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Joseph Sobran: The Lesser Evil
Griffin Internet Syndicate ^
| November 24, 2001
| Joseph Sobran
Posted on 11/23/2001 9:21:37 PM PST by ouroboros
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To: ratcat
This is what he should be advocating because our constitutional republic has already been overthrown so true. and so few people realize it. so sad....
To: fporretto
i bookmarked your website to look at later. it looks very interesting. :)
To: Brigadier
"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -- no form of government can render us secure. To suppose liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.
-- James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788 "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
-- James Madison in The Federalist
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posted on
11/24/2001 8:37:47 PM PST
by
SusanUSA
To: ouroboros
This is the familiar idea that the Constitution is a "living document," which is to say, a dead letter. How can it be "living" if its mere putty in the hands of the powerful? Really living things resist manipulation."The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
I think it is "we the people" who must realize that the Constitution is and will remain dead unless WE give it renewed life. It will only become a "living document" again if WE give it life.
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posted on
11/24/2001 8:42:41 PM PST
by
SusanUSA
To: A libertarian
The Constitution that the Framers actually wrote provided the individual almost no protection from tyranny by the States.Maybe they realized there was built in protection in the fact that a state that is tyrannical risks losing their population, i.e. source of income, due to the people abandoning that state for less tyrannical ones?
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posted on
11/24/2001 8:50:03 PM PST
by
SusanUSA
To: habs4ever
And after your warning, too....tsk, tsk. ;)
I'm on ouro's bump list anyway, but thanks.
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posted on
11/24/2001 8:56:06 PM PST
by
SusanUSA
To: cornelis
Under extreme duress in the privacy of an underground torture chamber, while I was on the rack, I might confess that I agree with you sentiment expressed.
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posted on
11/24/2001 8:58:22 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Harrison Bergeron
I have read "Radical Son". It will change your mind.
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posted on
11/24/2001 9:06:20 PM PST
by
glf
To: Twodees
What are you smoking ?? I WANT SOME !!!!
69
posted on
11/24/2001 9:13:05 PM PST
by
glf
To: glf
I'm smoking a handmade Connecticut cigar. You'll have to get your own.
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posted on
11/25/2001 4:12:07 AM PST
by
Twodees
To: Twodees
"Horowitz gives himself away in subtle ways. One of those is his insistence that the US is a democracy. Another is his Lincoln worhip. My suspicions aren't quite as educated. I've always thought that his columns come off more like caricatures of conservatism than the real thing. Funny thing... I always thought the same thing about Ann Coulter's writing. Both she and Horowitz tend to limit themselves to left wing venues like Bill Maher's ridiculously named "politically Incorrect" and the Ivy League lecture circuit. It has a bad smell to it.
To: Harrison Bergeron
That's a good observation. Both those kids seem to feel more at home being interviewed by liberals. The description of his writing as a sort of caricature of conservative writing is excellent. It's sort of a self concious parody of a conservative writer.
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posted on
11/25/2001 4:09:55 PM PST
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Twodees
To: ouroboros
BUMP to two true conservatives - Joseph Sobran and Congressman Ron Paul - men who oppose Big Government under all circumstances (not selectively, like many FReepers are wont to do).
To: ouroboros
Just read this. Thanks for posting this 99% great Sobran article, and here's to the violent restoration of the U.S. Constitution.
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12/14/2001 8:11:56 PM PST
by
SEA
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