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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Decorum Remus starts the day in a good and magnanimous mood but as the day grinds on, as fresh outrages pile one atop another, his sunny outlook wanes, his natural forbearance and good will fade. It's then he admits the time for decorum and civil discourse is running out. He knows if we want liberty, if we want our country and our republic back, we're well advised to begin now. We'd better make a good job of it this time. It won't be enough to root out their treachery, it won't enough to dismantle their schemes, it won't be enough to prosecute them. Exposing and hounding them relentlessly begins to be enough. Joe McCarthy was right, therefore McCarthyism was right. Resume McCarthyism at the double-quick to make up for lost time. The list of their crimes is almost without end. They have diverted our works and our earnings to support their betrayal of the nation. Un-divert them and enforce restitution to the last ha'penny. Bonus points if it drives them to outright penury. Demonstrate what zero tolerance is, done right. Punish each violation separately and serially and exhaustively. If confronting their crimes drives them to suicidal despair we'll rejoice at the feeble evidence of a functioning conscience and encourage them to do the right thing. None of this will happen. Here's what will happen. DC will continue to run the schools, the hospitals, the auto industry, communications, transportation, agriculture and on and on until nothing works again. They'll continue to dominate the economy, direct it, distort it and corrupt its fundamentals. They'll continue to use the ways of the old NKVD and Schutzstaffel to destroy all that stands between them and the power they crave. It began with the "fog of peace", a tactic borrowed from Stalin's Soviet Union where nobody can know what to pretend to believe. Debt is wealth and bad is good to be sure, but the finer details of political correctness shift by the day so even the most rigorous self censorship is never quite adequate. It's a certainty that actual, open dissent falls under "terrorist activity", but again, nobody's quite sure where the markers are, which is why reliably timid citizens are urged to "say something if they see something", they're the regime's dipstick. They'll continue persecuting productive people for being productive. It's part of their insane version of social justice. Earned income is mere plunder because it's not possible to earn an honest dollar in a free enterprise system, therefore the poor-by-choice are entitled to our earnings for having heroically resisted earning their own income and thereby tainting their ideological purity. Thank you for not playing, you win, here's your neighbor's trophy. They'll continue turning us into a third-world kleptocracy from sea to shining sea, proud citizens of the world, weaving a rich tapestry of vibrant diversity, i.e., Detroit writ large, itself a sort of socialist reservation supported entirely, and unwillingly, from the outside. Truth is, the poverty industry loots working tax-payers to bribe the violent and improvident into an ersatz quiescence, which is odd, few actually care if the inner cities go up in flames again. Nobody. Not them, not us. Talk about a Faustian bargain, talk about unsustainable, the day has been deferred at a staggering expense in dollars and ethical capital, but like gangrene, it'll get it's way in the end. What the regime should really fear are those who just walk away, and the productive people are walking away. Ayn Rand had it right with her book title, Atlas Shrugged. Businesses and entrepreneurs and professionals vote with their feet when they're relentlessly harassed and their earnings confiscated for the Good of The Collective. They'll self-evacuate from a city, a state or the country. Why should they stay? Consider what it says to a physician or a nurse or an EMT when the progressives insist "health care is a right". How shall this be enforced? Are they to be compelled to volunteer? Do they face civil rights prosecution if they decline? And consider what it means to a working person with a so-so income when he hears this: ... a woman in her 20s came to the ER with her 8th pregnancy. She stated, "my momma told me that I am the breadwinner for the family." He asked her to explain. She said that she can make babies and babies get money for the family. It goes like this: The grandma calls the Department of Child and Family Services and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for these children. DCFS agrees and states that the child or children will need to go to foster care. The grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and thus receives a check for $1500 per child per month in Illinois. Total yearly income: $144,000 tax-free, not to mention free healthcare (Medicaid) plus a monthly card entitling her to free groceries, etc, and a voucher for 250 free cell phone minutes per month. This does not even include WIC and other welfare programs. Indeed, grandma was correct in that her fertile daughter is the "breadwinner" for the family. This is how the ruling class spends our tax dollars. Sebastian Ciancio, M.D. Urologist, Danville Polyclinic, in an email to Rush Limbaugh A working person would have to amass several million dollars to yield $144,000 in tax-free income, she does it by voting and getting pregnant. We're at the point where no explanation suffices for these things. Even people not interested in the Big Issues of Our Time notice we're living in a bizarro world where assaults on common sense and affronts to common decency come thick and fast. Caligula wouldn't feel out of place. For one he'd be delighted at depravity being normalized by the (formerly, our) schools, as would Beria and Streicher, et al. And Heydrich would immediately recognize the DHS as the SD wrapped in stars and stripes, except with a bigger budget and smiley faces all around ... ... and so it goes dear reader, when Remus is in a good and magnanimous mood, his sunny outlook and natural forbearance intact. But the day is grinding on, fresh outrages are piling one atop another, so his outlook is darkening shade by shade, his decorum waning. And he's not alone.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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