Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Department of Education is the New Gestapo

I almost can't even believe this story is real it is so outrageous. It is true, however. The Department of Education has started kicking in the doors to private homes, searching those homes, and detaining even innocent children inside to collect delinquent student loans.

You read that right. Our federal government lets illegal immigrants enter our country, roam freely to commit violent criminal acts within its borders, and even pays them to do so through welfare and other government subsidies but that same government will not tolerate its educated citizens from falling past due on a student loans.

Where is the outrage here? Where is the news media on this issue? Where are the states themselves? The people of this country ought to be way past angry, the media should be probing deep into this story and reporting it on the front page, and our states should be putting their sovereign feet down and saying "enough."

Am I the only one questioning how the Department of Education somehow has the power to issue warrants and kick in doors and to do so brandishing firearms? Am I the only one who remembers a little thing called the United States Constitution? Am I really the only one? Probably so, but even if I am alone on this I will put my foot down and say "enough!" I will question such authority in the hands of any government, especially a single department of that government whose purpose is to educate, not destroy, its citizens.

I have said it repeatedly and will never stop saying it. When any government is willing to kick in your door to extract money from you at gunpoint, it is tyranny. Such force is the strict definition and should not be tolerated by a so-called "free" citizenry. It is time for us to realize that any government willing to enslave rather that protect its people should be corrected by any means necessary. And if the states won't make the required corrections, the people must.