Freedom remains at stake

Fast and Furious gun running into Mexico. Four Americans killed in Benghazi. News reporters being wire-tapped. Black Panthers with clubs standing outside voting poll places without being charged. Countless cases of targeted abuse by the IRS, DOE, EPA, and DOJ. Massive data gathering of personal information by the NSA. All these and much more are allowed, defended, protected and/or covered up by "the most transparent administration in history." Officials, department heads, appointed agency bureacrats who plead the fifth, "don't recall," or "didn't know" refuse to even respond to congressional summons. Or they are protected by presidential order. Or they are protected by an Attorney General who won't uphold the law.

Here is what has been said in the past:

"A tyrant should also endeavor to know what each of his subjects says or does, and should employ spies... for the fear of informers prevents people from speaking their minds, and if they do, they are more easily found out. Another art of the tyrant is to sow quaries among the citizens." - Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.

"The wellfare of the people... has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience... The very ones who make use of such alibis know they are lies; they leave to their intellectuals on duty the chore of believing in them and of proving that religion, patriotism, and justice need for their survival the sacrifice of freedom." - Albert Camus (1913-1960)

"I recognize no moral law in politics. Politics is a game, in which every sort of trick is permissible, and in which the rules are constantly being changed by the players to suit themselves." - Adolph Hitler

Those who'd sacrifice liberty for security will lose both and deserve neither.

Jon Smith

Moses Lake