Singapore? How you figure? I've always heard from my folks (who lived over there) that if a guy gets off the airplane with long hair they drag him straight to the barber or tell him to GTFO. Among other things.
Ask any Conservative what they would do to a long-haired hippy...
America is no different from Singapore. With the exception that you can buy your Rights for a lot less money in Singapore, than the USA.
Thailand is an interesting example. Yes, it's illegal to own a gun there, for the most part. But, if you have $100, or live near a conflict zone... The Cops aren't inhuman like they are here. You'd be nuts NOT to have an AK in some of those places. An expat who isn't a total slob generally gets special treatment. I don't agree with special treatment, but I have far more Rights in almost any foreign country chosen at random, than I do here.
I've actually BEEN THERE. Have you? How many people think america is so great based on what he news tells them?
Put your Kel Tec in a box and FedEx it to your neighbor. In far more polite nations, you'll get your box with a smile. If it gets held at customs and discovered, it's not your name, and the guy they ask questions of honestly has no idea and won't get in trouble. Be extra nice to him for a week or so, buy him a case of beer for his troubles... Embrace the Counter Economy; it's the most American thing there has ever been.
Do you have any idea how much a Glock sells for in Vietnam? Sure, the Right is still for sale, but at least it can be had.
The Constitution doesn't Grant Rights, it fails to protect them. It's just a piece of paper. If you won't back it up, and you clearly refuse to; then you lose it. YOU have to do it. YOU have to stand up to the Guv. YOU have take up arms. YOU have to get off your sofa in your ivory-tower and DO it. This is the one and only reason why we have a Second Amendment. If you just sit there making excuses, and you have, then you've already lost. You got too comfortable, and you waited too long. It's over.
I'm not going to be the first hauled away while you still refuse to acknowledge that someday it'll be you. You let your only friend and ally get hauled off first.
You, my Countrymen, betrayed me to the Hangman. I seek only to spare myself the gallows and let you reap what you've sown. It seems you won't learn any other way. Maybe when you wake up I'll be back. It's better than letting you watch me die.
Who among you would still return to help those who betrayed you to the noose? Who has that kind of patience and forgiveness? You haven't even figured out what you've done, refuse to take responsibility for it, throw it in my face, insult me, and I already forgive you. I'm not special. I learned from history, and you refuse to and will repeat it. I can't help you later if I let you kill me now. I am not the Messiah, I will not rise again.
This is happening again, right now. It just hasn't happened to you ... yet. Your selfishness and obesity will be your undoing.
Religious or not, there is wisdom in avoiding the 7 Cardinal Sins. You have embraced them and relabeled them as "success." You now reap what you've sown. You can't vote the Laws of Nature into oblivion. The 7 Cardinal Sins are Laws of Nature. It doesn't matter if a religious person or a non-religious person discovered them and wrote them down. In the same way that the Bill of Rights doesn't Grant Rights, it merely enumerates Natural Rights essential to Liberty. It doesn't matter who wrote it. If you refuse to protect it, you lose it. The Bill of Rights is not a piece of paper that you can lean on. It leans on YOU. It depends on YOU to hold it up. It depends on YOU for protection. It is nothing but a written reminder of what YOU need to DO, what it takes to get it back once lost, and what awaits you once it is lost.
You don't have to believe in a god to value wisdom regardless of it's source. Refusing wisdom just because you've decided to hate the source... Well, duh. Here we are at the inevitable conclusion. Hate should never be valued. Freedom is Choice, for what is Love but the Choice to Give it?
You have no idea what I just said, do you?
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