[gondramB]

>>Any more admirers of Locke/Jefferson/Hume/Smith/Voltaire/Rousseau want to try to shame or horrify me by calling me "un-American?" I'll simply smile and say "d@mn right!"<<

I've got interest in calling you names - I took 7 years of French in high school and college and am not that fond of Voltaire or Rousseau. Had I lived in the day I would have preferred Hamilton and Washington to Jefferson.

But I dig John Locke and his second treatise seems to be the rational basis for establishing a government of men.

God has given us commandments but except when God has anointed a King it does not automatically follow that men are entitled to put themselves in charge and decide how others should act. To be legitimate that power of government must come directly or indirectly from the people.

But the $64 questions is "did you just say that that you are in fact un-American and proud of it?" Surely you didn't mean that. And if you did mean that - why do you hang out here - this is a pretty darn pro-American board.

[Zionist Conspirator]

You've got taste. I definitely prefer Washington and Hamilton to Jefferson (and even Jackson) myself.

I believe I said that I expected to be called un-American, but calling me a Theocrat is no insult since I admit I am one.

I am aware of my ideological idiosyncrasies and am grateful to Jim Robinson for allowing me to poste here for much of the past seven and a half years. This is his board and I am here only as long as he allows me. I will not argue with him if he ever decides I don't belong here.

I'm hardly the only misfit on the board, however. There are monarchist far right Catholic types and (perhaps) those bizarre creatures called "palaeolibertarian" who advocate abolition of the state and yet call for racial segregation at the same time (doesn't that require laws, which require a state to enforce?) and who call everyone with whom they disagree a "fascist" or "statist" even as they glow with admiration of Franco and Papadopoulos and Stroessner and Trujillo and Salazar. I hope that so long as these types are around the presence of one Noachide Theocrat doesn't do any harm.