Tom Toles for May 07, 2010

As we’ve been reminded from the start, do your job, go shopping, don’t worry about this little war. Wrong! If you’re going to win, everyone has to work to win, not go shopping. Right!

Work’s over rated.

Besides, Government taxes are still taking 20-25% portions. Your supporting your government.

Tax collector is another slang for thief.

Ouch! A little unfair.

“Remember when there’s no government, the local warlord will take whatever has value and maybe your life just because”

What was that thing about how before you could marry your wife your lord could deflower her before you married her just cause?

yeah, let’s punish the rest of us for those lousy bums. sooner or later I won’t be able to buy a car, because a “terrorist” used one to blow up something…

People like ComYics are going to wake up some day and wonder what happened to the country they loved. They expect highways, police, schools, libraries, parks, sanitation, city planning, etc., etc. without having to pay for it. Their prattle about unfair taxation is like the empty chatter of babies, completely uninformed and senseless.

Well, if we don’t let the terrorists buy guns and explosives, how will they ever kill anyone so we can waterboard ‘em??

and where have foreign terrorists with guns been shooting Americans??? And when did the Right say terrorist should have the right to buy explosive??? This is not a editorial cartoon, it’s a fantasy comic … are you writing for Dick Tracy??

I’d like to have a big screen tv. Where do I sign up?

No explosives, please.

biemmetzeta, Toles is pointing out the incompatibility of the absolutist Second Amendment stand and anti-terrorism. No, they aren’t saying “terrorists should be able to buy explosives,” but they are saying you should be able to buy weapons without supervision or restraint by the government – which means terrorists can.

I wonder what the average state by state requirement is for carrying citizenship papers vs. carrying gun ownership papers?

Seniorbull,

We also dropped food. It was the same color as the bombs but we did drop some.

I tought he put stolen tags on it?

Jade: “What was that thing about how before you could marry your wife your lord could deflower her before you married her just cause?”

The jus primae noctis (“law of the first night”) gets a lot of press, but there’s little indication that it was either officially recognized OR practiced to any great extent (Caligula is, I think, believed to have invoked it from time to time, but that’s Caligula). FYI, as it’s generally phrased, the “first night” refers to after the marriage ceremony (deflowering maidens, and thus “ruining” them for any future prospect of marriage, was one thing. But so long as she’s safely married already…).

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1139/did-medieval-lords-have-right-of-the-first-night-with-the-local-brides

Thanks for the info fritzoid. Of course it doesn’t say it didn’t happen though, which is the point that without civilization, law, order, and government, this sort of thing could happen with no repudiation just because they might have more “kill” ability than you.

In Heller’s book of the same name, “Catch 22” is broadly summed up as “We have the right to do anything you can’t prevent us from doing.” (“That’s some catch.” “It’s the best there is.”) The point being (in a fictional, cynical, satirical framework) that even in a civilized, law-based society, the weak are as much at the mercy of the strong as in caveman times. The only difference is that now there’s a half-hearted effort to make everything appear “nice and legal.”

From another source (which I always forget): “I don’t pay lawyers to tell me what I can or can’t do. I pay lawyers to tell me how to do what I want to do!”

Hence why I said “with no repudiation.”

Repudiation is no more nor less an option now than it ever was. Our laws (and systems for enforcing them) exist as much (if not moreso) to protect the strong from the disgruntled weak as the weak from the strong. For every instance where David Doe wins a court case against Goliath Corp., there are dozens where Goliath Corp.’s lawyers can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that David Doe doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on, that plaintiff is a vexatious litigant wasting the Court’s time and the taxpayers’ money, and defendant should be awarded reasonable costs and attorneys’ fees and perhaps monetary sanctions in an amount to be determined later. It happens in civil cases, criminal cases, challenges to legislation…

“We have the right to do anything you can’t prevent us from doing.”

Yes, those on the right are useless; but they’re not Marxists, either!

Well, I say thank goodness for guns! Guns are the one thing the teabaggers are for!

^What are you for, idiot sock-puppet? Care to let us experience the length and breadth of your staggering wisdom?

It’s a little sad to see some of those posters wouldnt help support their government if their government didnt “force take” a portion from their paychecks.

Jade, I flagged your first post. Encouragement of rape is against this site rules I’d think.

Ark poopsie Scowl,

You have new wig!

Poopster is taking the goatshmit route: take shots at people and have nothing intelligent to say.