What We Should Not Be Thankful For

We should not be thankful for the tyranny of the modern American police state this Thanksgiving. We the citizens need to "push back" every time our liberty and freedom is reduced by our government.

Our government is controlled by the rich and powerful for their benefit. The rich get richer and the poor become poorer.(Rutherford Institute)

Americans are being jailed for profit (civil asset forfeiture).  Everyday behaviors become targets of regulation and prohibition, and have resulted in Americans getting arrested and fined for making and selling unpasteurized goat cheese, cultivating certain types of orchids, feeding a whale, feeding deer and holding Bible studies in their homes.

The line between public and private property has been done away with. Call it what you will—taxes, penalties, fees, fines, regulations, tariffs, tickets, permits, surcharges, tolls, asset forfeitures, foreclosures, etc.—but the only word that truly describes the constant bilking of the American taxpayer by the government and its corporate partners is theft. What Americans don’t seem to comprehend is that if the government can arbitrarily take away your property, without your having much say about it, you have no true rights and no real property. The Bureau of Land Management is trying to take 90,000 acres of land away from Texans along the Red River.(Texas Public Policy Foundation files suit)

A fourth branch of government has been created—the NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS, etc.—came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government agency save the military. It is all knowing, all seeing and all powerful.

The schools, modeled after quasi-prisons churn out compliant citizens that expect the government to protect them from all discomfort and provide for all their needs and wants. The schools have closed campuses with armed guards, metal detectors, surveillance cameras, drug-sniffing dogs, tasers, cyber-surveillance, random searches, senseless arrests, jail time, the list goes on.

Our courts are not doing their job of strictly interpreting the laws and protecting the citizens. They are writing and re-writing legislation that is favorable to the government and special interest groups. Consider the Obamacare, Gay Marriage, etc.

"When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."(Princeton Study)

Even though most of the intrusions into our freedoms and liberties are at the Federal level, we see the same kinds of intrusions in Georgetown. For example, the deer feeding ordinance, enacting "international" building ordinances and the control and licensing of private ambulances services.

Constant vigilance must be maintained and our elected officials must be held accountable for representing our interests and protecting our liberties and freedom.