REMOVE ME NOW!!!!
The Silence
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Thu Dec 13 13:22:41 PST 2001
--- Faustine <faustine at lokmail.net> wrote:
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> From: "Meyer Wolfsheim" <wolf at priori.net>
> Marcel wrote:
>
> > Smells like entrapment, though.
> >>I think the Constitution was the biggest curse
> ever cast on you. Every time
> >>something bad happens, you use these magic words
> like "entrapment" or
> >>"protected by the first ammendment" and so on,
> instead of shooting the
> >>criminals.
>
> And shooting innocent people too. And anyone who
> opposes those in power
> whether they're innocent or not.
>
> I think the United States Constitution was the
> biggest blessing ever cast on
> mankind. Not a blessing from "on high", but from men
> who had the courage of
> their convictions.
>
>
> >The Constitution, by making you look at it like the
> some sacred
> >Mr. Fix-It-All, made you all into wimps.
>
> Fuck that. You ought to be be grateful: if it
> weren't for the Constitution, the
> US would have taken over your little country and the
> rest of the world
> with it a long, long time ago. That kind of gross
> totalitarian imperialism is
> all anyone has to look forward to in a US without
> what's left of the
> Constitution.
>
> Something to think about.
>
>
> ~Faustine.
>
>
> ***
>
> [The prosperity of the United States] is not the
> result of accident. It has a
> philosophic cause. Without the Constitution and the
> Union, we could not have
> attained the result; but even these are not the
> primary cause of our great
> prosperity. There is something back of these,
> entwining itself more closely
> about the human heart. That something, is the
> principle of "Liberty to all" --
> the principle that clears the path for all -- gives
> hope to all -- and, by
> consequence, enterprise and industry to all.
>
> The expression of that principle, in our Declaration
> of Independence, was most
> happy, and fortunate. Without this, as well as with
> it, we could have declared
> our independence of Great Britain; but without it,
> we could not, I think, have
> secured our free government and consequent
> prosperity. The assertion of that
> principle, at that time, was the word "fitly spoken"
> which has proven an "apple
> of gold" to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are
> the picture of silver,
> subsequently framed around it. The picture was made,
> not to conceal, or destroy
> the apple; but to adorn and preserve it. The picture
> was made for the apple --
> not the apple for the picture.
>
> So let us act, that neither picture, or apple shall
> ever be blurred, bruised or
> broken.
>
> That we may so act, we must study, and understand
> the points of danger.
>
>
> Abraham Lincoln
> Fragmentary Writing, c. 1858
>
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