‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.’
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1871.
“It takes but a little thought to realize that the power to decide when words mean what they say and when they do not is the power to do so whenever one wants, for whatever purpose. After all, the reason that kings have traditionally opposed constitutions is that if a constitution has any meaning at all, it is some kind of restraint on government. But if government can decide that the constitution contains things that it does not, and allows things that it forbids, then adieu to the rule of law.
“By 2010, some in the Ruling Class felt confident enough to dispense with the charade. Asked what in the Constitution allows Congress and the president to force every American to purchase health insurance, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied: “Are you kidding? Are you kidding?” It’s no surprise, then, that lower court judges and bureaucrats take liberties with laws, regulations, and contracts. That’s why legal words that say you are in the right avail you less in today’s America than being on the right side of the persons who decide what they want those words to mean.”
Angelo Codevilla, The Ruling Class: How they Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It, 2010
More quotes from this will follow. Strongly recommended read.
Things point toward spicy, to paraphrase Pete at WRSA.
They don’t care at all anymore. They have made it absolutely plain what they want.
They want you to have no rights. They want you to have no property. They want you to have no privacy. They want you to be reduced to eating bugs… or each other.
And they want most of you dead. All of the Davos guys, Bezos, Gates, Schwab… as far as they are concerned, if you aren’t working *for them,* you’re in the way and using up resources that they should have.
This is not an exaggeration. They have said every bit of this, in just so many words.
And the soap box, the ballot box and the jury box have all demonstrably, provably *failed.*
But the thing is, since they are not even bothering to hide it anymore, and even could be construed as bragging about it….
…one can’t help wondering if the point is to start a civil war.