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20 Jul 2011, 6:10 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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And how does a "nanny state" lead to war, in the first place?

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By the multitude of laws leading to the absence of justice.


That can just about fit on a bumper sticker.

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20 Jul 2011, 6:12 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
And how does a "nanny state" lead to war, in the first place?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


By the multitude of laws leading to the absence of justice.


That can just about fit on a bumper sticker.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


How about a simpler form: "More laws: less justice" - Marcus Tullius Cicero.



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20 Jul 2011, 9:10 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
And how does a "nanny state" lead to war, in the first place?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


By the multitude of laws leading to the absence of justice.


That can just about fit on a bumper sticker.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


How about a simpler form: "More laws: less justice" - Marcus Tullius Cicero.


And unfortunately, Cicero's severed head and hands were put on public display by Octavian (Augustus), and Mark Anthony (Caesar's right hand man, not the singer).

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21 Jul 2011, 10:19 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
And how does a "nanny state" lead to war, in the first place?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


By the multitude of laws leading to the absence of justice.


That can just about fit on a bumper sticker.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


How about a simpler form: "More laws: less justice" - Marcus Tullius Cicero.


And unfortunately, Cicero's severed head and hands were put on public display by Octavian (Augustus), and Mark Anthony (Caesar's right hand man, not the singer).

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Yes, he was proscribed because of his polemics against the notion of an imperator perpetuus.