{"id":413,"date":"2010-02-19T23:24:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T03:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2010-02-19T23:24:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T03:24:47","slug":"do-i-sympathize-with-joseph-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Do I sympathize with Joseph Stack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this instance, I find it prudent to follow the advice given to Thumper by his father<\/a>: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”<\/p>\n

Instead, I’ll highlight and highly recommend this recent (but pre-Stack) post by David Gross<\/a> at The Picket Line<\/a> (who incidentally practices and advocates<\/a> a response to the IRS different than Stack’s<\/a>), in which he quotes these words by Henry David Thoreau:<\/p>\n

It galls me to listen to the remarks of craven-hearted neighbors who speak disparagingly of [John] Brown because he resorted to violence\u2026 They preserve the so-called peace of their community by deeds of petty violence every day. Look at the policeman\u2019s billy & handcuffs! Look at the jail! Look at the gallows!<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

I do not complain of any tactics that are effective of good, whether one wields the quill or the sword, but I shall not think him mistaken who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I will judge of the tactics by the fruits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll also give a hearty Amen to this post by Norm Pattis<\/a> and this post by Mike<\/a> at Crime & Federalism, both about Stack.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for a fair tax system, albeit one that the criminals who run this country will never enact in a million years, look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this instance, I find it prudent to follow the advice given to Thumper by his father: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” Instead, I’ll highlight and highly recommend this recent (but pre-Stack) post by David Gross at The Picket Line (who incidentally practices and advocates a response to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}