[Publius]

A fine and patriotic Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow FReepers. Here is a bit of holiday humor about one of the Framers and how he wrote a famous essay.

[Publius]

Happy Thanksgiving to the members of our FReeper Book Club.

[EternalVigilance]

Worth the read. Thanks.

[PGalt]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and fellow FReepers. Thanks for your work.

[ladyvet]

Happy Thanksgiving to you! Thank you so much for all the work you do!

[Billthedrill]

And a happy Thanksgiving to you, my FRiend!

The people are stupid and licentious. The error is in assuming that there is a fiction such as "betters" to turn to. There's only us. The long faces you see on the current Left are from the realization that Mr. 0bama isn't the philosopher-king they painted him to be, and that no one could ever be. The country will survive his pretense and their disappointment. "Do not put your trust in princes, in men who cannot save."

Now off through a snowstorm to a warm hearth and family. They're all liberal fools but I love them anyway. Happy Thanksgiving, all!

[RobbyS]

Bravo. May you enjoy all the blessings of ordered liberty.

[Lurker]

Thank you for this post. And a happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

[JDoutrider]

A belated Happy Thanksgiving Day to you as well Publius!

BTW... Is Libertina still amongst us? Since I moved to the Northern Midwest, I haven't been able to keep up with the local board of Puget Sound Freeperdom!

JD

[TASMANIANRED]

Burr should have shot Hamilton again.

[Publius]

Christmas ping.

[latina4dubya]

ping...

[YHAOS]

Hamilton snorted. “The people? They are stupid and licentious. A mob. Once they have established a government, they should think of obedience, leaving the care of their liberties to their betters.”

A typical perspective of the Establishment, of Liberals, Democrats and Liberal Republicans alike, and of others possessing a similar view. Perfectly summed up by the above.

A most satisfying Thanksgiving Wish and a Joyous Christs’ Mass to you and all your loved ones as well.

Thanks for the BEEP!

[StonyBurk]

Who are the best keepers of the peoples Liberties?— I seem to recall Patrick Henry said it well”Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? ....If our defense be the real object of having those arms,in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety or equal safety as in our own hands. “ -—as another said “The best ,most effective way to enslave a people is to disarm them.” As true of firearms as it is of argument. My answer to your read —is “We the people, are the best keepers of our Liberties—and we live in a time when it appears a majority are content to trust Governments not God-and the use or threat of the bayonet— rather than self government.