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To: dennisw

Great Britain- an essentially totalitarian state with a few democratic and monarchistic tokens.


8 posted on 08/06/2013 6:24:00 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." -- —C. S. Lewis
35 posted on 08/06/2013 7:59:27 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: GenXteacher
Great Britain- an essentially totalitarian state with a few democratic and monarchistic tokens.

Try the same thing in most of the U.S. and you'll get the same results. No permit- no house!

52 posted on 08/06/2013 10:22:27 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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