Bob, Yeah right! And real men don't "fear" snakes; they "dislike" them.
************************* TO-DO list for tomorrow: "I must KILL KILL KILL all snakes before they come for me! I am not afraid! I am entirely rational! Just look at their history of threatening liberty!" ------------------------- I don't fear the militant Islamists. I just want to destroy them. Before they come for any more infidels. It is entirely rational to observe decades of behavior, as well as current activities, and project real threats to liberty. --------------------------- Bob, Funny you should ask. The rational fear described in the Niemoeller quote was a result of the same type of irrational fear expressed in your question. The roots of Nazi Germany grew in the same kind of phony threat of terrorism that you advocate. ---------------------------- Will you speak up when the Islamists come for the infidels? ------------------------- When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. Here's Niemoller's preferred version: In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up. This is all taken from Wikipedia, but it's apropos to the current climate under which we labor. Yours in Liberty, Todd Andrew Barnett Barnett for Congress 2008 Michigan, 10th District "Freedom For All, Now and Forever"
