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  1. I missed the original post. Thank you for repeating it, and may you repeat it yearly.

  2. Neo says (and I thank her for it): ‘Sometimes an election merely means “one person, one vote, one time,” if human and civil rights are not protected by a constitution that guarantees them, and by a populace dedicated to defending them at almost all costs.’

    I submit that ‘populace’ is way more important than ‘constitution’ in the equation of Liberty. Which is why we are losing it.

  3. The Kundera quote reminds me of something Aldous Huxley wrote:

    “In the field of politics the equivalent of a theorem is a perfectly disciplined army; of a sonnet or picture, a police state under a dictatorship. The Marxist calls himself scientific and to this claim the Fascist adds another: he is the poet–the scientific poet–of a new mythology. Both are justified in their pretensions; for each applies to human situations the procedures which have proved effective in the laboratory and the ivory tower. They simplify, they abstract, they eliminate all that, for their purposes, is irrelevant and ignore whatever they choose to regard an inessential; they impose a style, they compel the facts to verify a favorite hypothesis, they consign to the waste paper basket all that, to their mind, falls short of perfection…the dream of Order begets tyranny, the dream of Beauty, monsters and violence.”

    (Ape and Essence, 1948)

  4. neo said, “And then ask them what they think of John Kerry’s assertion, during his 1971 Senate testimony, that they didn’t care what sort of government they had as long as their other ‘basic needs’ were met:”

    Out of the mouth of an elite gigolo who is now our Secretary of State. It is to weep.

    Here’s to liberty! May we find our way back to what it once was. A Happy Passover and Easter to all.

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  6. I submit that Easter (Resurrection Sunday) in Christian tradition was concurrent with the Passover.
    Or perhaps more accurately, Good Friday.
    That was the point:
    That Jesus was the Passover lamb.
    And that He purchased of our freedom (from Satan’s rule) on the cross, as that sacrificial lamb, so that death might pass over us.
    He demonstrated that freedom by His Resurrection.

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