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Overgoverned
User ID: 80483752 United States 01/04/2022 02:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know what ARPA and Bonner County, Idaho have brewing, but if it's something the good people of Bonner County want/need, they'd be better off simply doing it, rather than having ARPA bankroll it. Overreach is government's primary purpose. That government governs best which governs least, except no ambitious public "servant" wants to brag about how few "great things" he accomplished. Last Edited by Overgoverned on 01/04/2022 05:02 AM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79708753 Russia 01/04/2022 04:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Americans either scream tyranny is wonderful because the US has always been a police state or think that the US has the most freedom in the world, but what if the USA used to have freedom and lost it? If Americans hate freedom then why did Americans fight the British? If the US was always a police state then why did the founding fathers support free speech, protesting, religious freedom, gun rights, the right to silence, and property rights while opposing warrantless searches, civil forfeiture, torture, and extrajudicial assassinations? Even if the US never had freedom, does that mean liberty is bad? Did the US have curfews, NSA wiretapping, checkpoints, forfeiture, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, torture, kill lists, no fly lists, searches without warrants, private prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, NDAA, IMBRA, FBAR, FATCA, TSA groping, secret FISA courts, redlight cameras, license plate readers, and Jade Helm in 1980? Did Americans have gun bans, business licenses, Social Security numbers, sales, income, or property taxes in 1890? Were drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling, and prostitution illegal in 1880? Was smoking illegal in 1970? Americans believe their beloved government overlords are holy gods. Americans scream schools, roads, and parks could never possibly exist without income taxes. Americans swear that the government invented telephones and airplanes. Americans insist that their shoes come from government shoe factories. Did everyone have passports in 1776? Do you forget how to drive when your driver license expires? Do Americans think Americans just stood around waiting for FEMA to show up after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906? Do Americans think that airlines had a vested interest in crashing their own planes before the FAA was established? Do planes still crash now? Has FDA gotten rid of dangerous drugs? Could businesses start before SBA existed? Did Americans just starve to death when there were no food stamps? SEC regulates stockbrokers, but markets still crash. EPA regulates the environment, but the EPA pollutes. [link to dailycaller.com (secure)] The USSR was a Socialist utopia, but the Soviet Union was polluted. [link to www.gerdludwig.com (secure)] Can't the free market run railroads? Can't the free market run delivery companies? Americans need to be fanatic about freedom now. Make every conservation about liberty. Make songs, art, and films about freedom. Tell soldiers and the Gestapo that they are sell-outs and puppets for the elites and traitors against the 99%. Americans are so enslaved today that after they are groped by TSA and see checkpoints and watch reports about NSA wiretapping that Americans will still insist that anyone who thinks that the US is a police state is a nutjob. Some patriots are so discouraged about freedom that they will say they have given up warning Americans about tyranny after 35 years, but Americans should NEVER surrender. Americans do not understand that freedom lost will never be restored. Outlawing straws would have been unthinkable in 1990, but now straws will never be legal again. Wake up. |
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