Exactly. Abducting people and putting them on trial is one of their standard fantasies.
How long until we see claims that the arrests were a political hit job timed to make Trump look bad?
Oh, who am I kidding. I’m sure those claims are already out there.
I don’t condone this kidnapping plot. But, the famous quote comes to mind:
“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
AHA! I think we finally know what the male equivalent of “Karen” is!
Yeah, we get what you are really saying.
That was about as subtle as a bowling ball tossed through a window.
Oh? Do tell: what am I “really” saying?
Number three reminds me of one of those old drawings of a face, where if you turn it upside down it’s another face.
Damnit, it didn’t work.
Tyranny is bad. So I assume that you’re talking about the prominent government leader who has said quite overtly that he plans to attempt to subvert the democratic process, that he will not accept the results of the coming election if he’s voted out of office? Will we see you marching on Washington with a militia exercising their 2nd Amendment solution to oppose tyranny and throw him out of office? See you there!
Maybe the fear the government has should come from being voted out of office rather than being marched out at gunpoint.
Because, when you think force is what you need to keep a government in line then you have just handed all power to the people with the most/biggest guns. That may seem great to you if you think it is your side that has the most/biggest guns but will you feel the same if you find someone else actually has the most/bigger guns and all of a sudden you find you have no power and are at the whim of someone pointing a gun at you? I am willing to bet you would HATE that and find it really, really unfair.
Just saying…
“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Resounding, but empty, claptrap. It’s one thing if government fears the people’s decision in free, fair and peaceful elections. It’s quite another when self-appointed and entirely unaccountable “people” impose their own tyranny. Likewise, a lot of people’s liberty is guaranteed by government, through the rule of law, frightening those who would otherwise do them harm.
Please, do expand on your point.
Famous mostly for being made up, you mean…
Said in 1914 by John Basil Barnhill, first case of it falsely being attributed to Thomas Jefferson in 1994.
As one of our Presidents said- “” The problem with internet quotes is that you can’t always depend on their accuracy " ~Abraham Lincoln, 1864.
Not verbatim, he had the order reversed. And hardly “famously” - it’s only the attribution to Jefferson that renders it “famous” - so much so that Monticello has a page up debunking it.
And paraphrased by Alan Moore, in V for Vendetta:
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
So, in your view, 13 guys kidnapping the Governor accurately represents the will of the Michigan people?
Some people are more “the people” than other people.
Shades of Australia 1932: New Guard plan to kidnap Premier of New South Wales
Cast from a bad production of “La Cage Aux Folles” by the Michigan Militia.