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« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2008, 01:31:48 pm » |
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What "inherent rights" are we born with? What are we entitled to by means of birth? Among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We could probably enumerate some others if we thought about it. |
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« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2008, 03:07:58 pm » |
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Someone is probably going to post the whole thing about rights not being rights unless one can demand them / enforce them for themselves. I have a right to life, because I can and will defend my life, with our without anyone else's permission. Or so the theory goes. Merely being born (or unborn, for those of us who think that unborn Homo Sapiens count as "humans" too) doesn't give you rights.
I don't agree with this position. I tend to agree with the more traditional "natural law" derivation of rights.
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« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2008, 05:21:54 pm » |
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Very good
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« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2008, 06:34:24 pm » |
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"Please don't vote, as it only encourages them." -- attributed to Doug Casey ( www.caseyresearch.com) |
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« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2008, 01:38:56 pm » |
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"The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!"
- Juvenal, Satires, Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)
"Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."
- Robert Heinlein: To Sail Beyond the Sunset
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« Reply #20 on: November 08, 2008, 12:54:35 am » |
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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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« Reply #21 on: November 14, 2008, 09:17:36 pm » |
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"But you, like an idiot, wanted to take over the world. Except you didn't realize that there's no world anymore. There's only corporations."
^ This is a quote that aptly describes what we're really up against here: A political machine that, behind the curtain, is controlled by corporations.
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« Reply #22 on: November 15, 2008, 08:58:43 pm » |
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I have been using this quote as my sig for quite some time and it's particularly relevant now. I add the lp url at the end.
"...we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude."
--Thomas Jefferson
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"...we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude."
--Thomas Jefferson
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« Reply #23 on: November 16, 2008, 06:47:41 pm » |
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Tom Purcell, Pgh Trib colunmist, had an article today (11/16/2008) titled, "The truth about government." It's a collection of quotes, many of which should be appreciated by readers of this site. www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/purcell/s_598523.htmlHere's one of his compiled quotes; this one from a past LP presidential candidate: "The government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, then hand you a crutch and say, 'See, if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'" -- Harry BrowneMark |
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« Reply #24 on: November 17, 2008, 08:40:57 pm » |
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"WTF?"
- Anyone who opens his eyes and sees what's really going on.
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« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2008, 10:17:10 pm » |
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Government (n.) An appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots.
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« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2008, 11:14:08 am » |
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Government (n.) An appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots.
I think the line is "an appaling DUNG help"... And let's face it -- the stuff coming from all levels of governments sticks about that bad!!! |
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« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2008, 08:28:48 pm » |
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This jumped to my top ten list.
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."
- From "Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapons"
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