The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

brunians at brunians.org · 18 Mar 2009, 08:18 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:18:29 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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> Son of Witz wrote:

>> But if there was a revolt, they would quash it so fast and could
>> declare Martial Law, and then our second amendment rights would mean
>> exactly squat.

> That's exactly what the right is for, to have guns accumulated ahead of
> time. The tyrant can declare it taken away, but he can't enforce it
> universally. Who will conduct the billions of building searches to find
> everywhere that hundreds of millions of firearms and trillions of rounds
> of ammunition might be hidden?

They are trying to teach helplessness to his generation. Why prepare to
fight if you've already lost ahead of time? Just do what they say.



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