"a few dozen people in Virginia " seems a stretch. What I'm hearing here is "about 20" attended.
I've been meeting resistance in social media due to my stance against these "protests", but it is what it is, and I think they're something less than rational. I have issues with folks begging presumed masters for their rights to be returned when their rights were never taken to begin with. Instead of marching on a court house, I believe the best course of action is to just pick your rights back up and exercise them - no one can defend them but you, and all the marching in the world is a fail if no one is exercising the rights they claim to be agitating for.
You see, if you beg a presumed Master for your "rights", you're doing it all wrong. It's all backwards. One does not beg for rights to be given to him - those are not rights at all, they are "civil liberties", because they were issued by a civil authority, not pre-existent as a condition of simply being alive... and what the government giveth, the government can taketh away. WHY would someone beg a government for something that can be revoked from them at will?
Americans seem to have lost sight of the way it was set up to work here. It was originally intended for the People to be the masters of government, not the other way around. In other words, WE tell THEM how it's gonna be. We do NOT beg them for permission to allow it to be that way. That's just bass ackwards. In their defense, Americans have been being conditioned to respond that way ever since the Civil War ended with the Central Government prevailing over the power of the States and consolidating an iron grip over them. That was over 150 years ago, and so they have had 150 years to condition the citizenry to believe they are merely sheep who require governmental permission to graze.
That kicked into high gear in the 1960's, with all the marching and begging permission from the Masters... and that decade normalized "marching in protest" by the Left as a legitimate means of doing that begging - NOW it seems that the Right has also fallen into that trap, and are employing Leftist tactics to beg when they ought to be TELLING instead of asking.
BUT - if that's what they want to do with the time they have left on this rockball, it's really nothing to me... I have fishing to do!
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I've been meeting resistance in social media due to my stance against these "protests", but it is what it is, and I think they're something less than rational. I have issues with folks begging presumed masters for their rights to be returned when their rights were never taken to begin with. Instead of marching on a court house, I believe the best course of action is to just pick your rights back up and exercise them - no one can defend them but you, and all the marching in the world is a fail if no one is exercising the rights they claim to be agitating for.
You see, if you beg a presumed Master for your "rights", you're doing it all wrong. It's all backwards. One does not beg for rights to be given to him - those are not rights at all, they are "civil liberties", because they were issued by a civil authority, not pre-existent as a condition of simply being alive... and what the government giveth, the government can taketh away. WHY would someone beg a government for something that can be revoked from them at will?
Americans seem to have lost sight of the way it was set up to work here. It was originally intended for the People to be the masters of government, not the other way around. In other words, WE tell THEM how it's gonna be. We do NOT beg them for permission to allow it to be that way. That's just bass ackwards. In their defense, Americans have been being conditioned to respond that way ever since the Civil War ended with the Central Government prevailing over the power of the States and consolidating an iron grip over them. That was over 150 years ago, and so they have had 150 years to condition the citizenry to believe they are merely sheep who require governmental permission to graze.
That kicked into high gear in the 1960's, with all the marching and begging permission from the Masters... and that decade normalized "marching in protest" by the Left as a legitimate means of doing that begging - NOW it seems that the Right has also fallen into that trap, and are employing Leftist tactics to beg when they ought to be TELLING instead of asking.
BUT - if that's what they want to do with the time they have left on this rockball, it's really nothing to me... I have fishing to do!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’