Statement on Firearms and Hunting Section
Fear of reprisal if you allow gun sales in your classified adds? Whats next an unwillingness to exercise the first amendment rights due to fear as well?
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O.A.
This reminds me of Hegi's "Stones From the River."
An excellent novel set in pre WWII Germany. One of the major plot themes in the story looks in depth at the Gestapo's ability to get neighbors to spy on other neighbors until eventually no one was saying or doing anything at all that could be construed politically incorrect. Once this phenomenon begins, most of society falls like a house of cards. The heroes are few.
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
The Crisis, Thomas Paine
We must stand up to the vocal minority, and support our modern version of Paine. Who is he?
Respectfully,
O.A.
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason." .I am grateful for his writings and worldwide influence..
Today, it might be enough to pull your ad or remove your business in protest.
Having the courage of one's conviction:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POL...
O.A.
Regards,
O.A.
His book on the original argument (a review of the ideas presented in 35 of the federalist papers) was quite good. Its a good read.
The only thing I have read from Paine was Common Sense. It took me a good long while to get through all of it. Like the federalist papers the 18th century English takes some time to get though and grasp the meaning of the words, at least for me.
While I like to read and study some of the original writings of the period it is a large commitment to do so. One that once I begin has a tendency to consume all my spare time and more until the reading is completed. I would love to read more of Paine's works but cannot start something, at this time, that I know would consume to greatly of the time I have.
Yes, I have also read Beck’s book “The Original Argument” It was a good modern distillation of the essentials… certainly a more modern vocabulary, with original quotes and references to boot. I bought it so I could review without the tedium/ time consumption I occasionally experienced reading the original source years earlier, and perhaps gain some new insight I may have missed.
To expand my thoughts regarding the original sources, I know what you mean. The original Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (two books), consumed enough of my time when I first read them to have read four to six books of equal length in modern English. I would re-read and look up words every other paragraph. The thoughts expressed in such profound and occasionally eloquent ways made me all the more determined to digest them. My speed increased as I became more familiar with the vocabulary. It is a commitment. I rotate several types of reading material (Economics, Original source philosophy/ political science, History, and current events/ political science). Occasionally I read a sci–fi novel but it must be a classic and have a point, profound if possible, like AS, 1984, or Fahrenheit 451 etc.
Regards,
O.A.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=218&ad=23465...
Looks like the free market system is still free enough to have another company pick up the advertising revenue that KSL is loosing over this.