Penned by Edmund Burke in 1791 –
…”What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”…
Though I despise the fact of this truth in the present context, I dare not turn away from it, for only when we come to terms with what has been done by us, and to us, shall we achieve a path through it. Until then, we shall remain quagmired, wallowing in mourning and despair for what we have lost.
Our Republic is dead, and up from its corpse now rises among the ugliest of all demons – a totalitarian democracy, which is the fact of absolute mob rule, sheltered by a government seeking to conscript said mob in the pursuit of tyrannical omnipotence over all, by the very dissolution of the individual in every respect; such a beast is unfettered by law or morals; fidelity to faith or creed; or any other constraint under heaven – this beast, in fact, devours all such distinguishing hallmarks of the human soul, for it is of pure evil, both in its purpose and methods. Burke described it thus;
“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.”
Burke also penned these pearls of wisdom, which warn us of the present predicament so neatly –
“But the age of chivalry is gone.
That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;
and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
“It is a general popular error to suppose
the loudest complainers for the public to
be the most anxious for its welfare.”
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power.
If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law;
and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”
In this day, consent is the same as commission – to that which we consent are we convicted, be that good or evil. By our own consent they have made of us the fortification of unjust laws, and the enemy of all which is just… now we must withdraw that consent, each and every one among us, and become vigorously dangerous towards this evil, or we shall vigorously perish – in the spiritual as well as the physical sense.
“Lord, hold not thy silence; keep not thy peace; and be not still. Thine enemies are [an] uproad; they that hate [thee] raise up [their] heads [with pride].” ~Psalm 83:2-3 תְּהִלִּים
AWAKE, AND TO WAR… The Shofar of alarm has sounded!
LT
~Those who abuse Liberty, do so at their own peril!
