[ExI] right to try bill

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 27 September 2016 at 10:47, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >>… When the people fear the government there is tyranny.  When the
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> what they wanted to do…--  Stathis Papaioannou
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> They want to, I can assure you.  The reason the government doesn’t send
> police and soldiers to subdue the people is that if they tried that, then
> they are no longer the government. That’s why the constitution is designed
> the way it is: should the government violate our rights, it isn’t the
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That's the case everywhere: if the government is brutal enough, the people,
including soldiers and police, might rebel. This is regardless of whether
there is a formal constitution or not; nations like the UK and New Zealand
do OK without one, while many others uch as the Soviet Union, have
fine-sounding constitutions which don't seem to help. But the point I
wanted to make was that citizens bearing arms is NOT a deterrent to
tyrrany. If anything, it gives the police an excuse to shoot them, as we
are actually seeing.


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Stathis Papaioannou
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