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To: spunkets
If they've not taken care of freedom by establishing essential protections that can't be infringed upon, regardless of the number of those that insist on destroying that condition,

Ludicrous! Any freedom can be infringed upon by the simple expedient of armed force.

304 posted on 10/10/2006 12:15:10 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
" Ludicrous! Any freedom can be infringed upon by the simple expedient of armed force."

My observation is that it most often takes place at the ballot box. The loss is piecemeal.

There is also no such thing as "a freedom". There are rights. Freedom is a condition where men respect the rights of their fellows. If the opportunity exists for the rights of individuals to be taken away by the majority, then that is the problem, not the fact that those minority individuals haven't multiplied like rabbits, or mice.

The same applies to the idea that freedom is the ability to toss a vote to pick one's ruler(s).

323 posted on 10/10/2006 12:37:42 PM PDT by spunkets
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