the preservation of liberty depends upon.....
"the preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. as long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible that they be enslaved..."
"ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. the love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable....
"there is danger from all men. the only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty."
john adams 1773
intellectual and moral character of the people. boy, are we fucked if that is what preservation of liberty depends on! our kids can't read or do math and the general public doesn't think at all.
as proof: IT IS NOT A WAR, IT IS AN OCCUPATION. how many times did the word, "occupation", come up in yesterday's questioning of p. & c.? answer is: NONE. (that i know of, none that i heard, none that i read) how many times does your local newspaper use the word 'war' instead of 'occupation' in it's reporting? the answer is: (drum roll, please) EVERY TIME!
that is that "liberal" press for you. newsflash: there is no such thing as the liberal press. the right wing has used joesph goebbel's axiom of propganda to put that phrase into the american lexicon. (if you don't know who jb was then it proves my point and if you don't know what his axiom was it proves it even more) ((i may have misspelled "goebbels")) (((but it is close enough so that if you know who he was, you knew whom i was talking about)))
and nobody notices. you know why? because they are fucking stupid is why. moral character. what a crock. when we invaded iraq, 85% of our moral populace supported us invading a country that had never done anything to us. we are some moral motherfuckers, aren't we? and stupid? remember FREEDOM FRIES? how stupid was that?
i shouldn't be reading JOHN ADAMS, it just makes me mad. for those of you who read, one of McCullough's other books, 1776, is excellent as well. knowledge diffused and all......
oh well, gotta go feed the dogs, pick up the shit, call a pool company, sign a report card for a kid, play some poker.
so have a good day, don't hurt anybody, get high, read a book, pray for peace.
p.s. in the picture of the strat, that is full moon up above.
"ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. the love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable....
"there is danger from all men. the only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty."
john adams 1773
intellectual and moral character of the people. boy, are we fucked if that is what preservation of liberty depends on! our kids can't read or do math and the general public doesn't think at all.
as proof: IT IS NOT A WAR, IT IS AN OCCUPATION. how many times did the word, "occupation", come up in yesterday's questioning of p. & c.? answer is: NONE. (that i know of, none that i heard, none that i read) how many times does your local newspaper use the word 'war' instead of 'occupation' in it's reporting? the answer is: (drum roll, please) EVERY TIME!
that is that "liberal" press for you. newsflash: there is no such thing as the liberal press. the right wing has used joesph goebbel's axiom of propganda to put that phrase into the american lexicon. (if you don't know who jb was then it proves my point and if you don't know what his axiom was it proves it even more) ((i may have misspelled "goebbels")) (((but it is close enough so that if you know who he was, you knew whom i was talking about)))
and nobody notices. you know why? because they are fucking stupid is why. moral character. what a crock. when we invaded iraq, 85% of our moral populace supported us invading a country that had never done anything to us. we are some moral motherfuckers, aren't we? and stupid? remember FREEDOM FRIES? how stupid was that?
i shouldn't be reading JOHN ADAMS, it just makes me mad. for those of you who read, one of McCullough's other books, 1776, is excellent as well. knowledge diffused and all......
oh well, gotta go feed the dogs, pick up the shit, call a pool company, sign a report card for a kid, play some poker.
so have a good day, don't hurt anybody, get high, read a book, pray for peace.
p.s. in the picture of the strat, that is full moon up above.
posted by Ron Shock | 8:54 AM
3 Comments:
Ron, Buddy, Pal.
Easy there. You SHOULD be reading John Adams. It makes you think.
What you are feeling is the quickening.
(OK. Sorry for the Highlander joke. It's funnier if you imagine the Sean Connery accent. But I digress.)
Keep reading about Adams. And Jefferson too. It sounds as though you are starting to agree with some of their principles.
I gave you quotes earlier and you liked them. So how about a few more?
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- Thomas Jefferson
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
-Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
- John Adams
See?
America isn't a democracy. We were never designed to be one.
Here. I'll help you out. Come join us.
www.lp.org
You're a Libertarian and you just don't know it yet.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're right--It is an occupation now, and no longer a war.
democracy is a terrible form of government; it just happens to be better than anything else.
winston churchill. (i prob. don't have the quote exact but the meaning is there)
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