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And then he sent 13,000 troops to put down the whiskey rebellion.
Without looking it up I'd say that the "dangerous servant and a fearful master" quote came before he was president. In that case,right or wrong, he did prove his own point that government is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
But he had also done what was absolutely necessary. Liberty and representative government is one thing, anarchy is quite another, and allowing the instigators of the Whiskey Rebellion take up arms against the lawful government would have been anarchy. After all, the American Revolution had been all about fighting against "taxation without representation," not against taxation - and the representative government had voted to tax whiskey. In truth, Washington understood lawful government was absolutely needed for liberty, so there was no contradiction here.
That happened in or about my neck of the woods (about 200 years earlier) but I not totally knowledgeable about all the facts it. Having said that, In the eyes of the rebels it probably was tyranny and I can't help but wonder if they and the tax collectors ever sat down and talked about it (the tax) before taking up arms. Ether way, Washington's suppression of the insurgency legally was not tyranny since it was a justifiable tax and an unlawful rebellion. Neville Island in the Ohio River down river from Pittsburgh was named after the tax collector of the same name that the rebels either killed or tried to kill during that. I'm doing this off of memory. Now that I've admitted of my own free will that suppressing the rebellion was not tyranny my stand on that will still be the same if this comes up again. You won't see m repeatedly slithering back to any stand other than that.
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And yes, you did claim more than once that I took pleasure in the deaths of Vicki Weaver and her son.
And yes, your libertarian views do slant your perception of reality - you see a group of people being cracked down on by the federal government, and you assume the feds are always in the wrong, especially if guns are involved. That's the number one reason why you took sides against Trayvon Martin (and yes, I know I'm going to regret bringing him up).
And what context could be at all justifiable in Ron Paul voting against the MLK holiday? He claimed one of his staffers had been using his name when calling the holiday "hate wh***y day." Even if Paul didn't write that, why in God's name would he keep the asshat who had written that on his parole? Why didn't he immediately disavow the statement?
And yes, you continue to provoke statements from me with calling my honesty and intelligence into question. Do you expect me to just role over and take it?
I'm just gonna pull two things out here (although I see more).
Ah, I almost forgot this....

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Did they handcuff her? Looks like it from the picture. And they just lodged her walking aid somewhere between her arms. Classy.
Is it common in the US to handcuff everyone that is arrested? I've seen it (on tv) also for non-violent people like people arrested for fraud.
Police handcuff everyone in the US, I've been handcuffed numerous times and have never been arrested and put in a paddywagon and got released at the station without ever being officially arrested or booked, I couldn't complain at the time.
The Aryan Nations are psychopathic Nazis. I do not think that it's unjustified for the feds to try to provocateur one of them for the purpose of gaining an informant.
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And yes, you did claim more than once that I took pleasure in the deaths of Vicki Weaver and her son.
And yes, your libertarian views do slant your perception of reality - you see a group of people being cracked down on by the federal government, and you assume the feds are always in the wrong, especially if guns are involved. That's the number one reason why you took sides against Trayvon Martin (and yes, I know I'm going to regret bringing him up).
And what context could be at all justifiable in Ron Paul voting against the MLK holiday? He claimed one of his staffers had been using his name when calling the holiday "hate wh***y day." Even if Paul didn't write that, why in God's name would he keep the asshat who had written that on his parole? Why didn't he immediately disavow the statement?
And yes, you continue to provoke statements from me with calling my honesty and intelligence into question. Do you expect me to just role over and take it?
I'm just gonna pull two things out here (although I see more).
Ah, I almost forgot this....

If I harp about the Weavers, it's only because you and Dox continually challenge me about the case. And as you go by memory concerning the Whiskey Rebellion, I also am going by memory about Ruby Ridge - and more, I actually lived through it.
As for that post having happened - it did indeed, but as with providing links to cite my sources, I'm too dumb to copy and paste. And while I almost never agree with you, I have never, ever called you a liar - please do not question my honesty.
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My very first posts in the whole Zimmerman debacle were expressing my opinion that it looked like a bad shoot from what little info was available, and progressed from there as more evidence came to light, unlike the people who jumped to conclusions and then refused to budge from them despite all evidence to the contrary. Unless you have a citation for this claim about me, I'm going to have to ask you to retract it, and refrain from mischaracterizing me in the future. If you do not want people to call you a liar, it helps not to lie about them.
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My very first posts in the whole Zimmerman debacle were expressing my opinion that it looked like a bad shoot from what little info was available, and progressed from there as more evidence came to light, unlike the people who jumped to conclusions and then refused to budge from them despite all evidence to the contrary. Unless you have a citation for this claim about me, I'm going to have to ask you to retract it, and refrain from mischaracterizing me in the future. If you do not want people to call you a liar, it helps not to lie about them.
I never called you a liar - you are mischaracterizing me. Rather, I have accused you of being blinded by ideology and pride - and I freely admit to resembling that remark, myself.
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I didn't say you called me a liar, I'm calling you one, as you said that I'd come out in favor of Zimmerman because of the gun issue, which is completely untrue, as is borne out by me pointing out that I was initially leaning against Zimmerman, and only came around when the evidence started to support his story, as is clearly documented in the threads. You also never presented any evidence of me being "blinded by ideology and pride", and when I say things like that about you, I back them up.
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I didn't say you called me a liar, I'm calling you one, as you said that I'd come out in favor of Zimmerman because of the gun issue, which is completely untrue, as is borne out by me pointing out that I was initially leaning against Zimmerman, and only came around when the evidence started to support his story, as is clearly documented in the threads. You also never presented any evidence of me being "blinded by ideology and pride", and when I say things like that about you, I back them up.
As I said, I never once called you a liar, and so I really wish you wouldn't call me one.
I admit, our intellectual sparring has gotten way too personal, and I regret that. For the sake of any amiability, I hereby refuse to carry on this discussion. If I offended you, I apologize, as I realize it's best I forgive any hurt feelings you have caused me. I think it's time for both of us to step back and take a breather.
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I admit, our intellectual sparring has gotten way too personal, and I regret that. For the sake of any amiability, I hereby refuse to carry on this discussion. If I offended you, I apologize, as I realize it's best I forgive any hurt feelings you have caused me. I think it's time for both of us to step back and take a breather.
I'm okay with stepping back, we're way off topic anyway, but I really want you to understand why I'm so angry, which is that you keep making statements about me that not only aren't true, but are provably not true, such as this Zimmerman accusation. What am I supposed to make of it when you say something about me that is so false that I can't believe you really believe it? I could care less that you disagree with me politically, I live in Seattle, I'm used to it, it's how you're choosing to do it, by misrepresenting me, that I'm having such a problem with here.
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Needs moar (to be epic):
crips and bloods doing drive bys (hitting everyone but their target)
drone launched Hellfire missiles on the cars doing the drive bys
NG with M1 Garands (hitting all the iphone media; you know they're just college hippies)
mustard gas (hitting everyone)
broken down NG Humvees (with an irate lieutenant saying nothing is going to happen until they're fixed)
the ghost of MLK hovering over the place weeping
KKK eating in the McDonald's store
I don't know what firing on peaceful protesters has to do with Waco and Ruby Ridge, though
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I admit, our intellectual sparring has gotten way too personal, and I regret that. For the sake of any amiability, I hereby refuse to carry on this discussion. If I offended you, I apologize, as I realize it's best I forgive any hurt feelings you have caused me. I think it's time for both of us to step back and take a breather.
I'm okay with stepping back, we're way off topic anyway, but I really want you to understand why I'm so angry, which is that you keep making statements about me that not only aren't true, but are provably not true, such as this Zimmerman accusation. What am I supposed to make of it when you say something about me that is so false that I can't believe you really believe it? I could care less that you disagree with me politically, I live in Seattle, I'm used to it, it's how you're choosing to do it, by misrepresenting me, that I'm having such a problem with here.
If I misremembered your stance on George Zimmerman, it was hardly intentional.
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(Shakes head) Somehow the subject came up - perhaps even by me trying to make a point - and an unresolved conflict was reignited.

But here's a poignant joke: Why are dead Aspies buried with their head above ground?
Answer: Because out heads are harder than tombstones!

And that's why we get into these endless arguments.
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