@DontTreadOnMe,
DontTreadOnMe wrote:
Setanta wrote:
No doubt. It's entirely possible that the only point all along
has been free publicity for this Christian Soldier.
that's what i was getting at earlier in the thread.
the way he opened his first church was by setting it up,
then letting the county take gas when they cited his lack of permits.
there's this thing called a "pattern".
and i wonder what's going on with his established church.
This PATTERN
deserves to proliferate.
We individual citizens are the owners of America.
We have granted government the honor
of being our employee, as our property manager.
It behooves us to be
very stingy in conceding jurisdiction
to our employee.
Like drinking too much, community is damned
dangerous.
Look at what happened in the name of community
in Russia, Germany n China in the 1900s.
As individuals, we need to keep community on a short leash.
That means being ever on the alert for another opportunity
to curtail and strangle its jurisdiction. Each year
the citizens
shoud
vote to elect government's domestic budget and
the amount of taxes to support it, with a vu toward tax reduction each year,
to keep government " weak, starved and inoffensive " as Robert Heinlein
so eloquently put it in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
The Bill of Rights had a pattern: strangling government jurisdiction,
in the knowledge that personal freedom and domestic government power are
INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL.
This pattern that DTOM detected
and the spirit upon which it is based
shoud be taught & promoted in all civics classes in the public schools.
Holders of public office shoud be required to swear an oath
to be ever vigilant for the opportunity to curtail the power
of that office, so that it will be more feeble than when he began the job.
THAT is patriotism.
Every 4th of July, each holder of public office
(except judges) shoud be required to render a public speech
indicating his achievements in
weakening his powers of office
during the last year, thereby exalting personal freedom.
David
