tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post7391434828696497952..comments2024-03-28T12:31:13.509-05:00Comments on Throne, Altar, Liberty: Shall Past and Future Generations Rise in the Judgement and Condemn us for our Folly at This Moment?Gerry T. Nealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12137796641408373451noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post-34369639938724113802020-03-23T22:31:37.244-05:002020-03-23T22:31:37.244-05:00I'm saddened at how quickly churches have rush...I'm saddened at how quickly churches have rushed to go along with the hysteria, rather than opposing it.<br /><br />God will judge. And some will be surprised at what He has to say to them, come that Day...Will S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02714519301979594160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post-72830367132585976772020-03-23T16:12:38.738-05:002020-03-23T16:12:38.738-05:00Thoughtful as usual.
It's astonishing to read...Thoughtful as usual.<br /><br />It's astonishing to read that the Dept. of Justice in the U.S. wants to be able summarily to detain citizens. This is not the Obama Justice Dept. but the one currently headed by William Barr, himself under the direction of Pres. Trump. Both operate under the "Republican" mantle but I don't put any store in that. As one wit observed about "Conservative, Inc." here, what exactly have conservatives conserved? But the optics are indeed odd where an ostensibly "Republican" administration wants this kind of authority. Shades of FDR and his Japanese internment camps. <br /><br />That said, on the issue of responding to putative emergencies, we should learn from the Patriot Act and the creation of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Not any politician I know of is agitating for the repeal of that Act with the probable honorable exception of Rand Paul and a few other malcontents. My internet search history and public library activities are still subject to FBI perusal without my knowledge if I understand the Act correctly. And there sits the monstrous DHS, a pathetic, unnecessary, massive jumble of federal agencyettes. <br /><br />JFK, I believe, said that there's nothing so permanent as the temporary and I have zero expectation that any of these morons who purport to provide wise leadership to defend our precious liberties will spend five seconds thinking about sunset provisions for any of the "critical" measures so necessary for our survival.<br /><br />I don't have the inclination to provide my laundry list of all the insanities that do afflict and have afflicted us. Suffice it to say that the entire West is long overdue for the experience of Solzhenitsyn's "pitiless crowbar of events" that will smash many cherished illusions of the nature of man that now afflict us in such a poisonous fashion.<br /><br />PS - Mencken did correctly observe that "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." That's not inconsistent with Burke's thought as the wisdom of the species of which he spoke is not the result of humans participating in artificial, vaporous electoral contests which are, in practice, the perfect engines for collecting and giving effect to pure lunacy, superstition, and ignorance. Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.com