Anarchy is a dead end. It leads to Beiruit, or tyrrany.
The Left is "careful of who it steps on" because we actually have respect for difference of opinion.
I, for one, am "strapped up". The Right can fantasize about "Rising up" and taking on the Left but 1: There are a lot more armed members of the left side of the aisle than most people think and two, more of those than most people think have been in the Army/Marines (take a look at the enrollment figures of Congress and the Senate... public service is public service) and that translates to a more effective group of people.
The anti-abortion folks feel free to shoot at people because, absent war in the streets, anyone who goes off the deep end can do so.
Barring an actual break (and I mean of the social contract) those who rise up will face the fate of Nat Turner, John Brown and the Whiskey Farmers and followers of Shay. The Feds have something the rebels won't, training, materiél and a willingness to walk in harm's way. These days most of the Army also has practice.
What they are doing when the trot out shit like this, and when they shoot talk-radio hosts and doctors is trying to intimidate people. When people allow this kind of crap to go unchecked they think they have real support, as opposed to apathy.
Hitler came to power with something like 12 percent of the vote. If more of the silent majority had opened their mouth, the world might have been spared a lot of grief.
To take a page from the history of AIDS, "Silence = Death"
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Date: 2006-01-13 06:13 am (UTC)The Left is "careful of who it steps on" because we actually have respect for difference of opinion.
I, for one, am "strapped up". The Right can fantasize about "Rising up" and taking on the Left but 1: There are a lot more armed members of the left side of the aisle than most people think and two, more of those than most people think have been in the Army/Marines (take a look at the enrollment figures of Congress and the Senate... public service is public service) and that translates to a more effective group of people.
The anti-abortion folks feel free to shoot at people because, absent war in the streets, anyone who goes off the deep end can do so.
Barring an actual break (and I mean of the social contract) those who rise up will face the fate of Nat Turner, John Brown and the Whiskey Farmers and followers of Shay. The Feds have something the rebels won't, training, materiél and a willingness to walk in harm's way. These days most of the Army also has practice.
What they are doing when the trot out shit like this, and when they shoot talk-radio hosts and doctors is trying to intimidate people. When people allow this kind of crap to go unchecked they think they have real support, as opposed to apathy.
Hitler came to power with something like 12 percent of the vote. If more of the silent majority had opened their mouth, the world might have been spared a lot of grief.
To take a page from the history of AIDS, "Silence = Death"
TK