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To: JMJ333
Answer the Question. Should it be in a state’s power to reject the dictates of the National Government and segregate minorities and deny them the right to vote?
50 posted on 10/29/2001 5:45:03 PM PST by Dr. Pepper
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To: Dr. Pepper
Answer the Question. Should it be in a state’s power to reject the dictates of the National Government and segregate minorities and deny them the right to vote?

No. I don't. But this is not why the war was fought, nor what we are discussing. It was about secession and liberty.

The centralization of governmental power has not only lead to the looting and plundering of the taxpaying class by the parasitic class; it has also slowly destroyed freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas. One of the first things every tyrannical government does is to monopolize the educational system in order to brainwash the young and bolster its political power, and As soon as Lee surrendered at Appomatox the federal government began revising history to teach that secession was illegitimate.

Now...how about answering the questions I posed to you?

60 posted on 10/29/2001 6:01:43 PM PST by JMJ333
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To: Dr. Pepper
Dear Dr. Pepper,

I would like to tell you a story. I lived in West Africa about twenty years ago. During one election for members of parliament, the incumbent decided that he wished to remain in power. Therefore, he and his wife, on election day, showed up at the poll early in the morning. They stood at the door and shot down any person who had the courage to step forward in order to place a ballot into the box. Nine folks died that day. They managed to be returned unopposed The ruling political party eventually removed the minister from his position, though he never went to jail for his crimes.

In that same country, if you so much as breathed a word against the ruling party and it got back to those rulers, you would be damned. You could be out of a job, or house, you could be put in prison, or even be murdered. I personally knew of one man, a top government bank officer, who, one day, felt too ill to go to the office. His family had gone shopping. Upon their return, he was found at the bottom of the mountain upon which his lovely house was perched. Shoved over the veranda. He got the notion that the government was not being fair with its citizens, and obviously spoke it to the wrong person.

. There is no grander nation where liberty is available to ALL! If you are so helpless that you think your civil rights are determined by a flag having dimensions somewhere in the neighborhood of 4'x6', you are in sad shape. Even Europe is the pits, compared to America. You have got your freedom. If you don't take advantage of it and do with it what you want, that is your fault, not the fault of anyone who displays a confederat flag on his pick up.

86 posted on 10/29/2001 6:59:48 PM PST by B52Bomber
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