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To: safeasthebanks

How charming. So it’s “lefty” now to want to remain free from government? How peculiar. Here, I’ve always thought it to be a CONSERVATIVE trait. You know, small government, big individual freedom and all. How odd that it’s now turned on its head and become a characteristic of the far left (socialist/communist camp). Or is it only that Bush has that magical talisman after his name? You know, the (R)...


10 posted on 03/16/2008 6:35:38 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: dcwusmc

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.—The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, vol. 6, p. 242 (1963).

It’s a shame this doesn’t appear to be the case in this day and age.


11 posted on 03/17/2008 5:33:21 AM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: dcwusmc
No, Einstein, it's lefty to post hysterical articles from left-wing sources making up "big brother" horror scenarios, because you don't like the person in power. That is CLASSIC "lefty".

I'll ask you the same question - what color is the sky in your world of paranoia? Ours is blue.

13 posted on 03/17/2008 6:21:01 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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