Please Be Brave Enough To Respond To This Poll

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WillyT (43,798 posts)

Please Be Brave Enough To Respond To This Poll

Guns, Drones, and FEAR...

I still believe in this...

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)

QUOTATION: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.


Link: http://www.bartleby.com/73/1056.html

How about you ?

 

5 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
   Yes... I am afraid enough to give up some liberties to have the government protect me.
0 (0%)
   No... I believe there is a better, more mature way, to solve the things we may feel threaten us.
4 (80%)
   Obligitory Other.
1 (20%)
   0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022405740

These are the same people who cheer every time the dems take away a little more of our liberty, in fact they accuse 0bama of not moving fast enough to take our freedoms away. I think the problem is they don't understand liberty unless it involves sexual activity then they are libertarians, but every other aspect of our lives must be controlled by the government. 

[Karin]

Some more activity in that thread.  Here's the lupine commie:

Response to WillyT (Original post)
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 09:25 PM
white_wolf (5,596 posts)
3. ...I would like to point out that anyone who believes in government is willing to trade some liberty for security. After all, isn't that the whole reason for government in the first place? I'm not sure I agree full with his sentiment, but I think Lenin was at least in the right direction when he wrote "Where the State exists there can be no freedom. Where there is freedom there is no State."

[Skul]

Some more activity in that thread.  Here's the lupine commie:

I hope I didn't burn my mole with that comment.

[Maxiest]

I hope I didn't burn my mole with that comment.

I see what you did there...

[Bad Dog]

These d***wads sure have a low threshold for bravery.

[Dori]

Response to WillyT (Original post)
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 09:25 PM
white_wolf (5,596 posts)
3. ...I would like to point out that anyone who believes in government is willing to trade some liberty for security. After all, isn't that the whole reason for government in the first place? I'm not sure I agree full with his sentiment, but I think Lenin was at least in the right direction when he wrote "Where the State exists there can be no freedom. Where there is freedom there is no State."

Oh I believe in quoting Dictators too.


Adolph Hitler;

What luck for rulers that men do not think.  

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I hope I didn't burn my mole with that comment.

Polls are some of their favorite mole traps, but the real trap in this one isn't the poll itself, but what one might write in a comment while under the illusion that there is safety in numbers.