Not My Shower: Breaking Biological Barriers

Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^ | 3/5/2008 | Chuck Colson

[Dan Evans]

What happens when the PC crowd has to deal with Sharia sensibilities?

Terrorism, litigation and general chaos. The left thrives on it.

[Bigg Red]

You are welcome.

[Joe 6-pack]

I like this one as well...

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."

- Patrick Henry

[Mr. Silverback]

That’s a good one. Thanks for posting it.

[Joe 6-pack]

I have long mulled over Franklin's remark, "A republic, if you can keep it." The more I dwell upon it and what he may have meant by it, the more I become convinced that he saw the delicate and absolutely necessary balance between liberty and morality, and how if either side of that equation were tampered with, the other would be undone.

I usually avoid the "drug warrior" threads, but the WOD probably serves as the best illustration of this concept. Certainly, no moral person wants to see pervasive drug abuse and addiction throughout society, and addicts truly worship a false god by allowing a substance to become the center of their existence. Having said that, draconian laws and police practices instituted in response have seriously undermined our liberties. It's symptomatic of the dilemma Franklin saw.

[dljordan]

“Thus a great empire falls.”

Once we get to the point of total internal break-down these kinds of incidents will self-correct very quickly.