forget, and teach you once and for all who’s really in charge!

Finally reducing us to the Eloi they believe us to be, the satellite monitoring will be inescapable, possibly even reading our thoughts, rendering normal speech unnecessary.

In time, maybe the only sounds we’ll be capable of producing will be satisfying “baas.”

The evil social fascists have already “partial-birth aborted” the Constitution through the subterfuge of the ludicrously-named “PATRIOT” Act, and are poised to rip the still-beating heart of what remains of the Constitution by way of the iniquitous “PATRIOT Two” Act.

If you really want to know where you stand, read the series of unconstitutional “executive orders” and discover how low you actually are, in stark comparison to the lofty perch our beloved Founders placed ordinary citizens.

Their thoughts?

John Locke eloquently penned, "Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."

Lord Thomas Macaulay observed, “Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no People ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”

At the Battle of Bennington Vermont in 1777, General John Stark –he’s the one quoted on every New Hampshire license plate, “Live free or die,” -said, “Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!”

Benjamin Franklin said, “ Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”

Daniel Webster ‘s opinion was that “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

Leo Tolstoy believed, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Albert Einstein’s take was, “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

Author Henry Miller phrased it this way: “tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”

Ayn Rand "Men who deny individual rights cannot claim, defend or uphold any rights whatsoever. ... The liberals are guilty of the same contradiction, but in a different form. They advocate the sacrifice of all individual rights to unlimited majority rule - yet posture as defenders of the rights of minorities. But the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

In “The Memoirs of a Superfluous Man,” Albert Jay Nock observed, "According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit and almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition."

Bertrand de Juvenal concurs: "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

Where do you stand?

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