Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: tommyowens1980
Actually, by itself, I don't see this as zottable. Liberty should be prized before security. The question is: Is it liberty, or is it license?? I have no liberty, nor should I have, to pick your pocket, rape your wife, burn down your house, or father numberless children without providing for their support. I should have no liberty to live my entire life at the public trough. I should have no liberty to suppress the liberties of others because what they say offends me. If their behavior harms me, that's different.

And, as another poster said, you can't have liberty without security. But what kind of security? It should be to be secure in your person and property from some of the aforementioned "liberties". But, again, it shouldn't be the security of working without eating. Even God is against that. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

So why exactly was this fellow zotted? Did I miss something?

64 posted on 09/21/2005 11:30:42 AM PDT by chesley
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: chesley

It's not decent, it's dissent
It's not Benjaman it's Benjamin

It's not "Those who give up liberty for security lose both liberty and security."

It's:
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

He/she/it didn't bother to stick around to defend or expound upon whatever point it was trying to make. It signed up just to make this earth shattering revelation to us.

And all that in just the title and one quote! It was all really just too idiotic not to be zotted. At least if there was an actual point, they should have elucidated upon it.

(They do get partial credit for posting on General/Chat instead of Breaking News)



66 posted on 09/21/2005 11:51:39 AM PDT by NonLinear (He's dead, Jim)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies ]

To: chesley
So why exactly was this fellow zotted? Did I miss something?

Most likely it was someone that was zotted before under a different name.


68 posted on 09/21/2005 12:45:05 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies ]

To: chesley
So why exactly was this fellow zotted? Did I miss something?

Themods can see what IP address a person is posting from. If someone posts some hate screed, gets banned and then comes back under a different name, the mods can see that the IP address matches. That's why some folks get zotted about 30 seconds after they post, the mods can tell that someone is busy in his Mom's basement again...

79 posted on 09/23/2005 7:55:03 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (CINDY'S IN GITMO! ALL YOUR BUS ARE BELONG TO US!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson