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Life over Liberty: Thank you sir may I have another!

I’ll take Life over Liberty every day of the week.  What’s a minor inconvenience of randomly being checked for explosives at the airport?  Does it really matter that during my annual physical that they take my blood to ensure my BMI is not in line being 60 lbs. over the national standard, so I will now be paying a little extra for my health insurance? Obama care’s death panels are only for the really old, right? By the time I hit 80 I’ve lived a good life, and selfishly taking up the new generation’s resources is asking a bit much don’t you think?  Life is fairly mundane around here, so if I find myself in the midst of social networking or talking on the phone stating key words like: DHS, NSA, contraband, Terrorist, Katyusha rocket launcher, Iran, Obama, Romney, Nullification, Tenth Amendment, Ron Paul, well, you get the idea. Big deal that some software picks up those key phrases and it goes through a stop gap real live data center in Arizona that might get audited by some 21 year old who just got his top clearance. I just don’t have anything interesting about me that will get anyone excited. I am just a normal guy with a great family that loves to watch the summer movie blockbusters, all the St. Louis Cardinals games on MLB.com and eat a steak dinner once a month at Longhorn Steakhouse.

Liberty, well I guess if I thought I once had it, shines only in the figment of my imagination. Liberty is just what you think you want and don’t necessarily need or have.  Who is really free with all this new global intervention and worldwide economy anyway?  Besides, don’t elected/selected two party individuals with the protection of the government now conducting “Legal Plunder?”

No sir, I haven’t heard much rhetoric that it is going to come down to bullets or ballots in the future. If I did, I am sure it would be from one of those “crazy neighbors” where the deputies knock on the wrong door in the middle of the night. Yes, I will learn how to comply with the “new” rules and regulations. I will teach my children that the State is the innovator and “builder” of the best things they will encounter in the future. Who else builds bridges, interstates, and the Internet? If they want to be successful, I will encourage them to head toward government-focused positions like TSA Administrator, Drone Intervention Specialist, or if they are really ambitious the IRS Healthcare Division. Jobs? There will be plenty of Jobs!

Patrick Henry in his famous speech stated, “Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”

What is everyone getting so excited about? What difference does it make that the current administration has a few ideological differences from those of the Founders?  Please people! This isn’t 1776! Calm down! A few extra taxes, a few extra check points on a Tennessee road, and giving up your first amendment rights like Charlie Schumer states, “we have liable laws”.

Liberty is freedom from physical constraint. Thank goodness no one is threatening to put on those “chains of slavery” like they did back 200 plus years ago. Thank goodness “real men” like Charlie Schumer are helping everyone with “equality” issues to maintain status quo where everything remains balanced and equal with all of those that may want to upset the apple cart. Thank goodness real men like Mitt Romney aren’t calling out for embarrassing investigations like Donald Trump of Obama’s birth certificate or Fast and Furious. The Republican Party has real men of character, and at least they don’t do any legal plundering, right?




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Steve Routszong enjoys saving the world through the vehicle of satire with his site, Milk the Crisis. He and his snarky brother enjoy chasing down stories that involve political lunacy, naked emporers, vanishing polar bears, mutant corn and FEMA camps. When truth is stranger than fiction, there's always a new crisis to milk.
  • Willy

    You should join Barako and his Czars Steve. However if you are jesting to make a point forgive me.

  • opar5

    Patrick Henry: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”Francois (-Marie Arouet) Voltaire: “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    John Stossel often brings out boxes of laws and Regulations that have been recently enacted – on top of the millions already in place to control every aspect of our lives. How free are we?

  • Wolf-Talker1

    Liberty and Freedoms are not the normal in the New Divided Socialist States of America!

  • Tommyboy

    Sadly many of our Liberties are already gone, we just didn’t notice when they were taken. We were and still are like the frog in a pot of water. And, once gone we will never get them back.

  • J42ERRY

    i’m sick of the government trying to make criminals out of the american people while they won’t put a stop to the commies muslims mexicans and other out siders

  • 9Spoon9

    As Nathan Hale stated…”I regret that I only have one life to give….” Without watchdogs to serve as the Guardians of Freedom and Liberty in America…where would we be?
    As for the Cardinals…if your a Missourian, try Coulton’s in Sedalia next month for a mouthwatering, juicy and delicious steak during the State Fair, 9-19 Aug. Heck, if you’re anyone passing through…give them a try if you can stand to wait a little while for a table.
    Steve, please continue to utter or type your list of words that the 21yr old may or may not “catch” on his DHS console. To abandon the 2nd and the 1st Amendments is a like waiving a white flag to the savages that want to enslave us. They bear no quarter.

    • Rabid Conservative

      The problem with our Republic is that more people know Alan Hale than Nathan Hale. Alan Hale was the skipper on Gilligans Island, but I think you get my point

    • http://www.facebook.com/debbie.bartlett.948 Debbie Bartlett

      You’re right Rabid…..apparently our school systems don’t feel it necessary to teach History, Government and not much English anymore…yet some of these so-called scholars want to teach our young people about the gay lifestyle, sex education with free condoms & birth control, how to be a good Liberal (because most teachers are) and Spanish so the illegals that come across our border can communicate with our kids……whatever happened to the old way of teaching our kids, it seemed to work good for us, but then again there were real disciplinary measures that could be taken in school by the educators AND by parents without being accused of child abuse! Change is not always good!

  • http://www.facebook.com/buster.atkins Buster Atkins

    What a waste of time and ink your writing that was, plus the time I spent reading it. I hope nobody paid you for writing all that crap.

  • Robert Marshall

    take my effort

  • Robert Marshall

    Should it matter than during one Republican debate Mitt Romney said i am not going to to my effort and focus on the Fed. Romney when asked, said that Ben Bernanke was doing a good job and saved America from a major crisis. Ben Bernanke said that we at the fed have been focusing intently of supporting job creation. He explained that concerns about the fed are based on misconceptions. I see the fed as a major issue especially when a one time peek into the Federal Reserve in Dec. 2010 revealed a secret taxpayer-funded bailout of foreign banks in the amount of $12.3 trillion without informing congress.

  • Bill Weston

    I sincerely hope that this article was written with the tongue placed firmly in the cheek. The rest of Patrick Henry’s speech was “…give me liberty or give me death.” Our republic, a system of liberty and justice, though imperfect, is the best way to live seen in all of history. Therefore, life without liberty is life withuot hope. And that is a lingering death.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1060268212 Phil Routszong

      Bill – most of what Milk the Crisis does is satire, or tongue in cheek stuff. Rest assured, it’s a poke in the eye for sure!

    • Bill Weston

      Thanks. It’s been a while since I was an active member of a fraternity.

    • America 1

      That’s what I’m hoping- it was written tongue-in-cheek! Sounds like Lib-think to me.

    • rivahmitch

      “Therefore, life without liberty is life without hope. And that is a lingering death.”

      Yep! I assume you’ve noticed that western Europeans have stopped reproducing even at replacement levels. That’s what happens when people have no hope of a better future and that’s what the Kenyan Marxist has in store for Americans.

  • Raymond

    Let’s see if i got this right!!!

    If you cross the north korean border Illegally you get 12 years hard labor.

    If you cross the iranian border Illegally you are detained indefinitely.

    If you cross the afghan border Illegally, you get shot.

    If you cross the saudi arabian border Illegally you will be jailed.

    If you cross the chinese border Illegally you may never be heard from again.

    If you cross the venezuelan border Illegally you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.

    If you cross the cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political prison to rot.

    If you cross the U.S. Border illegally you get:

    A job, a drivers license,
    Social security card, welfare,
    Food stamps, credit cards,
    Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house,
    Free education, free health care,
    A lobbyist in washington billions of dollars worth of public documents printed in your language
    The right to carry your country’s flag while you
    Protest that you don’t get enough respect
    And, in many instances, you can vote.

    I just wanted to make sure i had a firm grasp on the situation !!!

    • Phil185

      Lets not forget if you cross into Mexico illegally, you get two years in prison, but it’s OK for a Mexican to cross illegally into America.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cynthia-L-Estelle/1107152694 Cynthia L. Estelle

      I agree! So much wrong in this country caused as they let anyone and everyone in who aren’t necessarily going to contribute and then give away all the money from our taxes. Stop lets fix America for Americans!

    • triple t

      i agree with you cynthia but as long as we have obamanation in the W.H. it’ll never work as he and his minions are hell bent on taking AMERICA apart peace by peace and ushering in a socialist type goverment where they control the wealth and the population they live like kings and unless you are connected to them you live hand to mouth on what deem nessary for you and your family

    • Raymond

      Christian Sentenced to jail for Home Worship.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVXvgwILcds&feature=player_embedded#!

  • David Lakatos

    Life without liberty is simply existing at the beck and call of the privileged elite.

  • Raymond

    The Ten Commandments According to Obama.

    I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me.
    I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.)

    II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
    unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore.

    III. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama.

    IV. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy.

    V. Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money.

    VI. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby.

    VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican.Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed.

    VIII. Thou shalt not steal, until you’ve been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or thosewho do not have the motivation to better their own lives.

    IX. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative,Caucasian, or Christian.

    X. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved theAmerican Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet.

  • sarg

    Well that should get rid of some of it.

  • Yeshua friend

    Sounds a lot like Senator: Harry Read of Nevada, Obummer’s right hand man!

    Shalom!

  • Guy Daley

    That does it another author relying on hyperbole to make his message. Let me fill you in and listen closely. Hyperbole is essentially LYING. IF YOU LIE, YOU LOSE CREDIBILITY. CREDIBILITY IS ESSENTIAL if you want your message accepted. I hate Obomit with a passion but stop using the term death panels. I’m tired of having my intelligence insulted. Try this on for size, PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN LIFESTYLES, whether they be healthy or not. In a society endowed with freedom and liberty you take responsibility for your own actions. YOU GOT THAT!!!! I’m unsubscribing, I’ve read too much idiocy here.

    • YCNAN

      BYE

    • Randy131

      If you have a panel that is assigned to decide whether you get life saving medical attention, and your age is a designated decider on whether you receive that life saving medical attention, and that panel decides because of your age, it is not cost effective or cost worthy for you to recieive that life saving medical attention, and because of that denial for the life saving medical attention, you die, what else would you call that panel, especially if millions of aged people are denied life saving medical attention by these panels because of their age and die? Today, before Obamacare takes affect, those decisions are made by the recipient and their families, which doctors abide by, but not so in the future when Obamacare goes into effect, then those appointed bureaucratic panels, that have no medical experience, will make that decision based on costs versus what life expectancy is left for the recipient, and if their decision is a denial, then years will be taken from the recipient and he or she will die, because of that panels decision to let them die instead of appropiating money to keep them alive for a few more years. What a great system Obamacare is, and I personally would like to know what you would prefer to call those panels that will have the power over life and death decisions for our elderly loved ones?

    • triple t

      hey don’t you know your just a number to to them your about as useless as tits on a boar hog and they do not want a non productive person taking up breathing space that one of their own can octapie

    • Randy131

      It’s called ‘Euthanasia’ for the sake of saving a dollar, and has nothing to do with numbers, unless you’re counting the dollars they save by letting the elderly die, instead of spending money to keep them alive, and that elderly person could be your parents, your wife, or even you, think about that. Isn’t Obamacare great?

    • myptofvu

      I will call it a board instead of a panel as to not upset you. If one of age 70 or greater enters a hospital in need of brain surgery (due to anurism etc) the policy is to make them comfortable NOT to operate. Only a “board” of administrators can decide to overrule this. Admins NOT Doctors or Surgeons. This is in fact planned as a part of Obamacare. Good luck even rounding up these admins in the middle of the night when you are rushed to the hospital so that they may evaluate your case and provide their blessing on your life saving procedure. But hey at least they will make you comfortable. Lets change the name to COMFORT PANELS will that appeal to your sensibilities better?

    • 9Spoon9

      hy·per·bo·le   /haɪˈpɜrbəli/ Show Spelled[hahy-pur-buh-lee]
      noun Rhetoric . 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration. 2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” Don’t know how satirical rhetororic can be confused with “hyperbole”.We are collective sorrow to see someone of you intelligence leave the growing mass of more informed citizens. Good Luck to you in the future and let s know how much your postition changes should you experience a life-altering injury or life-threatening diesase that you know doesn’t come from your Puritan lifestyle.