Seattle Council Member Calls for Overthrow of ‘Racist, Sexist, Violent, Utterly Bankrupt System of Capitalism’ - “We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality – a socialist world. [More]As I've noted before, I'm more interested in determining how it serves "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" to import foreign subversives, and if it does not, where government derives the authority to admit them.
[Via Michael G]
Only the inferior seek or demand equality.
ReplyDeleteI demand equal treatment with "Only Ones" on what guns we can keep and where we can bear them. The "legal" inferiority is due to the illegitimate enforcement powers of those who consider themselves our superiors.
ReplyDeleteSince at least the founding of our republic, and probably back till the (perhaps mythical) days of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, politicians and rulers have gotten out of line from time to time. In days past, or so we are told, the populace would step in and remind those guilty of the worst transgressions just exactly whom was in charge.
ReplyDeleteBit of an "Attitude Adjustment" if you will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhubbRugak
Some will tell you things have been going downhill since the Dodgers left Brooklyn. But I date the downward slide to the last time a community invited their councilman/mayor/governor to a tar and feather party.
Or as one wiser head once opined:
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” -- Samuel Johnson