Power to ruin you

 

Soft Tyranny. That's what we have in America. How do you like it? You are given enough freedom to make it seem like you are free. The politicians say just enough of the right things to calm your mind and cause you to "check off" that they are handling those troubling things just as you elected them to do. All the while, they are telling you what you want to hear, and, at the same time, doing what they want to do. As the verse in Jeremiah 8:11 says, "For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying Peace, Peace; when there is no peace." You are told you have the right to freedom of speech, religion and assembly, but you know deep down that if you exercise them, you are subject to ruin.

 

Soft Tyranny. Alexis de Tocqueville defines it in his book Democracy in America, Volume II (1840) as: "After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

 

Soft Tyranny. This is the kind of thing that appears on your doorstep masquerading as the FBI after you have written about FBI abuse and the Muslim Brotherhood. It appears when the IRS investigates groups or voices who do not agree with the government's political thinking. It is the type of tyranny that causes conversations around the dinner table to be held at a whisper rather than a passionate shout. It is the self imposed reticence and timidity of recognition that a government has the authority to undo you and to ruin your life. It spies on you, even though you do nothing wrong. And it tells you that it is not spying on you. It harasses you even though you have no malice. It creates a natural paranoia that controls you.

 

The FBI has indicted Dinesh D'Souza, who made a documentary exposing the occupant of the Oval Office, accusing him of making illegal campaign contributions to a conservative candidate. It appears he was using the same technique of "bundling" that the liberals use. The IRS, FBI, DHS, NSA, FEC, EPA are a host of "agencies" used to enact Soft Tyranny. They go as far as you let them for none of them can withstand a true constitutional test. Galatians 5:1 says, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has mad us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." A free people can only exist by adhering to the precepts of God. Bondage is bondage, whether it is sin or tyranny.