I’ve been meaning to get to this for hours. But my son asked me to do a jigsaw puzzle with him and abandoned me to do it on my own. So much for my day off!
Jennifer Harper spoke to Jon Voight before his appearance at the “Freedom Concert” honoring fallen soldiers.
“We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can’t see this is probably hoping it isn’t true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.”
Be outraged, Mr. Voight advises. [...]
“The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them,” Mr. Voight says. “So I ask again. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?”
The Other McCain notes how the libs went gaga over Voight’s statement. And you can’t accuse RS McCain of being some shill for the republican party. And he brings up Hayek, which is always nice. Carol at No Sheeples Here has links to other warnings made by Voight.
Back to Hayek, in the 1956 preface to the Road the Serfdom he wrote the following:
Of course, years of socialist government in England have not produced anything resembling a totatlitarian state. But those who argue that this has disproved the thesis of the Road to Serfdom have really missed one of its main points; that the most important change which extensive government control produces is a physiological change, and alteration in the character of the people. This is necessarily a slow affair, a process which extends not over a few years but perhaps over one or two generations. The important point is that the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. This means, among other things, that even a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit. The consequences can of course be averted if that spirit reasserts itself in a time and the people not only throw out the party which has been leading them further and further in the dangerous direction but has also recognized the nature of the danger and resolutely change their course. There is not yet much ground to believe that the latter had happened in England.
My husband just said to me “I can’t believe the men who fought for our freedoms at Brandywine, Yorktown,Trenton and everywhere else that they had this in mind for the future of our country. We’re now giving it away. We’re giving away what they fought for. I can’t believe it.”
Neither can I.
I can’t believe it, either. All these things that are happening at lightening speed are so foreign to the character of this country. And I am completely unsurprised that Obama is willing to be a one-term president in order to put “his” agenda in place. Because Obama is not the president of this country; he’s the clean face being used by someone else. And nobody seems to even be CURIOUS as to who’s really running the country.
I have been searching for the answer to ‘why this apathy’, and have come up empty. I understand even the people who are so gullible they believe people who actually told them before the election ‘don’t worry about all that stuff we say we’re going to do, we’re not going to do any of that, we just need to get elected’; people so gullible it never occurred to them that if the Obama camp would lie to the world they would lie to THEM—–but I do not understand the people who just shrug and don’t care and think this is the same old politics…
I’m bewildered and sad most of the time. With occasional bursts of “furious”
.
Well-loved. Like or Dislike:
5 
0
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Poorly-rated. Like or Dislike:
0 
7