Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, censored, wiretapped, injected, disarmed, detained, groped and maybe shot by government agents.
Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything except Uncle Sam.
“We live in a world in which everything has been criminalized,” warned Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
There are now more than 5,200 separate federal criminal offenses and tens of thousands of state and local crimes.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, police can lock up anyone accused of “even a very minor criminal offense,” such as an unbuckled seatbelt.
The Founding Fathers saw property rights as “the guardian of every other right.”
But today’s politicians never lack a pretext for plundering private citizens.
Federal law-enforcement agencies arbitrarily confiscate more property from Americans each year (without criminal convictions) than all the burglars steal nationwide.
The IRS pilfered more cash from private bank accounts because of alleged paperwork errors than the total bank robbers looted nationwide.
Government decrees are blighting more lives than ever before.
Hellbound and Down 