[G.Mason]

So, your statement ... " The first role of any government is to protect your life and property from being taken from you against your will...."

becomes ...

" The statement is my own ... "

In other words you made it up out of whole cloth.

Gee ... no kidding?

Why did you not preface your remarks with the truth?

As for the rest of the possible drivel you wrote in your reply, I have trashed it, as nothing you have to say interests me.

[tophat9000]

The fact a statement is original as apposed to a quote of someone else's idea has no bearing on the truth of it... I made no representation that I was quoting others... I was stating my opinion just like you are

Your response is the very definition of an ad hominem attack (you attack the person making the statement not the truth of it)

But then by your own logic who are your sources in your response to me.... because any original opinion by you must be equally irrelevant