Posted on 02/25/2010 4:14:31 AM PST by marktwain
Americans are tyrannized by 1776, The Second Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Constitution and other colonial-era artifacts. Hot chick with a rifle Courtesy: a1.vox.com
(CALGARY, Alberta) - In 1987 philosopher Allan Bloom published the best-selling book The Closing of the American Mind. In it he wrote: “The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.”
On February 23, 2010 Ian Urbina wrote in the New York Times: “In Virginia, the General Assembly approved a bill last week that allows people to carry concealed weapons in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, and the House of Delegates voted to repeal a 17-year-old ban on buying more than one handgun a month. The actions came less than three years after the shootings at Virginia Tech that claimed 33 lives and prompted a major national push for increased gun control. ”
His article is titled: “Fearing Obama Agenda, States Push to Loosen Gun Laws”
“Arizona and Wyoming lawmakers are considering nearly a half dozen pro-gun measures, including one that would allow residents to carry concealed weapons without a permit.”
And there continues to be fear and paranoia: ““The watchword for gun owners is stay ready,” said Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the National Rifle Association. “We have had some successes, but we know that the first chance Obama gets, he will pounce on us..”
Guns in bars. No background checks at gun shows. No permits to carry required. No restrictions on how many guns a person may buy (in some cases now it’s one per month).
What Americans don’t seem to understand is how crazy they look to most of the rest of the world. The reason they don’t understand is because of their one-thought tyranny.
Americans are tyrannized by 1776, The Second Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Constitution and other colonial-era artifacts. They have been brainwashed into believing that those are the only thoughts there are. This is not freedom. Freedom means having a choice. If they could accept that there are other ways of thinking then they would have a choice! That’s what freedom is about and what many, if not most, Americans don’t understand.
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Daniel Johnson was born near the midpoint of the twentieth century in Calgary, Alberta. In his teens he knew he was going to be a writer, which is why he was one of only a handful of boys in his high school typing class — a skill he knew was going to be necessary. He defines himself as a social reformer, not a left winger, the latter being an ideological label which, he says, is why he is not an ideologue. From 1975 to 1981 he was reporter, photographer, then editor of the weekly Airdrie Echo. For more than ten years after that he worked with Peter C. Newman, Canada’s top business writer (notably on a series of books, The Canadian Establishment). Through this period Daniel also did some national radio and TV broadcasting. He gave up journalism in the early 1980s because he had no interest in being a hack writer for the mainstream media and became a software developer and programmer. He retired from computers last year and is now back to doing what he loves — writing and trying to make the world a better place
Left wing ideologues always say that.
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The Constitution is a contract between two parties, the states and the federal government created by the states. Under no construct can either party unilaterally change the contract. Provisions were included to modify the contract, which has been done almost thirty times.
Absent the rule of law is the rule of man, tyranny.
This has to be one of the stupidest comments in human history.
Our guns protect that choice!
What the author fails to recognize is that most patriots and supports of the Constitution DON'T CARE what the rest of the world thinks.
I like to remind our Canadian brothers and sisters about one glaring fact: Canada has enjoyed peace and prosperity because it is literally sitting on the shoulders of a well-armed giant- a superpower.
Like a monkey riding the back of a bull elephant, Canada did not have to defend the world, only itself, partly, not hardly. When I hear the libs in Canada criticizing the USA, I just have to snort.
Yeah I learned that but it took a trip down to TX to see just how.
They teach us all kinds of crap about USA that just isn’t true. Grrrr.
after all, we have the guns.
Daniel is an idiot. A ban does not support choice. If you don’t want to carry a gun in a bar, don’t carry it. If you don’t want to be in a bar that allows guns, go to one that forbids the practice. If every place bans the practice, there is no choice.
The Tyranny of the American Mind Left. There, fixed it.
“Americans are tyrannized by 1776, The Second Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Constitution and other colonial-era artifacts.”
What better way to convince us then to call our founding and highest values as Americans “colonial-era artifacts”.
No they are not the only way to see the world, there simply a better way to see the world then the one you would suggest we follow. We know this because we and others have tried your way and it works horribly.
On the other hand Our founders way worked pretty well, in fact I would say better then any other way in the history of the human race.
No its not the only way, but a good working way.
What Mr. Johnson is not free to do is to make such decisions for everybody based on his own irrational fears. That is being tyrannized by a single worldview.
Great post! BTTT!
Shouldn't have retired from your day job, Danny. Make the world a better place? Talk about those that aren't making the world a better place, not about individuals who do make the world a better place and value their lives enough to defend them.
I sincerely hope he was a better programmer than he is a social reformer. If not, he left some pretty nasty code behind.
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