Dystopia Disguised as Democracy: All the Ways in Which Freedom Is an Illusion
(www.rutherford.org)https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/dystopia_disguised_as_democracy_all_the_ways_in_which_freedom_is_an_illusionWe have been saddled with a government that pays lip service to the nation’s freedom principles while working overtime to shred the Constitution.
By gradually whittling away at our freedoms—free speech, assembly, due process, privacy, etc.—the government has, in effect, liberated itself from its contractual agreement to respect the constitutional rights of the citizenry while resetting the calendar back to a time when we had no Bill of Rights to protect us from the long arm of the government.
Aided and abetted by the legislatures, the courts and Corporate America, the government has been busily rewriting the contract (a.k.a. the Constitution) that establishes the citizenry as the masters and agents of the government as the servants.
