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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
— Samuel Adams
This “random quote” is NOT random.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
— 1st Amendment
Another “keeper!”
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” – The US Declaration of Independence
Withdraw your consent….if you haven’t already.
another good one!
“Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair.”
can’t, doesn’t work, impossible. can’t live alone, everything everyone does affects everyone else so we’re a community whether we want and like it or not.
that’s why some on the right have 1,000,000 cartridges of ammunition and talk about one shot one kill – they want everyone else gone so that finally, at long last, they can be left alone.
Some folks just try to take some things too literal. This is also a form of “extremism” and a part of the reasons other folks feel the need to have 1,000,000 rounds of ammo. The “one shot-one kill” policy is the best defense when the number of attackers is unknown. No need to waist something which you might need later. So far as a “quote” about being alone. It was Hedy Lamar who said, “I just want to be left alone;” not “I want to be alone” as was re-quoted.
“Some folks just try to take some things too literal.”
just repeating what li’l pooh said. and he’s not the only one, not at all. you can see it in their crazed rantings and in their calmly explained plans. they say they hate “government”, but that’s not what they hate. what they hate is other people – the oppression of other peoples’ existence and its impositions on them. hate them with a raging passion. and they don’t hate government – they love government, so much so that they want all its powers and authorizations concentrated in themselves and in themselves alone and not shared with “other people”. they want to be legislative and executive and judge and jury and executioner and army and police and county sheriff and final arbiter (and many of them prophet and priest and patriarch) all in and of themselves alone as far as their eye can see. they want to live in early tennessee “where if you could see the smoke from another man’s camp fire he was too close” and therefore a statist.
and when they think they can get away with it, they intend to create that world. one bullet at a time.
“The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.”
~Athenian General Thucydides.