Posted on 04/20/2009 2:33:48 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
So, at least for me, the question is: Eleven years ago we were all saying pretty much the same things we are saying now. Only the level of tyrannical pain has increased 10-fold in the interim.
Therefore, can we conclude from our own FR history that eleven years from now:
Just a question...I don't know the answer. Maybe in 10-years venues such as FR will have been outlawed.
Heck. Maybe, in ten years, cussing, muttering, and voting will have been outlawed........
Time for change, change back that is!
Choose this day how you will serve; Will you serve unwillingly and at the biding of others wearing the yoke of socialism or will hold true to the course of our forefathers’ standing tall and serving freely? As for me I choose to SERVE THE REPUBLIC!!
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“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”
— Thomas Jefferson
I wonder, as well, if that applies to binding, through property confiscation (taxes), my grandchildren and great grandchildren to trillions of dollars of debt.
I certainly think it does.
How do you get to the old articles? I have a few that are no longer accessible.
By the way, the rumor of OWK’s accidental death was a hoax.
First we must restore it as the Nation's governing paradigm.
The peaceful options are rapidly approaching zero or none.
In 1999, along with guns and ammo, I decided to store lots of selected FR threads on one my own servers...just in case. Well, the server (shh!..Novell) has been shut down and stored for many years and I have undertaken to try to recover some of those lost threads.
In particular, I wanted to get a hold of a few of JR's "firebrand" posts. IAC, I'm going to re-post some of the oldie-but-goodies that I can find.
"By the way, the rumor of OWK’s accidental death was a hoax."
Last time I saw him in person was at the March On Washington. What a party that was! Even though we sometimes disagreed, I liked his patriotism, intellect, and writing abilities.
Glad to hear that he is not at ground temperature.
I miss the old libertarian gang from the late 90’s here. The toll of Bush years was heavy.
Salem Witch Trials of 1692 redux?...{:-)
First, paloecon posters were gone, those in the mold of Sam Francis. That was even before Bush was elected. The libertarians had their doubts about the War on Terror, and about Bush’s fiscal policies in general. The last distinctly libertarian group bounced off with Ron Paul. Good thing I am mostly posting on religion these days.
It would be nice to have a thousand point of view Free Republic renaissance now that the GOP is in opposition and in disarray once more.
Agreed.
Collateral damage in the pursuit of partisan ideological purity.
Sounds like the purges in the USSR during the 20's & 30's.
Lots of stuff is starting to sound like the '30's.
The periodic bouts of “Ban The Heretic!” have done as much damage to FR as Stalin’s 1937 purges did to the Red Army.
I do not care who you are, that is just plain funny.
Yeah -- the only difference is that now the epithet of choice is "Troll!" rather than "Enemy Of The People!"
Some of that tinfoils wrap looks downright necessary by todays reality though.
When you think about it, even the most ardent tinfoiler eleven years ago would probably would have thought you were nuts if you predicted the well-crafted long-term strategies and tactics that have led us to the events of the last one-hundred days.
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