Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David

The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish

All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck

Sunday, September 19, 2004

I Agree with Eric S. Raymond on 19 of his 20 Points

Eric has reposted his Top Ten Reasons I'm Neither a Liberal Nor a Conservative and I'm in full agreement with him on all 10 reasons he's not Liberal, and 9 of the 10 of the reasons he's not Conservative.

I disagree with this one:
9. Ronald Wilson Reagan. A B-movie actor who thought ketchup was a vegetable. His grip on reality was so dangerously weak that the Alzheimer's made no perceptible difference. Conservatives worship him.
Ronald Reagan is the man most responsible for accelerating the demise of the Soviet Union without a war. His grasp of the reality of the evil of Communism was flawless. He had real problems (what President hasn't?) but I honor him for that. I don't "worship" him, but I don't dismiss him either.

On every other point I am in complete agreement.
Posted by Kevin at 10:10 AM

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