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Rockman:
Also, here's one piece of elementary logic for you:
1st statement: All People are idiots
2nd statement: All leaders are people
Inescapable conclusion: All leaders are idiots
THE MIGHTY CLAN DANGER DISAGREES WITH STATEMENT NUMBER 1, AND THEREFORE ALSO DISAGREES WITH THE INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION.
THE UNITED STATES WAS FOUNDED BY AN INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF VERY WISE PEOPLE WHO STUDIED HISTORY, EXAMINED WHY GOVERNMENTS FAIL, AND CAME UP WITH A SYSTEM THAT PERPETUALLY PITS ONE PART OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST ANOTHER. FROM THE COEQUAL BRANCHES OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITH COMPETING POWERS AND INTERESTS, TO THE FEDERALIST SYSTEM UNDER WHICH ALMOST ALL POWERS WERE RESERVED TO THE STATES, WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT STATES WOULD FIGHT (FIGURATIVELY OR LITERALLY) TO PRESERVE THEIR POWERS.
THE FOUNDERS RECOGNIZED THAT "ENLIGHTENED STATESMEN" WOULD NOT ALWAYS BE IN CHARGE, AND AS SUCH THEY CONSTRUCTED A CONSTITUTION THAT SEVERELY LIMITED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S POWER. THEY EXPECTED THEIR POSTERITY - US - TO BE THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST TYRANNY. THEY EXPECTED THAT WE WOULD, LIKE THEM, VALUE OUR LIBERTY ABOVE ALL ELSE.
WHAT THEY DIDN'T FORESEE WAS THE WAYS IN WHICH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BY IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION AND WITH A COMPLIANT SUPREME COURT, WOULD PERVERT THE PROCESS. I DON'T THINK THEY IMAGINED THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD USE TAXATION TO TAKE UP TO 1/3 (MORE IN YEARS PAST) OF THE WEALTH OF THE CITIZENS, AND THEN EXTORT THE STATES WITH THAT MONEY.
THEY ALSO DIDN'T FORESEE THAT WE, THE PEOPLE, WOULD BECOME SO COMPLACENT AS TO SIMPLY STAND BY AS OUR LIBERTY IS STOLEN AN INCH AT A TIME, IN THE NAME OF THE "COMMON GOOD". THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE IS FAILING, BECAUSE WE REFUSE TO BOOT OUT THE "REPRESENTATIVES" (IN BOTH PARTIES) WHO THINK IT IS THE JOB OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BE OUR NANNIES.
IF ANY OF YOU THINK I'M FALSELY ASCRIBING MOTIVES OR BELIEFS TO THE FOUNDERS WHICH THEY DID NOT HOLD, I BEG YOU TO SPEND SOME TIME READING THE FEDERALIST PAPERS. THEN COME BACK HERE AND TELL ME WHAT YOU LEARNED. YOU WILL BE ASTOUNDED AT HOW WE HAVE TWISTED THE ORIGINAL VISION OF THIS NATION.
AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS NOTHING NEW. EVEN SOME OF THE VERY PEOPLE INVOLVED IN CRAFTING THE GREAT DOCUMENTS THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED UPON SOON WENT TO WORK ASSAULTING LIBERTY. EVEN THEY, WHO HAD RECOGNIZED HOW EASILY POWER CAN CORRUPT, WERE NOT IMMUNE TO ITS SIREN SONG. WHAT HAS CHANGED IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS SPENT THE LAST CENTURY KNOCKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO TYRANNY, AND AS WE CONTINUE TO IGNORE IT, THE PROCESS ACCELERATES.
LIBERTY IS ONLY DOOMED IF WE WILL NOT STAND UP FOR IT. IT IS OUR DUTY TO PROTECT IT WITH OUR BALLOTS, SO THAT OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN DO NOT HAVE TO RECLAIM IT WITH BULLETS. BOTH "MAJOR" PARTIES ARE ENSLAVING YOUR POSTERITY TO CRIPPLING DEBT. STOP VOTING FOR THEM, OR STOP PRETENDING TO CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE.
HA!
SAM
