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Back to the Lincoln movie: I saw the trailer, and its objective seems to be to paint Lincoln as history's great warrior against slavery. The film will be a tragic exercise in mythological hero worship, methinks. Now it will be even more difficult for the average joe to understand actual history, thanks to the Hollywood genius himself. And btw, Spielberg
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These guys better not show up on my lawn.
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So true. And to come full circle back to the Germany reference, there was nowhere in the world where the people were as well-schooled as in Germany for the fifty years prior to the rise of Nazism. Germany, and Prussia in particular, perfected the indoctrination practices to such a degree that submission to the state became an integral part of German
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[quote]Oh, come on, really now? We can find these incidents, but I find it dishonest to claim it's worse than 1930s Germany.[/quote] It's not the incidents in and of themselves I'm talking about, but people's quiet acquiescence and unthinking submissiveness that poses the real danger. That's the foundation that's being built
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People are so mindlessly obedient to the "authorities" and "public officials" that anybody in a uniform can do no wrong, and only criminals and neanderthals would dare question any of their activities. Many years ago I received a call (I live here in Indiana) from a friend of mine who was in jail. He had a diabetic insulin reaction
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The article was unclear with respect to some details. It sounds like there was a length of time that transpired and the coupled identified her as a young woman. I just wonder whether or not based on the visual evidence they had available that they shouldn't have concluded it was a drunken college student. Again, look at her picture. The woman said
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No, this does not seem like a good example of property rights defense. Did you see the picture of the girl? You can't tell me that the couple had ample reason to fear for their lives. A drunken/stoned college girl of 21 does not pose a threat, and firing a shot (in the dark!?) and actually hitting her tells me the guy should learn how to use a firearm
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I'd also throw in this thought: The tradition of liberalism in the classical sense has been one of anti-power. But historically, the source of this power has been the state. In the early modern era and into the nineteenth century, it was well understood that massive amounts of wealth were gained and secured using political authority. Although capitalism
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I think the crux of the matter is that, taken as a whole, the French Revolution lacked a significant anti-state component, something noted by Tocqueville, who once commented that, through all the changes witnessed from 1789, the one institution that remained, and in fact grew stronger, was the state and its administrative bureacracy. The premise underlying
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[quote]An example of a major problem: even under capitalism, natural disasters generate tremendous volunteer effort and people donate huge amounts of goods, services, and money to help those who are suffering. It is not conceivable that this human response will decrease in socialism.[/quote] I think this is an excellent point, because, as we all know