"No Rhyme or Reason?"

So Chrysler wants to shut down almost 800 dealorships across our land. Never mind that the vast majority of the dealorships are turning a profit and are beneficial to Chrysler. Never mind that they are no economic burden to the corporation. Never mind that in the state of Ohio, this shut down of dealorships violates state franchise laws. This breaking of contracts by the "mother corporation" under the direction of bankruptcy courts throws thousands of innocent people out of a job by June 6, and none of this makes any kind of legal or economic sense at all.

There seems to be no pattern to this indiscriminate closing of dealorships. Those who deal only in Chrysler are closed and some who deal with a variety of brand names are "spared." Those who endorse policies across a wide diversity of the political spectrum are indiscriminately closed or "spared." No rhyme or reason. Or is there? Remember the word "spared." What image does that conjure up? For me, I think of the "lord of the manor" who wants to instill fear and obedience in his serfs as they toil for him. He indiscriminately punishes his peasants. After the punishment is over, those who were spared all breathe a sigh of relief and say, "Thank God I was. . . spared." Then the serfs live the rest of their time on the manor in fear of the next round of punishment, intimidated and cowed into subjection--hoping to be spared the next time. They work hard to make sure that the lord of the manor is pleased with their performance.

This is the tactic used by all tyrants--whether the medieval lord of the manor, or the fascist or marxist regimes of the 20th century. Creating chaos, indiscriminte intimidation, and enforcing new "rules" of the game is the rhyme and reason of expansive government. What they will do today will be the standing operating procedure for all their "reforms."