If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
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