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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

What Kind of Government Should We Want?

By Rich Kozlovich 

In early November at least six agents of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (one article says ten) conducted what can only be considered a swat raid on the home of Mark and Daniela Longo, ransacking their home treating them like they would treat drug dealers or even terrorists, questioning them like criminals....for five hours.  Why?  They owned a pet squirrel named Peanut, who he raised from infancy when the mother squirrel was killed, and Fred the raccoon, which they seized under the pretext of the possibility of rabies, both of which they killed for testing, when they could have merely quarantined them for observation instead.  

“They asked my wife, who is of German descent, what her immigration status was. They asked if I had cameras in my house. They wouldn’t allow me to go to the bathroom without a police escort, who then checked the back of the toilet to see if I was hiding anything there.”

It took all these agents five hours for this?  What kind of government should we want?

New York City is a sewer of crime, violence, and corruption, which neither the city or the state can, or for that matter is even willing to control, and yet New York can waste money and manpower to kill a pet squirrel and raccoon.  I think this quote from "A Stranger in Town", 1943, is appropriate here. 

Men have fought revolutions, have died, to be called "citizen". And as citizens, we carry a burning responsibility. It means that when we elect men to public office, we, we cannot do it as lightly as we flip a coin. It means that after we've elected them we can't sit back and say: "Our job is done. What they do now doesn't concern us." That philosophy of indifference is what the enemies of decent government want. If we allow them to have their way to grow strong and vicious, then the heroic struggle which welded thousands of lovely towns like this into a great nation means nothing. Then we're not citizens, we're traitors. 

The great liberties by which we live have been bought with blood. The kind of government we get is the kind of government we want. Government of the people, by the people and for the people can mean any kind of government. It's our duty to make it mean only one kind - uncorrupted, free, united.

 We've lost our minds.

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