And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
And why so we have to go to a UK paper for this timely and interesting US news? By the way, if, like the Texas website roll of death sentences carried out, the Justice Department’s list of commutations and pardons included photos of those thus blessed (i.e. like the one in the article linked above), I wonder how the public would react to looking the poor sweet things in the eye?
Did President Obama at least do so before signing off?
It all worked out.
ReplyDeleteAnd why so we have to go to a UK paper for this timely and interesting US news? By the way, if, like the Texas website roll of death sentences carried out, the Justice Department’s list of commutations and pardons included photos of those thus blessed (i.e. like the one in the article linked above), I wonder how the public would react to looking the poor sweet things in the eye?
ReplyDeleteDid President Obama at least do so before signing off?