tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92065816679180944772024-03-13T03:09:13.974-07:00AL'S PERCEPTIONalehrenfriedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586574089353792420noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9206581667918094477.post-38130242457052815692011-06-06T09:50:00.000-07:002011-06-06T09:50:39.150-07:00A TAX-FREE AMERICA<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He was aligned with one of the most powerful and vicious mobs that was ruling America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there had been a falling out, a serious falling out, and mob goons arrived at his home in the dark of night to settle the matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They knocked out house windows and pumped raw gasoline into what was a stately residence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short order, it was a funeral pyre, projecting flames upward into the night sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There was no police station to call; these had been shut down, along with the judicial court system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could call a private protection company, sign a service agreement, and pay substantial cash deposit in advance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As for fire protection, two independent, for-profit, fire companies spotted the rising flames and raced to the site, each anxious to make a good night’s pay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They arrived simultaneously and, being bitter rivals fighting over territory, they exchanged gunfire. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>House occupants, two adults and three children, miraculously escaped the flames and assembled on the lawn only to see goons sledge-hammer windows of their two cars, dump in gasoline and torch them both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family could see that all was lost, their home, the furnishing, the kid’s books, school desks and papers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Public schools had been shut down and most kids were now home-schooled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neighbors were seen viewing this from their lawns or from behind their windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They made no move to assist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any form of help would have subjected them to similar brutal attack. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Such threatened families would normally move elsewhere, but there was no longer local or international protection: no militia or armed services, land, sea or air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Coast Guard had been abandoned and borders were wide open to piracy and free flow of criminals and drugs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overseas, U. S. embassies had been shut down, support of the United Nations withdrawn, and international banking relations broken off. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Americans knew that if they needed help, here or abroad, they would hardly get it from President Grover Norquist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was too busy dismantling postal and weather services; veterans and public health services; auto, rail, air, and space programs; dams and rural electrification; all federal museums, libraries, monuments, and parks; and with the summary dismissal of 4.5-million government employees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Welcome to tax-free America!</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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