2010
Soap Box Archives
Power
For there to be civilization, there has to be a central repository of
power conferred on a person, or persons, given the authority to make
and enforce rules known as laws, and for there to be a democratic civilization,
that power has to be conferred by the majority will of the people.
If there is not a centralization of power, there is no democracy and
the power is unwillingly conferred on those who have the largest armies
or the most guns.
When there are a lot of different factions who have significant armies
and a lot of guns, it turns into a warlord or ethnic faction situation
resulting in what we see in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon.
In cases where there is only one faction who has the military power,
it results in a dictatorship such as we see in Iran and Venezuela.
Power in the hands of truly good people is a truly good thing and conversely,
power in the hand of bad people is a disastrously bad thing.
Even in a democracy, power can be a drug to people who put their interests
ahead of the interests of the people who conferred the power on them
in the first place.
This type of person tends to attempt to gather even more power under
their control.
This grabbing of power is not a new thing. It's been done again and
again and it always fails in the end but causes an awful lot of misery
until it finally becomes so top heavy it topples to its inevitable destruction,
many times taking the unfortunate nation along with it.
Usually big centralized government, operating under the guise of benevolent
socialism, is the favorite poison of those who seek to control a country,
socialism secreted in through the shadows of the democratic process
a small piece at a time until the tentacles are tightly wrapped around
the throats of the unsuspecting status quo and they are so entwined
in bureaucracy and powerful government agencies that they can hardly
breath.
One of their favorite power grabs is nationalizing private businesses,
that's happening in this country right now.
Do you think the people of Germany had any idea what they were getting
themselves into when they kept granting Adolph Hitler more and more
power?
Do you think the people of Russia would have adopted the communist policies
of Marx and Lenin if they had any idea that it would bring a monster
like Joseph Stalin to power who would cruelly murder millions of their
citizens?
Do you think the people of Cuba would have fought and died to help Fidel
Castro come to power if they'd known then what they know now?
Political power is it's own self proliferating narcotic, the more you
have the more it takes to satisfy the lust until you've taken the last
vestige of liberty away from a once free people and it happens so gradually
that only a handful of them even know what's going on until it's directly
affecting them.
The new homeland security laws we passed to deal with terrorism are
a good thing when wielded by good people, but could be used as a tool
of unspeakable civil rights violations when in the hands of ruthless
people.
I cast no aspersions, but merely bring up some food for thought and
careful questioning.
The Obama government and the Congress under the leadership of Nancy
Pelosi and Harry Reid have already commandeered nearly one sixth of
the American economy with a health care bill, that to this date, nobody
can interpret and really don't know the provisions nor the ramifications
of.
Why does the Obama administration need so many czars if not to bypass
the input of the democratically elected representatives?
Why did the healthcare legislation have to be put together in back rooms,
use taxpayer funded buyouts to unscrupulous Congressmen and Senators,
and why did it have to pass so quickly that the public which it will
affect was not allowed to even know it's provisions?
Why does the White House try to bribe a Congressman out of running against
a Senator they were supporting and call it business as usual?
With the Obama administration, I guess it is.
Why does this Democrat Congress try to pass every socialistic piece
of tripe on their agenda before the November elections? Could it be
they think it will be a long time before they get to do it again?
I think you all know the answers to those questions.
It all comes down to which people we trust with our vote.
My dear friends, sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm wrong, but I
will always speak the truth from my point of view.
The most corrupt, dirty, petulant, inexperienced, idealistic and careless
regime America has ever had at the helm is in power in this country.
They are determined to remake America in the image of the failed socialist
countries in Europe.
Are we going to let it happen?
What do you think?
Pray for our troops, and for our country.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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