Kind of difficult to outmaneuver the enemy without knowing their tactics and strategy. "You never truly know a man until you fight him." ~ The Matrix

Everett doesn't say freedom is guaranteed. Read the whole quote.  "so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred."  Then you start with the religious lecturing...

And how are we to come to know Natural law?  How are we to be sure that man's laws are in accordance with the God of Nature?  It is the same as determining what is 'right conduct.'  So, the greater man does what he has determined to be right, no matter the laws.

Judge the words not the man.  What if you did not know who said it?

Lame. Another ad hominem fallacy addressing nothing of the quote.  Instead of dumping on all the quotes, how about making a real argument?

You are free because you 'obey' Nature?  That's an oxymoron.

The battle, as always, is for your mind.  Who do you think you are?  Do you even have a say?

Sounds like NYC, Chicago, DC today... coming soon to a leftist city near you.

Sounds like Biden's basement strategy...

Love it! "shorn by menticide of their objectivity" !  I will have to start using "menticide" in daily discourse of progressive liberals.  ;-)

It's the same as it's ever been, only more blatant now.  When routing out the devil expect a lot of thrashing about, foul mouths, and dirty tricks.  The Ministry of Propaganda is a big business — as long as there is an audience and a megaphone to reach them.  Turn it off, and the conflict ends.  24/7 fear-mongering is their bread and butter.  If there is peace and prosperity, their local governments release violent prisoners from jail, tell cops to stand down, don't arrest or charge anyone with a crime, no bail, order all for-profit businesses shut-down indefinitely, empty the streets then promote burning them to the ground in the name of BLM 'protest'. 

Hatred and hypocrisy abounds — that is the goal, to divide the People, not unite them.  This is the mass psychology perfected by Nazis and Marxists, a classic playbook for totalitarian insurgency.  And now we have the mayors of NYC, Chicago, DC, Portland, and others encouraging the continuation of riots while ordering the police to stand down if not disband altogether.  This is sedition! 

The Swamp can't be drained if the citizens let their mayors and city councils assume authority they do not have while not performing their chartered duties.  The quiet coup is quiet no longer!  The insurgents are right in front of our noses, and they don't even care any more who knows it.

Trump Derangement Syndrome!  There's nothing else like it.  ;-)

Said Jack Nicholson as the Joker in "Batman" movie. ;-)

Even with the Covid pandemic essentially over (less than 5% of all causes of death), guidelines for wearing a mask are now turning into laws with criminal penalties — laws passed by city councils, not legislatures.  This is just more of the same, regulating the behaviors of the people.  Governors are extending their emergency powers indefinitely, pushing through practices and policies that couldn't get passed by the legislature.  Assuming more and more power over the people without lawful authority.  This is how socialism/authoritarianism creeps into a free society.

We're paying for that now.

Isn't this the essence of true liberalism?  It rings true because it is true.  People associate more due to rhythm and tempo than appearances.  It's the difference between being authentic and putting on an act.  Liberty is not having to put on an act.

One American?  Sheesh!!  More than half of America is being told to shut up!  The Left used to hate corporate power — now they adore it, in order to cancel any and all who do not speak the Party line.  Employees are fired for expressing opinions in private. 

Black privilege abounds yet it is never enough — how much more special treatment does a political class deserve?  50 years of this and the poor are still there — if there is systemic racism, it is in Democrat policies since these are the policies followed for the last 50 years.  And to speak this is to enrage the mob and justify any harm that may come.  

This is nothing new.  The emperor is still wearing no clothes, and it is still dangerous to point to it.  ;-)

And now, in 2020, newspaper editors are fired for publishing op-eds that contradict the Party line, people are fired for social media posts that contradict 'fake news', all whites are racist (they just don't realize it) and blacks cannot ever be racist, no matter what they say or how they act (somehow).  Certain words can only be spoken by a black person — considered criminal if a white person speaks them, even if reading the words of a black speaker using them.  A professor was fired the other day for reading MLK's letter from an Alabama jail(!!) 

Most conservative news outlets have been purged from social media access — if Twitter could ban Trump they would have done so a long time ago, but it would only bring attention to their bias and leftward spin (and cost them BILLIONS in revenue). 

Today, opinion is news — and opposing opinions are 'hateful,' and hate speech is not protected free speech.  Seems crazy since every other word out of the mobs is a hateful profanity aimed at shutting you up — permanently if they have their way.  Name-calling is the go to fallacy for every argument.  There is no debate, either capitulate to the statist authoritarians or be cancelled, neutralized, and destroyed.  Children are used as pawns for the Socialist Revolution, and should they succeed, they will reap the same rewards as communist Russia and Maoist China, servitude for all, ruled by a Democrat elite.  You may not leave the urban plantation!

The Stalinist Purge in 2020 Amerika is heating up.  Thought Crimes are punished.  Cancel Culture demands One Party Rule, the heretics be damned, fired from their jobs, banned for life, ridiculed, and stoned by the outrage mob.  Is there one Maoist tactic of subversion going unused?  Who are the book burners and censors?  Who is responsible for hosting Kristallnacht in every major Leftist city for weeks? Who insists on complete capitulation and subservience to authoritarian rule?  Who is the purveyor of massive propaganda?  Who promotes Eugenics and the elimination of inferior races?  Who really harbors Hatred towards others based upon their race, religion, or conscience?  Who aborts more black babies than are born?  The real Nazi's don't even realize who they are!!

Thanks, Mike!  I've always loved your take on "the statist theocracy infesting this land." ;-)

Stop paying for your servitude!  ;-)

We've come a long way, baby...

China slave labor can only go so far — they don't actually innovate, they appropriate.  If there isn't a capitalist customer for slave-labor, China will fall under its own weight.

Accurate.  The PC cancel culture furthers slogans that suddenly all progressive liberal politicians repeat verbatim, ad infinitum.  Groupthink only — any speech that diminishes the slogans is condemned and censored.  "All lives matter" triggers hateful responses.  Any effort to resolve any disputes other than complete capitulation to the outrage mob means war.  The Thought Police and Ministry of Truth are fully empowered to shut down any voice that does not toe the party line.  The goal is One Party rule (which is essentially Marxism).  All others must bow down and kiss the feet of the mob which demands total surrender and the paying of protection money to keep their jobs and businesses — which will be taxed to pay for the mob's demands of ... what?  The demands never end — the Left has been governing these areas exclusively for decades, THEY are already responsible for the end results — this is what you get.

I do sincerely hope that the Minneapolis Police Department will be shut down.  I personally would like to see how the citizens take responsibility.  Certainly, if the people of these cities live up to their ideals, there will be no problems.  I hope they can show us how it is done, really.

BTW, NYC is a ghost town with miles of boarded up businesses.  No one is allowed out except to riot.  Months ago, the city started a no bail program for criminals.  Can anyone really doubt that all this has been a set-up to cause civil unrest?  This is straight out of the Maoist Insurgency playbook.  There is no doubt in my mind what the intention is behind all this ...

We are their friends, Craig, and remind them as often as we can that the national democratic socialism they desire is in fact the same il-liberal fascistic German socialist party ideology.  Fascists ARE socialists — every fascist at the time knew it.  The citizens called themselves socialists — who are we to believe?  The only thing 'rightist' about fascism is that it is to the right of Marxism.  Marxism is an excuse to not take responsibility, in fact to find a scapegoat for the 'inequalities' they seek to cure.  The Left have a fundamental problem with the concept of "responsibility."  Blame, obfuscation, misdirection, denial, self loathing, self-destructive — "Burn it all down!  Eat the Rich!"  Their currency is Mayhem.