The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Son of Witz · 18 Mar 2009, 13:48 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:48:06 -0700
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:18 AM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

>> 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.

ok, now I see why you asked?
how old do you think I am?
many of my close peers have always favored a revolution.
I'm NOT, by arguing that we should do nothing. I'm saying an armed  
revolt would be pretty easily quashed.

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