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H�vard K. Moen <hkm...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:378ba758.1118690@news.online.no...
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:18:02 -0400, "Frank_Rizzo"
> <riz...@FARTalltel.net.net> wrote:
>
> > This is a perfect example of why we dislike gun control here in the USA.
> > http://www.georgiamountain.com/rweaver.htm
>
> "in August 1992 U.S. Marshals and FBI snipers killed his dog, only son
> Sammy and wife Vickie while she held their 10 month old child."
>
> What exactly was Randy supposed to have done, when they were _sniped_?
>
> This has got nothing to do with gun control. A criminal cowboy-wannabe
> (have a look at his pic!) gets parts of his family killed by the FBI
> and now blames the fact that he had no gun?

Where did he blame it on not having a gun? It's not about guns... Gun
control isn't about getting guns out of our hands so we don't hurt each
other. It's about getting guns out of our hands so our government will be
the only ones with guns, and therefore have the control. It's not about
guns, it's about control. It's not about safety... it's about control. Read
what Gary Spence (Randys lawyer) wrote to a friend of his:


"In this country we embrace the myth that we are still a democracy when we
know that we are not a democracy, that we are not free, that the government
does not serve us but subjugates us. Although we give lip service to the
notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the
people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like
timid sheep while the wolf killed, first the weak, then the strays, then
those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock
belonged to the wolf. We did not care about the weak or about the strays.
they were not a part of the flock. We did not care about those on the outer
edges. They had chosen to be there. But as the wolf worked its way towards
the center of the flock we discovered that we were now on the outer edges.
Now we must look the wolf squarely in the eye. That we did not do so when
the first of us was ripped and torn and eaten was the first wrong. It was
our wrong.

That none of us felt responsible for having lost our freedom has been a
part of an insidious progression. In the beginning the attention of the
flock was directed not to the marauding wolf but to our own deviant members
within the flock. We rejoiced as the wolf destroyed them for they were our
enemies. We were told that the weak lay under the rocks while we faced the
blizzards to rustle our food, and we did not care when the wolf took them.
We argued that they deserved it. When one of our flock faced the wolf alone
it was always eaten. Each of us was afraid of the wolf, but as a flock we
were not afraid. Indeed the wolf cleansed the herd by destroying the weak
and dismembering the aberrant element within. As time went by, strangely,
the herd felt more secure under the rule of the wolf. It believed that by
belonging to this wolf it would remain safe from all the other wolves. But
we were eaten just the same.

No one knows better than children of the Holocaust how the lessons of
history must never be forgotten. Yet Americans, whose battle cry was once,
"Give me liberty or give me death", have sat placidly by as a new king was
crowned. In America a new king was crowned by the shrug of our shoulders
when our neighbors were wrongfully seized. A new king was crowned when we
capitulated to a regime that is no longer sensitive to people, but to non
people--to corporations, to money and to power. The new king was crowned
when we turned our heads as the new king was crowned as we turned our heads
as the poor and the forgotten and the damned were rendered mute and
defenseless, not because they were evil but because, in the scheme of our
lives, they seemed unimportant, not because they were essentially dangerous
but because they were essentially powerless. The new king was crowned when
we cheered the government on as it prosecuted the progeny of our ghettos
and filled our prisons with black men whose first crime was that they were
born in the ghettos. We cheered the new king on as it diluted our right to
be secure in our homes against unlawful searches and to be secure in the
courts against unlawful evidence. We cheered the new king on because we
were told that our sacred rights were but "loopholes" but which our
enemies: the murderers and rapists and thieves and drug dealers, escaped.
We were told that those who fought for our rights, the lawyers, were worse
than the thieves who stole from us in the night, that our juries were
irresponsible and ignorant and ought not to be trusted. We watched with
barely more than a mumble as the legal system that once protected us became
populated with judges who were appointed by the new king. At last the new
king was crowned when we forgot the lessons of history, that:when the
rights of our enemies have been wrested from them, we have lost our own
rights as well, for the same rights serve both citizen and criminal."


You see, having the right to bear arms is one of our constitutional
*RIGHTS*. The more we give up our rights, the more we hand control over to
others. It's not about guns... It's about control of our own lives.



--
FrankRizzo{OT}
http://www.offtopic.com

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them."
-- Thomas Jefferson