6 Replies to “Dependence Day”

  1. He used a quote from one of Abraham Lincoln’s earlier speeches. Awesome.
    And how appropriate. A society destroys itself from within, not always from without. People have opted not for comfort but for sloth. They have made their presidents into new kings that generations ago their ancestors sought to overthrow. They are the authors of their own destruction.
    OT: I saw this:
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/how-to-thank-a-solder-by-george-w-bush

  2. Bill is on the right track but he essentially says what I have for years – that the greatest threat to freedom and liberty in the democraic west is big government and its natural course to expand, concentrate power and overreach its authority.
    We are losing freedom, personal liberty and civil rights at an accelerated rate as government erases our choices, property and self determination with reams of regulatory tyranny and abusive enforcement. Most of what is passed as statute and bylaw with penalties applied is totally superfluous to a safe or free society and serves only to erode the little freedom left to us who must feed the leviathan government which now has us serving it.
    As it is now Canadians and Americans now live under a bureaucratic despotism which is the rough equivalent of living under ruling families in the age of aristocracy.

  3. “…the greatest threat to freedom and liberty in the democraic west is big government and its natural course to expand, concentrate power and overreach its authority…”
    Nope. It’s the citizenry that allows it to happen – that’s the threat.
    Comfortable/stupid/indifferent/ignorant/selfish/uncaring…..take your pick(s).

  4. now that I see Mulcair is in High River , Im going to suggest, no insist that tranfer payments be suspended from Alberta to Quebec , or what the heck , the ROC till the damage is fixed. after all no one would drive the car till the engine was fixed would they , and Quebec would be the brakes . on whether you need them or not
    what say ye, unhappy Tom?

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