Banning Imaginary Guns
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PERTINENT QUOTE OF THE SHOW:
Larry Pratt: "[Congress] renewed a ban that was to expire December 10th...
Bob Enyart: "On guns that don't exist. Plastic guns."
Larry Pratt: "They don't exist. They're not likely to exist. And if they existed it wouldn't keep it out of the hands of Alkida any more than the laws agains murder prevented them from doing what they did on September 11th."
Larry Pratt: "[Congress] renewed a ban that was to expire December 10th...
Bob Enyart: "On guns that don't exist. Plastic guns."
Larry Pratt: "They don't exist. They're not likely to exist. And if they existed it wouldn't keep it out of the hands of Alkida any more than the laws agains murder prevented them from doing what they did on September 11th."
BEST QUOTE OF THE SHOW:
Larry Pratt: "Socialism is a spiritual problem. And these folks actually look at themselves as the religion of government and they who are in the government are the high priests of this government and so it actually starts to get into their mind that, 'Well, if I say something, that's God walking on earth. Kind of a Hegelian idea of the state as god. And surely people will obey god.' Well, they don't obey God. Why should any of the citizens obey god either?"
Larry Pratt: "Socialism is a spiritual problem. And these folks actually look at themselves as the religion of government and they who are in the government are the high priests of this government and so it actually starts to get into their mind that, 'Well, if I say something, that's God walking on earth. Kind of a Hegelian idea of the state as god. And surely people will obey god.' Well, they don't obey God. Why should any of the citizens obey god either?"
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Only problem is, as government deities they get to educate the people on just what "obedience" entails. Something many neglect to consider. While in western cultures scholasticism revolves around educating people to be half-way critical thinkers...in these psuedo-theocracies such virtues are weeded out right early on and what's left is directed towards their hatred of anything outside their very small clique. So the behaviors you see from their constituency is not a matter of dis-obedience, using their little gods as a justification, but is a matter of strict compliance with what they've been taught is the only moral reaction to percieved threats to the little gods world. Re-structuring nations after centuries of this kind of influence and education will be extremely difficult and amout to nothing more than policing the adults while re-educating their children...if that's even possible. Maybe some of the adults are not so recalcitrant as to be unregenerative but ascertaining which of them are should be approached scientifically/psychologically. Attempting to replace one sky daddy with another is not even close.
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