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Mar 2, 2010 
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” … Philosopher David Hume
Thomas Sowell, one the great minds of our times, wrote a thought provoking article exploring some ways a society loses freedoms. Mr. Sowell noted, “The most politically effective totalitarian systems have gotten people to give up their own freedom in order to vent their resentment or hatred at other people– under Communism, the capitalists; under Nazis, the Jews.” A profound comment that critical thinkers will appreciate; and unfortunately, too many liberals will not understand.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/02/16/playing_freedom_cheap
For several decades our freedoms have been incrementally usurped by government. Not only have the people have allowed this to have happened, too many don’t realize it or care. Public education and academia controlled by entrenched liberals subscribing to the ideology of Marxism have indoctrinated and dumbed-down a significant segment of the population. They have created a mentally challenged citizen that flocks to the Democrat Party. During periods of power these anti-liberty zealots have incrementally taken away freedoms and continue to attack traditions that have made America great for over 200 years.
There are a plethora of examples that prove American traditions and freedom are under attack by Marxist Liberals, often with assistance of the courts because a majority of Americans rebuke the liberal agenda. Their attack on religion escalated with the Supreme Court decision in Murray vs. Curlett (1963), which banned organized school prayers. Since then liberals have been committed to eliminate Christmas symbols and other religious symbols in public places, or caroling in public schools, the words “under God” in our Pledge of Allegiance or the use of God in any government communication. The lie used to promote this agenda is the non-existent “Separation of Church and State” clause in the U.S. Constitution. It’s a liberal myth! A provision created by an overreaching liberal activist Supreme Court.
Take something as benign smoking tobacco. The freedom to choose to consume a legal product has been taken away incrementally. It started in the 1960’s with restrictions to smoking in sections of airplanes, then airports, restaurants, places of employment and parks. This was followed by confiscatory taxes on tobacco products and multibillion-dollar suits against tobacco companies, then prohibition of smoking in individual cars and homes. Other Constitutional freedoms and property rights are being taken away in the same manner.
The most egregious Liberal attack on liberty is the assault on freedom of speech and thought. Tyrants and politicians supporting totalitarian systems know that to control the population you must control speech and thought. To this end liberals have passed “Hate Crimes” legislation, one of the most egregious violations of the U.S. Constitution ever passed by Congress and upheld by a Supreme Court. What a person is thinking when committing a crime against another person is not of consequence. The act alone should be judged and punished.
Freedom of speech and thought, along with property rights, are of the most cherished freedoms of any free society. Once government controls freedom of speech and thought they can dictate “appropriate” language, which liberals have done with so called “Political Correctness”. By controlling the use of words such as retard, queer, nigger, spic, kike, etc., governments can control the people. The 1st Amendment was adopted to protect the most insensitive speech and with out it there is no freedom. Think of the absurdity of rewriting great literary works of bye gone eras, like those of Mark Twain, because of the use of “incentive” words as defined by liberal elitist.
Team Obama and Democrats are shinning examples of the Marxist Liberal agenda to control the people. They use lofty rhetoric like economic and social justice, which does not sow justice but only spreads misery and poverty. They are master midway carnival barkers and political magicians using slight of hand, out right lies, misinformation, and distortion of empirical data, rewritten history, hate and class warfare to advance the agenda. Liberals posting on this blog is proof positive. Liberal icons are able to convince indoctrinated minions lacking critical thinking skills to give up their freedoms with bumper sticker slogans and sound bites that allow liberal naval gazers to feel good about their lofty self perceptions while being led into tyranny like a flock of sheep.
George Torres
