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Carey,

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:07:23 -0400, Carey Fisher wrote:

>...
> The Right to Bear Arms (or Right to Arm Bears)

I love that car-sticker!  :-)

> is just a part of a 
> multi-faceted defense the US has against the rise of a repressive 
> dictatorship.

I think these days the media machine can disguise the fact that a repressive regime is happening - if the populus don't realise it, they can't fight 
against it.

>  The overall defense is not working real well right now 
> (the Patriot Act, etc) but if things were to ever get really repressive, 
> at least we have a fighting chance to avoid tyrannical repression.

You really think this is true?  I think some former inhabitants of the Waco "Compound" might disagree - if they could!  Then there's Guantanamo Bay, 
and "Extraordinary Rendition"...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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