In response to:
As a moderate Republican, individualist and libertarian,
I am thankful
Republicans et al. have excluded
me from their poli-clique.
Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment.
But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho's mental health problems because of federal privacy laws.
At college, Cho engaged in behavior even more bizarre than the average college student. He stalked three women and, at one point, went totally silent, refusing to speak even to his roommates. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for one night and then unaccountably unleashed on the public, whereupon he proceeded to engage in...
From the founding, there has been public debate
between
Anti-federalists who believe in small/limited fed govt
and
Federalists who believed in a strong fed govt.
The Federalists became Whigs who became Republicans who have become...
better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in
peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the
hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams.
you chose the plantation over freedom
If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in
peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the
hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams.