Wednesday, August 1, 2012

What Looting Tyrants Know

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually . . . .
. . . George Mason
Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention
1788

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