Itâs about how much tyranny âwe the peopleâ will tolerate before we find our conscience and our voice.
Itâs about how far we will allow the government to go in its efforts to distract and divide us and turn us into a fearful, easily controlled populace.
Ultimately, itâs about whether we believeâas the Founders didâthat our freedoms are inherently ours and that the government is only as powerful as we allow it to be. Freedom does not flow from the government. It was not given to us, to be taken away at the will of the State. In the same way, the governmentâs appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them.
We must get back to this way of thinking if we are to ever stand our ground in the face of threats to those freedoms.
itâs time to draw that line in the sand.
The treatment being meted out to anyone that looks like an illegal immigrant is only the beginning. Eventually we will all be in the governmentâs crosshairs for one reason or another.
This is the start of the slippery slope.
Martin Niemöller understood this. A Lutheran minister who was imprisoned and executed for opposing Hitlerâs regime, Niemoller warned:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak outâBecause I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak outâBecause I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outâBecause I was not a Jew. Then they came for meâand there was no one left to speak for me.
