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I don't think that just seeing through the BS gives anyone power but your
closing remark by Andrew Fletcher (1698): "Arms are the only true badges
of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from
a slave." certainly points to a reality that is hard to ignore. When
all is said and done, all the lines drawn, and the battlefield defined,
it is the man with the gun who will prevail over the man without one.
Jayson
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:58:47 -0600 K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a341b9f6f53.htm
>December 10, 2000
>THE UNVEILING; Behind the Political Curtain
>By NEAL GABLER
>THINGS used to be simpler in America.
> Americans clung to the belief that the system was sound
> and democracy inviolate. They even believed their leaders
> were generally decent and honorable men, statesmen
> rather than hacks, which is why the president nearly always
> topped the list of the most respected people in the nation.
>But in an atmosphere of demystification, even this belief could
>withstand only so many blows before it began to crumble.
>This wising up was not necessarily a bad thing.
> They were seeing things more cynically, perhaps, but also
>more realistically.
>Still, there had always remained one beacon of hope and belief: the
>election process itself. Whatever our political leaders did, however
>much our political institutions may have been compromised, the
>ultimate authority rested with the people through the exercise of
>the vote. The vote was holy. When one entered the voting booth
>with a pencil (or, as we now know, a stylus), pulled the curtain and
>cast a ballot, one was entering the real cathedral of democracy.
>Here it was simple again. You made your choice. Your choice was
>registered. The candidate with the most votes took office. The
>Republic endured.
>
>Then came Florida
>In this way the electoral process itself has been both demystified
>as just another hoax and delegitimized, so that whoever becomes
>president cannot possibly be a symbol of our idealism. Rather, he
>will be the one whose party managed to work the system better.
>That is where 50 years of revelation and cynicism has brought us
>� to the point where the presidential election has become the
>biggest pseudo-event of all and power resides not in the electoral
>system but in those who feel they have the perspicacity to see
>through it.
>Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The
>possession of arms is the distinction of a free
>man from a slave. ~~ Andrew Fletcher 1698
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