Acton had it right, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." Those who say they would not take advantage of absolute power are simply denying their own and everyone elses human nature. I believe there are very few politicians who go into the "business" with the intention of becoming power mad autocrats. Yet that is where they tend to end up given enough power and time to use it.

Who supplied Iran with the materials to build their nuclear plant?..........Russia. And who supplied Iraq with chemical weapons?...........Germany, France. Robert seems to prefer that more people were killed with criminals' guns.

Well regulated in the vernacular of 18th century colonial America meant well behaved, not well controlled by government.

Liberals live in a gray world of moral relativism with no absolutes of right and wrong. They see property as belonging to the masses and not individuals. They believe a man lives for the greater good of society and not for himself and his own family. They have very little concept of self-worth and value themselves very little, although they talk constantly about self-esteem. Because of this, they have nothing to defend and see no need to be armed.

"Humiliation and debasing degradation" is the ultimate goal of liberalism. That is why they have been trying to emasculate society with such fervor. Eunuchs are much easier to control. They make great slaves, I hear.

I intend not to never be despised, which is why I made a stop to the Sheriff's department on my way home from work today to renew my concealed pistol license. To all of the collectivists out there, I am sovereign of my own body. It is funny how liberals selectively agree with that: they believe a woman has a right to "choose" to kill an unborn child because she is sovereign of her body, but I am not sovereign in my own body to protect my own life. Hypocrites!

The Code of Federal Regualations clearly defines what a militia is as follows..................TITLE 10 - ARMED FORCES Subtitle A - General Military Law PART I - ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS CHAPTER 13 - THE MILITIA Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes -STATUTE- (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. (b) The classes of the militia are - (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.....................If you are male between the ages of 17 and 45 you are the militia, and it is your duty to be armed.

"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." William Jefferson Clinton, August 12, 1993.................................. "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . . " - William Jefferson Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993................................. "You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say." -William Jefferson Clinton 5/29/93.....................................Yeah, poor old Bill is just misunderstood. Fortunately most of us understand him all too well.

Gun registration is never enough for jack-booted thugs whose minions burn people alive, whose snipers shoot babes in their mother's arms, and kidnap small children and send them to totalitarian communist regimes.

When it is illegal to own and carry weapons, then I'll be a criminal.

Democracy is mob rule. The gun on the wall of the working man is the perfect symbol for democracy which is all about might makes right. The gun in the hands of a well regulated (i.e. well ordered, well behaved) militia is the symbol of a representative republic.

A government that derives its power from the governed is subject to the power of the citizenry. The power of the citizenry derives from the threat of force that can be brought to bear against an unjust government. Freedom requires an armed citizenry. It is not only a freedom to be armed, but an obligation and duty to your fellow citizens, your family, and yourself.

Am I free to conform if I so choose? In the same vein that the majority is not always right, so too they are not always wrong. I will conform if I am convinced it is the right thing to do. Those who can do nothing but oppose for the sake of opposition are as much slaves to their own pathology as those who are forced to conform.

I thought I was reading a slogan from work for a minute. A few years ago, my employer came out with the slogan, "Stop work is good progress." I think this one is much more catchy.

Surprise! Another politician that said what he didn't believe for political purposes. Also, Hitler didn't give Christianity a bad name. In fact, they don't have a bad name, exept to certain bigotted individuals.

Considering how many murders, thefts, robberies, and wars have at the root cause envy, I'd say this is a quite accurate quote. The love of money is the root of all evil (especially love of someone elses money).

The more people that abuse themselves (with any number of optional poisons, both legal and illegal), the more likely their bodies will be used up and die before they can collect social security and medicare. Smokers are a net benefit to all of us who do not smoke. Also, you can heavily tax all of those otherwise untaxed substances. Consider it a tax on stupidity.

Conversely, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't, since you could be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Elizabeth, the duly elected government in power here and now has less in common with the Nazis than it does with the Democratic party of forty years ago. If you think JFK or LBJ were Nazis, so be it. If the Nazis really were in power, I'm sure they'd be knocking on your door looking for a research subject for stem cell research. Living forever at any cost is very Nazi like project. Do not make light of the evil of the Nazis, and do not exagerate the flaws of those you don't like. It is a dangerous game that blurs the line between right and wrong and promotes moral equivalency where there should not be any.

Yup!

A law which is not consented to by the people is no law at all. At most it is an immoral act of coercion by the powerful on the weak.

The preamble does not contain any authorizations or restrictions on the federal government. It is simply a synopsis of what the document is about and intends to accomplish. The nuts and bolts about what government can and cannot do are found in the Articles of the Constitution. As for the founders being ignorant of what substance abuse, remember colonial Americans consumed on average five times the hard liquor Americans today consume, most of that being rum. Hard cider was also a favorite. I'm sure Ben Franklin et. al. knew a few drunks in their day. They just chose to leave them alone.

There seems to be a severe lack of reading comprehension among the judiciary. The Constitution is quite clear. Even I can understand it. Too many judges today are more interested in those mystical penumbra and emanations than they are in the words of the Constitution.

This is why hate speech laws are so ridiculous. In America, each and everyone of us do have the right to preach the extermination of Jews. However, it is society, not laws, which push those who do to the fringe and labels them as crackpots. When you try to stifle that kind of speech through laws, you simply create a victim group and some will then give them a sympathetic ear. Canada, by the way, has those same type of hate speech laws, so watch what you say and don't you dare read the Bible out loud. I'm sure the Koran is fine, however.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. But seriously, we are not living in a fascist state, George Bush is, in fact, not Hitler, and the Patriot Act did not create a Star Chamber or secret concentration camps for seditious liberals who would do anything for power, including ensuring our defeat at the hands of Islamonazis. On the other hand, never trust government.