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.
How do you hang someone from the yardarm when yer ship has no yardarm? Morelike they'll put you in the airlock without a suit and depressurize the thing. Anyone left considered possibly sympathetic to the mutineers gets the job of cleaning said airlock, so they know they could be next.
Fetch a rope, Mr. Spock.
ReplyDeleteI shall have the entire set crew hung from the yard arms for Mutiny!
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How do you hang someone from the yardarm when yer ship has no yardarm? Morelike they'll put you in the airlock without a suit and depressurize the thing. Anyone left considered possibly sympathetic to the mutineers gets the job of cleaning said airlock, so they know they could be next.
DeleteYou must try, Comrade Zilkov, to cultivate a sense of humor.
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That’ll bring a few stars up…
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