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PHORTO
(11/29/2017)
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In our system of justice, based upon the First Principles set forth in our founding (the DoI), government cannot FORCE responsibility, it can only penalize irresponsibility.
But the 'progressives' see it as exactly the opposite; force responsibility by unconstitutional burdens on the people, and excuse irresponsibility, particularly if the guilty party is a minority.
In the last 100 or so years, the 'progressives' have had much success in excising our First Principles from our national ethos. In his July 4th speech, Woodrow Wilson stated that to consider the DoI, we must first set aside the 'preamble'. This must be reversed, and quickly, or Kruschev's promise of communist victory by the acquiescence of our own people will come to pass. |
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After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. — Alexis de Tocqueville |
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