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To: ransomnote

I had to do a double take because, reading that people are being tricked into a kill box made me think, “DON’T GO it’s a TRAP!”. It was automatic.

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As it was for me!

I, too, was questioning why the Commonwealth’s guv chose to build a perimeter wall rather than (and still not) provide adequate facilities and protection.

Intimidation.

In my fourth-grade, rural Virginia, classroom, each of us was tasked with memorizing and reciting Patrick Henry’s words, “What is it that gentlemen wish? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! But as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!”


294 posted on 01/18/2020 2:09:09 PM PST by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: ransomnote; 103198; 31R1O; Hemingway's Ghost; acrolect; Aevery_Freeman; Airforce Sister; ...

Q Ping -FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

FReepers - We are all Virginians now. Let's support VA. Call, Email, Tweet, ATTEND THE VA RALLY on Monday
1/18/20 | VanityPosted on 1/18/2020, 2:04:31 PM by ransomnote

"Do not mistake this backchannel [tool] as a means to be complacent." ~Q3748


296 posted on 01/18/2020 2:19:35 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Q Ping -FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

FReepers - We are all Virginians now. Let's support VA. Call, Email, Tweet, ATTEND THE VA RALLY on Monday
1/18/20 | VanityPosted on 1/18/2020, 2:04:31 PM by ransomnote

"Do not mistake this backchannel [tool] as a means to be complacent." ~Q3748


297 posted on 01/18/2020 2:20:11 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: lyby

In my fourth-grade, rural Virginia, classroom, each of us was tasked with memorizing and reciting Patrick Henry’s words, “What is it that gentlemen wish? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! But as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!”

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Utterly beautiful and timely.
This is exactly the choice before us all on Monday in VA.

I’m so impressed that they began teaching this exquisite exposure of the real “bargain” being made when choosing the “sweetness of peace” over risk and uncertainty. THANKQ


457 posted on 01/18/2020 11:54:49 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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