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Originally posted by bubbabuddha
This just seems like a media attempt to paint those in the South opposed to big government and Obama as kooky conspiracy nuts for actually being concerned about something that they should be concerned about, that being that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
Originally posted by elysiumfire
These attacks upon Obama arise from his controversial thoughts on gun control, and just like a bunch of Iagos, those that do not want gun control are obsfucating, misrepresenting and misleading the statements Obama has made.
I have already said it once, but it is worth stating again...Obama is not out to create a civilian army for enforcing law. He wants to create a civilian social infrastructure based on service to others.
In other words, everybody helping each other out, and in this manner, bringing the nation back to a strength and cohesiveness based on community, all throughout the land. He does not want to train people to fight but to serve each other in various and diverse social fields. This plan of his, its noble aims, are being misrepresented by paranoid gun owners who are too scared to embrace a better and more community-based country,
a country that finds that it has no need to a 'right to bear arms'.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Originally posted by Sahabi
Great post and great find. It is true that a private security force is what Hitler used to gain absolute power... for crying out loud Saddam did it too!
Too all of you guys calling everyone a fear monger, and saying this type of thing could never happen... I guess the American Civil War never happened, and Hitler's rise to power must be a propaganda by the Jews?
If Obama was doing such a great call for a reduction of military spending, why would he want to make a Civilian Security Force as equally strong as the U.S. Military? Please answer this question in a logical way, and without the insults.