[Sir Gawain]

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[Jack Black]

Criminal Code section against carrying weapons (the gun part!) while "attending or [being] on the way to attend a public meeting

I don't get it. How can they go to militia practice? :-)

[Mulder]

The Patriot should be given US citizenship. We could use a few more heroes like the gentleman mentioned in the story.

[Sloth]

Good article. Never saw the Orwell quote before -- that's a keeper.

[TigersEye]

Alexis de Tocqueville forecasted a more subtle, quiet, democratic tyranny.

"The supreme power covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform … men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power … compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

Got duct tape?

[Destructor]

Yep. That's how it will go down in America too. Once the Second Amendment goes the First Amendment will be next!