Is it time, to start sacrificing lives for liberty? (revolution, government, state)
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Be my guest, if you feel your liberties are that threatened.
(A real libertarian revolution would be a nice idea, actually, but one is not ever going to be led by the socialist-under-every-bed, Muslim-behind-every-tree, teabagger goon squad. We'd end up way worse off than we are now.)
"The civilized nations have accepted democratic government as a method of settling internal disputes without violence. Democratic government may have all the faults attributed to it, but it has the one great merit that people are, on the whole, willing to accept it as a substitute for civil war in political disputes. Whoever sets to work to weaken this acceptance, whether in Ulster or in Moscow, is taking a fearful responsibility. Civilization is not so stable that it cannot be broken up; and a condition of lawless violence is not one out of which any good thing is likely to emerge."
This nation and the liberty that ensued, was bough by the blood of men, that sacrificed their lives so their children would remain free.
As usual, a statement without clarification. I assume you mean 'bought' instead of 'bough'.
How do you think your children are not 'free'?
Do you still hunt with a bow?
Do you still voice your opinions?
Are you still able to vote?
Are you able to sit at your computer for untold hours, 'cruising the net', without interference (save for your family)?
Going on vacation anywhere soon? (I recall when you felt compelled to announce an upcoming vacation).
Still work? (I am kidding).
I guess, however, that if one spends all their time on the computer, staring at a 20 inch screen, reading the rantings of disturbed people, that one would begin to have a very narrow viewpoint of 'liberty'.
Spend the day as I do: yard work; visiting family and friends; reading a good book, eating out, cooking your own food, washing the car, etc. It will change your outlook on life.
"The civilized nations have accepted democratic government as a method of settling internal disputes without violence. Democratic government may have all the faults attributed to it, but it has the one great merit that people are, on the whole, willing to accept it as a substitute for civil war in political disputes."
That would change in a flash if we had real strife in this country such as famine.
And then of course, now we have drones.
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