What do People Want?

What do most people want? To be left alone, to lead their lives unimpeded by nosey bureaucrats and threatening tyrants.  If you scratch the surface of a "patriot," what do you find underneath? A person who just wants to be left alone. "But we cannot have that says the government. If the people are not ruled and regulated surely they will go astray. Therefore we must tax the shit out of them and use that money to control their lives. If we leave them too much of their hard earned income they might squander it so we will take more for their own good. We have hundreds of thousands of laws on the books and even more regulations but they are still not doing what we want. They are still following their own destinies and that must stop, for the greater good, IT MUST STOP!"

The people on Ruby Ridge, the people in Waco Texas, all they wanted was to be left alone. "BUT how do we know what they are doing," worries the government. They might be fomenting rebellion, they might be cooking up mischief, or maybe just trying to live their own lives. What drives some people to demand total subjugation of the people who elected them? What insanity eats away at the minds of politicians who cannot get enough power, enough control? What moral vacuity within the body politic has scrubbed their useless bodies free of heart and soul.

I have been warned that my posts paint a target on my back. I've been told the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. A very long time ago, back when I was a teenager, I was told that the truth would set you free. Was that a lie? Are we destined as a "FREE" people to hide from our oppressors? Are we supposed to turn our heads when the domestic terrorists are the ones who threaten us daily with new laws, new regulations, burden us with new taxes, lie to us to get elected, send our young men off to die in frivolous wars, send thousands of us to prison (sometimes on trumped up charges), who make bad deals with BAD people and true terrorists, who break the very laws they write and live outside of the cages they build for us? Will the truth really set you free or send you to prison? Here is an iconic image of the patriots at Bundy Ranch doing what was right, protecting another man's rights, and praying to their God for guidance and protection. May God Bless them and their like all across this great nation!