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Everytime this comes up, it eventually is shut down with facts, people stop arguing it because they know they're wrong, and the thread dies. Then another one comes up with the same exact content.
They're on stand-by in case of natural disasters and #- every year units 'deploy' to fight fires and # in Northern Cali and such.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Those who seek absolute power,even though they seek it to do what they regard as good,are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth.And let me remind you,they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.Absolute power does corrupt,and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute -- often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.
Originally posted by jakyll
reply to post by SuperViking
Everytime this comes up, it eventually is shut down with facts, people stop arguing it because they know they're wrong, and the thread dies. Then another one comes up with the same exact content.
As this is only a recent development,what threads are you talking about?
And what facts?
Its a fact that the US are going to have a domestic army.
Its a fact that it will become permanent.
They're on stand-by in case of natural disasters and #- every year units 'deploy' to fight fires and # in Northern Cali and such.
Which they have been able to do without having to have a permanently based domestic force.
The two or three other threads about 'homeland tours' starting on October 1st.
There's always been a a domestic force in the states. Where do you think troops go when they come back from Iraq? The Midway Islands?
"Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy."
Interesting signature
The deployment of the military in country is worthy of dutifull scrutinization,for one it is a blatant contitutional violation...
Who do you know who'll risk their life, their future, their family, their liberty .. to take arms against the government ?
So there you are. Lots of talk, but it won't happen.
"What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs.