Are you a troll or are you really that dense?
No. You’re welcome to explain why allowing the government to keep information that it intends to destroy to de-industrialize the American people represents the wisdom of the Ancients, since that seems to be what you believe.
In my opinion, the Democrats won and they are going to destroy everything in all but name. Everything that you knew is going to be gone sooner than later, but there will also come a time when America can rebuild from that once the madness is over, unless the Messiah comes before that time.
In order to rebuild as close to what we had, we need the information. The information will be more valuable than gold. I don’t care about whether a library gets to keep a particular book, especially when the Democrats in charge of that library will be intending to destroy the book or sell it off.
It is better off in our hands, for when we rebuild, then simply gone. The more people build their libraries, the more likely we will be able to rebuild once the madness is over.
Call that dumb if you want, you’re the only one saying that.
I can't be sure, of course, but I suspect that Jonty30 is a well-meaning "holy fool."
Judging from his/her posts, he/she is inclined to ask superficially foolish-sounding questions about matters of which he/she has only a passing familiarity. To the many people here at Free Republic who have a much more in-depth understanding of the given subject matter, these questions will undoubtedly sound naïve and perhaps even malicious.
I've often caught myself falling into the trap of assuming that a random poster must be trolling us, since a few minutes of searching the Internet would have sufficed to resolve the given question, or at least enabled them to better formulate the question, before approaching us.
The situation would be comparable to my posting a question about NASCAR (about which I know nothing). "Why aren't NASCAR vehicles all electric - or at least equipped with hybrid engines?" I might ask, or "How would the 1966 Batman t.v. series Batmobile fare in a modern-day NASCAR race? Would its atomic batteries give it an advantage?"
However, when it comes to NASCAR, I'm smart enough to know how ignorant I am and hence how dumb such questions would probably seem to the many NASCAR fans here on Free Republic who eat, breathe, and live NASCAR.
(My pet-peeves are the questions containing implicit untruths: "Since the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1938, why didn't they continue on to San Francisco and bomb it, too?)
I suppose that it thus might have something to do with the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
SIDE REMARK: I find it fascinating that "stupid" and "badly formulated" questions often elicit the longest threads here at Free Republic. I suspect it's because nothing excites a FReeper more than the opportunity to lecture a "dumb-dumb."
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