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January 27, 2012
"One of the more insidiously deceptive lines of the socialist-liberal agenda is the banal phrase: "Violence doesn’t solve anything.""
Violence solves a lotPerhaps the world isn’t the way we wish it would be. We all might wish that evil men could be persuaded from their vile behavior with bleeding heart entreaties, a kiss on the cheek, or proper toilet training. But it ain’t that way, folks, Pacifism is a sickness, an actual moral perversity, and dangerous when its effects spread to anyone else beside the pacifist. You may choose to walk to the cattle car, but damn you if you let your children be led up the ramp. You must never allow any group or government to steal your right to exercise armed lethal force in a just situation.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 27, 2012 1:36 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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All government, not excluding the most benevolent government, is possible only through the threat of violence. The more benevolent a government is, the better it respects this fact and the more it is inclined to limit itself. As the original W said, government is not reason, it is force.
Posted by: james wilson at January 27, 2012 1:55 PM
I saw this with my own eyes in Cambodia in the early sixies. In fact 1961 to be precise. Socialism is a deadly form of 'benevolent' government. Starvation and murder of a governments own citizens as a method of 'equalization' is the end result of the denial of private property and the fruits of one's labors.
I can very easily see this scenario happening here in the US. Many people here are either brain washed or totally ignorant of the real world and real world totalitarianism as an inevitable ends to socialism.
Posted by: Terry at January 27, 2012 3:39 PM
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace.
Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you!
May your chains rest lightly upon you and
May posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
SAMUEL ADAMS
Posted by: pinklady at January 27, 2012 3:50 PM
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace.
Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you!
May your chains rest lightly upon you and
May posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
SAMUEL ADAMS
Posted by: pinklady at January 27, 2012 3:50 PM
"My mother said violence never solves anything." "So?" Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly. "I'm sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that."
Source: Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.), Page 25
Exchange between him and a student
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that "violence never solves anything" I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
Source: Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.), Page 26
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Posted by: Fat Man at January 27, 2012 7:45 PM
I deplore senseless violence.
Sensible violence, on the other hand...
Posted by: Mikey NTH at January 28, 2012 6:38 AM
I all for punching the enemy in the stomach when his back is turned.
Posted by: Peccable at January 28, 2012 9:58 AM