Posted by
Dr. K on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:23:53 AM
Government by its very nature is oppressive and will employ every ruse at its disposal to convince the populace otherwise. Those in government always attempt to paint a benign and benevolent self-portrait to make believers of all who have yet to relish the meager crumbs cast by bureaucrats who administer the vast matrix of regulation and control. Permission must be asked of someone for everything.
So the engine grinds forward chewing up anything standing in the way of the greater and collective good. Those who dare to produce are taxed into submission and poverty. Any gain through productivity is unjust and therefore subject to levy. On the other hand, no engine of government oppression is ever obsolete, no employee, bureau or department expendable. More and more must be rendered unto Caesar until that which is Caesar’s is indistinguishable from that which was not.
Rights no longer endow from the Creator but from government itself; those rights it finds reasonable to endow and not injurious to its function and purpose. With this engine comes the exhaust of arrogance that government can achieve anything through statute, regulation, expenditure and administration. The cause only requires more devotion, sacrifice, and levies. Those who do not know they suffer cry out for a remedy that only the engine can provide. The engine is always ready and willing to take up any new endeavor in order to expand the matrix of oppression.