He keeps asking, so we keep answering. This week, Pindell finally gives an UP to the TEA Party movement, along with a question:
Tea Party: The decentralized movement got a new reason for being this week with the news the IRS was targeting them. Since they were proven right on this does it mean everyone needs to take Agenda 21 more seriously?
After all, there is a difference between being paranoid (which many have place the TEA Party because of our warning of an incipient Tyrannical Government) and being what our Founders instructed us to do: be vigilant. The problem is that while many Americans are familiar with Hard Tyranny in other countries (e.g., Soviet Union, Iran, third world countries with Strong Man despots masquerading as Democracies) they’re blinkered when it comes to Tyranny in other forms (i.e., the soft despostism of De Tocqueville moving onward to the medium Tyranny exemplified by Atlas Shrugged; good intentions that morph in to “you WILL do it because we know it is good for you”).
Much has happened with this IRS scandal – and it is becoming clear that the IRS has institutionalized an attitude that “we are above the law”. Combine that with a Big Bureaucracy, a Public Sector Union mentality, and almost unlimited Power, you have seen an extremely
Sidenote: YES, finally we see a real use for the word EXTREMISTS!
biased hierarchy willing to stomp on those that are perceived as a threat – not merely as a political one, but as an existential one. One that has to be stomp on and stomped out.
Agenda 21? No, what DOES need to be taken seriously is the effort by our own Government, with HUD, DOT, and the EPA dangling “free money” to get the 9 Regional Planning entities in NH to persuade local officials to sign the “Sustainable Communities Initiative” (and official Obama Administration policy push) legal documentation that will lead to a Federalization of our local zoning codes. Think I’m kidding? Go read this for what is happening at the other end of the country:
“Implementation of Plan Bay Area will require the demolition of more than 169,000 single-family detached homes, or one out of every nine such homes in the region, according to table 2.3-2 of the draft environmental impact report. Any earthquake or other natural event that resulted in this much destruction would be counted as the greatest natural catastrophe in American history.”
And the TEA Party in Lafayette, LA is fighting a similar effort to “urbanize” that smaller city as well.
No, James, tyranny does not come just at the point of a gun, the explosion of a grenade, the strafing run of a plane, the deliberate starvation of a people, or a forced migration from a homeland. Tyranny can be simply stated as the removal of choice from individuals by those in Government, regardless of the intent or manner.
When I loose the ability to make a choice for myself, uncoerced, I have lost yet another degree of freedom.
