Of Frogs and Freedom

There's an old story that says you can't kill a frog by dropping him in the boiling water. He reacts so quickly to the sudden heat that he jumps before he is hurt. But if you put him in cold water and then warm it up gradually, he never decides to jump until it is too late. By then he is cooked. Men are just foolish. Take away their freedom overnight and you have a violent revolution. But steal it from them gradually under the guise of

security, peace or progress and you can paralyze the entire generation. Look at the income tax. It started out

as a harmless sounding one percent. It would have been easy to jump out of water as tepid as this. But like the frog we waited while it climbed even higher.Try jumping now. And the worst of all we never learn. Even

today we cannot believe that medicine is the same warm water that will one day boil us in socialized medicine. But if we draw a parallel line between subsidized teachers pay and government control of education we are called extremists. The tragedies of history are always separated by those who refuse to learn them. To seek guidance from the past is not turning the clock back as we are often told. It is merely a good way to keep out of hot water.(by: Charles Lundberg)