In fairness, Uncle, I think that we are behind the times as a nation in shedding the old assumptions about politics. Unconstitutional laws are made by illegitimate governments, and deserve no less than to be nullified and ignored.
Pay attention to Connecticut’s gun laws. It’s going to get ugly there.
“You will know a corrupt gubmint by the multitude of their laws.”
Some old Roman guy.
@ RKV
Watch the CT Gun Registration Law destroy the state’s nickname… “The Constitution State” 🙁
I’d be calling a Realtor® and booking a moving van…
TOMORROW !
Two excellent quotes go very well with that bumper sticker –
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.” ~Ayn Rand
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
from the Conservative Treehouse
Yet again, history proves Lincoln wrong.
In fairness, Uncle, I think that we are behind the times as a nation in shedding the old assumptions about politics. Unconstitutional laws are made by illegitimate governments, and deserve no less than to be nullified and ignored.
Pay attention to Connecticut’s gun laws. It’s going to get ugly there.
“You will know a corrupt gubmint by the multitude of their laws.”
Some old Roman guy.
@ RKV
Watch the CT Gun Registration Law destroy the state’s nickname… “The Constitution State” 🙁
I’d be calling a Realtor® and booking a moving van…
TOMORROW !
Two excellent quotes go very well with that bumper sticker –
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.” ~Ayn Rand
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
@Anonymous, excellent quotations.