On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM, John Williams <jwilliams4...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > It seems odd to conclude that the way to get other people to behave as > one thinks they should behave is to coerce them at gunpoint There are people with guns showing up to demand that you pay your taxes? That suggests to me that you've been a bad, bad boy. > unless > they spend their money as the intellectual elite tell them to. I did not realize this discrimination was taking place. Let me personally apologize for it. I pledge that next election, I will do my best to make sure that people like you are no longer turned away from the polls. > That > does not sound much like a respectful community to me. In fact, > America was founded by people who resented just that sort of > treatment, and felt that they had a right to "life, liberty, and the > pursuit of happiness". These people were deeply distrustful of any > strong central government, and wrote the Constitution to limit > government power. Indeed. Regime change begins at home. I long with you for the day when I can tell my grandchildren that they live in a nation so free that nobody can force them obey a law they don't agree with. I may not get there with them, but I can see the Promised Land in their future, every time their parents tell them to do their part around the house. Some day, John, some day, we will all live in a nation where "Who's gonna make me?" and "You and what army?" are true for all people, elite or ordinary, intellectual or lowbrow. In my dream, I can hear the people of American joined in one voice, chanting the great slogans of true democracy - "Gimme it NOW, it's MINE!" and "I had it FIRST!" Nick Waaah Maru
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