Do you Feel it? It’s Called Oppression

Do you feel it? Do you feel that slow drip of regulations eating away at our freedoms and our net worth.  It's often cited that sometimes our freedoms are not taken away at gunpoint, but instead it's done one piece of paper at a time, one seemingly meaningless or small inconvenience, or rule at a time. One small silencing, or surrender, or confiscation at a time. But our obedience & submission to the elected is prolonging this regulatory nightmare. Do you feel it?

It's time we face or face off with our elected (and the Judicial system) because they are on a fast track to dictate, control, confiscate, tax and fine our every move. We are living in the most disconnected and contradictory times. Red or Blue, they’re coming after you.

*We Lock up our products but not our criminals

* We pass laws and don't enforce them

* We play catch and release with our criminals

* Breaking news is often based in fiction

*Student Debt is forgiven, but they’ll follow you to the grave on a business loan

*Democrats Pimp their fears of a republican dictator while promoting their single party system all while both parties suppress a legitimate third party.

*We fear a “hot war” but ignore the cultural wars, the religious wars, trade wars, judicial wars, geopolitical wars, & cyber/tech wars, going on all around us.

* The United States criticizes other countries and governments for their acts of oppression/repression all while imposing its own recipe of communism and oppression, often through laws, regulations, orders, bills and resolutions.

 If the U.S. ever evolved to single party rule (dictatorship) the elected would absolutely turn on their constituents and by then it’s too late. There’s an old saying; “The sheep spend their whole lives fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the Shepherd” Once you understand that statement, you’ll understand politics.

It should be painfully obvious by now that our elected, from the entry level school board members to City Council, Assembly, Senate, Congress and the White House, is all they want is the authority of a king/queen & dictator, all while having the accountability of a toddler. As Thomas Jefferson said “Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the Government but Illegal for the citizenry”

We must individually and collectively go after the regulators who are imposing their rule of law on the working class, the investors & housing providers, the taxpayers, the job creators, & employers.

Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway

Stupidity is the same…and that’s why life is hard.

(quote by Jeremy Goldberg)

We could leave it (our differences) to the courts to settle, but we have a dysfunctional justice system. Just look at the Tabloid Trial of Trump in the past month.   Laws need to be able to answer basic questions, like right vs wrong, but it doesn’t. The legal system has “Deconstructed” the meaning of right and wrong to fit the narrative of the day or for a specific cultural need, political need, ethnic need, religious, racial or societal need. In a recent article by Warton Business they cite, “Each part of the legal assembly line really has no idea what the other is doing, nor do they understand what the end product is supposed to be. 

As a product of the 1960’s and 1970’s the boundaries of right and wrong & fairness were very clear, today it’s not about right or wrong but rather fulfilling the needs of the elected or political oppressed or the protected class. As such the lines of what right and wrong are intentionally blurred. Just look at the political class, many have been accused of criminal misbehavior but have marinated in Teflon for years to ensure that no charges ever stick. The slow erosion of justice, accountability and fairness is unfortunately mirroring the erosion and breakdown of our society.

The Novelist Raymond Chandler once said; “The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer.”

It’s critical and a matter of urgency that we support those organizations that carry the torch for our Private Property Rights & our individual rights. The regulatory path we are on is one of surrendering our property rights through regulatory enslavement. Please Get Involved and Give to the organizations who fight every day for private property rights.

*The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF)

*Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA)

*Apartment Association of Orange County (AAOC)

*Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

*Citizens Alliance for Property Rights (CAPR)

*Institute for Justice

*California Business Properties Association (CBPA)

Stand for Something or Stand for Nothing and as George Orwell once said, “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.” Be careful who you support & vote for.

By Tony Maniscalchi/June 2024