Wisdom of the past speaks to the situation of today!

They could be writing about what is happening today, right now, right here, to us.

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood; it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances; what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?” - Alexis de Tocqueville

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” – C. S. Lewis

There are many others who wrote of the tyranny of the past, but these two seem to be speaking to us from their graves decrying what is taking place under our noses in a ghostly warning that is eerie at best, foreboding at worst.  It is almost like they were seeing into the future, but we know better – IT IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF!

Did you know that the war for our independence was brought about by nothing but the King of England trying to raise certain taxes in the colonies in order to pay for the French & Indian war that was fought by British soldiers on the colonies behalf?  The King did not ask the colonies permission to raise their taxes – just like Barack Hussein Obama’s “Cap & Trade” bill that has so many hidden new taxes in it that if they were removed it most likely would only be ten pages long . . . Well, maybe not that extreme, but extreme nonetheless!

And what do we do about it?  We gush out our love for the Messiah Obama and his little Obamatrons in the House and Senate, that's what.

If you are not going to pay any attention to what I have to say, then at least pay attention to what Alexis de Tocqueville and C. S. Lewis had to say about the tyranny of the past, and compare that to what is happening right now, right here, to us.