Courage and honor, and IQ do not often occupy the same space.
Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution” (by way of jsmineset.com):
“Our sometimes flagrant disregard of the Constitution has not produced chaos or totalitarianism; on the contrary, it has helped us to grow and prosper.” — New York Times, Dec. 30, 2012.
When courage, honor and IQ do occupy the same space, it is something to behold. U.S. Marine Joshua Boston’s letter to U.S. Senator:
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime.
You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you.
Original post on CNN i-Report (Dec. 27, 2012). Guest editorial of Georgetown University Law Professor in the respected New York Times. Follow-up interview of U.S. Marine found in foreign media, in what some consider “tabloid”, The DailyMail online, I am not your peasant… I will NOT be disarmed:’ Marine’s scathing letter to U.S. senator over her proposed ban on assault weapons goes viral.