Doug
Talkin Bout Freedom the things that stick in my craw the most is Big Brother giving out privileges and invading my privacy, these two tell me we are headed for a socialist society.
Cases in point are privileges handed out by those in Gov. who always know better than us reguarding our own lives. How is a free society granted priviledges by the Gov. they own such as drivers licenses, petty I know but isn't this a right, I understand the need for licenses and control of those using the roads and realize that if the right is abused the right can be taken away but to term this as a priviledge is over the line in my opinion. The other right is the one to determine the directions I will take concerning my private life such as the right to determine whether or not to wear a seat belt in my private car which affects no one else's safety but my own keeping in mind that if you don't wear a seat belt while driving it kinda stupid but I maintain it is my right to make that decision. The term Nanny Government is in full swing in that they say we know what's best for you and and we will make that determination,---Nuf said
SF Jim Kaldor
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You are right in that the Government has begun to behave as though we were "Subjects" being ruled by the government -- not "Citizens" participating in our own Self-Government in which the elected officials are meant to act as "Servants to The People".
ReplyDeleteI can’t help thinking of Kipling’s observation:
"A Servant When He Reigneth"
by
Rudyard Kipling
Three things make earth unquiet
And four she cannot brook
The godly Agur counted them
And put them in a book --
Those Four Tremendous Curses
With which mankind is cursed;
But a Servant when He Reigneth
Old Agur entered first.
An Handmaid that is Mistress
We need not call upon.
A Fool when he is full of Meat
Will fall asleep anon.
An Odious Woman Married
May bear a babe and mend;
But a Servant when He Reigneth
Is Confusion to the end.
His feet are swift to tumult,
His hands are slow to toil,
His ears are deaf to reason,
His lips are loud in broil.
He knows no use for power
Except to show his might.
He gives no heed to judgment
Unless it prove him right.
Because he served a master
Before his Kingship came,
And hid in all disaster
Behind his master's name,
So, when his Folly opens
The unnecessary hells,
A Servant when He Reigneth
Throws the blame on some one else.
His vows are lightly spoken,
His faith is hard to bind,
His trust is easy boken,
He fears his fellow-kind.
The nearest mob will move him
To break the pledge he gave --
Oh, a Servant when he Reigneth
Is more than ever slave!