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To: Jamestown1630; Fred Nerks

Buahahahahahahaha!

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Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them? Why does it always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
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Henry David Thoreau: “ On Civil Disobedience.”

You can read the rest here, Dear Lothario:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm


63 posted on 11/20/2020 6:39:51 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Candor7

We have very just laws; and good people sacrificing their lives, fortunes, and good names to ensure that those laws are followed.

But YOU haven’t even seen how it all turns out, before you’re ready to send people into bloody battle?

With all respect, you’re a bombastic nut.

(Go sit by a pond somewhere - but be sure to go home on weekends to enjoy your mother’s home cooking.)


65 posted on 11/20/2020 6:49:31 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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