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Politics : Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (932)	8/11/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3389

Then you are dreaming if you think that every totalitarian government in history didn't start by disarming it's citizens. You are also sadly misinformed or perhaps being disingenuous in saying that the people can have no effect, with their puny little arms, against a military dictatorship. This thinking falls right into the hands of those who would have us believe that we are powerless to determine our own fate and as such, need to be told how to live by a central power. "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual". -Frank Herbert As a career military man, who's military specialty was munitions and weaponry and who's current civilian occupation is the aerospace armaments industry, I can state that the armed might of 25,000,000 legal gun owners is a might that could not be conquered by military force. It can only be conquered by first disarming it. This disarming can only come about by revoking the Constitution. With the revocation of the Constitution, all legal government ceases to exist and we will be left with a totalitarian state, where right makes right. My primary concern with maintaining my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms is personal, not political. The right to self-defense is the most basic of human rights and to deny anyone the right to arm themselves in order that they may protect themselves is to deny them this right. This right is not dependent on any document for it's existence. It simply IS. In twenty five years abroad, I lived in countries where crime and terrorism thrived. I also lived under martial law in a military/police state. I was able to survive the criminals and terrorists, but I can say unequivocally that I will die fighting before I willingly submit to the control of even a "benevolent" Big Brother. "In the end, they will throw their freedom at our feet, crying "Make us your slaves, but feed us"." -Doesteovsky, "The Grand Inquisitor"