tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post4280571709801199682..comments2024-02-05T05:15:27.374-05:00Comments on WTF Is It Now?!?: Watering the tree of liberty. With your droolmaruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719882642550170084noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-14601537327152643532011-01-31T11:08:29.373-05:002011-01-31T11:08:29.373-05:00What a great web log. I spend hours on the net rea...What a great web log. I spend hours on the net reading blogs, about tons of various subjects. I have to first of all give praise to whoever created your theme and second of all to you for writing what i can only describe as an fabulous article. I honestly believe there is a skill to writing articles that only very few posses and honestly you got it. The combining of demonstrative and upper-class content is by all odds super rare with the astronomic amount of blogs on the cyberspace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-81065730504277252572009-08-30T12:20:30.243-04:002009-08-30T12:20:30.243-04:00Designed for no other purpose--than what, to fire ...Designed for no other purpose--than what, to fire a projectile at an under extreme velocity until such velocity slows and stops? If you equate that with "purpose to kill", then any moving object has the potential to do so. Therefore, the risk of being killed by a moving object would be rationally so great that one should remove oneself from the equation entirely and cease to exist. By doing so, the chance of being killed by anything other than ones own desire would be reduced to zero. But since ones own desires cannot exist either due to the fact that they have a potential to conflict with the interests of the common good, then only one rational thing can come from this. People therefore must be allowed to live their lives as they see fit as long as it does not interfere with the same for anyone else.<br /><br />But the lack of control that this means delivers is so scary to you, isn't it? Not being able try to take away the possibility to do harm? "If we only could trim the fat from the constitution, then these nutjobs would not be able to tote guns near the president". How often has the law against kidnapping forced people to not kidnap? It has not been effective at all. Kidnapping has not been prevented. Is it not a blanket statement that kidnapping is morally and legally wrong? If you say it isn't, then who deserves to be kidnapped? Your loved ones or friends? When someone goes into a public place filled with people, if he does not carry a "physical weapon" does that deem him unable to inflict harm? GWB and O are just runners in the relay of the perpetual problem. Neither one is any different than the other. The system needs to be brought back under control by the people, not made worse by our complacency and blind trust. <br /><br />Oh, and by the way, the pen <i>is</i> mightier than the sword.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-69276601701000234392009-08-14T23:41:10.062-04:002009-08-14T23:41:10.062-04:00Just substitute speaking or having a lawful protes...<i>Just substitute speaking or having a lawful protest or reading the bible (or not). </i><br /><br />I'll tell ya something else for nothing, Sonny: Speaking, Protesting, and Bible Beating, though each irritating in their own way, never killed anyone, nor were they meant to.<br /><br />A gun is designed for no other purpose, and don't you forget it.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-24113702378115099052009-08-14T17:55:30.545-04:002009-08-14T17:55:30.545-04:00Gun? You couldn't wear an antiwar t-shirt wit...Gun? You couldn't wear an antiwar t-shirt within a mile of George Wanker Bush. The Secret Service has plenty of reason to worry, as rightwing nuts have murdered a doctor, a museum guard, three Pittsburgh police officers and several women in a health club so far this year. Polite society my limbaugh.Buttermilk Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07430011403223875192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-47643153264123476932009-08-13T20:03:16.159-04:002009-08-13T20:03:16.159-04:00It's a well known fact that in areas with open...<i>It's a well known fact that in areas with open carry or concealed carry there's less crime. </i><br /><br />Actually, it's not a fact. The best that can be shown-- unless we're talking about that idiot John Lott's widely discredited work-- is that there is not more crime as a result, but neither has it been conclusively shown that there is less.<br /><br />Further, accidental shootings are not part of these statistics, since they are not crimes, but they are shootings nevertheless, in which somebody got hurt and wouldn't have been but for the handguns that facilitated them, whether permitted or not.<br /><br />Despite Heinlein Libertarians' belief that an armed society is a polite society, this obviously isn't the case either-- witness the deeply abiding loutishness of Kostric himself carrying a gun and a sign referencing Jefferson's quote about refreshing the tree of liberty with blood to a Presidential appearance.<br /><br />Which of course necessitated constant surveillance by local and federal law enforcement to insure that he never got anywhere near the President. The only impression he made was to reveal himself as a loose cannon with a inarticulated complaint of disenfranchisement, fed a fact-free diet of Limbaughs, Becks, and whoever else feeds him his crazy.<br /><br />Christ. Any resonances here for you? <br /><br />All right, here's the answer, quiz kid: Tim McVeigh was wearing a t-shirt with the full Jefferson quotation on it when arrested. So forgive me, you dope, if I don't agree that this was not a big deal.<br /><br />And for God's sake, stop reading and repeating bullshit here. The nerve.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-83794994803764008592009-08-13T16:36:31.400-04:002009-08-13T16:36:31.400-04:00No, but if it had happened at a Bush/Cheney event,...No, but if it had happened at a Bush/Cheney event, he would've been slammed to the ground, carted off by the SS in cuffs, and been hounded to the ends of the Earth by the rightwingnut media machine.maruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06719882642550170084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-50424024677879246842009-08-13T12:31:14.367-04:002009-08-13T12:31:14.367-04:00Why was this such a big deal. You've got a law...Why was this such a big deal. You've got a law abiding citizen exercising his rights. Just substitute speaking or having a lawful protest or reading the bible (or not). It's a well known fact that in areas with open carry or concealed carry there's less crime. I'm no crazy conservative, more of a libertarian. Very left on many issues but very right on others. I enjoy finding the common ground with people, unfortunately I can't find any on this one. The guy hurt no one.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12939106551517266829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-27904847760507685512009-08-13T01:18:17.357-04:002009-08-13T01:18:17.357-04:00The crux is...the best part of the biscuit?The crux is...the best part of the biscuit?Sator Arepohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006808744513156317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-78613073475444171382009-08-12T21:59:37.699-04:002009-08-12T21:59:37.699-04:00Rock on, maru, that was truly the shit.
Crux of th...Rock on, maru, that was truly the shit.<br />Crux of the biscuit shit.Undeniable Liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00163188161732887802noreply@blogger.com