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To: smokingfrog

Ben Franklin was right in observing, “When people are scared of their government, it is tyranny. When government is scared of the people, it is liberty.” This inspired the title of Mark Levin’s current best seller, “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.”
We need to get to the point that government is more scared of the people than people are of the government.


5 posted on 05/20/2009 5:08:18 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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I asked this of someone today, and didnt get a good answer

If the people arent afraid of the govt, then why is it that while people are cutting back on everything else, theyre buying guns and ammo like its going out of style?


9 posted on 05/20/2009 5:12:32 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous ( I think you're so full of inconsolable rage you don't care who you hurt)
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To: kittymyrib

Many in government are scared of us. Hence what they are trying to do to us.


11 posted on 05/20/2009 5:15:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: kittymyrib

A great book, one of the best. I bought three copies, one I gave as a present, one for myself and one as a loaner.

Of course, I loaned my copy too.


181 posted on 05/21/2009 6:56:11 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: kittymyrib
>>We need to get to the point that government is more scared of the people than people are of the government.<<

It really bugs me that our government has become a sort of oligarchy or something.

People in this country put our elected officials up on a pedestal as if they were royalty.

Man this is all backwards.

Now the likes of McCain, Kennedy and Pelosi suck it up and act as if there above us all.

NEWS FLASH: The president and Congress are “Servants of the people”

233 posted on 05/21/2009 4:40:30 PM PDT by servantboy777
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