So; did they utterly fail their due diligence, or are they complicit?
This is what happens when one is a “pragmatist”. You lose anyway eventually, for sure and for certain, but you lose as a compromised organization that no one likes except for the other “pragmatist” losers.
It’s what happens when compromise becomes operational doctrine. Eventually it leads to a complete rejection, even hatred, of the foundational principles, on the grounds that they are not compromise (because compromise, and not principles, have been adopted as the means to a sustained organization). Nearly all of the Protestant Reformation, for example, has taken that philosophy, and they’re dying off because of it, thinking themselves successful and wise in the process.
As usual, when they compromise on the RKBA, NEVER does it apply equally to the government. It’s always only more control over the People, NOT over those working UNDER their delegated powers. It’s the mark of criminality, lawlessness and slavery down through history–take from others what you have and keep for yourselves:
“The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.” –James Burgh, 1714-1775, English statesman (before England devolved into disarmed barbarism)
June 27th, 2019 at 7:22 pm
So; did they utterly fail their due diligence, or are they complicit?
This is what happens when one is a “pragmatist”. You lose anyway eventually, for sure and for certain, but you lose as a compromised organization that no one likes except for the other “pragmatist” losers.
It’s what happens when compromise becomes operational doctrine. Eventually it leads to a complete rejection, even hatred, of the foundational principles, on the grounds that they are not compromise (because compromise, and not principles, have been adopted as the means to a sustained organization). Nearly all of the Protestant Reformation, for example, has taken that philosophy, and they’re dying off because of it, thinking themselves successful and wise in the process.
June 30th, 2019 at 12:57 pm
Well said, Lyle!
As usual, when they compromise on the RKBA, NEVER does it apply equally to the government. It’s always only more control over the People, NOT over those working UNDER their delegated powers. It’s the mark of criminality, lawlessness and slavery down through history–take from others what you have and keep for yourselves:
“The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.” –James Burgh, 1714-1775, English statesman (before England devolved into disarmed barbarism)