I guess I might have intro'd myself to the forums in my first post here, said howdy etc. My bad. I'm in my codger years.
Shannow, I commiserate with your great loss of freedoms down under. What a crying and clearly globalist, crimes against humanity, shame. In every instance of disarming populaces, democide follows like clockwork. The figures are mind-blowing and sickening.
DEMOCIDE: MURDER BY GOVERNMENT
Governments have murdered hundreds of millions of their citizens and those under their control. The questions are, then, how is this democide defined, is genocide included, how many have been killed, how do we find this out, and what sources can be used?
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM
They are working O/T here to do us likewise.
Few of my fav quotes re: the born with human right of self preservation and determination free from the molestations of others, the criminal state and assorted colluding co-gangsters of the Corruption Is Awesome set, etc.
James Madison, the principal architect of the U.S. Constitution, noted in 1795:
“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
John Quincy Adams similarly in 1821, stated the following about America:
“She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... [America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty.”
Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer, 1788
To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always posses arms...
Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
The Constitution [shall] be never construed to ... prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams
Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it.
Noah Webster, An Examination of The Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, Philadelphia, 1787
The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force far superior to any band of regular troops...
Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
John Adams, A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America, 1788
Arms in the hands of individual citizens [may] be used at individual discretion ... in private self-defense...
Thomas Paine, Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775
...[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Edmund Burke, Speech at country meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Patrick Henry, Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force you are ruined.
William Pitt, Speech, November 18, 1777
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms - never - never - never! You cannot conquer America.
William Pitt
Necessity is the plea for infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
James Madison, The Federalist, No.46
(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans posses over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Thomas Jefferson, August 19, 1785
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion on your walks.
George Washington
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action”.
The snowballing comingling of international forces, in situ here and now, for urban combat trainings does NOT bode well for humanity. And as yet still armed, we might as well have sticks and stones against their drones, sound and heat cannon, and increasingly Stasi-style technik.
After many years, I viddy'd "The Lives of Others" last night again. It's set in the GDR leading up to the wall's falling.
"See something, say something" to a T.
And BTW, almost no major war nor financial collapse of the last 2-300 yrs didn't exactly coincide without major power enhancing or establishing of banking "reforms", consolidations, or fiat from thin air interest bearing debt money central banks instituted to the detriment of common folk the world over.
Of course the BIS-centric and choreographed cabal of state central banks, are now in the final stages of converting the remaining resistors in the style of the Czar, the banker created crash of 1907, or their creations Marx-Trotsky-Lenin-Stalin, Bismarck-Hitler, Churchill, Mussolini and the greatest American commie coddler FDR, the great mutual admiration society in their continuous stream of bankster puppet frontmen.
See American lawyer & abolitionist Lysander Spooner's 1867 essay "No Treason...." section XVIII where he explains his POV on der banksters.
http://lysanderspooner.org/node/64
BTW - have a "saved from the shear" one of your VIC marked Cadets.
BOB if this is too long, I will refrain in future.
