PAY ME NOW OR PAY ME LATER

By Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
January 26, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

As most patriotic activists will attest, trying to save one’s country from sinking under the dead weight of its own increasingly hapless citizenry is a task daunting and thankless enough without the distraction of having to respond to an endless stream of captious criticisms. Most of these come from people who seem not to understand that, because printing has been invented, they can find the answers to their concerns easily enough through their own efforts—and that, in the long run, this is the best practice for anyone who actually wants to be a self-governing citizen of a free country. Yet some questions arise so frequently—and from so many individuals who ought to know better—that they should be put to rest once and for all, so that attention can be directed to more important matters.

The two most frequent criticisms expressed to me against revitalization of “the Militia of the several Statesâ€