Next week on U62… He’s back… And this time… He’s mad!
Gandhi II!
No more “Mr. Passive Resistance”…
I always preferred Conan the Librarian.
Gandhi.
Gandhi?
Gaaaaaaaaaandhiiii!
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They had militias and wanted to keep the ability to form them. They didn’t just capture escaped slaves, they put down slave rebellions and would go and do searches of slaves quarters for anything that might be a weapon and flogged any slave with those things.
They did not want to have to depend on the northern states to give approval to forming a militia to put down a slave rebellion.
Patrick Henry, “Give me Liberty or give me death”. He argued for the amendment on these grounds. “Give me liberty to deal out death” I guess.
If those guys were so totally about arming people to resist the government, how come they sent the army to put down the Whiskey Rebellion?
They needed more whiskey. Don’t nobody fuck with the whiskey supply.
Yah, I saw Thom Hartman’s video presentation on this and found it rather convincing (don’t have the “Thom Hartman, The Big Picture” podcast link right now). My gf has completely swallowed the notion- the 2nd Amendment is about a free State (not Country) being granted the freedom to run a militia (i.e. slave patrol, if you follow the historical debate) without the federal government having the ability to disarm it and thereby undermine the ability of slave states to enforce slavery. Period. Not about fighting tyranny at all, but rather imposing it on the black population (which also explains why the slaves weren’t given guns- depriving them of such was part of the point). Nasty, but since you mentioned it first I guess I can’t start a thread about it…
Anyway, I wonder what would be different if Bhudda had a gun?
If you meet the Buddha on the road, take cover !
Gundhi
Worked his way through college carrying around Swami Satchidananda. Yes, that’s right, he was a yoga bearer.
Rush, big fan of Fred Hampton.
I wish I were making this up; Wayne Lapierre says that Obama plans to ruin Christmas.
Gandhi is dandhi.
That was in very poor taste. Gandhi was known for hunger strikes. You’re suggesting he was stuffed. :eek:
What if Bhudda had a gun?
Buddha.
And you can’t even really kill him. He just gets reincarnated.