JHoward
Protein Wisdom
12/6/2011
From Taki’s magazine:
What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to limit the government? What if Congress’s enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limited Congress, but were actually used as justification to extend Congress’s authority over every realm of human life? What if the president, meant to be an equal to Congress, has become a democratically elected, term-limited monarch? What if the president assumed everything he did was legal just because he’s the president? What if he could interrupt your regularly scheduled radio and TV programming for a special message from him? What if he could declare war on his own? What if he could read your emails and texts without a search warrant? What if he could kill you without warning?
For starters.
What if the government could write any law, regulate any behavior and tax any event, the Constitution be damned? What if the government was the reason we don’t have a Constitution anymore?
What if it is better to perish fighting for freedom than to live as a slave? What if freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now?…
Read the rest at Protein Wisdom.
Update: From Exposing Progressive Corporatism on Facebook where there are several more illuminating Venn Diagrams.