Howard Dean talks straight

xoxoxoBruce · 07-26-2005, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Quite.

After all, is there a more easily discernible evil on Earth's face than that of tyranny, totalitarianism, and all their variations and degrees of oppression? Ever notice just how much of the world's garbage happens in places that aren't democracies, but are democracy's opposite?

Remove the lot!

And it'll take more than calm, reasoned explanation of why representative democracy is really better all around to shift these buggers. That's human nature: people will fight like mad dogs to attain or retain power. You want freedom? -- be prepared to shoot mad dogs, and don't just confine yourself to shooting. You know they'd just as soon bomb you; be prepared to bomb.

When the last dictator is hanged on the guts of the last national chief of secret police, how much of the world's misery will have fled?

Holy cow! You must scare the crap out of those tyrants. You sure scare the crap out of me.

lookout123 · 07-26-2005, 08:48 PM

hmm, an interventionist with Radar's passion.

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-27-2005, 03:54 AM

Well, Bruce, I've been part of the shooting-at-tyranny, in my country's uniform. The experience of nine years of doing this convinced me of the necessity of being willing and able to give tyrannies the chop. This is what the freedom people, and the free peoples, should be doing, and doing a lot more of it. Certainly the tyrannies won't.

If you govern by arbitrary decree and not by a constitution, if the populace is not the source of all the political power, what you are is a target.

Dictatorships primarily exist to oppress, in a greater or lesser degree -- but oppression is what they do, in the last analysis, either by pogroms or by partiality. This is widely understood to be a bad thing.

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Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Well, Bruce, I've been part of the shooting-at-tyranny, in my country's uniform. The experience of nine years of doing this convinced me of the necessity of being willing and able to give tyrannies the chop. This is what the freedom people, and the free peoples, should be doing, and doing a lot more of it. Certainly the tyrannies won't. If you govern by arbitrary decree and not by a constitution, if the populace is not the source of all the political power, what you are is a target. Dictatorships primarily exist to oppress, in a greater or lesser degree -- but oppression is what they do, in the last analysis, either by pogroms or by partiality. This is widely understood to be a bad thing. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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