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it wasnt endowed with the authority to do many of the things it does and in many cases outright prohibited.
However paper has proven it isn't much of a guard against tyranny.
If any form of government ordered you to commit perjury, would you do it?
You know what kind of society human civilization had before "big, bad government" stepped in? Feudal lords ruling over the peasants. That's what you want to go back to. You want your own personal little fiefdom, doing whatever you like, like how Britain was before the 19th century.
You know what kind of society human civilization had before "big, bad government" stepped in? Feudal lords ruling over the peasants. That's what you want to go back to. You want your own personal little fiefdom, doing whatever you like, like how Britain was before the 19th century.
You skipped my question.
If any form of government ordered you to commit perjury, would you do it?
Power is power no matter where it is placed.
This nation was founded upon the principles, that the power was not in the Federal governments hands, to punish free people.
That is why the Constitution starts out, WE THE PEOPLE, not We the government.
The very fact that a federally appointed(not elected) judge can order you to commit perjury or go to jail, says to me, government can order you to do anything it wishes.
If this is true, it is extremely unsettling, and needs to be taken seriously, not answered with an apathetic "yawn". The only fools are those who think they already know everything, and that "there's nothing to see here folks".
Never dismiss an idea simply because you don't like the source. (don't remember who said that)
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