who will stand in my way
who will stop me
convert me
not a man or a woman alive
but a bleak institution
of culture or government
an overfed entity
grown ever fattened
still hungered by organic
unjust philosophies
errant and arrogant
cold ideologies
avidly swallowing whole
individual rights
born to citizens
each a discrete moral vessel
of personal motives and dreams
each a man or a woman
whose stuff has been
sucked out by mouths
of cruel sneering repression
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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” – Ayn Rand, 1963
I’d say that applies here too.
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sorry to hear that
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I’m sorry to see it too
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Well done!
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thanks kindly
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Reads like a ‘survivalist tract’ . . . Terrific rant!
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think I need to lay off the network news
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As with the point you eluded to recently this profound poem heralds the death of democracy…it’s disease merely an apathy…only when we go the whole hog toward dictatorship will we realize what we have lost
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I can only hope we are both wrong – but I’m locked and loaded just in case
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Am pleased to report that City of Pawns has finally arrived!
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While MS Rand and I differ on many details I find her perspective to be far too close to the truth.
“From each according to his needs, to each according to his abilities,” is the ultimate enslavement of the makers by the takers.
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I would agree
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