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Tryanny Personified
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
During the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for attorney
general nominee John Ashcroft, Senator Ted Kennedy
(D-O'Shea's Saloon) threw a fit over a perfectly correct
statement once made by Ashcroft regarding how the founding
fathers advocated the Second Amendment right to bear arms
because of their belief that a well-armed citizenry
constituted yet another check on governmental tyranny.
"What, us, tyrannical?" Kennedy bellowed. He then demanded
that Ashcroft "apologize to the American people" for
having made such an outrageous statement.
Senator Kennedy is perhaps the most important member of
Congress because in incidents like this he reminds
Americans of how truly corrupt, tyrannical, deceitful,
and rotten to the core the US State has become. To Kennedy,
murdering some 80 people, including several dozen children,
with poison gas, machine gun fire, and flames in Waco,
Texas, because they allegedly violated a minor gun control
law (which is unconstitutional, of course) is not an act
of tyranny.
An FBI sniper shooting a new mother holding her baby in
her arms at her home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, right between
the eyes because her husband allegedly violated a minor
gun law is not an act of tyranny.
Murdering literally thousands of innocent civilians in
three different foreign countries with cruise missile
attacks just to deflect American media attention from
Bill Clinton's impeachment trial is nothing to be concerned
about in Ted Kennedy's mind.
The tax police in recent years have audited over a dozen
outspoken conservative and libertarian organizations that
have criticized government intervention, but has not
investigated any left-wing groups. There is supposedly
nothing at all suspicious or tyrannical about this, as well.
The tax cops have a training videotape in which an
"instructor" gives the following advice on how to treat
taxpayers: "Make them cry. We don't give points around
here for being good scouts. . . . Seizure and sales.
That's our mind set . . . . You're not out there to take
any prisoners. . . enforce collection until they come
to their knees." And people like Senator Kennedy insist
on referring to the federal income tax as "voluntary" and
the tax collection office as a "service."
According to the government's "glancing goose" standard,
if a goose flies over one's property and glances down at
the smallest mud puddle, the government has a right to
control the use of that property under the commerce clause
of the Constitution because the goose is likely to cross
state lines and be shot down by a hunter, which would
constitute interstate commerce. This is not a joke. This
is an integral part of the EPA's "wetlands" policy of
unconstitutional property confiscation. Nothing tyrannical
about that, either, Senator Kennedy?
Communities all over America have attempted to return to
some semblance of equality under the law by prohibiting
racial hiring quotas, only to be vetoed by a single
federal judge, educated at one of the left-wing propaganda
mills known as Ivy League law schools, and granted lifetime
tenure by unscrupulous and downright criminal politicians
like Bill Clinton.
Based on mere hearsay, heavily armed, flak jacketed
federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents can break
into one's house in the middle of the night and confiscate
all of one's property if an "informer" tells them that
there may be marijuana plants there. Property is confiscated
without recourse, and it takes years for innocent parties
to get it back, if they ever do. Many innocent citizens
(and even their pet dogs) have been gunned down by federal
agents in such raids.
Beginning in 1999, the National Security Agency ran a spy
satellite program named "Echelon" which scans millions of
phone calls, e-mails, and faxes from all around the world,
ostensibly looking for "national security threats." The
Soviet Union's secret police were never so prying and
abusive of citizens' privacy.
Despite the Second Amendment's protection of the right to
bear arms, in recent years laws and regulations have been
passed that ban millions of guns, create thousands of
"gun-free zones," retroactively turn more than a million
gun owners into felons by declaring their firearms "illegal
assault weapons," and created a national registry of all
people who have purchased firearms, historically the first
step to gun confiscation. All of these laws and regulations
are a blatant attack on the Constitution, our most
important safeguard against tyranny.
These are just a few examples of horrifyingly tyrannical
behavior of the US government that has become routine.
Politicians like Ted Kennedy are Orwellian caricatures
who apparently believe that TYRANNY IS FREEDOM, for they
are the architects of all these despicable acts of tyranny.
If the American public ever wakes up to this fact, these
political charlatans will hopefully suffer the same fate
as the defunct tyrants of the former communist countries.
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