Friday, June 5, 2009

Power and the people

A letter to the Editor, Naples (FL) Daily News:

"Editor, Daily News:

Tyrannical governments are not defined by the harshness of their laws. They are primarily defined by the complete absence of respect for law.

The absence of law does not mean, however, the absence of control. Control mechanisms are simply “made up” by those in power and will vary from situation to situation as “need” changes.

All prior laws are pushed aside as nothing more than an unnecessary burden from a dysfunctional past, thus creating terror from the unknown. America is now experiencing this state of near anarchy.

Tyranny is also not defined by the overtly evil intent of those in power. Most dictators actually think that they are serving their countries well and those who resist must be pushed aside while laws that delimit the tyrant’s actions must be ignored. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao, all would have espoused that they were just trying to help their respective countries. America is now dominated by this attitude.

Tyrannies are also not defined by their unpopularity. Most people yield to the threat of the state and accept their diminished level of freedom and personal choice. The vast majority of dictators have enjoyed wide, fanatical public support. Most citizens become dependent on the dictator for their well-being and don’t experience any sense of their restricted lives. Too many Americans are now here.

I presume you’re wise enough to understand the inferences from the above as it pertains to current America. The greatest power for good in the history of this planet is being destroyed."

2 comments:

  1. The anarchy is used by power seekers as a front for imposing "order." The power seekers may have created the anarchy, as your article seems to suggest.

    For more on how this happenes, see wwww.wimp.com/thegovernment

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  2. Thanks,
    www.wimp.com is a good description of forms of government.

    I am reluctant to conclude that the above editorial, or even other evidence I see, supports a contention that opposition to this rising TYRRANY is a symptom of anarchy, whether created by the power seekers or not. I see the movement (represented by the "Tea Parties", Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Ingraham et al) to be a Populist uprising yearning to re-establish our Republic...... and avoid what appears to be a march towards an Oligarchy.

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