>And when people like me cease to exist there will be no freedoms left to defend, they will have been taken by men like Stalin, Hitler, >Saddam, Castro, Pinochet, etc etc etc. You should thank God or your higher power that guys like me ARE around, otherwise this great >experiment called the United States of America would have died long ago, wouldn't have started in fact.
When people like you cease to exist,then people like Stalin,Hitler,Saddam,Castro,Pinochet become *powerless*.
Because *where* would they find the soldiers stupid enough to follow orders without questioning them?
*Where* would they find willing cannonfodder to fight their wars?
See? It is all a powerstructure and the common man/woman is far more powerful than they think they are ,but this simple idea
eludes most of them,so history will keep on repeating itself,and you will fight someone else's war while brainwashed with
the standard patriotic drivel about "defending one's country" and "dying" for it and so on.
No doubt you'll answer with the same sort of rhetoric,but as long as you don't get this,then the discussion might as well
end here,and you can have the last word on it for all I care...