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To: wideawake

shot people randomly? who is talking about shooting people randomly besides you? You are attempting to change this dialogue to something that it is not. I have merely stated that were I, hypothetically, a 76 year old man being forced onto the street over a $136 tax bill, like Bennie Coleman, I would have killed them . The fact is, what I’m really saying is that I surely wouldn’t have faulted Mr. Coleman if he did, in fact, start shooting as I feel he would have been justified and were I on his jury, he would walk. I have no desire to kill anyone but, at the same time, I have no problem seeing the agents of a tyrannical government dieing as they impose the will of the tyrannical government on the people. No problem with it all. and neither did our forefathers.


46 posted on 09/08/2013 1:47:08 AM PDT by RC one
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To: RC one
If you think the Founders were in the habit of killing tax agents of the British Crown, you probably need to refresh your early American history.

That isn't how it happened.

They fought a war, quite formally, with rules of engagement and as much of the eighteenth century niceties as they could muster.

Then, almost as soon as they were finished, they put down the Whiskey Rebellion.

47 posted on 09/08/2013 1:56:04 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: RC one
You should also know that the Founders followed the practice of putting people like Bennie Coleman in prison for nonpayment of debts.

It wasn't until the Jackson administration that civil bankruptcy laws replaced civil imprisonment as the remedy for defaults in many states.

That's right, civil imprisonment.

49 posted on 09/08/2013 2:20:23 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: RC one

WideAwake(really sound asleep) is a typical Federal Bootlicking idiot. A statist tool.


82 posted on 09/08/2013 7:30:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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