“A fixed and unalterable Principle in the Nature of Things and a part of the very Idea of Property; That whatever a man hath honestly acquired, cannot be taken from him without his Consent.”
-Maryland House of Delegates to King George III 1768
We no longer understand property.
The only reason we signed the Outer Space Treaty was to prevent a Moon War with the Soviets before we figured out fully reusable heavy lift. Now we have Starship and the Soviets are gone.
Vae victis. Moonifest destiny.
*beeeeeep*
We can do better. We are a great country, but we can be a greater country. And I think we’re a powerful country, but we can be more powerful. What can be a more American sentiment?
Once you notice the “potential posting” you can’t stop seeing it. Liberals find it very hard to be patriotic, but they know that this is repulsive to normal people, so they have developed “potential posting” to do fake patriotism.
In 1776, per John Wilkes, the Lord Mayor of London, England was “fighting for the subjection, the unconditional submission of a country infinitely more extended than our own, of which every day increases the wealth, the natural strength, the population. Should we not succeed…we shall be considered as their most implacable enemies, an eternal separation will follow, and the grandeur of the British empire will pass away.”
future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their