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In A Few More Days We Will Celebrate Xmas, The Day We Commemorate The Birth Of You-know-who. ...it Seems The Modern Consensus Of Enlightened People That His Name Should Be Used In Polite Society Only When Cursing.... [p]oliticians Are Often Eager To Associate Themselves Personally With You-know-who, Even -- And Especially -- When They Rather Flagrantly Ignore His Injunctions.... He Was Out Of Step Then, And He Is Out Of Step Now. He Is Eternally Out Of Step, And Eternally More Powerful Than Those Who Keep In Step. You Know Who I Mean.

Power Tempts Even The Best Of Men To Take Liberties With The Truth.

The Prospect Of A Government That Treats All Its Citizens As Criminal Suspects Is More Terrifying Than Any Terrorist. And Even More Frightening Is A Citizenry That Can Accept The Surrender Of Its Freedoms As The Price Of "freedom".

...[t]he Constitution Conferred Only A Few Specific Powers On The Federal Government, All Others Being Denied To It (as The Tenth Amendment Would Make Plain). Unfortunately, Only A Tiny Fraction Of The U.s. Population Today - Subtle Logicians Like You - Can Grasp Such Nuances. Too Bad. The Constitution Wasn't Meant To Be A Brain-twister.

The Second Amendment, Like The Rest Of The Bill Of Rights, Was Meant To Inhibit Only The Federal Government, Not The States. The Framers, As The Federalist Papers Attest (see No. 28), Saw The State Militias As Forces That Might Be Summoned Into Action Against The Federal Government Itself, If It Became Tyrannical.