The Natural Progress – Liberty Yields To Government
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
said Thomas Jefferson.
How absolutely true is that? It has been happening, at first slowly, but now rapidly.
Government has gained enormous, nearly unfathomable ground on Liberty. It is its natural way.
Government grows nearly always at the expense of Liberty somewhere.
Analogous to a spider spinning a web around its prey. The workings of government self justification and its never-ending spinning tendrils is suffocating Liberty itself.
Liberty is gasping for air. Her face is turning blue right before our eyes.
As we stand by and watch…