I got a fun link in my e-mail this morning to a post at FreeRepublic.com pointing to an article at NewsMax, a madhouse of pro-Bush, pro-State, pro-tyranny glory. The actual post is a decent overview of Ron Paul to be crossposted at FreeRepublic, but the fun part comes from the comments incited below. Warning to those with common sense and the ability to discern the truth of an individual versus the lies of a State.

Here’s a comment by pro-tyranny regular “Rodney King”:

Look, I don’t even agree with Paul on Iraq. Weather we should have gone in or not, that does not mean that you should just pull out once you are in.

For example, you decide to put a new roof on your house. Halfway through you realize maybe it was a harder job than you thought, and you wonder if you should have started in the first place. That does not mean that you don’t finish the job.

Here’s how I see it. Paul is wrong on that. But, he is right on everything else, and here are two of the things he is right on: Closing the border and turning back the tide of socialism.

The W foreign policy, although right on not pulling out of Iraq, is wrong on the other two issues.

What we are looking at now is almost perpetual war, while our enemies flood our borders and the State becomes like France where the people no longer have any will or incenetive to defend their country.

The muslims, over 50 years, take over. That is the path we are on now.

Let’s look at the example he cites: “For example, you decide to put a new roof on your house. Halfway through you realize maybe it was a harder job than you thought, and you wonder if you should have started in the first place. That does not mean that you don’t finish the job.” Many people will nod their head in agreement, because it seems to make sense.

Then I return with my response:

What a ridiculous comparison. You’re close, but not close enough.

For example, you decide to put a new roof on the house of a person you don’t really know a few towns over, against their will. You tell them it would be better for them, that their roof is no good. You go to their house, and start installing a roof, but only late at night. When they ask you to leave, you decide you’re also going to add a swimming pool for them in the yard, also doing construction late at night.

As things progress, you realize that your roof is costing you way more than you expected, and the pool is overrunning your budget.

You have two choices: continue to put a roof and a pool on a home of someone who doesn’t want you to do it, or just leave, realizing that it isn’t your home, and it isn’t your responsibility to fix what the homeowner didn’t find broken.

As I show, this wasn’t “our” roof that we were fixing, this was the “roof” of someone else, who doesn’t live near us, has little to do with us, and may have had a broken “roof” because we’ve been pushing around the “foundation” of their “house” since the 50s, never allowing any peace and progress to be made. If I was taking apart their “roof” for 50 years little by little, and then swooped in to fix it, the distant homeowner would still hate me. If the homeowner had the power to harm my home at little cost, they might.

I’m not blaming America first. The United States of America is not the citizens any longer, it is a figurehead State that calls itself “Of the People” and “For the People” but it is not “By the People” any longer. The Republic of indivudual States, is now a Democratic Nation. Democracy does not equal freedom.