Quit calling America the "land of the free".

Here's three commonplace atrocities that prove we live in tyranny.

Okay, fine. I admit the title is somewhat hyperbolic. There are many places on earth that are more tyrannical than America. But does that mean we are the “land of the free”?

Here’s an 3-part acid-test to see if you’re living in a tyrannical state:

1. Are there too many laws?

2. Are many of those laws unjust?

3. Will men with guns come and enforce those laws against you when ordered to?

The answer to all three of these questions in America is Yes, Yes, and Yes. And here’s three quick examples that just popped into my head this morning as I was considering the question:

It’s illegal to give a hungry person a burrito.

Earlier this year, a man in Dayton Ohio named Mitchell West was arrested for handing out free burritos to the hungry. You need a permit from the city for that. In fact, you need a separate permit for each 6-hour window in which you want to feed homeless, hungry people — and at the cost of hundreds of dollars paid to the city, of course.

It didn’t matter that West’s charitable organization complied with the same health and safety standards as Dayton’s restaurants or that the charity always cleaned up trash before and after each service.

The cops came and took West straight to jail. Fred Armisen’s fictional South American dictator would be proud.

The worst thing about this atrocity is how commonplace it is. Dayton isn’t unique. Hundreds of cities across America have laws just like this — and cops who are happy to enforce them.

Love your pet? I sure hope the state doesn’t invade your home and murder them on purpose.

You likely have heard the sad tale of Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon. It’s a heart-wrencher. Construction worker and Instagramer Mark Longo runs an animal sanctuary in rural New York.

Peanut became popular on Instagram for his playful antics. Somebody with a wet lump of coal for a heart ratted Longo out to the cops for having an unlicensed animal in his home. Dutifully, the cops showed up (kitted out in SWAT gear) and performed an hours-long raid on the animal sanctuary, tearing the place apart and refusing to allow Longo to feed or water his horses (or any other animal) during the ordeal.

Then the cops emerged with Peanut and Fred. By the end of the day, they had killed them both. The cops claimed Peanut bit one of them (I don’t blame him) and so they killed both animals to “test for rabies”.

Both tests came back negative. I think they should have tested the cops instead. Or the legislators who passed whatever law was being “violated” here. Or perhaps the evil, twisted, hate-filled narc who called the cops on Peanut in the first place.

As with the first example, these laws (and obedient cops) aren’t unique to New York. There are identical laws all across America. So, is this really the land of the free?

Remember when we went insane and made singing psalms outside illegal?

Still not convinced America is tyrannical? What about during the Covid insanity? Remember when they closed down businesses and schools? When they declared millions of American’s livelihoods to be “non-essential”? When they forced people to wear masks? When they forced people to submit to an experimental vaccine on threat of losing your job or being denied entrance to a restaurant?

As you can tell, I’m still really mad about that.

Probably not as mad as the three Christians who were arrested in September 2020 in Moscow, Idaho for singing in a parking lot during an outside church service.

They were violating the “social distancing” and “mask” mandates, you see. Cue Armisen, “Straight to jail!”.

Years later, after we have somewhat snapped out of our mass hysteria, the three sued the city and are receiving a settlement. But still, the cops came and arrested peaceful Christians for singing psalms outside in a church service.

Again, this is typical. There were hundreds of incidents across the country during Covid of cops enforcing evil laws upon the public they are ostensibly supposed to “serve and protect”.

It ain’t true. Cops follow orders. Cops “just do their jobs”. Cops are the enforcement arm, the tip of the spear, of the state. They don’t “work for you”. At worst, you are the enemy. At best you’re the herd, the tax-paying cattle who pay their salaries.

Go on, tell me I’m looking at this all wrong.

The good news is we can wake up and reverse this if we want to. Quit electing politicians who love to pass new “sensible regulations” to wield against you. Instead elect people who want to take a chainsaw to federal, state, and local regulations.

The change has to come from us. This country is still free enough that we can get the government we demand, if we have the heart (and the clear vision) to demand it. That’s the horrible tragedy. This is the government we have demanded.

Time to demand something different, something much more like “the land of the free”.

Naturally,

Adam

PS: Check out my small but growing list of Essential Things. There’s a decent chance you’ll see something in there that you find, ya know… essential.