We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.
John Adams
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
George Washington
Freedom is never given, it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
On a more activist note, exercise your 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights fully on January 19th. Send a shot across the bow to the government that our rights are not granted by them and neither can they rescind them in any way. Open carry. Walk around with a rifle on a sling all day in public. Go shooting. Buy a gun. Go to a gun show. (Edited to add: Do as Karl Denninger suggest and send a not-so-subtle hint to your legislators, governors, and President.) Buy ammunition. Spread the word that freedom is WON, not granted, and we intend to defend our victory spoils.
If you really don’t want to have to rely on that last palladium of liberty and a resort to actually use your firearms to protect this nation against tyranny, then use your firearms on the soap box of public action and free speech.
Sword of Apollo
/ January 11, 2013You might find this YouTube video thought-provoking, (I recommend the rest of the playlist as well): Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights.