I am beginning to feel a bit like an extremist. And I suppose that as things continue the way they are I will be labeled such at some point.
I think the most important point though is from who's perspective am I given that label?
The tyrant that is the majority?
Or the individual common man?
I am afraid the term "people" no longer means a nation of individuals choosing to live as they wish, but a collective using the threat and power of the majority to control individuals.
I do not like seeing police officers gunned down by lunatics.
AND I do not like seeing people's rights trampled by a "government of the people".
As an individual free man that would never steal from another. I would expect the same from others, even those that do it under the guise of helping "the people" while hiding in the mob of looters and calling themselves "the people" and using the threat of violence against me while labeling me, a man who simply wants to be left alone, an extremist.
The label does not stick yet because I am not too terribly inconvenienced, but if "we the people" continue down this path. I suppose it will.
I have seen it written down some where a long time ago in a crazy place populated by extremists. Let me see if I can recall a bit of it for you..
...Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...
My way or the highway indeed.
