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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2057)10/10/2000 10:33:34 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10042
 

Military coups are often heralded as liberations.

And dictators usually spring from times of political chaos and/or economic depression. That is why I fear the American right more than I fear the American left. The left will thrive as long as the country prospers, and people can afford the luxury of flagellating themselves. But if things go bad, I don't see people turning in that direction. I expect that they will be more inclined to turn to those who promise to make them great again.



To: cosmicforce who wrote (2057)10/10/2000 11:32:00 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10042
 
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
-Patrick Henry



To: cosmicforce who wrote (2057)10/10/2000 11:33:11 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10042
 
John Adams:
"Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense." A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, at 475. (1787-88)



To: cosmicforce who wrote (2057)10/10/2000 11:34:12 PM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 10042
 
"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would." Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763,reprinted in 3 The Works of John Adams



To: cosmicforce who wrote (2057)10/10/2000 11:34:32 PM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 10042
 
Samuel Adams:
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." During Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution ratification convention, (1788), Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)


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