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Richard Thomas's avatar

Dang John, can we make Friday happy news Friday? Well stated, but who in their right mind would want to survive after an exchange of weapons? These are the hard truths that are finally waking up the American patriot. Pray for more God-fearing men. The first step to wisdom is the fear of God.

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John Newell's avatar

No rest for the weary my friend. Who wants to survive; well, unless you know something I don't it will be a crap shoot and you won't have a choice one way or the other. Ha! If you or I survived, then the mission would be as always; the Great Commission.

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Gene Clem's avatar

"No One is Coming to Help You". We will have to rebuild civilization from the neighborhood up and organize to defend against evil masquerading as government.

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Tom from WNY's avatar

The time to start is now. Why wait?

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C. Wayne Bratcher's avatar

The first objective of any nation-state must be self-preservation at any cost because the nation-state starts with a presumption about its own intrinsic value. It is always permissible to destroy any particular number of individuals for the sake of the collective, and the head of the collective is the state.

Somehow we still manage to believe the government exists for our benefit—but when we do benefit, we should ask who's getting the short straw.

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John Newell's avatar

One of my favorite quotes is from Mike Resnick's novel, Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future, "The first duty of power is to perpetuate itself. The first duty of free men is to resist it."

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C. Wayne Bratcher's avatar

That's a great way of putting it!

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