Your system is a legal civil war, where men gang up on one another and struggle for possession of the law, which they use as a club over rivals, till another gang wrests it from their clutch and clubs them with it in their turn, all of them clamoring protestations of service to an unnamed public's unspecified good. - John Galt

Wow, must have read Atlas Shrugged...see it coming so fast you almost need to wear a helmet for protection. Great article...so true..everything. Favorite line, while WE were sleeping they passed all these law... Some of us weren't sleeping, but the bad guys seem to keep winning. Sad.

"What we believe and act upon we consider our own free will. Nothing could be further from the truth. We as a people and a nation are subject to massive and continuous propaganda. So programmed are the masses that they become hostile to truth."

That's funny. I've been studying cults recently and the same rule applies, just on a smaller scale. Totalitarian governments are just big cults. Scary isn't it.

I think democracy is a bad system, in that it turns over government to the groups that have the numbers, not the brains.

I found the article somewhat disjointed, hopping from topic to topic...probably 'hopping mad' is an accurate description.

But there is one sentence that is both dangerous and untrue: "Such a system might be tolerable if the oligarchs had the people’s best interests at heart." This is the heart of what is wrong: the liberals to whom I speak sincerely believe that they do have "the people's best interests at heart." They are voting for the 'right things' that the (stupid little) common man needs even if he does not know he needs it - like ACA.

No Oligarchy of well-intentioned people should hold power in excess of the rights and freedoms of the people.

Jan

I remember reading somewhere that the average Joe breaks at least 3 laws a day. And, they don't even know it. With what the NSA can do now, I think they can go after anyone anytime.

Said many time many ways over the centuries, the question lingers; is it only by violence that tyranny perishes?

We face a morass of laws, most of them so silly that the only excuse for their existence is to make it impossible to perform any action without breaking a few of them. As a result, business and industries are stultified because there is no legal upside. to going into business or manufacturing, only the risk of becoming a criminal in order to survive.

Incredible article, and excellent comments!!

We have a choice... like the author, we can sit around defining and re-defining the problem.

Or, like tens of thousands of American citizens across the nation who are fed up, we can actually do something about it.

An Article V Convention of States - It's A Solution As Big As The Problem
http://www.ConventionOfStates.com/proble...

Bravo! Well said. Too bad the media and politicos will talk over and drown out anyone who speaks sense like this. It is also true that the ignorant masses that wanted to place their trust in government have done this to us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9...

Too bad articles like this do not make it the mainstream newspapers.