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Originally Posted by Strangelet
right. but that means they have to account for Canada, if they want to argue the contrapositive: that any registration implies a dictatorship. Canada has a gun registration system but enjoys a much higher rating on the freedom of speech and freedom of the press than we do.
http://www.rsf.org/en-classement794-2008.html
Getting the average american to believe they aren't #1 on all things freedom is in general a daunting task, for that matter. |
Yeah, I'm always really put off when some Americans get pissed whenever anything negative is pointed out about this country. How are we supposed to make this country a better and better place if we have our heads in the sand, ignoring our faults and flaws? It makes no sense to me. Although one thing you can say for them is that they are consistent in their willful ignorance, as you just pointed out so well Strangelet.
And incidentally, I came across
another article just now that ties into this thread. It's about a group called the "Oath Keepers", who claim to be non-partisan defenders of freedom on a mission to prevent a dictatorship from happening in the U.S. Here are my favorite few quotes - I particularly love the quotes following the declaration of being "non-partisan":
Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.
More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities.
And then...
The group's Web site, www.oathkeepers.org, features videos and testimonials in which supporters compare President Barack Obama's America to Adolf Hitler's Germany. They also liken Obama to England's King George III during the American Revolution.
One member, in a videotaped speech at an event in Washington, D.C., calls Obama "the domestic enemy the Constitution is talking about."
"Non-partisan" indeed.
And here's where it starts tying more directly into this thread...
What Rhodes terms "the rise of executive privilege" during the post-9/11 years of the Bush presidency will in his opinion only accelerate with Obama in office. What's worse, he said, is that "gun-hating extremists" now control the White House.
...and...
Another prominent Oath Keeper is former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, who has long been an outspoken government critic.
The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Mack a "longtime militia hero" who helped weaken gun control laws.
So yet another frightening example of the type of people who are probably the most well-armed in our country.