In socialist countries, a person’s life is only of worth if it benefits the state:
“No life still valuable to the state will be wantonly destroyed.” (German Penal Code, October 10, 1933)
Those not promoting the deep-state narrative were driven from their jobs, publicly ridiculed, and eventually removed from society and sent to labor and concentration camps.
Anti-socialist John Basil Barnhill stated in a debate with Henry M. Tichenor, 1914 (National Rip Saw Publishing Co., St. Louis, MO):
“Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.”
This is similar to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who warned at Hillsdale College, April 11, 2023:
“1. Any power that government takes from the people, it will never return voluntarily;
2. Every power that government takes, it will ultimately abuse to the maximum extent possible;
3. Nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism. The only thing we can do is resist.” |