> [Arlo previously] > What about surface to air missile launchers, flame throwers and > bazookas. > Wouldn't they be a whole lot more useful in a revolution than a few > pop-guns > and muzzle loaders? Grenades? Anti-tank weapons? (We'd need them, for > sure, > wouldn't we?) > > [Woods] > Yes, we would Arlo. If a nation-state can be trusted to have them, why > not > civilians? This is about people and morality.
Right on, Woods. Leftists believe all power belongs to their god, the almighty State. Now they even have their Messiah at the head. > [Arlo] > I think that's the first time I've heard someone come out in favor or > allowing > civilians to own high-grade military weapons. I'm not sure how safe I'd > feel > with some of the yahoos in my town being able to walk into BoxMart and buy > a > bazooka or surface to air missile launchers, and I can imagine the celebre > at > Pyromaniacs-R-Us when flame throwers become as easy to be as hunting > rifles and > handguns. (Do we stop there? What about allowing civilians access to > larger > missiles, say the kind that could wipe out a small town? We trust the > military > with them, why not civilians?) The military has a screening processes > (ideally) > about who gets in and who has access to what weaponry. Then, the weaponry > is > tightly regulated, locked, and soldiers go through much training in their > use. One terrorist with a suitcase atom bomb can wipe out Philadelphia. Arlo lives in a ivory-tower dream world. > [Woods] > Bush and Obama support the Patriot Act and Unwarranted Wire Tapping. > Obama > voted for it, Bush signed them into law. > > [Arlo] > And yet the Freedom Fighters only seem to be concerned about those darned > libs. > Did you know Platt argued in favor, in support and in defense of the > Patriot > Act? Its in the archives. And yet when you mention Britain, and his > little > "leftist kneejerk" can kick in, its an issue. This is the kind of gross > hypocrisy I'm talking about. The gross hypocrisy comes from academics who prattle about critical thinking but trash anyone who applies such thinking to expose Marxists posing as Democrats. > As for the election, well like I have said, it was either gonna be Obama > or > McCain, and the choice boiled down to which would be better. Not "best", > sadly, > as this country is just not at the point where a third party candidate > is > viable. I am not happy with Obama's support of the Patriot Act, but I was > also > outspoken of it when Bush signed it into law. And I will continue to be. Obama is a prize example of a hypocrite. He promised change, then chose as his chief of staff an old political hack. I downloaded all his economic promises before he ordered them removed from the internet. We will see how many promises he keeps and how many times he blatantly lied to get elected -- like promising a tax break for 95 percent of the people. Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
