We're Enslaved, Yet We Ask For More!!!

by KaptainSteve Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:31 pm

Winning Our Enslavement by Robert Ringer:

As much as I admire his intellect, I must say that I believe the great
Thomas Sowell was being a bit unkind when he said, �Democrats are the
only good reason to vote for Republicans.� Democrats may be a hair
lower on the Moral Meter than their buddies in the Republican wing of
the Demopublican Party, but at least they provide humor.

Take, for example, the latest Democratic �debate� � please,
take it. First, there was Johnny �Pompadour� Edwards coming up with a
really original idea: Putting an end to racial profiling. Then, there
was Osama Obama coming up with another original idea: a �universal
health care plan.�

But it took Hillary to come up with the most original idea
of all: the invention of rights. Out of thin air, she created two
rights without blinking an eye: �labor rights� and �environmental
rights.� I won�t deny that her words brought a smile to my face.

Nevertheless, as embarrassed as I am to say it, I didn�t
even know that labor or the environment had any rights. I naively
thought that all rights were inherited at birth � by humans. No
constitution needed, thank you.

But, getting back to CNN�s Thursday version of Saturday
Night Live, a lady in the audience got a rousing ovation when she asked
the frothing-at-the-mouth presidential hopefuls, �What do you plan to
do to assure that Social Security and Medicare will be available to us
baby boomers?� Gee, I�ve never heard that one before, either.

I don�t know why, but I just had this gut feeling that Ms.
What�s In It for Me never got around to reading Etienne de la Boetie�s
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. In his
modest sixteenth century offering, de la Boetie wrote:

"It is incredible how as soon as a people becomes subject,
it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that
it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily
and so willingly that one is led to say � that this people has not so
much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.�

Isn�t it amazing how the more things change, the more they
stay the same? In fact, with the shrill voice of the Loony Left getting
louder every day, people seem to be trying harder than ever to win
their enslavement. How, exactly, is enslavement won?

Through a combination of fabricated �crises� and an
insidious phenomenon known as �gradualism.� Create the crisis of your
choice � global warming, education, Big Oil price gouging, home
foreclosures � ad nauseam � then milk that fabricated crisis nonstop
until gradualism is able to take hold and convince the brain dead that
the only solution to the crisis is for government to step in and pass
more laws to save us from imminent peril.

The underlying theme of all this is equality � as in,
communism. Under communism, everyone is equal � equally miserable, that
is. Except, of course, the thugs who happen to hold power. Or, as
George Orwell put it in Animal Farm, �All animals are equal, but some
animals are more equal than others.�

The harsh truth is that freedom and equality are mutually
exclusive objectives. Will Durant pointed out that ��freedom and
equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the
other dies.�

I would humbly suggest that you not vote until a candidate
is willing to step forward and clearly proclaim that he or she is
adamantly against any form of government action whose aim it is to
bring about equal results among citizens. To cast a vote for anyone who
is unwilling to do so is not a vote to lose your liberty. It is a vote
to win your enslavement.

� just something to think about when you watch the next
political comedy show � regardless of which wing of the Demopublican
Party it features.

Please, Visit Robert Ringer's Website HERE!