BOHICA! Weiner's Bill to Restrict GA

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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I'd say we're about at the complacent stage.....

I'd vote for apathy.

Who cares?

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:11:22 -0700, "C J Campbell"
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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I'd say we're about at the complacent stage.....

I'd vote for apathy.

Who cares?


Holy Cow, how many responses to the original thread were there before
this turned into another ****ing match for the ideological high
ground, two, three? I trust you ardent patriots contacted your
congressman and suggested he try to get the SPCA to come put this
Weiner nut down before he hurts someone.

Ed Sullivan

Jeff Franks wrote:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the
public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the
candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the
result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed
by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred
years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from
bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from
courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to
selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage. "

Alexander Tyler - Circa 1780 - discussing the fall of the Athenian
Democracy.

Snopes (the Urban Legend site) lists this as probably a fictitious
quote. See http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp for details.

Doesn't matter. We can just ignore the Constitution or declare it to
mean
something other than what it clearly states.

Which is just about wtf it has become -- a constitutional republic in name
only and in which the leaders have no inkling of the meaning of the
Constitution or the Federalist Papers. In 20 years I have watched in alarm
as courts redefined basic terms of law to mean something entirely different
from the definition intended. Both the left and right wing courts and
politicians are very clever and adept at it.

That's the reason why the creep flight surgeon who has made out the farcical
papers we have to sign to apply for our medicals has required us to say
whether we've been convicted of affray at 15 or joyriding at 17, or had to
attend driving school to get points off our driver licenses. And yes, the
Patriot Act is a misnomer. It's more appropriately called the Jackboot
Act.