But this is a republic, dammit — and those who hope to keep it cannot pick and choose the provisions with which they are willing to deign to comply. [More]You go ahead and turn in your guns when ordered to then.
It's just that basic, dammit.
This guy is all words, and irrelevant to freedom.
Can't see any reason to waste time on this idiot. I stopped reading it at this point:
ReplyDelete"The rule of law [...] has been extolled by presidents for centuries if not millennia"
Millennia? Plural? Does he know so little about American history? Well, probably:
"But this is a republic, dammit — and those who hope to keep it cannot pick and choose the provisions with which they are willing to deign to comply."
More correctly -- a difficult concept for someone who thinks the USA has been in existence for millennia -- this is, on paper, a constitutional republic. We did "pick and choose"; now we simply demand that the government abide by those rules laid out on that paper. (The plain fact that the government will not constrain itself to those constitutional limits is exactly what drives a lot of "anarchists" and other "anti-government" types to the school of thought that government cannot be trusted at all and should be abolished.)
Whenever some people (the "majority" of any sort) are given power to impose their will on others, for any reason... tyranny is inevitably the result.
ReplyDeleteRemember that national review is a neo-con site started by one of the two original former Trotskyites to start the neo con movement. They went ballistic trashing the best two gun rights proponents of my lifetime, pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, when they ran for President and appeared to be a major threat of winning.
ReplyDeleteNot a surprise.
Bear, nice try - attempting to reason with a prozi who defines everyone who attends a Tea Party meeting as "tea traitors" (whatever the heck that means.)
ReplyDeleteYour careful, respectful and reasoned responses - against the prozi's flaming rhetoric - illustrates that it's impossible to cure stupidity with words if at all.