“Americans really are good folk. The government isn’t. It’s the gravest problem we face, both internationally and domestically.
(6) The Constitution really is going away, or has gone. It never did work as well as it should have, but few things human ever do. Habeas corpus is dead, right to an attorney, congressional right to declare war – it’s not even worth listing the list……
(7) The increasing, detailed, intrusive regulation of life, the national desire for control, control, control. Everything is the business of some form of government. Want to paint your shutters? The condo association won’t let you. Let dogs in your bar? Never. Decide who to sell your house to? Racial matter. Own a dog? Shot card, pooper-scooper, leash, gotta be spayed, etc. Have a bar for men only, women only, whites or blacks only? Here come the federal marshals. What isn’t controlled by government is controlled by the crypto-vindictive mob rule of political correctness. This wasn’t always in the American character.
Add the continuing presence of police in the schools, the arrest in handcuffs of children of seven, the expulsions for drawing a picture of a soldier with a gun. Something very twisted is going on.
How much of the public knows what is happening, or even knows that something is happening? I don’t know. But I don’t think that it’s going to go away. In ten years it will be an entirely different place with the same name. Almost is now.”
I know a woman who is clearly not white-American, she was everywhere, haphazardly not always treated with perfect courtesy and friendliness, whether on Cap Hill or “Farmville” Anyplace. More noticeably from the bread-maker to the restaurants, the places where people fill a slot one after the next, she was often mistreated, given poor service and given low grade options while those around her and next in line were not. As a result of seeing this time and time again, I’d say half of Americans are good folk. As much as it pains me to say so, the same goes for the goons in government. Even though, I wouldn’t disagree with his conclusion that government is the gravest problem we face.
[How are the natives treated down there? The same as in Chile?]
Everything else Fred said is so very true.
In ten years it will be an entirely different place with the same name. Almost is now.
Those words will ring in my ears and rattle my mind for awhile I’m sure.