Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, July 09 2008 @ 01:33 PM CST
Occasionally, you read something that lets you better understand somebody else’s thinking.
Obama, as quoted at Gateway Pundit[*1] :
–I think you are privatizing something that is what essentially sets a nation-state apart, which is a monopoly on violence
Of course, the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment is all about ensuring that the state in fact does not have a monopoly on violence. Should the state become sufficiently tyrannical, it is the right (and, perhaps, the duty) of the people to dissolve it–that comes from the Declaration of Independence.
States very seldom dissolve peacefully. Just ask the Iraqis about that.