Re: [PLUG] Look what the Government wants now

[Bob Schwier <schwepes@netaxs.com>]

And which of us is prepared to be taken up the scaffold having the
strength to know that in his heart he is right?
Freedom you won't defend with your life, you don't have.
bs


On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, LeRoy Cressy wrote:

> I remember attending the Viet Nam war protest demonstrations and how the 
> police were always ther to break up the demonstration and knock a few 
> heads.  I also remember how the government was fighting back then as 
> they are now to erradicate the Constitution.
> 
> Now the government is using the boogy man ``Terrorism'' to take away 
> your freedoms and rights that so many have given their lives.  I still 
> agree with Patrick Henry when he said give me liberty or give me death. 
>   This is one subject I get a little passionate about.
> 
> Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:38, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Well, I guess it depends on whether or not you want to live in a country
> > where the only thing you have to fear is your government.
> > 
> > The Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi used to justify the huge fees he charged the
> > Beatles and other rock stars of the time, while preaching the evil of
> > materiality, by saying that people don't value the things that they have
> > gotten cheaply and easily.  I guess freedom has been so cheap and easy
> > for most Americans that they take it for granted and attach little value
> > to it.  I wonder what those 18th century, anti-government radicals with
> > slogans like, "Give me liberty or give me death." would think of the way
> > today's Americans are willing to squander the freedom for which they
> > sacrificed their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to achieve.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rev. LeRoy D. Cressy   mailto:leroy@lrcressy.com   /\_/\
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> 
> Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
> no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
> 
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