The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Waco and crazy people

Posted By matt on November 2, 2006

Okay, so I watched the documentary about Waco I talked about here. I posted about it in the community as well, which led to a discussion about the FLDS (Fundamentalist Mormon splinter
group), where I found myself defending them on the grounds of freedom.

Link to guns discussion

(pay attention to the long-running thread by )

And, he cross posted to his personal LJ, so I can get heckled

Notable quotes are:

“I've always thought that dude was creepy and annoying.”

and

“that dude's a fucking tool.”

As quoted in SmallestMinority, “Liberty is an inherently offensive
lifestyle”

Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our
most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases
mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic
peace. It's worth it.

It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if
you don't there is no one to defend yours. – MaxedOutMama


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