05-22-2018, 02:55 AM
(05-21-2018, 03:26 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-20-2018, 05:23 PM)Galen Wrote:(05-20-2018, 11:15 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: To the demand "Suffer for my holy greed, you peons", we must prepare to respond as Patrick Henry did to the shakier George III...
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
You do realize that Patrick Henry had an armed populace to back up that demand. Makes you wonder what the real agenda behind gun control really is.
When the 'armed populace' is connected to an authoritarian cause as were the Italian Blackshirts, the KKK in the South, Nazis and Commies in Germany around 1930, or Commie "Action Committees' in Czechoslovakia in 1948, then democracy is either dead or moribund. Firearms are usually servants of authoritarian causes.
And they inevitably try to keep them out of the hands of the populace to secure their hold on power. The state has always been an authoritarian institution.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises