tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590468.post5726928767161711358..comments2023-10-07T02:51:45.190-07:00Comments on Halbarad: Victory!Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04087010606437880724noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590468.post-86962484496514564462007-06-13T12:27:00.000-07:002007-06-13T12:27:00.000-07:00DC, yeah it looks like I was correct to be worried...DC, yeah it looks like I was correct to be worried when I wrote:<BR/><BR/>"Lets hope it holds. The left and the RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) are like jihadis. They will keep coming back at it again and again."<BR/><BR/>The bill is coming back an I have strong concerns that wavering Republicans are going to support the bill in return for some "enforcement" fig leafs and a helping of pork.<BR/><BR/>Fig leafs and pork - a dish that is quite popular in the Wash DC area.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04087010606437880724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590468.post-40911384816727617232007-06-13T09:48:00.000-07:002007-06-13T09:48:00.000-07:00Victory last week ... But this week we stay vigila...Victory last week ... But this week we stay vigilant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590468.post-21787919644713772282007-06-08T12:10:00.000-07:002007-06-08T12:10:00.000-07:00Oh, I might add, people who won't endure the disco...Oh, I might add, people who won't endure the discomfort of reading about politics ("I'm not political.") will hardly bestir themselves to march, or heaven forfend, fight to regain lost rights. They prefer to put their heads down and try to avoid calling attention to themselves as targets of their evermore emboldened masters.<BR/><BR/>Our founding fathers were right that "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590468.post-49564370259528634892007-06-08T12:06:00.000-07:002007-06-08T12:06:00.000-07:00Great summation!I think a lot of people are beginn...Great summation!<BR/><BR/>I think a lot of people are beginning to understand how fragile representative rule is -- and how quickly it can be whittled away especially if two political parties conspire to do so. That's how we got McCain-Feingold and how we will lose our gun rights (two blatant efforts to begin to both shut people up and to enslave them). <BR/><BR/>Tyranny, even in the Soviet Union or in Venezuela today, does not happen all at once, it is done in small steps. First the propaganda machine cranks up (think "Hate Crimes" and "Global Climate Change"), people are told that urgent measures must be passed. Within those measures are subtle traps that begin to close around the citizens' rights to object to the next set of chains.<BR/><BR/>If people don't learn from the media about the nettlesome details and if they are rendered amused by sports and American Idol, then one day they are subjects, not citizens. Short of taking to the streets, the game is over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com