Liberty better than government overreach

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for July 30, 2025)

I've been told liberty isn't as important as making money or raising a family. If someone doesn't understand how critical liberty is to both of these tasks, and more, they might believe this.

Without liberty, you, your family, the economy, and society will suffer.

If you don't have the liberty to negotiate with a potential employer, you may not get the job you want. When government intrudes into the negotiations, you both lose. This has happened to me. I once saw a business I wanted to work for; they needed an employee, but couldn't afford to pay the government-mandated minimum wage. I was willing to work for less, for the experience, and to show the employer how I could help him. He wouldn't risk doing something which would have benefited us both because of government rules. We were both worse off because government was protecting us from liberty.

Then, when you have a job, government demands a percentage of the money you earn- or else. You've lost more liberty. Your family is poorer. Your employer is poorer because of the cost of complying with all the government rules involved in having an employee. You are cheated out of reaching your full potential because both you and your employer are forced to support this parasite.

It gets worse. Government wants your children held captive in its indoctrination centers. They used to claim this was about education, but few people are still falling for the lie. At best, schools babysit so parents can go out and earn money to be taxed away by government.

Government will threaten to take your children if you don't go along with the latest social trends. No matter how bad a parent may be, government isn't the answer. It sacrifices as many children as it saves, and so many slip through the cracks. You must have the liberty to protect your children from government help and other dangers.

Liberty works better than having government tell you what's best for you. Government wants you to believe it's your savior, but it's a deceiver. A liar. It's a thief in the night... and in the bright light of day. You may be violated by a freelance criminal someday, but it's guaranteed you'll be violated by government every day you live. If you don't believe this, you're living in denial.

Give liberty a chance. It is more important for every aspect of your life than you realize.

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The progression

To fight crime, tyrants ban certain people from having firearms. Most people beg for this, or are OK with it.

When that doesn’t work, they expand the ban to other people, certain types of guns, or guns in specific areas. 

When that doesn’t work, they try to ban all guns. 

When that doesn’t work, they start banning certain knives. 

When that doesn’t work, they ban more knives. 

When that doesn’t work, they ban swords or machetes. 

When that doesn’t work, they ban the next thing on their list. Then the next and the next. 

When that doesn’t work, and it never will, they ban self-defense altogether. 

Bad guys will always find something to use as a weapon, and government will always reach deeper to find something else to ban.

Tyrants- governments- will never be satisfied as long as you have hands and a mind capable of using anything as a weapon. They want you to be a fluffy, harmless pet. Their fluffy, harmless pet, loyal to the death.

It should have been stopped the first time some control freak made up the tiniest anti-weapon rule. Since it wasn’t, it needs to be stopped now, which means it is going to be harder, and it’s going to hurt them much worse. But it must be stopped. With finality and prejudice against it ever being allowed to happen again. Then this attitude needs to spread worldwide.

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