The Balkan wars & Ferguson

Via Iver

I have a friend .........who lived through the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia.   

He, and many of my other friends  that are also from former Soviet block countries (lots of people at work from Russia, Viet Nam, fmr Czech Rep, etc), attest to the fact that they had more freedom then under Communist rule than we do here.

........ had said to his friends as he watched the situation develop in his country (he was in his teens then), that war was about to break out.  His friends told him he was nuts….but he was right.  When it did, their money plummeted.  They were buying beers for hundreds of dollars (whatever that equivalent was at the time), because the thought was if the money’s falling that fast they may was well spend it while they could still buy something with it.

He got an email with from his buddy this past week who lives in St Louis area, saying to -------- – “reminds me of the old country, just before the war broke out”.   People have had it with the collectivists and their police thugs.  

Re-read Locke and our founding fathers.  Liberty should not be relative.  You either have it or you don’t.  If you’re weighing the chains around you saying, “well, they’re not too heavy, I can manage” then you’ve already lost.

As you sleep tonight, remember that very easily you could be next.  All that needs to happen is some hack screws up an address and next thing you know they’re no-knock raiding your house, maybe dropping a flash bang  in ....... room.  Doesn’t matter that it was the wrong house.  You and the family will live with that horror forever – if you live, some don’t.

I’ve only been trying to open the eyes of my friends .........  Ferguson is a picture of reality.  Baby Bou Bou being flash banged is reality ........ Watertown is reality.  Bunkerville was reality, with a touch of God’s grace thrown in – that it did not escalate into a bloodbath was a miracle.

If you cannot fully open your eyes and see the world how it really is then there’s nothing more I can do for you.  Perhaps it is going to take something even more extreme for the millions of Americans who still don’t see.

Lastly, I will submit this to you:  your friend........ undoubtedly feared for her life while attempting to flee, maybe moving across town to meet a contact.  Think about how the people of Ferguson feel today…..

America a “free” country?  Not so much.