As a kid, I was told I had a bad attitude. I didn’t like school and starting in elementary school would often cut class. In junior high, I endured whacks on the ass with wooden paddles. When I made it to high school, I would get suspended or spend time serving after-school detentions. I got into tussles with teachers and administrators and classmates. I smoked weed and Angel Dust and took amphetamines and barbiturates and hallucinogens. Sniffed gas. I purposely got bad grades. This did not go over well at home. I graduated with a D average ‘cause I got As in shop and gym. But, hey, at least I graduated.
For more than half of my life I had run-ins with the law. I’ve served stints in jail.
I haven’t been in trouble with the law in a long time, but that doesn’t mean I’ve changed much. I still don’t like to be told what to do, still break laws, still don’t like to follow other people’s rules. I still don’t respect authority. Over the years I’ve learned to avoid situations where I have to deal with people in power, but there are some situations that are nearly impossible to escape, most of which have to do with the government. It should be obvious that I dislike government officials. Fortunately, I don’t often have to deal with them in person anymore. I believe that as makers of arbitrary laws, government is the root cause of a social pathology that manifests itself in the form of ne’er-do-well rebels like me.
I have never respected people who blindly follow the law, which I admit is probably not fair. But in my view, most laws are unnecessary. Drug laws, for instance. Look how many people who don’t belong in jail are in jail because of “the war on drugs.” If you left these people to their own devices, got rid of these stupid laws, they wouldn’t find it necessary to break them. Of course, there would be some who get out of line—commit violent crimes—and they would have to be dealt with. I’m not saying we could eliminate all laws, though I wish we could. But when you place restrictions on people, they resist. It’s natural. Prohibition is probably the best example of this. Look what it did. It spawned organized crime, and millions of otherwise law-abiding people were obliged to break another stupid law. Black market booze was so profitable that the U.S. Government had to get their piece, so the law was rescinded. The same is happening with marijuana.
Day by day, more laws are written, and that means less freedom. With the government-funded, man-made Covid 19 virus, the last year and a half has been the most restrictive period of my life and perhaps in American history. Hell, world history. But didn’t you feel it coming? I did, in the form of a growing, unnamable frustration, which came to a head with the past election, the one mainstream media and Big Tech rigged in the Democrats’ favor and possibly stole.
That old angst has returned. Our zombie president and his minions are going too far. They are destroying what’s left of America, imperfectly made, certainly, but far superior in its ideal than that of any other country at any other time on Earth.
At least half of the citizenry are not only complying with government theft of our rights and wealth—our freedom—but are wildly enthusiastic about it. They don’t want to be free. They’re like children and need someone to take care of them. They don’t want you to be free because they perceive your freedom as a threat to their government-sponsored lives. They fear they might instead have to do something with their lives. They have been brainwashed. To them, freedom-loving people are the enemy. They cheer as dissenters are thrown in jail with neither due process nor bond. Meanwhile, Antifa and Black Lives Matter members burn buildings, terrorize and murder the innocent, and are held blameless by our craven “authorities.” There’s authority for you! There’s your government! They won’t be happy until we fall in line or are wiped out like the American Indian. The question is, Will we fight? Or meekly accept our collective fates?