tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post962385328712636966..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: ♫ ♪ ♬ You say you want a Constitution ... wellll ya know, we all want to change the world ♬ ♪ ♫Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-43657311465565423682010-07-05T00:35:46.892-05:002010-07-05T00:35:46.892-05:00Thank you Sal.
If you find that something I wrote...Thank you Sal.<br /><br />If you find that something I wrote will be useful towards part of the education of a third grader, I'm seriously honored, and IMHO <i>that's</i> real fame, lasting fame, the only sort of any worth - and it doesn't need a memory of my name or face to carry it forward.<br /><br />OTOH, I wouldn't trade a cup of coffee for all the "Survivor!", paris hilton & deepact chopra type 'fame' in the world - it's literally worthless to me (and I suspect to Bob too).Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-81787648821380295792010-07-04T07:24:13.180-05:002010-07-04T07:24:13.180-05:00This is just what I was looking for to boil down f...This is just what I was looking for to boil down for the protective consumption of a to-be third grader.<br />Thank you! I knew this was the place to look.<br />Why are you not famous all over the 'Net? <br />(I know- it probably has something to do with why Bob isn't, either.)Salhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-46737594770059354072010-07-01T11:09:55.087-05:002010-07-01T11:09:55.087-05:00Xlbrl said "Liberty, taken by force, can be r...Xlbrl said "Liberty, taken by force, can be restored by force. Relinquished voluntarily, liberty cannot be recovered. The people who let it go are not ones to get it back. "<br /><br />Well... like I said, that's not necessarily so. It <i>will </i>require action to accomplish (and a liberal amount of understanding to be meaningful for any length of time), but it is conceivably possible that political force (speech, protest, vote, legislative, judicial) might be the only force that will need to be employed in such a situation here.<br /><br />A model for it already exists in our history, as I mentioned, England's "Glorious Revolution" was bloodless, and <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/history/Glorious_Revolution.html" rel="nofollow">this summary</a> of it reads awful darned close to a realistically forseeable future here, just substitute 'Socialize' for 'Catholicize', and the rest reads fairly relevantly:<br /><br /><i>"To a large extent, the Roman Catholic James II (1633-1701), King of Great Britain from 1685 until he fled to France in 1688, brought the "Glorious" revolution down upon himself. When he succeeded his brother Charles II on the English throne, he proceeded to alienate virtually every politically and militarily significant segment of English society by commencing ill-advised attempts to Catholicize the army and the government and to pack parliament with supporters. He employed the Dispensing Power — the royal prerogative of suspending the operation of various statutes, declared illegal in 1689 in the Bill of Rights — to evade the Act of Uniformity and the Test Act; and his Declaration of Indulgence, issued in 1687-88, suspended penal legislation against religious nonconformity, allowing Dissenters to worship in meeting houses, and Catholics to worship in private.<br /><br />When, in June 1688, he had a son, fears of the establishment of a Catholic dynasty in England led prominent Protestant statesmen to invite William of Orange, James's son-in-law, to assume the throne. William landed with an army at Torbay in November 1688, promised to defend the liberty of England and the Protestant religion, and marched unopposed on London. James fled ignominiously to France. Parliament then met, denounced James, offered the throne to William and his wife Mary as joint sovereigns, and placed constitutionally significant legal and practical limitations on the monarchy.<br />..."</i><br /><br />True, there were some counter 'skirmishes' that followed it afterwards... but... I'm ignoring that.<br /><br />Ahem.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-74146422320907330872010-07-01T10:18:35.136-05:002010-07-01T10:18:35.136-05:00Liberty, taken by force, can be restored by force....Liberty, taken by force, can be restored by force. Relinquished voluntarily, liberty cannot be recovered. The people who let it go are not ones to get it back. <br /><br />The Obamunists have done us a great favor. Things were going perfectly for them before they alarmed the public in their overconfidence.xlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.com