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Re: March against crime - Joan Torr's Army Against Crime

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From: Scott Hillard
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 00:00

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> > Federal Service guarantees citizenship.

> > Why DO you want to be a citizen, Johnny Rico?

> Scott, maybe Johnny has a desire to follow the teachings of Aristotle.

Hmmm, not sure you got the reference.....

> "Aristotle considered the possession of arms synonymous with possession
> of political power: "when the citizens at large administer the state for
> the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a
> constitution . . . in a constitutional government the fighting men have
> the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens." (Book
> 3, ch VII)."

Precisely my point.....

>  . . . the notion that crime can be defeated by depriving its victims of
> all the means of self defense is a form of idiocy, which George Orwell
> described well when he made the remark, "Only an intellectual could
> believe something as stupid as that." Criminologist Don Kates 9/21/1999


Not to mention Orwell's endorsement of the old family shotgun hanging behind
the kitchen door as the best means of ensuring the preservation of
democracy.

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