[geeks] [rescue] Guns - what are they good for? - was Re: TME and Apple II and other Drive emulator questions.

[artisan at k-huhn.com]

Phil, this is the most intelligent thing I have read on the Internet
today.  I award you the Medal of Awareness!

(yes, first post to Geeks in many years)

(also... cleaning my firearms after a trip to the range)

--K

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 05:18:29PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
 
> Me, I'm a minarchist, fiscally conservative in general, socially liberal
> in general, but not really in either camp; possessed of a grave distrust
> of governments, not fooled for one moment by the sock-puppet pretense
> that the US has two distinct political parties, and "forever opposed  to
> every form of tyranny over the mind of man" (to quote Thomas Jefferson).
> 
> I don't really care whether the White House or Congress are nominally
> controlled by either the Democratic or the Republican party; I find both
> almost equally reprehensible, both equally mendacious, both equally
> anti-liberty and pro-oligarchy, both parts of the problem and not of the
> solution, and both excellent object lessons in exactly why the US
> Constitution was created with a Bill of Rights attached to it.  It is
> precisely to guard against exactly such government as we have today that
> the amendments making up the Bill of Rights were passed in the first place.
> 


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