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Old January 1, 2013, 05:09 PM   #5
Willie Sutton
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^^^ Very True.

Kind of like our existing mary-jane laws and the bogus "war on drugs"?

Seems like a good opportunity for another Ayn Rand quote:


There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.



Preventative Laws are about building power bases from which to govern. If we don't have enough criminals, we can make them with a law. With criminals comes the need to deal with them. From that paradigm, money flows... from one side to the other.

And further:

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."


To which the only defense is our excercise of our Second Amendment rights.


Rand also wrote:

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government.


Which ideas ought to be obvious to us all.



Willie

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