Give us Liberty or Give Us Big Brother

I have come to the conclusion that most of my fellow Americans just don’t like liberty. They don’t recognize or regret how much personal liberty we’ve lost over the last 50 years or so. They opt for rules and regulations over unfettered freedom. It’s all for our own good, of course. We’re just trying to protect you. Don’t you want us to be safe?

I started brooding about this subject- I tend to brood about a lot of subjects- yesterday, when I read some of the proposals from our beloved new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger. Included among her flood of executive orders was one rescinding former Governor Glenn Youngkin’s decree requiring state and local law enforcement to assist ICE in apprehending illegal immigrants, and another reducing H-1B visas fees on employers hiring foreign workers over U.S. citizens. The emboldened Democrats in my state went on to propose legislation to end mandatory minimum sentencing for rape and other violent felonies. But they also proposed more Orwellian cameras at traffic lights, to nab dangerous speeders. I get it; in America 2.0, the average speeding motorist is considered more dangerous than the average rapist. Especially migrant rapists who are experiencing “sexual emergencies.” If you’ve never experienced a migrant-style “sexual emergency,” don’t judge.

As I venture out into my community, I have to deal with the fact that my smiling, seemingly harmless fellow Virginia residents voted for Spanberger. Well, how could they not? She’s a former cop that “backs the blue,” and has a CIA background as well. Plus, she’s really and truly “Woke.” It wouldn’t surprise me if she decided to “transition” herself while in office. Northern Virginia is becoming California-lite, without the beaches. Minnesota-lite, without the Somalians. I used to watch the skies for UFOs. Now I’ll be watching the crowds for an influx of Somalis. Or perhaps Haitians. They’d have a field day in my neighborhood, where almost everyone has a very spoiled, well fed dog. Combine that with all the government workers, including the oldsters that have double or even triple dipped, and you have my world. No wonder I don’t hear from too many people in my area who’ve read my work.

The corruption we see in America today is unlike any corruption before it. It’s at every level. I see it whenever I traverse one of our crumbling, pothole filled roads. In recent years, they have stopped allowing motorists to turn left on a “leading” green, which was the case for the first four decades or more of my career behind the wheel. No one even talks about it, and it was never debated. There would be no debate, anyhow, because no one in public life is going to say, “This is really stupid. It’s just going to create more traffic backups. If you’re too stupid or reckless to turn left when it’s not safe to do so, then you shouldn’t be on the road.” The bottom line is, our leaders don’t trust the people to be able to do something as mundane as wait until no traffic is coming to execute a left-hand turn. At the same time, more and more traffic lights display a sign proclaiming “No right turn on red.” Again, those who misrule us have taken away the decision making power from the people on even that level.

Staying on the topic of traffic; just who supports those traffic cameras, which catch dangerous motorists going through a red light a split second late, or going 10 miles over an already artificially low speed limit, or daring to turn right at a light that has a sign that forbids it? If we’re willing to allow this kind of tyranny at the lowest level, which we nevertheless must deal with everyday, is it any wonder that the more extensive corruption at the national level continues unabated, generation after generation? If you’re not willing to protest the mindless implementation of “No right turn on red” signs, are you ever going to demand term limits for your elected “representatives?” Or protest the latest undeclared and senseless war? There is now a push on to mandate “age verification” for internet usage. Already, readers in Australia have told me that they have been subject to this on Substack. Does it really take much insight to realize what a slippery slope that is?

Again, at the local level, in counties across the country, a few years ago we saw some signs of healthy unrest on the part of parents at school board meetings, They rightfully objected to the devious transgender and Critical Race Theory agendas, which have become part of the curriculum in so many schools. In every case, it was one bold and lonely protester, who dared to confront what are visibly tyrannical members of these school boards. In too many cases, a petty school board tyrant ordered the brainless officer stationed there to subdue and eject the angry parent from the premises. In every case, the other parents sat there passively, playing with their phones, eyes averted. No one defended these souls who were brave enough to speak up for all of them. Why do you have to get mad at these people- they’re just doing their jobs! They’re just trying to keep us safe! Transgender Story Hour, no right turn on red- find something else to occupy your mind. Meditate. Think positive.

When you have a populace as dumbed down and submissive as ours, you’re going to see more corruption on the part of those in charge. The COVD psyop demonstrated this very clearly. They managed to get the overwhelming majority of the people, not just here but all over the world, to follow ridiculous “mandates” that had no basis in law, and in fact were not laws. They turned us into a masked mockery, and caused loved ones to stop hugging and kissing each other. They got us to put on a mask to walk into a restaurant, but safely take it off when we got to our table. And still almost no one questioned it. I was reminded of a character in the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, which was deeply influential on my own writing, who surreptitiously kept putting up nonsensical signs in public, and watched people blindly obey them. Human beings are certainly an obedient lot.

Younger people couldn’t comprehend the world I grew up in. Now, I didn’t think there was nearly enough personal freedom then, but in retrospect I understand all that we’ve lost. Blue collar shift workers like me, in the 1970s and into the 1980s, were not tied to a timecard. I didn’t even fill out a timecard during my first several years on the job. When the next shift arrived, you left. Sometimes, the boss let you leave early. This could be hours early. And you still were paid for your entire shift. Now, you’re tied to a digital timeclock, and no one leaves early. Eight hours work for eight hours pay, to quote those in management, who were known to play golf during their work day, and were paid for doing so. Cigarette smokers could smoke anywhere. Stores, banks, even elevators until the late 1980s. Kids rode in the back of open pickup trucks and delighted in being bounced around. Nowadays, that would get the driver locked up. But I guess it wasn’t as “safe,” and that’s all that counts.

A lot of Americans have never really liked this liberty thing. The Statue of Liberty makes a mockery of the word, with its flowery verse extolling the virtues of “wretched refuse” from some foreign “teeming shore.” In reality, it symbolizes the version of the United States singular, created after a million pointless deaths in Abe Lincoln’s bloody war. We see the “melting pot,” and the “joys of diversity” in it, not the Bill of Rights or the right of the people to consent to those who govern them. We are far closer to the “liberty, fraternity, and equality” of the Freemasonic driven French Revolution, than to the Sons of Liberty which gathered in dark corners of colonial taverns to map out the movement for independence. We now enjoy a “freedom” that has countless asterisks attached to it. Try saying something “unwanted” at a school board meeting or a town hall. The reality of your “liberty” will be explained to you by a kindly officer with a badge, perhaps at gunpoint.

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