Posted on 03/20/2010 8:59:44 AM PDT by Columbia
There was no intent to draw an analogy between slavery and 0bamacare, at least not in that particular discussion; my point was that not all laws merit obedience.”
Indeed, a very good point you make. Laws are often used to shackle the serfs and enrich and empower the ruling elite. The DC empire is ruling, not governing by the consent of the people. There comes a point where action is required to correct the error of the rulers’ ways.
What do you mean “immediately?” I don’t know when you arrived on the planet but I’ve been trying to play by their rules for the past 75 years and look where it’s gotten me. That’s the problem with being a “conservative,” we tend to obey the rules even if it hurts. For the past twenty or so years we’ve been trying to tell the liberals that we were getting tired of backing up... that someday we would get pushed too far. No one believed us. Hell, few believe us now.
You’ve got kids so you should know that continually threatening them with some form of punishment for improper behavior doesn’t do any good unless you occasionally carry through on your threat and warm their little butts. Government is the same way. All those years of threats don’t amount to anything unless they (the government) has some sort of object lesson to refer to.
Just between you and me I think a concerted campaign resulting in a bunch of broken windows is a whole lot better than broken bodies and lives. Still, even a cursory inspection of history will show that - bumper-sticker philosophy to the contrary - violence DOES solve problems. Instead of calling us “goonish” in an effort to bolster your own self-image, perhaps you should applaud those who try to avert real carnage by breaking a few windows.
Bumper stickers that say “war is not the answer” never say what question they mean.
Sometimes it is the answer, just as you noted.
Didn’t say I’d sit it out. Said I didn’t want to see it.
There’s a difference.
My humble apology. No conservative wanted to see an ignorant tyrant rise to power but that is the evil we are saddled with and somehow he will be stopped. We can’t stand by and watch this clown destroy the future for our kids.
Strangely, some of our best philosophers have had to hide behind the facade of fiction writing.
A fairly recent movie (Secondhand Lions) brought us the truism that “True love never dies.” Tom Clancy gave us the modern interpretation of the Biblical admonition against leaving survivors who can exact vengeance at a later time. And it was Robert Heinlein who gave us - in his “Starship Troopers - the perfect explanation of why war is neccesary. Allow me a rather long quote from pages 25 & 26 of my paperback copy. It’s an exchange between Mr. Dubois, a teacher and one of his students.
“But on the last day he seemed to be trying to find out what we had learned. One girl told him bluntly: “My mother says that violence never settles anything.”
“So?” Mr Dubois looked at her bleakly. “I’m sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that. Why doesn’t your mother tell them so? Or why don’t you?”
They had tangled before—since you couldn’t flunk the course, it wasn’t necessary to keep Mr. Dubois buttered up. She said shrilly, “You’re making fun of me! Eveybody knows that Carthage was destroyed!”
“You seemed to be unaware of it,” he said grimly. Since you do know it, wouldn’t you say that violence had settled their destinies rather thoroughly? However, I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea—a practice I shall always follow. Anyone who clings to the historically untrue—and thoroughly immoral—doctrine that ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo. the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history that has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.””
Bob Heinlein was a very smart man—a lot smarter than some here who want us to petition the King again.
Nice quote.
While I don’t agree with this, sometimes this type of thing needs to be done.
I live in Boston, where we once tore down the governor’s house over the stamp act.
William Ayers Quotes
Quotes by William Ayers
Uninspiring Liberal Quotes
“I was on a board with President-elect Obama.”
‘’I don’t regret setting bombs..... ‘I feel we didn’t do enough.’’
‘’Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,’’
The Window War Ping. Good Read Turbo and it is the story I told you about yesterday.
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