Women must not depend upon the protection of
man, but must be taught to
protect herself.
- Susan B. Anthony, July 1871
“Any Society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both”- Benjamin Franklin
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”-Benjamin Franklin
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”- Thomas Jefferson
“If the people let the government decide which foods they eat and which medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”- Thomas Jefferson
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves”- Ronald Reagan
“What is right and what is practical are two different things”- James Buchanan
“Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that be done to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim”- James A. Garfield
“The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the government, the government should not support the people”- Grover Cleveland
“It is just as important that business keep out of government just as government should keep out of business”- Herbert Hoover
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you are fed, clothed and given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom”- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”- John F. Kennedy
Enough with Quotes now! Let’s just start with this. I’ve read about how the legal drinking age of 21 has “saved lives” and “helped” youth make responsible decisions about alcoholic beverages which by the way are a total piece of donkey! First of all, the “help” the pro-21ers are trying to push down the throats of youth through gun toting SWAT like law enforcement officers. This sounds a lot like what an oppressive regime would do to suppress peaceful political protest that’s protected by the rights of free speech and peaceful assembly. They’ve tried to make underage drinking look like a “crime worse than theft or even manslaughter”. I know for a fact that what is supposed to be the freest country on earth does not have an underage drinking problem but an excessive alcohol use problem for all ages. I will address why this fact is being ignored and why the pro-21 cowards are scapegoating youth in another blog. Anyway, the “help” argument is protecting you for your own good. But it is rational to commit an act of initiating force against someone in order to “help” them into forced treatment when they are neither incompetent nor dangerous? I just want to quote Justice Louis Brandeis’ dissent in Olmstead v. United States in 1928:
"if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means—to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face."
Does a civilized society legalize assault, theft, kidnapping, rape and/or murder? That’s anarchy and it’s happening in Somalia! For the people who say “The Law is the Law” maybe it’s misunderstood as believing that any law the legislator makes should be enforced no matter how unconstitutional some of the laws mean and regardless if the law or laws are an assault on our inalienable rights. Is life worth anything if we are safe & NOT free? Did our founding fathers and all who fight their own government which was back in the American Revolution the British Empire to achieve independence in order to be healthy & safe?! Did Patrick Henry say “Give me health & safety, or give me death”?! no!
P.S. My 9/11 Tribute
A decade has gone by since the twin towers collapsed at the hands of hijacked planes. This tragedy united this country like never before. The bearded scumbags who committed this horrible most gruesome crime can go to hell! What’s a bigger concern is remembering the victims and heroes who made rescue efforts on that dark day. Al-Qaeda’s motive for the crime was retaliation against the US for its actions on Muslim lands, bringing into discussion the interventionalist foreign policy. US policing the world has cost more lives and money than saved. Does any preemptive or retaliatory war really save lives? The 1970 single “War” by Edwin Starr calls out war as horrible in the form of musical lyrics. War should only be declared when a country is threatened by another country. Al-Qaeda doesn’t have an industrial complex and proper characteristics to be a state. Letters of marques should be issued so as to capture and bring to justice those who have harmed others like going on a mission to hunt down 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden who was taken care of for good on May 1-2, 2011 in Pakistan. War is an enemy to all man kind and takes lives which is why war should be strictly limited to defending the country against true threats from other nations and the last time in American history that US military involvement in terms of sending troops was during World War II in order to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan who strived to conquer the world. No other nation on Earth since 1945 has ever strived to use military force to conquer the United States or the world for that matter.
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