Posted on 05/30/2009 12:06:24 PM PDT by Justaham
On Thursday's Beck program on FNC, actor Craig T. Nelson complained about excessive taxation and spending by the California state government, as well as the federal government, as he suggested that people should stop paying taxes to protest the government's handling of their money. Nelson: "If my children, my grandchildren, and my great grandchild who is about to be here, is not going to be educated properly, then I'm through with it, you know. I'm not going to spend money on these things that you're asking me to. Look, they should be allowed to go bankrupt. What happened to, we are a capitalistic society. Okay, I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out."
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I think you’ll be seeing a lot of the Hollywood crowd speaking out now that it is THEIR ox being gored.
(...and then they came after me.)
If “they” hadn’t disarmed us first, there would probably be a series of very, very ugly and violent confrontations after which there would be a period of lawless anarchy which, if we were lucky, MIGHT morph into a system conforming to the Constitutional one the Founders envisioned. If we were UNLUCKY, it would be some sort of regional strongman rule (like the old Chinese warlord system) with constant armed struggle between regions.
If, however, “they” had disarmed us all first, “they” would simply declare martial law, print all the money “they” needed to pay the Mongolian and Russian troops (under UN command) brought in to herd resisters to the gulags and America — the idea — MIGHT be a footnote in some future world history book if it is even mentioned at all.
Back in the early 80s, I attended a speech by the late Arkady Shevchenko, then the highest ranking Soviet official to defect to the West. He had been their top guy at the UN.
He spoke, interestingly, at KENNESAW COLLEGE — and we all know what Kennesaw is famous for! I’m proud to have played a a small role in helping Mayor Darvin Purdy get that legislation through the Kennesaw City Council.
His talk dealt with the clear intent of the leadership of the old Soviet Union to somehow take America. He mentioned their ICBMs and the nuclear blackmail threat they posed.
Then he broke from his prepared remarks and offered the audience this wisdom:
“The leaders of my country are as AFRAID OF YOUR 200 MILLION PRIVATE FIREARMS as they are of your ICBMs. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS.”
Frankly — and, while he had to be careful as he was under FBI protection at the time, Shevchenko alluded to this in his remarks — I’m as concerned about some domestic tyrant (say, a Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Barack HUSSEIN Obama or Chuck Schumer) as I am about some foreign enemy.
And it is THAT threat about which the Founding Fathers were concerned that prompted them to leave us the Second Amendment.
The BIG question is: WILL WE KEEP IT?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9q9sxJFnA
Good videos.
Molon lave!
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