tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860387354345137184.post2055665594592174830..comments2023-11-03T05:50:18.057-04:00Comments on Libertas and Latte: This is exactly what we've come to expect from government......part IIConstitutional Insurgenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860387354345137184.post-51043108463292279992011-06-20T06:11:07.160-04:002011-06-20T06:11:07.160-04:00Cardinal Richelieu of France was not just a a fict...Cardinal Richelieu of France was not just a a fictional charactor in "The Three Musketeers", he was a very real, smart, canny, effective, ruthless man.<br /><br />We forget,at our peril, his saying (paraphrased) that he could take the most France-loving, patriotic man in the country, engage him in coversation, and in six sentences hve enough to hang him.<br /><br />Soooo...maybe "The State" anticipates a need for miscreants to punish, or "misguided" to "bring back to the fold" in their presentation of gov't theater?<br />Maybe people who think a little too much, who might say something that some REAL hotheads might nod their heads over?<br /><br />Half a century ago the things I'm seeing today were deemed "Impossible" in this greatest country in the world. This was what the loathsome, inhuman "commies" did, not us.<br />And even today, some of the ones still alive today who waved their flags and even wept at the "pledge" think the dismantling of the nation and society are necessary to "save" it.Sargenoreply@blogger.com