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Growing On Lies And Threats
(Michael Gaddy, The Sierra Times, July 8, 2003)

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitable he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. H.L. Mencken

A recent poll, done by the University of Maryland, found that a majority of Americans now believe that President Bush "stretched the truth" or out and out lied about the evidence and threat of weapons of mass destruction used to sell the Iraqi war to the public. 10% of those polled believe the government actually presented evidence it knew to be false in the selling of the threat supposedly posed by Saddam Hussein.

32% believed the government to be totally honest in its presentation of evidence. That falls remarkably in line with the percentage of Americans who believed Bill Clinton when he claimed; "I did not have sex with that woman."

Today, the majority of people in this nation support the government out of fear. Parting with over half of their earnings for programs that do not, nor never will work, occurs because this tyranny called "taxation" is enforced with threats. We part with our hard earned money, not because we believe it is used for the good of all, but because we are afraid of the consequences of our non-compliance with tyranny.

Ever wonder why this government, with all of its military technology and spy gear, can find out anything they need to know about the citizens they rob on a daily basis and yet seem totally helpless when it comes to finding some third country rogue? (bin Laden/Saddam). Perhaps it takes too much time and energy to create the tyrant/despot de jour of our masters. Maybe there is a plan in place just to recycle them. Now, if Osama shows in Iran and Saddam is reported to be in Syria and our government uses this new "threat" to invade those countries, killing hundreds of our children and untold thousands of the innocent civilians of those countries, will we begin to catch on?

I doubt it. Not if the price at the pump shows a significant decline. Say, somewhere near the price it was before the government told us of the latest imminent threat!

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 5:33 AM