(06-27-2020, 10:43 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Their hypocrisy astounds me!
Anyone who votes to keep these people in office are idiots, or else have very low IQs.
It will be interesting to see if they get ousted next time at the voting booth.
If they get back in, we should get a list of who voted for them and go round them up and drop them off in Venezuela.
We don't need the beginning stages of Communism in this country, or people who supports that ideology.
While I agree that we don't need it here, I also recognize that that sort of thing is precisely what we condemn Stalin and his ilk for - rounding up dissidents and exiling them to the gulags - and so cannot condone the sentiment.
These private guards are mercenaries, pure and simple. I can say that because I used to do exactly that sort of work. I contracted to both private companies and governments. They are "guns for hire", which is recognized as mercenary enterprise the world 'round. The problem for me is not their mercenary status, it is that the Overlords are using public funds to pay for them while at the same time trying to deny the same protection to private citizens.
That's not gonna fly.
It may be time for me to start up a domestic mercenary company, but refuse government contracts and only promote it to the private sector. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, is it not? Government cannot legitimately bitch about what they themselves are doing. The only problem I see would be the fact that Joe and Jack down the street don't have the deep pockets governments have, and so it might not be economically feasible - and economic feasibility is, after all, what "mercenary" is all about!
I have no problem defending my own - I already have the experience for it - but just one of me defending a lot of "thems" won't work well either.
I must ponder this for a while. In the meantime, while I'm pondering, I don't advise any lawless attacks on my position. It will only end in grief for the attackers and their mothers.
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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.’