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jigo <retired@home.com>  wrote :

> Jane Galt wrote:
>> Liberals' hatred of people leads to gun control
>>
>> http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/gun_control_and_the_paradox_of_li
>> berty .html
>>
>> The hatred of people leads to gun control.  I am talking about not the
>> shooter's hatred, but the gun controller's hatred.
>>
>> Liberals have a reputation for caring about people -- an undeserved
>> reputation.  They don't believe that people ought to live free and
>> govern themselves.  Liberals like Harry Belafonte, Woody Allen, and
>> Bill Maher have openly advocated that President Obama take the
>> authority of a dictator. Observe how liberal celebrities such as Sean
>> Penn gush over foreign dictators like Hugo Ch�vez.  How many of your
>> liberal friends own a Che Guevara t-shirt or poster?  Liberals hate
>> people so much that they do not trust them to govern themselves.
>>
>> Read more:
>> http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/gun_control_and_the_paradox_of_li
>> berty .html#ixzz2JCw1xQl3
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> 
> That's basically true. I would put it another way. People say 
> they're in favor of all the freedoms we have in America, but they 
> don't really care about those they're not involved in or have an 
> interest in. They seem to feel that if some law, possibly even 
> unconstitutional, limits or takes away the freedom of others, it 
> doesn't matter to them. Politicians pass laws based on the support 
> of the groups that support and vote for them, instead of a logical 
> analysis of the situation.
> 
> They should all remember Martin Niemoeller's observations in Germany:
> "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I 
> wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak 
> up because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the trade unionists, 
> and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.  Then they 
> came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a 
> Protestant.  Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left 
> to speak up."
> --Martin Niemoeller
> 
> Someone applied it to what's been happening in the U.S.
> "When they took the fourth amendment, I did not speak up because I 
> had nothing to hide. When they took the fifth amendment, I didn't 
> speak up because I knew I was innocent. When they took the second 
> amendment, I didn't speak up because I don't own a gun. Now they are 
> taking the first amendment, and I cannot speak up at all."
> 
> 

Yeah but the overlying theme here is that essentially liberals/socialists 
believe in slavery.