05-28-2020, 08:46 AM
(05-28-2020, 04:12 AM)samhain Wrote: The whole invocation of the John Wilkes Booth quote is the thing that irks me almost as much as the effigy. That's a thinly veiled threat of assassination, IMO, which is extremely illegal no matter how you slice it.
Maybe it's because I'm a Virginian and it's the motto of our Commonwealth, but it doesn't strike the same chord. But then again, it's used pretty frequently during protests of government overreach in my state.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR