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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2010-12-14

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." -- George Wasington (b. 1732-02-22[*], d. 1799-12-14; President of the US 1789-1797)

[*] Recorded as 11 Feb. 1731-32 in the Julian calendar, which England and her colonies used at that time; retconned to the equivalent Gregorian date, 22 Feb. 1732, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752. See a calendar for September 1752 for the changeover (on a Unix/Linux computer, type "cal 9 1752"). Note that different countries adopted the Gregorian calendar in different years.

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metahacker: Snapshot of an 80s game, showing a blue troll holding a big club (troll)

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posted by [personal profile] metahacker at 01:53pm on 2010-12-14
Ehh, what does he know about what the Founding Fathers said when they created this great nation? Oh, wait.
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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 04:45pm on 2010-12-14
The kicker, of course, is figuring out how to rein in the overgrown government, what pieces to prune off.
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