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Old 01-09-2005, 13:09 PM   #31 (permalink)
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We were all hiding in the weeds.
Ahem...I hope what you mean by that is "Snipers take aim from within the weeds." Otherwise, I foresee a horrible "Lull" post coming on.
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." - Abraham Lincoln
How would the country and it's institutions treat those exercising their revolutionary right to overthrow it, I wonder?
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How would the country and it's institutions treat those exercising their revolutionary right to overthrow it, I wonder?
Wasn't Pakistan overthrown by military coup by Musharaff?
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Wasn't Pakistan overthrown by military coup by Musharaff?
from memory yes.
Is that an example of "Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it" or the institutions preventing the people using "their constitutional right of amending it"?
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I just hope it doesn't come to option 2.
If need be, I will be there...
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