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Past Chairman of the Republican Party Chis Healy put the
matter boldly when he wrote on his blog, Make Blue Red, “The Democrats shut down our country,
closed our schools, closed our churches, allowed state and federal employees to
work for home and gave them bonus pay. If that wasn’t enough, Biden policies
put others on a steady drip of payments and turned federal law enforcement
loose on businesses, parents and others who protested these policies. The Biden
administration even allowed the Department of Justice to investigate parents
who spoke up at Board of Education meetings, again, without a word of protest
from Sen. Blumenthal. What do you think will happen if they are allowed to
continue in power?
“Democrats will talk about abortion, Trump, climate change, and January 6. Let
them. Life is about family, faith, and the future.”
Slowly, perhaps too slowly, people in Connecticut are
beginning to understand that government, as a rule, is a dangerous instrument –
somewhat like an AR15 in the hands of a rage-filled child – and that the usual,
time honored relationship between government and the people, always and everywhere
in the world, is an inverse one: the richer the government, the poorer the
people; the more creative the government, the duller the people; the larger the
government, the smaller the liberties of the people.
This is not to say that government in a true republic,
restrained, as it is in the United States, by the barriers of a Constitution
shaped by the political geniuses of the 18th century, a living rather than a
dead Constitution, will have nothing to do in a sorry world bristling with
dangers. It simply means that governments – national, state and municipal –
must not deprive the people of their sacred liberties, that precious fire that
glows like a perpetual flame in the breast of a free people. To be free is to
be self-governing and self-reliant. Governments that can do everything for you
will, over time, fashion you into an unthinking robotic pawn, a subject of
concentrated force. This is the predominant message of the 18th, 19th and 20th
centuries -- government is the servant and not the master of the people.
Often called “the people’s lawyer,” Connecticut’s Attorney
General, William Tong, was in fine fettle at the State Democrat Party’s
"Unity Rally," held this year at the Connecticut State Veterans
Memorial at Minuteman Park in Hartford last Saturday.
Tong appeared along with the usual squad of incumbent state
office holders to kick off the Democrat 2020 campaign season.
Connecticut’s Attorney General warned residents of the
state, “This is an extraordinary and extraordinarily serious and dangerous
moment for all of us here in Connecticut and in this country. They
[Republicans] will come for us just like they will come for our climate change
laws and our environmental protections, just like they’re coming for our gun
laws. They will come for our codification of Roe. They will come for our
freedoms.”
No reporters present raised a cackle.
Connecticut is a deep blue Democrat state. All the members
of the state’s U.S. Congressional Delegation are Democrats. The General
Assembly, Connecticut’s legislative governing body, has been dominated by
Democrats for three decades and more. The present Governor Ned Lamont and his
predecessor are Democrats. All the members of Connecticut’s Constitutional
offices are Democrats. The U.S. Supreme Court, overturning Roe v Wade,
has booted decision making on the matter of abortion back to the states, and
Connecticut’s abortion laws reaffirm the expired and unconstitutional Roe v.
Wade decision. Connecticut’s gun laws, among the most restrictive in the
nation, are in no immediate danger of repeal. And it simply is not true that
Biden’s policy on the environment will – in the absence of the absolute
destruction of the nation’s present energy suppliers -- lead to a cleaner
environment. Biden’s war on fossil fuel already has prompted him to seek fossil
fuel replenishment from “dirty” energy producers such as Saudi Arabia, not to
mention Iran. In the midst of a politically induced energy crisis, Biden has,
with Senator Dick Blumenthal’s hearty approval, depleted the nation’s oil
reserves. And for some unexplained reason, Biden has shipped oil taken from a
depleted oil reserve to China, now threatening Taiwan with a fate worse than
Ukraine’s.
No one, least of all minority Republicans, is coming to
seize the considerable freedoms enjoyed by Tong, the third in an unbroken line
of Democrat Attorneys General stretching back 63 years to John Bracken, the
last Republican Attorney General in Connecticut.
The felonious Mayor of Bridgeport Joe Ganim who, news
reports tell us, is now attempting to retrieve his law license by
throwing himself on the mercy of a Connecticut bar examining committee,
apparently has passed muster from the current “people’s lawyer,” Tong. Silence
is a form of assent. Perhaps no one in Connecticut’s sleepy left of center
media has asked Tong whether he or Blumenthal, both lawyers, would support a
decision by the bar examining committee to restore Ganim’s law license.
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