The Little Trolls response to my letter

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  • CAS_Shooter

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    Jan 24, 2012
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    Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.

    It really is that plain and simple. But as has been said over and over, those in politics that act contrary to this, are not ignorant of what the founding fathers intended, they are simply opposed to what the founding fathers intended......often under the self riteous guise of "it was a different time".
     

    Bob A

    όυ φροντισ
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    Patriot Picket
    Nov 11, 2009
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    http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm





    The Federalist No. 46

    ...

    The only refuge left for those who prophesy the downfall of the State governments is the visionary supposition that the federal government may previously accumulate a military force for the projects of ambition. The reasonings contained in these papers must have been employed to little purpose indeed, if it could be necessary now to disprove the reality of this danger. That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterupted succession of men ready to betray both; that the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment; that the governments and the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering storm, and continue to supply the materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads, must appear to every one more like the incoherent dreams of a delirious jealousy, or the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal, than like the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism.

    . . .
    PUBLIUS

    More a waking nightmare, than an incoherent dream, at this time in our history.
     

    FFMike

    Ultimate Member
    Feb 4, 2010
    1,839
    Howard County
    Robo letter same as I got... Really cares about her constituents (sarcasm) since she can not address each letter. Time to retire the old bat!
     

    WeaponsCollector

    EXTREME GUN OWNER
    Mar 30, 2009
    12,120
    Southern MD
    Typical career politician, she believes and does whatever she wants regardless of her constituents and she knows she will get reelected as many times as she wants just like she has been since 1987.
     

    hacktracker

    Active Member
    Apr 10, 2012
    708
    Lower-Slower
    What I consider the key portion of #46...

    Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

    It's not about shooting ducks, it's about freedom!
     

    nedsurf

    Ultimate Member
    Feb 8, 2013
    2,204
    got the same canned letter today. Not that I think her staffer will read it, but more out of amusement sent hyperlinks to the FBI table 20 stats and the Webster and Kopel depos. I also noted her more vulnerable colleagues in other states.
     

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