Ye that love mankind!

Haven't wanted to write very much because of the sorrow. Watching America die causes me genuine grief.

What the hell is with Tim Geithner? He doesn't have enough power. Aw-w-w-w. Think I mentioned yesterday, he doesn't have enough power because much wiser heads than his decided more than 200 years ago that no one should never, ever, ever, never in a trillion years have that much power over another person.

I don't know where this fool Geithner grew up (or Obama or Pelosi or Reid, or Barney Fudd, or Thomas Dodd, for that matter), but I was always taught that you don't steal from others or push them around. Not even if you truly believe in your darkest, deepest, most sociopathic fantasies that it's all for their own good. You're bound to respect their freedom and their rights and must let them rise or fall on their own merits.

So regulate this, Tim. And burn in hell while you're at it.

I can't think about it anymore. I've got no place else to go. Macedonia has been advertising on TV. They have low taxes and stuff, trying to attract the business that America despises. Maybe I'll go there.

Reverse immigration. Leave the land of the vicious and envious for the land of the near-destitute but genuinely hopeful -- not this hype-hope that appears on Democrat banners. Hope for some Big Daddy to come along and take pity on your sorry ass....

Anyway, I got to thinking about this term paper I wrote about propaganda in the American Revolution when I was in college. We had to develop at least an eight-page paper. I got all kinds of carried away and turned in 39 pages. With footnotes. Ask me anything about Sam Adams, one of my great heroes. Publican Sam, the rum-runner....

The term paper quoted numerous sources. I loved writing it. I loved researching it even better. Those were the glory days, when people had guts and believed in things and actually got off their butts and did something about it instead of waiting for the government to take care of it.

Anyway, to be positive. Here are a few thoughts from Thomas Paine. When North America was still all shiny and new, without the burden of millions of useless buttheads looking for a handout. It was enough in those days to be free in order to think for yourself, live by your own lights, and get what you wanted for yourself. Americans seem to have lost the knack for that.

From The Rights of Man, 1792:

It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government.

If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.

From Common Sense, 1776

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her -- Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

America did provide "an asylum for mankind." That is, true hope for the world, that you didn't have to live under oppressive and power-hunger idiots, wouldn't be taxed into poverty, or spied upon and/or arrested without cause. And it changed everything. It became so darn attractive, autocracies and monarchies and oligarchies all around the world began collapsing. It was amazing.

But, as Ben Franklin said, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Guess we now have the answer to that.

Wish I'd been around for the beginning, rather than having to witness the end of the Enlightenment and of America.