Sunday, February 10, 2002

AMERICA: BORN TO RAISE HELL"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... [W]hat 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.... 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." -Thomas Jefferson, 1787. It's good to remind oneself in this time of mandatory patriotism that the people who founded the United States of America had recently taken up arms to overthrow a government, and felt that all citizens should be prepared to overthrow the government they were setting up, if necessary. 11:20:15 AM