The False Prophet of Security
There is a very thin fragile line between 'for your security' and 'for your enslavement' —Unknown
When someone declares "people will die" as a justification for curtailing liberty, the correct response is "what are you suggesting - that liberty isn't worth dying for? That those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms made the wrong choice?
—OldMugwump, 2013
Note from TriTorch: The following was originally written during the era of 9-11 boogeyman terrorism. For the purposes of modernization, please replace any mention of the word ‘terrorism’ with ‘bio-terrorism’ and any mention of the word ‘security’ with ‘bio-security’. None of this has ever been about safety, it has only ever been about control.
We no longer know the meaning of freedom. We have traded away everything to a false prophet. We refuse to see that belonging to a government is a fate far worse than any terrorist can reap; than any madman can sow.
The word of a terrorist has no power over us. The government's word is law.
In the name of security we will lose our security. In addition to the terrorist we will have the relentless uncompromising gaze of the government.
The power of the people is born from its freedom, and it is the people who must be the guardians of that power. It is from our freedom that we draw the authority to force our government to abide its boundaries. Through the guise of security we are slowly allowing our government to relinquish that authority, and ultimately, the government will know no boundaries.
Once we allow our freedoms to categorically run dry, we, as a people, will no longer have the authority to stand up to our government.
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When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
—Thomas Jefferson
From the Perimeter to your home, here’s wishing all of you and yours, all the best.
Tri Torch you are one of the best writers on sub stack! There’s no reason a person with your talent should not be able to sustain themself with the ability you have. I know it’s not a lot but I subscribed to your sub stack for 12 months.
It’s funny as a little kid I thought there were monsters under my bed. At times I wouldn’t hang my feet over the side thinking they would grab me. Every night my father would come upstairs to check on the four of us, probably to make sure we weren’t horsing around. I’d sometimes ask him to check under my bed and make sure nothing was there. After he looked he’d say everything was clear, my mind was at ease, I could sleep.
Years later I realize there are monsters all around us. When I go to bed I toss and turn, I can’t seem to set my mind at ease. My father who I once counted on as a little kid has long since passed away. These monsters are still after our kids, they sicken our families, poison us and rob us, they constantly do their best to take our freedoms, they deceive us. I usually will pick up my phone and read. I’ll read about people that are fighting the monsters, trying their best to protect us.
Many times I’ll reread one of your posts, or comments your great subscribers have written. I realize how many people there are fighting these threats. People like yourself that see these threats and write essays to bring them into the light. Many of us share our fears. Some write solutions, or ways to fight. Others write about evils we haven’t known yet, warning us what’s out there. Some of us write uplifting posts trying to give each of us hope. Isn’t the written word amazing and powerful. Before you know it my mind eases and I can sleep. It’s incredible when you realize writers can be hero’s too. J.Goodrich
Hope you all enjoy today! Here’s a great song enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQb_-mRcAc
“The Last Act of Government is to loot the Treasury.”---President George Washington