Now this is one of Napolitanos best..... On Sep 30, 6:14 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > The Myth of American Freedomby Andrew P. NapolitanoHere is Judge Napolitano's > closing argument yesterday on > hisFreedomWatch.http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1191135863001/what-if-we-didnt-live-in-a-free-country/Does > the government work for us or do we work for the government? Is freedom in > America a myth or a reality? Tonight, what if we didn't live in a free > country? > What if the Constitution were written not to limit government, but to expand > it? What if the Constitution didn't fulfill the promise of the Declaration of > Independence, but betrayed it? What if the Constitution actually permitted > the government to limit and constrict freedom? What if the Bill of Rights was > just a paper promise, that the government could avoid whenever it claimed the > need to do so? What if the same generation -- in some cases the same people > -- that drafted the U.S. Constitution enacted laws that violated it? What if > the merchants and bankers who financed the American Revolution bought their > way into the new government and got it to enact laws that stifled their > competition? What if the civil war that was fought in the name of freedom > actually advanced the cause of tyranny? > What if the federal government were the product of 150 years of stealing > power and liberty and property from the people and the states? What if our > political elites spent the 20th century importing the socialist ideas of big > government Statism from Europe? What if our political class was adopting the > European political culture from which our founding fathers fought so hard to > break free? > What if our political leaders no longer acknowledged that our rights come > from our humanity, but insisted instead that they come from the government? > What if you had to produce your papers to get out of or into our once-free > country? What if you couldn't board a plane, a train, or a long-distance bus > without providing documentation telling the government who you are and where > you're going, without paying the government, and without risking sexual > assault? What if your local police department could shoot down a plane? What > if government agents could write their own search warrants, declare their own > enemies, and seize whatever property they want? What if the feds could detain > you indefinitely, with no visitors, no lawyer, no judge, and no jury? What if > they could make you just disappear? What if the government broke its own laws > in order to enforce them? What if the government broke down your front door > in the middle of the night and shot your dog, and claimed it was a mistake? > What if you were required to purchase a product that you didn't need, didn't > want, and couldn't afford, from a company you never heard of, just as a > condition of living in the United States? What if the government told you > what not to put in your body as well as what to put into it; and how much? > What if the government claimed that since it will be paying your medical > bills, it can tell you what to eat, when to sleep, and how to live? What if > the government tried to cajole and coax and compel you into behaviors and > attitudes it considered socially acceptable? What if the government spent > your tax money to advertise to you how great the services are that it > provides? What if the government kept promising to make you safe while it > kept stripping you of your liberties and committing crimes in your name that > made you a target of more violence? > What if you didn't have a right to every dollar you earned? What if the > government decided how much of your earnings it will keep and how much it > will permit you to have? What if the government took money from you and gave > it away to its rich banking and corporate friends whose businesses were > failing? What if the government thought it knew better than you did how to > lead your life and had no problem telling you so? What if the government took > the credit for every success your own human actions helped you achieve? What > if the government told you that only it could build roads, run schools, keep > you safe, and collect trash even though it's never been able to do so > efficiently before? What if the government spent nearly twice as much as it > took in? What if it couldn't pass a budget on a timely basis and funded > itself just weeks at a time? And what if the government kept borrowing money > against the wealth of future generations to pay for wasteful programs today? > What if you worked for the government and the government didn't work for you? > What if freedom were a myth? What if we don't live in a free country? What do > we do about it? > From New York, defending freedom; so-long America.
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