The Sound of Silence

For those of you with children and grandchildren, here's a blast from the past that has some relevance to what is taking place in that great city of enlightenment as we watch in disbelief. Freedom reigned supreme in this country for well over 200 years, but your grandchildren will only be able to read about it in those documents that the government does not destroy.

Read now the words of Thomas Jefferson before the great censors erase them forever:

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.

Amazing! We have ignored Jefferson's warning. Good-bye liberty, my old friend. I regret that our posterity will not be able to talk with you again.