Originally posted by zarp3333
Given the chance to govern themselves, the dirty, unwashed, ill-bred and uneducated "citizens" shall murder, steal, pollute and destroy their own communities. They are neither deserving nor capable of handling freedom.

Natural Law dictates the enslavement of the weak and ignorant by the strong and intelligent for the good of all.

AboveTopSecret, Facebook, YouTube and America Idol have been designed as meaningless exercises to afford imaginary power to those who may believe themselves capable of participation.

I hope this got your attention because this is precisely what your government believes. It is an inescapable conclusion based simply on their actions. Any belief to the contrary is a measure of the degree to which you fit the descriptions above.

If on the other hand you do believe all men were created equal and have been endowed with the ability to discern Truth, it is impossible to conclude anything other than any given group of men and women are naturally better at governing themselves than is any sub-set.

It makes no sense that given access to modern tools of communication, tools that most of use many times per day, we are satisfied with our government telling us that the group of us must wait TWO AND FOUR YEARS to express our inherently superior collective ideas!

Wake up. ATS is a

Natural Law dictates the enslavement of the weak and ignorant by the strong and intelligent for the good of all.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Originally posted by BohemianBrim
we are all CREATED equal.

but we are all raised and taught quite differently.

if you stole a black child from his poor crack-addicted ghetto-bred mother, and raised him in a mansion and taught him at the finest schools... do you imagine you would get a thug?

if you stole a white child from his rich country club parents, and raised him in the middle of the poorest slums of India, and taught him on the streets... do you imagine you would get a banker?

edit on 16-12-2011 by BohemianBrim because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by Charmed707
No one is created equal. So many different things make up an individual. I've never understood why so many people think that unless people are born blank slates, then some MUST be superior to others.