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FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2023
It is pretended we are in hazard of being invaded by a powerful enemy; shall we therefore destroy our government? What is it then that we would defend? Is it our persons, by the ruin of our government? In what then shall we be gainers? In saving our lives by the loss of our liberties?...I would fain know, if there be any other way of making a prince absolute, than by allowing him a standing army: if by it all princes have not been made absolute; if without it, any. Whether our enemies shall conquer us is uncertain; but whether standing armies will enslave us, neither reason nor experience will suffer us to doubt. It is therefore evident that no pretence of danger from abroad can be an argument to keep up standing armies or any mercenary forces.
 
– Andrew Fletcher, A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias [1698]

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June 23, 2023
More Deaths from Immigration Controls
Immigration-control advocates have lots more deaths to add to their immigration-control ledger, although these deaths took place in Europe rather than the United States. According to New York Times, “As many as 650 men, women, and children” drowned when an overcrowded fishing trawler carrying illegal migrants capsized off the coast of...
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