…the corporately owned government of the U.S. ignores the law whenever it feels like it…
Hal von Luebbert makes a point Reynolds should research and comment upon. Deeply and frequently: The System is by now so beholden to power and special interest, that it, as far as we subjects whose rights are destroyed are concerned, operates as a monolithic bloc. This, of course, is what happens when you do a few basic things, or rather allow them to occur:
1. Elect panderers. A good example is the NRA and its members believing Clinton somehow doesn’t yet represent a dire threat to the Second Amendment.
2. Give panderers the ability to become career politicians.
3. Allow lobbies that buy laws that serve commercial interests.
4. And, to enable all this anti-personal rights stuff, replace a government dedicated to preserving personal them with a service provider. When the hordes of Socialists show up in Portland for Obamessiah worship, you know we’ve tipped that direction. JFK’s adage to do for your country is dead.
The problem with the mere left versus right power-grabbing that’s gripped this country and paralyzed its government respecting the individual’s sovereignty, is that only the flavor of entitlements, favors, assaults on personal rights, and private sector-invading legislation changes. As much on the right as the left, make no mistake.
I’m glad von Luebbert has brought the problem of authoritarianism to light in the context of an article about personal liberty. As a presumed libertarian, Reynolds — as well as a conservative blogosphere that’s been almost entirely lax in exposing the problem of collective power — should write about how we’ve basically sold anything and everything to the highest bidder walking the halls of power. The result is precisely as von Luebbert notes.
