'I've never seen anything like this': Let me tell you something. He ain't seen nothin' yet.
Mike Vanderboegh - an impassioned description, for the collectivists, of why they and we individualists will never be able to co-exist.
We will not disarm.
You cannot convince us.
You cannot intimidate us.
You can try to kill us, if you think you can.
But remember, we'll shoot back.
Your move.
-- The doctrine of the Three Percent, Mike Vanderboegh.
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But give the people, our people, credit, I tell the reporters, they are not stupid. Angry? Yes. Afraid? Rightfully so. But not stupid.
"Our people," the reporters always ask, picking up on the nuance, not "the people?"
No, I tell them. We are now two peoples, sharing a national border and a common laguage but little else. We are a divided nation, perhaps even more than in 1861. For example, if we cannot agree on the sanctity of life, does it matter that we agree on trivial stuff?
One people have a world-view that tells them that it is government from whom all blessings flow. For the other it is God and hard work and not necessarily in that order. One side wants the ability to tell the other side what to do and tries incessantly to get the government to do it. The other side simply wants to be left alone, for government to get out of the way of private enterprise, uphold the rule of lawm, and the right to life, liberty and property, and to otherwise keep its long nose stuck firmly on its ugly face and out of plain sight.
These are irreconcilable visions, I tell them. One or the other is going to win. It cannot be both.
