[Coco] Dealing with unwanted topics and some rambling on my coco stuff

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Chuck Youse wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 05:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> As for the politics, I'm in favor of cleaning all 3 houses.  From T.
>> Jefferson, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of
>> patriots and tyrants from time to time, and God help us if we go twenty
>> years without it."  Unforch, the mechanisms by which we can do that with
>> the ballot box were designed to protect the status quo since it doesn't
>> seem possible to align the election process so we could do it all in one
>> swell foop.
>
>That's why we have the right to bear arms.  The Second Amendment's real
>purpose was to ensure that the government wouldn't be the only ones with
>guns, no? :)  Look at the French: when their government upsets them,
>they take to the streets, and the government bends over backwards to
>appease them.  As it should!  The government lives in fear of the
>people, and that's how it SHOULD be.  Government is simply a collective
>tool of the people, it's not an agency unto which we owe our allegiance;
>and when it fails to suit its purpose, it is our right and patriotic
>duty to overthrow it, by armed revolution if necessary.
>
>C.
Amen.  Precisely.
>
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