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Just struck me –  big reason John was such a heartbreaker . . .

Or maybe that should be “the perils of stupidity”?

Frank Wilson, in his lead to a blog post titled Americans regard themselves as citizens, not subjects (YES!!!!), offers this quote by Lord John Dalberg-Acton (the fellow who also coined “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”):

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

THAT’s what I’m talkin’ about.

That’s the spirit that animates the American political ideal.

More: it’s the measure against which we should hold up any of these stupid laws our politicians want to pass. I.e., does “healthcare reform” advance our country to its highest political end?

Ha ha ha.

It does NOT.

Wilson goes on to make the point from which he takes his blog post’s title:

Americans regard themselves as citizens, not subjects. They may respect their government, but few feel servile toward it, and most are wary of it.

Exactly.

So here’s the “contrast” bit: how do we explain this move by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts to impose, among other things, forced vaccinations and/or quarantine in the event of a “declared emergency”?

That is NOT liberty.

That’s the government treating us as subjects.

You watch, too. New York will be next.

Horrible. Horrible.