.."Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." James Madison
APATHETIC IGNORANCE
With knowledge we have power
A loaded weapon in our hands
If the bullets are that of common sense
We have most of what life demands
Unarmed we would be in ignorance
Unprotected in apathetic bliss
Fatal is indifference
Allowing tyranny to exist
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
"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
GIVING IN
An evil necessity is regulation
Unfair to the point of mere oppression
Under unscrupulous leaders meant to control us
Strictly mandated and with force they enroll us
Liberty is lost with abundance of law
Will we ever reach the final straw?
Government control is propagated
When our every move is regulated
When did We the People become the slave?
Why do we need care from cradle to grave?
How was our pride so compromised?
Were we so desperate to accept the lies?
"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes." Lucios Seneca
ANTICIPATING NEGATIVITY
Misfortunes come ably on their own
Sadly some dwell on the adversity they've known
Should we be locked in such self imposed chains
As angst for the future is so firmly ingrained?
It marks our past, present, and future
Challenge is just part of our life
It's up to ourselves which feeling we nurture
Hope and happiness or worrisome strife
"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."
School is a major source of influence for American children. More families have two working parents and children enter day care and pre-school early more often than not. Add this to twelve years of school, two or more years of college or trade school and the family becomes a secondary source of a child's developement.
It is becoming obvious that our schools have changed drastically since the earlier times when discipline was in place and we learned what was actual history. Today our classes are managed by far left teachers indoctrinating our children with skewed liberal views. The history books are rewritten to follow the socialistic and progressive tendencies of today's politics. God and patriotism is frowned upon in public schools. We are allowing big government to influence our children's lives in what they call education.
We will lose our liberty if we continue to allow this indoctrination as growing government removes our children more and more from the influence of our own family values. They don't want our children to learn the Constitution or Bill of Rights. They want them growing up thinking government is the final authority and that government has their back.
This monstrosity of a government is stealing our children and turning our country into a "Stepford" community.
Thomas Sowell hit the nail on the head when he said..."Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but it is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination."
Take my soup, take my bread
All I stand for, go ahead and denigrate
But stay the hell out of my child's head
Indoctrination I won't tolerate
These liberal schools with far left professors
Are claiming the fertile minds
I consider our children national treasures
Continue this oppression, I won't be kind
You fail to teach what serves them well
You are creating puppets for your agenda
It's being discovered as far as I can tell
We refuse to tolerate your propaganda
