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To: Norm Lenhart
Long past time the good people around there got together, showed up at the TV station and demanded their voice be heard.

Sounds like a damned good idea!
29 posted on 03/31/2014 6:53:15 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: Gondring
As Plato had perceived in the Republic, Aristotle also saw that a prerequisite to the transition from an oligarchy to a popular constitution is the arming of the people, who would overpower the oligarch's troops.
Furthermore, tyranny derives from the oligarchy's, "Mistrust of the people; hence they deprive them of arms, ill-treat the lower class, and keep them from residing in the capital. These are common to oligarchy and tyranny."
War, taxation and public works keep the people poor and preoccupied, perpetuating the power of the tyrant. "It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his subjects poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."
"That Every Man Be Armed"
-Stephen P Halbrook

This is why that doesn't happen these days. The tyrant, Zero, forces many into being so busy just to make ends meet that we don't have the time or funding to do what you said we should do.

Just my honest opinion, though.
64 posted on 03/31/2014 7:51:02 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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