Thursday, July 17, 2014

What I Don’t Like About Life in the American Police State

Via Charlie

 

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
―Edward Abbey, American author

There’s a lot to love about America and its people: their pioneering spirit, their entrepreneurship, their ability to think outside the box, their passion for the arts, etc.  Increasingly, however, as time goes by, I find the things I don’t like about living in a nation that has long since ceased to be a sanctuary for freedom are beginning to outnumber the things I love.

Here’s what I don’t like about living in the American police state: I don’t like being treated as if my only value to the government is as a source of labor and funds. I don’t like being viewed as a consumer and bits of data. I don’t like being spied on and treated as if I have no right to privacy, especially in my own home.

I don’t like government officials who lobby for my vote only to ignore me once elected. I don’t like having representatives incapable of and unwilling to represent me. I don’t like taxation without representation.

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  1. AnonymousJuly 17, 2014 at 8:47 PM

    “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.” (MLK)

    I think we all need to go watch "The Prisoner" again and get some pointers. Never saw the show, but now may be the time.

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  2. Brock TownsendJuly 17, 2014 at 10:44 PM

    I see, it states '68 -'69 which explains it, as I was in Vietnam. We did have Combat on TV though. The Vietnamese loved it! :)

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  3. AnonymousJuly 17, 2014 at 11:42 PM

    I saw every episode rerun on the Internet. Patrick McGoohan was great. I think he played maybe his last role as the King on Braveheart. There have been some real actors from the UK.

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    1. Brock TownsendJuly 18, 2014 at 12:10 AM

      There have been some real actors from the UK.

      Indeed they have, Sir.

      We Few, We Happy Few, We Band Of Brothers......
      http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2012/03/we-few-we-happy-few-we-band-of-brothers.html

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    2. AnonymousJuly 18, 2014 at 1:17 PM

      The great Laurence Olivier gives the same speech in the 1944 film. We walked to the Plaza Theater in Asheville in 1946 to watch it. Sixty-eight years later I just watched it through tears, remembering that it was made in 1944, while my Father was in the Hurtgen Forest, living up to this speech, and nearly dying from a German mortar round. He was a great example of it for the next 51 years of his life.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fa3HFR02E&feature=youtube_gdata_player


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  4. Walter ZoomieJuly 18, 2014 at 10:04 AM

    Wow! That was awesome. Nails down exactly why I'm so pissed off all the time.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 18, 2014 at 12:50 PM

    "This story shall a good man tell his sons."
    You model that tenet daily, sir. I greatly regret my slavish support of the NC and VA public school systems, although in the ninth grade we walked to the Plaza theater and watched Olivier in "Henry the Fifth."

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