Today, 240 years ago, the battle of Lexington, and "the shot heard 'round the world," took place, and it is a day on which we honor those who took a stand for Liberty, rallying others to their cause. Liberty is always a cause worth fighting for.
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Today, 240 years ago, the battle of Lexington, and "the shot heard 'round the world," took place, and it is a day on which we honor those who took a stand for Liberty, rallying others to their cause. Liberty is always a cause worth fighting for.
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Unfair taxes, check.
Denied voting rights, check.
Confiscate guns, BOOM.
I just did two lines of powdered wig powder, cranked up some Lee Greenwood, and recited the BoR. - Outlander Systems
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Fast forward 240 years: anyone attempts the same is labeled a domestic terrorist...
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Originally Posted by SilverBullet432
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/17/opinio...ing/index.html...in recent years, violence from the extreme right has again surged—and at levels reminiscent of the dark days of the 1990s. From 1995 through 2000, according to statistics from the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, right-wing extremists were responsible for at least 47 different terrorist acts, conspiracies or plots.
However, during the past six years, from 2009 through 2014, right-wing extremists in the U.S. were involved in at least 42 actual or attempted terrorist acts.
In other words, right-wing violence today is actually at or very close to levels during the days of the Oklahoma City bombing.
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The biggest difference today is the many millions of citizens who gladly give up liberty for security paid for by others. Redistribution is the root of modern tyranny.
The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity. And since then, generations of intelligent students under the guidance of their enlightened professors have looked into the abyss, have contemplated those beasts, and have said, “How interesting, how exciting.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss (1994)
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Fixed it.
I always thought it was interesting that when you read back all the "abuses" that they experienced back in the 1700's, dear ol' Georgy doesn't seem like that much of a tyrant anymore...
These days we have everything they wrote about and then some.
"Once we get some iron in our souls, we'll get some iron in our hands..."
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Sad but true
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And we pay more taxes and have less freedom today than when we were under British rule.
”Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people”
~Tench Coxe
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I must disagree with the bolded part.
Last edited by Eurodriver; 04-21-15 at 08:28.
Why do the loudest do the least?
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Why is that?
”Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people”
~Tench Coxe
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