05/15/05

On Tuesday, May 10, 2005 America finally died. It had been a long, slow, lingering death. Some people said the dying started with the War Between the States, which gave free reign to federal power. Some said the dying started later, in 1913, the year we got both the income tax and the currency debasing Federal Reserve. A radical few said the death even started as far back as 1794, when George Washington crushed the the new nation's first tax revolt. But whenever the dying started, we know exactly when the whole experiment in freedom got cold and stiff and started to stink real bad. On that Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed the Real ID Act. They did it unanimously. They did it without a word of debate. They did it, almost certainly, without reading it. They did it for the sake of 'one congressman with totalitarian leanings.' Without fanfare, they imposed on us a national ID card...

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from Backwoods Home, by Claire Wolfe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp