Hallan-bakar: On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Hallam-Baker wrote:
dangerous people arround besides the government and the government is the
The most dangerous person is the world is a an armed law enforcement officer. The least dangerous person is that same law enforcement officer, dead. The _only_ difference between a gang of thugs, and a government, is that the latter admit to being thugs, whilst the former deny that. They both operate on the same prinicple -- steal from others, and kill those that oppose them.
only agency that is going to protect society from them. If you don't like
Governments are the agencies _most_ likely to abuse one's freedom. << Take Northern Ireland, as an example of what happens, when a government tries to pacify a region, by prohibiting everything. >>
living in a country where the police are armed to the teeth then move to the UK where there are very few armed police. Of course you will find that
Note in passing that the British Army is more than perfectly willing to massacre the civilian population, it purportedly protects. Of course, that is in their capacity as an occupation force, as part of their pacification procedures.
the price of freedom of mind is a minor restriction on your personal freedom, you won't be allowed a weapon either but that is the tradeoff.
Thanks, but if it is all the same to you, I'd rather live in a country where everybody << including six year olds >> carry, and can use Uzi's, etc, as a matter of course. Where weapons are just another thing to carry around, and used to kill those who don't respect human rights --- like the British and American governments, for starters. xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com