Posted on 02/26/2002 6:51:46 PM PST by marxwas a loser
...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...
Whether through Nation ID Card, nationalized drivers licenses, or implant chips, this will not stand. This is the line that will not be crossed. This is where I say no more, and back it up with my birthright of self defense.
I do hope others will join me in resisting this when the time comes. I don't want to go out alone. But I will if necessary. I don't live like slave chattel, I live free as a man should on earth, and accept nothing less.
I'm with ya buddy, and so are many others.
"Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace. and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live. At least awhile. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"
Change a few names, and the above pretty much says it better than I can.
Change a few names, and the above pretty much says it better than I can.
My favorite speech in the movie. Very appropriate to liberty minded folks.
Does anybody else get the feeling the Mel is a pro-liberty type of guy? His movies in the last 10 years have been amazingly pro-freedom, almost libertarian. And since he's had a hand in writing and directing most of them, I'm coming to the conclusion that he's one of the few "celebs" on our side (outside of Clint Eastwood and Kurt Russel and a few others).
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