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Posted: 8/13/2009 7:41:05 AM EDT

rem

Posted: 8/13/2009 7:44:37 AM EDT

[#1]

He's saying that WE own this country, not the elected few, and we need to sometimes remind them of this when they start to outgrow their britches.

Posted: 8/13/2009 7:52:07 AM EDT

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He's saying that WE own this country, not the elected few, and we need to sometimes remind them of this when they start to outgrow their britches.

Exactly.

Posted: 8/13/2009 8:00:32 AM EDT

[#3]

Jefferson, in Paris, speaking of the Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts.

Pointing out that a little violent civil disturbence was good for a Democracy. I wonder what he would have said had he been a land or business owner in Massachusetts at the time.

Posted: 8/13/2009 8:06:45 AM EDT

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This goes along with what Thomas Paine said -

"Time makes more converts than reason...A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

It's application to contemporary events is this; The politicians need to be reminded that what they are doing is wrong, but the people have ignored the advice of T.J. and have fallen into a state of complacency that occurs when enough time has gone by that they have forgotten what the politicians are doing is in fact wrong.

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