"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:28:00 -0400, "ATP"
wrote:


"Steve B" wrote in message
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the following text, but only one line has been
made
famous and put on T shirts. The rest is highly relevant and shows the
context of the snippet and the timelessness of our genius forefather's
foresight into the affairs of the nation they fought and died to create.

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."


The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

He's talking about either killing the wingnuts or pacifying them and
setting
them right as to the facts.


Oddly old boy...the "wingnuts" as you so aptly mention...are the
Leftwingers.

No, it's people who get angry and take up arms against the government.

The conservatives are those who wish to continue the
government of the Founders.

Fantasizing over a great cull and mass murder is not a conservative mindset.
Using the political process and constitution is the way to preserve our
liberties.

And yes..they will be pacified and set to right. And the ditches filled
with their corpses will be horrific and wide.

It's the government that pacifies in the passage you cited. You seem to be
on the other side of our constitutional government.