tisonlyi

The state mandates that you do not have the right to defend yourself against the state.

Ha!

I'm glad I had the wherewithal to clobber a copper or two in the uk before taking to toes and legging it in the past.

I wonder what Republicans make of both that, and the bearing of arms by the police and citizenry. :-/

RESPONSE TO DIRECLTLY ABOVE:

If they'd stolen something, shot someone or acted against the interest of the state in some other way, I'm pretty confident the sanctity of the place of worship would be taking a back seat. Right at the back. In reality, as I would hope most people know, illegitimate labour which is not actively, brutally removed is generally acting in the interest of the powerful.

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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--