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I couldn't have said it better myself!

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"Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms. Courtesy of www.CampaignForLiberty.com."

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Interesting take - and one you don't hear much...  Read this eloquent and profound letter and pay close attention to the last paragraph of the letter.....

 

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

Marko Kloos

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This is a must watch, Ron Paul in 2002, scary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z69fYyoMlVk&sns=em

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Since Fannie and Freddie are back in the news, a little history is in order. Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

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The federal government continues to grow and grow at an ever-increasing pace. When the government grows larger than the voting public, who can stop them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOAgT8L_BqQ

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been providing you with the information you need to know to understand the debt and budget problems being debated in Washington. We do this so you can make informed decisions based on evidence, not propaganda or posturing (which is all we’ve seen when it comes to the debt ceiling.) So, take a moment to read this update about the discussions in Washington, and get a different perspective.

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For too long legislation and economic policy has been guided through back-room deals by politicians and business men with little to no regard for how their actions will actually affect the economy, let alone you. Every attempt to shine light on their dealings has been met with resistance and subterfuge. Click here and be educated as to how Congress and the Federal Reserve have misled us.

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Medicare is in trouble. Does Washington have the right answers to save it?

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At what point will the labors of men be used wisely by the men who represent them? 

When the producers must produce "Protests" rather than "Products" then it is time for the elected to listen or perish.

http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/02/24/collectivist-tyranny/

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Great article!

Congress Rediscovers the Constitution Posted by Roger Pilon If the new Congress to be sworn in on Wednesday is the Tea Party’s cardinal achievement so far, its most symbolic achievement will unfold the next day, when the first order of business in the House will be a reading, aloud, of the Constitution – by all accounts, for the first time in the nation’s history...(Link to article)

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