On Tyranny

  I refuse to be forced by the government to do or not do anything with regard to my body. I feel as strongly about this as I do about the government telling me how to conduct my family affairs or my eating habits or my personal hygiene or my exercise regiment or my choices for reading or my speech. The government has as much right to require that I be injected with a vaccine or that I submit a medical test or that I respect their "allowance" of my refusal to submit such a test via a "religious exemption," something that only serves to advance their power-narrative, as it does the right to require me to sleep a certain number of hours each night or work a certain number of days per week. But we’ve come to a place in our country where the government is walking that line that separates Constitutional freedom from tyranny. History has repeatedly taught us that once they’ve stepped over that line, all bets are off. Once the government gets a taste of that kind of power, only a strongly determined and highly weaponized civil society can stop them, and while we are a society of highly weaponized civilians, I’m not sure that it isn’t the case that our educational system, our media, and other power structures haven’t reached their goal of weakening the determination of the American people with regard to Constitutional freedom and civil liberties. We don't take the great musical compositions of the greatest composers of the past and discard them altogether: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Vivaldi, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Chopin. This music still moves us, sometimes to tears, and so we cling to it. We appreciate and respect it for what it is; a source of joy and hope. But sadly, through an aversion to the great and terrible history of the United States, the aforementioned power structures have systematically robbed the majority of America’s citizens of the benefits of a once-respected foundation, a foundation that, while still strong in and of itself, while still the primary means for a thriving, long-lasting country, has sadly become a forgotten source of cultural survival. Is government by, for, and of the people still the case in America? If not, we now live in an altogether different America. And if that's the case, God, help us.