Posted on 12/03/2002 5:59:14 AM PST by no piece
Unless you happen to believe that abortion is wrong, that the Second Amendment means that every individual has an absolute right to possess weapons, unless you believe that religion does have a place in the public square, unless you believe affirmative action is wrong, unless you believe that homosexuality is wrong, unless you believe ... well, you get the idea.
If you believe those things, then you are "evil incarnate" and not only not worthy of discussion but should be banned from "civil society".
Live and let live? Ha ... a liberal doesn't know the meaning of that phrase.
"And hand over your wallet..."
RAT alert!
(Welcome back, dighton... we thought you had shuffled off this FReeper coil!)
“Corn? Or barley is it?”“It’s oats. Soaked in deadly pye-zn. You take just one of them grains in your mouth and you’d be a gonner in five minutes!”
“Honest?”
“Yep. Never out of me sight, this tin.”
He caressed it with his hands and gave it a little shake so that the oat grains rustled softly inside.
“But not today. Your rats don’t get this today. They wouldn’t have it anyway. That they wouldn’t. There’s where you got to know rats. Rats is suspicious. Terrible suspicious, rats is. So today they gets some nice clean tasty oats as’ll do em no harm in the world. Fatten em, that’s all it’ll do. And tomorrow they gets the same again. And it’ll taste so good there’ll be all the rats in the districk comin along after a couple of days.”
“Rather clever.”
“You got to be clever on this job. You got to be cleverer’n a rat and that’s sayin somethin.”
“You’ve almost got to be a rat yourself,” I said. It slipped out in error, before I had time to stop myself, and I couldn’t really help it because I was looking at the man at the time. But the effect upon him was surprising.
“There!” he cried. “Now you got it! Now you really said somethin! A good ratter’s got to be more like a rat than anythin else in the world! Cleverer even than a rat, and that’s not an easy thing to be, let me tell you!”
-- Roald Dahl, The Ratcatcher.
Geez, where to begin...
A person's natural state is to be born with total personal freedom to do anything, and to bear the consequences of those actions and decisions.
The only thing that government can do is limit those personal freedoms through restrictions. This is supposedly done "for our own good" or "for the greater good". These goals are defined by people who seek the power to define the goals. These people must be limited by something (the Constitution) or they will continue to restrict our freedom and add to their own power.
No, there aren't liberals and conservatives in America - there are Socialists and Constitutionalists.
I'm sure the Jew's being gassed and starved to death by Hitler's government thought so. Or the millions killed by Stalin.
They believe in personal freedom, in freedom of speech and religion.
As long as it is their view of freedom, their views being spoken, or their religion. Maybe my view of freedom includes the ability to conceal a firearm with which to blow away any creep who thinks his free society should be free of such arbitrary laws as 'don't commit murder.'
As long as your not critizing what they're speaking freely about. That's hate speak.
Or telling them that they can belive religiously but that doesn't make them right is hate speach too.
Bah!
Yes, friends, THEY know what's best for everyone! [/sarcasm]
Henrietta Hay is a sports-car-driving liberal in a conservative town. In Grand Junction, Colorado, she writes a weekly column for the local Daily Sentinel. In spite of (or because of?) her renegade views, her column is the most popular feature in the paper. Oh, and she's 88 years old.
uh,...'PROJECTILE VOMITING ALERT'...?
What has happened under their ideas is the answer he conveniently leaves out.
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