We have become extremely lazy regarding our freedoms, liberties and rights as human beings. The “chickens” if you will, of that laziness have come home to roost.

Legislators pass onerous laws restricting our freedom a bit at a time, promising us that there will be “no abuse of any new power granted to government” over our lives. Of course, little or most often no oversight at all, is placed upon those entities and the end results are police, state and federal agents, or even unelected bureaucrats run roughshod over the very same freedoms they have taken an oath to defend.

The income tax was a tiny fraction of what it is now and only applied to the top 1% of income earners when it was first enacted. They promised not to “abuse” that power granted, yet abuse it they did.

Your social security number was never intended for “identification purposes” and it was even printed on the cards themselves. Guess how that worked out? Yes readers, that power was also abused.

Police have literally gutted the 4th amendment with their insane interpretation of it. It's called “probable cause AND a warrant” that makes their presence on your property legal to conduct a search, just in case you weren't keeping score. Suppose they abused a power given to them?

Asset forfeiture allows for the legalized robbery of the innocent with the proceeds of ill gotten swag going to the same badge wearing robbers who took the property. Guilt doesn't even come into play as people who lack the means to sue to get back their property are out of luck. Didn't they say that they'd also not abuse that power given to them as well?

Problems created by government are made even worse by those entrusted to “cure” said ills. If anyone requests power over you and banks upon your continued ignorance of their past performance regarding the protection of your liberties, when they tell you that they will never go overboard on their newfound power. You can rest assured that they are lying as well as playing you for a big chump.

They do not feel as though they owe you the truth because they actually hold you in contempt. You are good enough to keep them employed and out of dumpsters digging for scraps, and they have the nerve to look down their noses at us. What did you expect from these people anyway?

Do you still feel like trusting them with more of your freedoms and think they'll act differently?

With Liberty,

Dan Steward