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| How do you feel today? Are you free and civilized yet? Have you killed your TV yet? Or are you a frightened chicken or a confused lemming? But never fear; you have it better than folks in other countries. | ||||||||||
| A grammarian's look at
the 2nd amendment or I got yo gun-myths right heah!. |
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| If you still believe in the fiction of a constitutional government limiting its power to the enforcement of natural and property rights, and the protection of personal liberty and freedom, then compare present reality with past ideals. | ||||||||||
| Are your taxes too low? Just say NO, or MOVE. | ||||||||||
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| Of course the people don't want war. But
after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy,
and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a
democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to
the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell
them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
-- Herman Goering, Hitler's second in command, speaking at the Nuremberg trials The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. -- General Douglas MacArthur. Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful. -- " The Prince", Niccolo Machiavelli. |
