From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Oct 31 1998 - 05:08:11 MST
At 02:15 PM 10/30/98 -0500, Michael Lorrey wrote:
>Socialism denies the
>concept of Natural Law, and states, as Mao said,"Justice comes out of the
>barrel of a gun".
For some reason, despite my previous wails, Mike keeps misquoting this
real-politik observation (which is congenial, I'd have thought, to
Libertarians and gun-fanciers). Mousy Dung *actually* said:
`POLITICAL POWER comes from the barrel of a gun'
- that is, however true, noble and virtuous your political ideas, if you
don't have the firepower to back them up you're smoke in the breeze. A
moment's checking on the Web would confirm this quote. Cf., e.g.,
http://www.albany.edu/~cl3715/quotes.html
Damien Broderick (no fan of the Chairman's)
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