10 judges are nuts.
Razer
g2s at riseup.net
Thu Feb 23 16:40:44 PST 2017
On 02/23/2017 01:04 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> On 02/23/2017 08:38 AM, Razer wrote:
>>
>> On 02/23/2017 05:37 AM, jim bell wrote:
>>> Court rules assault weapons are not protected under
>>> Constitutionhttp://dailym.ai/2mmUuqG via
>> They aren't. You know why? When the Second Amendment was written, at 50
>> yards or so, you could literally outrun a musketball. If it didn't
>> bounce off your coat. Besides, "Your puny AK-47 is useless. So, we need
>> to have at least some of our volunteer resistance show up with Stinger
>> missiles, some anti-aircraft batteries, maybe a submarine or two?" I
>> hear Soros has a fleet of A-10 Warthogs he might call into service too
>> if you talk to him purty.
> For a credible revolution, you need real weapons and supplies, and
> people who know how to use them. So you need substantial involvement of
> trained military and veterans. With small arms and insiders, you get the
> real weapons and supplies.
>
> That seems pretty unlikely in the US. And it it did go down, the result
> would arguably be some mix of military dictatorship and feudalism.
>
> <SNIP>
ROTF! To be a revolution you need an IDEOLOGY.
Greed is NOT an Ideology.
Greed is a way of life in 'Merica. The ONLY accepted way.
Social atomization has created the circumstance that 'Merican families
and communities are not even understood as such by a large majority of
the planet's inhabitants...
ROTF! 'Merica is Doooooooomed! Bwhahhhaaa!
Rr
> "...Loneliness, estrangement, isolation describe the vast distance
> between man and man today.
>
> These dominant tendencies cannot be overcome by better personnel
> management, nor by improved gadgets, but only when a love of man
> overcomes the idolatrous worship of things by man....
>
> ...We regard men as infinitely precious and possessed of unfulfilled
> capacities for reason, freedom, and love.
>
> In affirming these principles we are aware of countering perhaps the
> dominant conceptions of man in the twentieth century: that he is a
> thing to be manipulated, and that he is inherently incapable of
> directing his own affairs.
>
> We oppose the depersonalization that reduces human beings to the
> status of things -- if anything, the brutalities of the twentieth
> century teach that means and ends are intimately related, that vague
> appeals to "posterity" cannot justify the mutilations of the present.
>
> We oppose, too, the doctrine of human incompetence because it rests
> essentially on the modern fact that men have been "competently"
> manipulated into incompetence -- we see little reason why men cannot
> meet with increasing skill the complexities and responsibilities of
> their situation, if society is organized not for minority, but for
> majority, participation in decision-making.
>
> Men have unrealized potential for self-cultivation, self-direction,
> self-understanding, and creativity. It is this potential that we
> regard as crucial and to which we appeal, not to the human
> potentiality for violence, unreason, and submission to authority.
>
> The goal of man and society should be human independence: a concern
> not with image of popularity but with finding a meaning in life that
> is personally authentic: a quality of mind not compulsively driven by
> a sense of powerlessness, nor one which unthinkingly adopts status
> values, nor one which represses all threats to its habits, but one
> which has full, spontaneous access to present and past experiences,
> one which easily unites the fragmented parts of personal history, one
> which openly faces problems which are troubling and unresolved: one
> with an intuitive awareness of possibilities, an active sense of
> curiosity, an ability and willingness to learn.
>
> This kind of independence does not mean egoistic individualism -- the
> object is not to have one's way so much as it is to have a way that is
> one's own." ~Port Huron Statement, Students for a Democratic Society.
More information about the cypherpunks
mailing list