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The Farm - A Parable
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Once upon a time there was a farm. It was a tranquil place, nestled into the serene countryside down in a small valley. The grass was always green and a placid creek which gurgled down the center of the valley provided pure, cool water for the animals to drink. A large sturdy barn provided shelter and sheep dogs, along with the farmer and his shotgun, provided protection from the predators who lived in the surrounding hills.
Life was good at the farm. The animals lay in the field sleeping in the warm sun, secure in the knowledge that the farmer and the sheep dogs would keep them safe. Things continued this way for a long time. Soon however, things began to change.
It started innocuously enough. A lamb went missing one day and while... |
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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