Liberty Round Table Essay Contest

19-21 Honorable Mention Winner

The New Tyranny, by Daniel R. Freeborn

We were once a free and proud people, now we are slaves to the Puppet Masters; the Harvesters of Sorrow, the Unforgiven. "They" have sucked the blood, sweat, and tears out of our parents, and put us in indoctrination centers (public schools) to spoon-feed us their bureaucratic myths.

For almost seventy years the constitution has been suspended under the war powers act issued by FDR. That was the same way Hitler's national socialists (nazis) first enslaved, and then tortured and murdered millions of men, women, and children. "Well we never could become that barbaric," we murmur to ourselves.

It has already begun: 82 people, including 18 children under the age of ten, perished in a siege by the FBI and BATF that ended with the burning of the Mount Carmel Church in Waco, Texas. Genocide? Or, as the government claims, mass suicide? There are easier ways to commit suicide than to be gassed to death or burned alive. The FBI committed the same atrocities that the Nazis did fifty years before. And who was behind it?

At least twice during the last half of the 20th century we have fought wars in which our soldiers have had (as George Bush put it) "one hand tied behind their backs". Korea was the first of these wars. It started because a president and a State Department bureaucrat in Washington played God with other people's lives. As a result, five million Koreans, Chinese and Americans died in an undeclared, unconstitutional war that should never have occurred.

"We the People" owe the international bankers billions on that war alone. Who was behind it? I guess the government still serves the people ­ after all, bankers are people. Now the government thinks they own us. We are branded at birth; sent to their schools, work to pay off their debts ­ debts caused by the murder of foreigners and Americans.

This is the new tyranny that has been building since the Civil War, when our governing body became a corporation. (A first step toward national socialism or fascism).

Any socialist society is a breeding ground for tyranny. Whether it is a small feudal society or a giant "military industrial complex" Whether it is national or international socialism, they all have the same effect, and in the end the civilization will fall. This is the price we pay for apathy in the face of tyranny.

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