gungasnake wrote:Intrepid wrote:blacksmithn wrote:"Paranoia strikes deep,
into your heart it will creep..."
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the Man comes, and take you away.
That's what the 2'nd ammendment is there for. The "man" can't really do that in the US. He could obviously do that easily enough in England, at least now. For several centuries there after the Magna Carta was signed he couldn't.
Yeah.
In vu of their very recent experience in removing
unwanted government, the Founders had that very clearly in mind:
00/04/17 New York Instrument of Ratification of the Constitution
Record Group 11, The National Archives, Washington, DC
"
That the powers of government may be reassumed by the people
whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness ....
That the People have a right to keep and bear Arms;
that a well regulated Militia,
including the body of the People capable of bearing Arms,
is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State;
That the Militia should not be subject to Martial Law, except in time of
War, Rebellion or Insurrection."
THEN: Be it known that We the People of the State of New York, Incorporated in
statehood under the Authority of The Constitution of the United States of America
by the New York Instrument of Ratification, thus are graced by the
full benefits and liberties predicated under that document; or we are made
and held captive under Unlawful Powers to which Under God we cannot, must
not, and do not submit." [ emfasis added by David ]
New York was not the only state
that manifested this spirit.
David