09-30-2010, 08:47 PM
Hi,
Ah, been reading the Brothers Grim again, have you? I went down to the marina just the other week and tried to claim *my* flattop. They just wouldn't believe me when I told them I owned it. Been making payments on it all my life. I had to leave without it.
Might makes right. The might of the government trumps the individual, the might of enough united individuals trumps the government. Maybe not the way it should be, but the way it is. And has been pretty much everywhere and every-when. Individual freedom wasn't born at Runnymede in 1215, individual freedom was born when English kings started to depend on their yeomen and the long bow.
--Pete
(09-30-2010, 02:37 AM)ShadowHM Wrote: If my government funds it, then *I* own it. And I refuse to recognize any smarmy little bureaucrat's (or elected politician's) *right* to control it.
Ah, been reading the Brothers Grim again, have you? I went down to the marina just the other week and tried to claim *my* flattop. They just wouldn't believe me when I told them I owned it. Been making payments on it all my life. I had to leave without it.
Might makes right. The might of the government trumps the individual, the might of enough united individuals trumps the government. Maybe not the way it should be, but the way it is. And has been pretty much everywhere and every-when. Individual freedom wasn't born at Runnymede in 1215, individual freedom was born when English kings started to depend on their yeomen and the long bow.
--Pete
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