Are Americans Oppressed?

Are Americans Oppressed?

It seems as though we have, in our America, evolved into nothing more than a well organized system of plunder and oppression. At all levels of government the monstrosity grows and grows and the bigger it gets the more they dip deeper into your pockets to feed the machinery of big government. The people feed it and finance it and there is no way you have any choice in the matter. The taxes, assessments, the surcharges, a fee here, a fee there has even made a simple phone bill look like a New York phone book. Everywhere you look in your daily lives you can't function without sacrificing a large portion of the fruits of your labor of which a large portion goes to people who do not nor ever have contributed. The government takes by force and there's nothing voluntary about it so it can even create even more "agencies" to "help" the people, but the reality is that with each agency they can oppress the people through control with much more efficiency. You are not free to resist! You must fall within the realm of control and there are plenty of agencies to exert that control. You may need a permit or special license for a fee to assemble to use your right of free speech. You may need a special waiver to display the American flag from your front porch and on and on it goes...a little oppression here...a little oppression there.

The laws and expectations of government require many things, but if you are the right lobbyist or have the right connection to whatever party is in power then comes special waivers and exemptions. If you donate enough or happen to know someone or even if you are a government official you may be exempt from the same laws that all other citizens are expected to follow. This happens when whole societies are oppressed to the point of complete and total tyranny. Some laws are meant to oppress and control...some are necessary but have little meaning without equal application of the law. ...and now for todays quote...

"Without LIBERTY, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without LAW , liberty also loses its nature and its name and becomes licentious." James Q Wilson

(Licentious)=corrupt

James Dixon