[Rhodes22-list] Political:Off to Iraq re: Dave

[3drecon at comcast.net]

I don't remember who that quote came from (it is famous) but I believe it refers to the military in defense of civilians.  Similar to the Jack Nicholson standing on the wall speech in "A Few Good Men".

Philip


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From: DCLewis1 at aol.com 

> 
> In a message dated 10/26/2006 9:16:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
> flybrad at gmail.com writes: 
> 
> Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because 
> rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." 
> 
> 
> 
> Brad, 
> 
> Regarding “read between the lines”: In my experience reading between the 
> lines applies to poetry and fiction - perhaps that’s were you’re experience 
> is. But in the real world, if I wanted to say the men and women in the service 
> were to dumb to get jobs in the private sector I would have said it plainly. 
> I didn’t say it, I didn’t infer it, and I didn’t think it. You might 
> well 
> served if you learned to read the English language as it’s presented and 
> curb your imaginative paranoid tendencies. 
> 
> As to Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only 
> because 
> rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." 
> 
> Who protects the good people from the rough men? Oh yeah, there is that 
> problem, and there is no free lunch. Good people have to protect themselves, 
> and we’re quite capable of doing that. I don’t need any rough man to do 
> violence on my behalf, thank you, and I suspect that applies to everyone else 
> on 
> this list. 
> 
> Dave 
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