tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post1728868561090310493..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: The Year of the Long Knives: A PostscriptUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-31891804475048952112008-06-22T11:19:00.000-04:002008-06-22T11:19:00.000-04:00Of course I meant that if properly constituted, ou...Of course I meant that if properly constituted, our gov't would protect us from the "influence" of such people, not the "unfluence". Whatever their unfluence might be, I'm sure it would be preferable to their influence.Charles T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03696702251924315288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-2512030012936571272008-06-22T11:14:00.000-04:002008-06-22T11:14:00.000-04:00Is it wrong that I want to, how shall I put this, ...Is it wrong that I want to, how shall I put this, "be very unfriendly" towards all the people in that photograph? I know that most of them are not explicitly aware of their own evil, that they might even be consciously "well-intentioned", but that does not change the fact that they are a very real threat to ME and likewise to the liberty and individual rights of everyone, and that they are, I believe, far beyond the point of being rationally persuaded of their evil ways. Those are the people who make tyrants and dictators possible, even today in the "modern U.S.A."<BR/><BR/>If our gov't were properly constituted, it would serve precisely to protect me and everyone else from the unfluence and activism of such people, but because our gov't is not properly constructed, it becomes (it now IS) the very tool which those people use to further enslave me. <BR/><BR/>It's unpleasant to think about it, but that is the direction which logical thought leads me. Perhaps my premises are flawed. I would prefer to think that the trend toward general enslavement can be reversed without force, but it's been going on for so long now, and only seems to be gaining momentum and strength, that I feel discouraged, to say the least.<BR/><BR/>And then, perhaps a public forum isn't the best place to discuss such things. lol Enough said.Charles T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03696702251924315288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-31453279971529201802008-06-21T21:50:00.000-04:002008-06-21T21:50:00.000-04:00Two odd or not so odd things about the photograph:...Two odd or not so odd things about the photograph: First, it is obviously posed. Second, Obama is facing the camera, his back turned on his audience. I didn't remark on that in the Postscript, because they were obvious flubs of the photographer. <BR/><BR/>EdEdward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.com