An interesting read from AH Gun rights column.

[nooner]

I found this a little while ago and found it a very interesting read and thought I'd share. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

http://www.americanhandgunner.com/CGR.html

[bulgron]

Can't help but read this quote from the essay and think about the $100 million worship-fest the media and the next administration are calling Obama's inauguration today:


The second reason men continue in their servitude is servitude degrades their character. “People easily become cowardly and submissive under tyrants … liberty once lost, valor also perishes.” Men’s hearts become “incapable of any great deed.” Rulers, according to Boetie, are well aware of this, and in order to solidify their power, seek to degrade their subjects further and make their servile attitude instinctive.

Boetie identifies three methods rulers use to achieve this result. You will readily recognize them at work today. They are: (1) “effeminizing” the populace by ensuring they are preoccupied with entertainment, sporting events, debauchery and spectacles; (2) distributing “largess” (corporate welfare, social security and other government handouts) and (3) creating a reverential attitude toward officials with mystery, pomp and circumstance — in order to make officials appear to be extraordinary, more than mere mortals.


What do you think, are they using $100 million dollars worth of pomp and circumstance to make Obama appear extraordinary, better than the rest of us mere mortals?

Naw, couldn't be. I mean, why would they do a thing like that?

[nooner]

It's a really good series. Too bad more haven't commented.

[Citizen Snips]

Holy smokes, I'm only through the first two parts and I'm hooked. It's a bit disturbing that a guy half a millennia ago plotted out the bondage that ensnares the minds of men and women time and again, the cycle always prevails. It demonstrates how effective voluntary servitude can be :eek:

More importantly this article shows that nonviolent means of insurrection does not have to equate pacifism.

[GMONEY]

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