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Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,misc.legal,misc.survivalism
Subject: NET: AMERICA IS NOT YET A TYRANNY, BUT...
From: nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 19:05:35 -0800


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                          December 11, 1996
                              Bill Lind

                 AMERICA IS NOT YET A TYRANNY, BUT...


As someone who smokes a pipe, I find a disposable gas lighter
convenient on occasion, if slightly infra dig. Or at least I did.
Recently, disposable gas lighters sprouted an ugly, annoying, and
unnecessary appendage designed to make them "child proof." When I
asked my tobacconist for a lighter without that impediment, he told
me, "It's the law."

In a nation conceived in liberty some two hundred years ago, we now
find the swinish snout of the Federal government poking into every
nook and cranny of our lives. Government tells us what kind of bottle
caps we must have on our medicine (caps we can't get off), compels us
to buy only "low flow" shower heads and toilets (that don't rinse and
don't flush), and forbids people in California to plow firebreaks
around their houses lest some type of rat be injured (with the result
that their houses burn down). Government commands me to have air bags
in my car, so that in a minor accident, an explosive device will shove
my pipe down my throat at some 200 miles per hour. In my home town of
Cleveland, the Federal government's EPA demands auto emissions testing
on a high speed treadmill, which has reportedly destroyed the engines
of hundreds of cars.

If we supposedly free people dare complain about all this intrusion--
intrusion far worse than anything King George visited on our ancestors
-- we're told, "It's for your own good, of course. It's for safety.
For clean air. For `bio-diversity.'" Or the biggest canard of all,
"It's for children." Poor children; what crimes are now committed in
your name.

It's hogwash, all of it. We see that in the ongoing air bag scandal,
where the government for decades knew that air bags were often
dangerous, but suppressed the evidence. Why? Because what this
burgeoning government interference in our daily lives is really all
about is power. It is about accustoming Americans to having every
detail of what we do controlled by government, until government is
all-powerful.

There is a name for that kind of government: a tyranny. When militia
leaders and others denounce the American government as a tyranny, they
are called "extremists," "weirdoes," "nut cases." But who is really
the nut case: A government that forces us to buy a car with a device
that will knock grandma's or baby's head off, or the people who find
that objectionable? A free country would know the answer to that
question, and act on it.

America is not yet a tyranny, but the culturally Marxist Establishment
that runs the place knows what it wants: a country where ultimately,
every activity is either forbidden or compulsory. That is a tyranny,
and they will continue to move us down that road, step by little step.
They will--unless we stop them.


Contact: Bill Lind 202.546.3000
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