Persuasion and Force!

21 Dec 08

Persuade me if you can!

"Who bear arms can be persuaded, but never forced!"

Tyrants really have only one tool through which they are able to bend wills to their way of thinking: Coercion. Conversely, the enlightened use persuasion, because we firmly believe that, in the free marketplace of ideas, what is true and right will always shine through fraud, mendacity, and deceit, no matter how cleverly disguised.

Thus, the evil among us predictably resort to violence and threats in order to coerce, when their deceptive rhetoric miscarries, which it always does.

Who bear arms can interact, in every normal way, with our fellow citizens, and we can both persuade and be persuaded. But, we cannot be forced! Sway me if you can, through reason and righteousness, but I am an American, and force is an option with which I decline to endow you!

The foregoing is, of course, at once frightening and dumbfounding to those in government who seek, not to serve, but to be served. There are many, but here in America, their demoniac lust after unlimited power is immoderately checked, mostly by the Second Amendment!

Thank God for our Constitution and our Bill of Rights!

"'Good intentions' will always be pleaded for everyassumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that our Constitution was made to guard the People against the dangers of 'good intentions.' There are always those who mean to govern well, but mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but mean to be masters!"

Daniel Webster

/John