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To paraphrase George Carlin here: Google Japanese Americans in WW2 and then tell us again that you have rights the government can't take away.
by m_mueller 7y ago
To paraphrase George Carlin here: Google Japanese Americans in WW2 and then tell us again that you have rights the government can't take away.
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y agoWhat is the takeaway here? The government has done a lot of terrible things against its own people, especially when it thinks it’s making decisions “for the greater good” If anything that’s more of an argument for constitutional gun ownership than against it.
- whytaka 7y agoThe takeaway is that rights, recognized or granted, are feeble concepts in the face of a frightened public.
- h2odragon 7y agoGeorge Washington's example of the Whiskey Rebellion is a good example too: the government was founded on these wonderfully articulated principles, but it was first and foremost a government and the survival of that came before the principles.