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Old 04-22-2003, 05:12 PM   #153
Radar
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Also, if the goverment doesn't exist, how can you revolt?
I didn't say government doesn't exist, it just doesn't exist as a being with rights. "society" has no rights. Only individuals do. And government has no powers other than those specifically listed in the constitution. Government, like a corporation, is simply an organizational structure but not an actual being.

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When you talk about war you're talking about a lot of innocent poeple dieing. You can say you're only killing the people that are seeking to illegaly dominate you, but those aren't the only people that will die. Also, you're setting yourself up as the one that will pass judgment on people. You are speaking of being the judge, jury and executioner. That is ultimately unamerican. You are talking about murder.
If a slave kills their master is it murder? Was it murder when the founding fathers fought against their British oppressors? Of course it isn't. On a battle field if a soldier kills an opposing soldier, is it murder? Has that soldier set themselves up as judge, jury, and executioner? Not at all.

As the founding fathers have said...

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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