{"id":8332,"date":"2011-12-19T03:12:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2011-12-19T03:12:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:12:04","slug":"about-that-fourth-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/about-that-fourth-box\/","title":{"rendered":"About that fourth box"},"content":{"rendered":"

It really doesn’t seem right to bring this up just before Christmas. Peace on earth and all that. But when Wendy McElroy linked to this article<\/a> the other day, I knew I’d been remiss.<\/p>\n

When somebody has to write from Europe asking Americans if its time to resort to the infamous “fourth box” of freedom, I weird keeping my mouth shut or only mildly opinionating about the latest horror-news.<\/p>\n

When even Obama’s once-dedicated supporters are this angry<\/a> over the tyrannical perfidy of peace-prize pols … it’s time.<\/p>\n

No, I’m not saying, “It’s time” in the sense of that phrase that will follow me to my grave, “Claire Wolfe time.” I’m not ever likely to say that here on Dave Duffy’s nice, peaceful blog.<\/p>\n

But if we’ve been on a steady continuum of police-state developments, we really have just crossed a totalitarian line with the National Defense Authorization Act. And it doesn’t matter from here on out who tries to make wussy corrections<\/a> to it or who tries to make excuses for it<\/a>. It doesn’t matter how many people talk about what the NDAA “authorizes” or doesn’t without ever making reference to the Bill of Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You know how, in a breakup of a really terrible relationship, you sometimes go back? And back? You consider maybe it wasn’t so bad … maybe you can patch things up … it’s lonely and scary on your own. So you go back — and it really was just as impossible as you remembered. So you leave again. But then, maybe later you give it yet another try. After all, there must have been some reason you loved that person once. And you’ve put so much effort into the relationship already. And maybe some of the perceived mistreatment was your fault, after all. “If I just work a little harder, things’ll get better …”<\/p>\n

But after some undefinable amount of back-and-forthing, you reach a moment — and you really know that moment<\/i>, you always do — where It Is Over. And no matter how scary the big, bad world might be, you will never feel even the flicker of another temptation to reconcile or believe the old lies. Never again in your entire life.<\/p>\n

Well, baby, for all decent people and the abusive government they once might have had fond, hopeful feelings for — It Is Over.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

I still don’t want to dwell on this over the holidays. I’ll have more to say about that fourth box after the first of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It really doesn’t seem right to bring this up just before Christmas. Peace on earth and all that. But when Wendy McElroy linked to this article the other day, I knew I’d been remiss. When somebody has to write from Europe asking Americans if its time to resort to the infamous “fourth box” of freedom, I weird keeping my mouth shut or only mildly opinionating about the latest horror-news. When even Obama’s once-dedicated supporters are this angry over the tyrannical perfidy of peace-prize pols … it’s time. No, I’m not saying, “It’s time” in the sense of that phrase that…<\/p>\n

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