A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 16-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

I never suggested that I did.

On the contrary - you keep insisting that Americans are free because
of their constitution and that everyone else is a slave.

No, Americans are free because they have the right to keep and bear arms,
not because of the Constitution.

In fact,
the constitution does not guarantee freedom. it only provides for
it as long as there are enough people to defend it.

Precisely correct, which is why the Framers were careful to limit the power
of government to disarm the people, in order that the people would always
have in their possession the arms needed to overthrow a tyrant, should one
arise.

People change.

True, but rights don't.

There used to be widespread support for kings and queens and people
fought to the death to defend them. Now some defend constitutions.
American is not the first example of democracy - democracy has been
known to disappear in the past.

Indeed. Democracy is a very bad thing in its pure form, which is why it
tends to disappear. Our unique addition is the representative system and the
system of checks and balances, along with a resolve to ensure that all
citizens be sufficiently armed so as to dissuade the disappearance of our
system.


It proves that you are slaves to those who do have guns.

We are not slaves to anyone and we have a constitution that protects
us as much as yours.

As you so aptly said just above, "democracy has been known to disappear in
the past." The question is not whether you have a constitution, it's whether
you have the physical power to enforce the protection of your rights offered
by a constitution. If you don't have that power because you have allowed
your government to take away your fundamental human right to keep and bear
arms, and you have allowed the government to control, restrict and deny you
arms, then you have no power whatsoever other than that which your
government allows you to exercise. Unlike the US, your government does not
require (though it may, for a time agree to) the consent of the governed.
All it takes is one demogog or a corrupt military and you'll be living under
a military junta just like Burma or any other banana republic because you do
not have the arms required to overthrow a tyrant and retake your nation.
That is a simple fact that applies to every single nation on the planet that
denies its citizens arms...for whatever purportedly altruistic reason.

The pen is mightier than the sword and always
has been.

It's only mightier than the sword when there are sufficiency of swords
available to defend the ability of the pen to write. Absent that protection,
the pen just gets driven into your ear canal with a mallet and your body is
dumped into a mass grave along with the rest of the
"counter-revolutionaries." Just ask the Cambodians.

If you don't seize and vigorously defend and exercise your human right to
keep and bear arms, you are a slave to those who do have arms. There is no
doubt whatever about it.

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Regards,
Scott Weiser

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