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"Freedom From Want" Is Slavery For All

"Freedom from want” is one of the most frequently invoked notions of freedom in our time. However, it is a bogus freedom that politicians and socialists offer to lull people into accepting policies that destroy true freedom. Freedom from want has been most loudly advocated in this century by those who favored removing almost all limits from government power.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people’s property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state. The danger of government handouts to freedom was clear to some political writers hundreds of years ago. The French writer Etienne de la Boétie, in his 1577 Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, noted of ancient Rome: “Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine . . . and then everybody would shamelessly cry, ‘Long live the King!’ The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them."

“Freedom from want” is not possible unless the government is allowed to control all things people want. Americans must beware of Trojan-horse definitions of freedom - definitions that, once accepted, allow bureaucrats to take over everyone’s life.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-26/freedom-want-slavery-all

Well maybe if we had a wall…..

Federal judge ‘weary’ of immigration crackdown, says it 'destroys families

A federal judge in New Mexico said he is "weary" of an ongoing immigration crackdown that he says "destroys" families.

Robert Brack who has sentenced upwards of 15,000 defendants — the majority of whom were immigrants with little or no criminal record — told the Los Angeles Times that he was tired of presiding over a policy that separates families.

"I have presided over a process that destroys families for a long time, and I am weary of it," Brack said. "And I think we as a country are better than this."

Judges have enforced Attorney General Jeff Session’s “zero tolerance” policy that calls for all immigrants crossing the border illegally to be charged with a crime.

The New Mexico “fast-track” system and the manageable level of immigrants crossing through New Mexico allow for nonviolent migrants to be prosecuted quickly.

"It is an efficient process," U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico John Anderson told the Los Angeles Times. "That is one of the key features that allows us to implement 100% prosecutions."

Brack ranked first among 680 judges nationwide for his caseload from 2012-2017, sentencing 6,858 offenders, 5,823 of them for felony immigration violations, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Still, Brack said he faces a moral dilemma reconciling his oath to the law with his discomfort in participating as part of a system he views as unjust.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/389524-federal-judge-weary-of-immigration-crackdown-it-destroys-families

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