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First Principles: Tyrants Accomplish Their Purposes Without Resistance, Is, By Disarming the People, and Making It An Offense To Keep Arms
“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.” – Justice Joseph Story
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Tagged Accomplish, Arms, Disarm, First Principles, Joseph Story, Offense, Ordinary Mode, Purpose, Resistance, The People, Tyrant
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In A Declaration of War
In A Declaration of Warby Michael DoyleTitans are unleashed in a visionDreamed without the requisite precisionTo dare to say what it really meansThis then is the way of such types of dreamsKing Hyperion seeks to rule over mankindBut as with … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Angels, Benevolence, Blind, Chaos, Conquest, Contend, Cost, Dare, Declaration of War, Degrees of Violence, Demands, Depth, Desperation, Dream, Dreams, End, Eons, Eyes, Fatality, Folly, Hades, Heaven, Heed, Holy Flame, Immortality, Kind, King Hyperion, Lost, Madness, Mankind, Means, Mercy, Name, Need, Oracle, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Priest, Reign of Gods, Sadness, Salvation, Separation, Sibylline Monastery, Strength, Test, Time, Titans, Tread, Tyrant, Virgin Oracle, Vision, War
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As If Nothing Else Matters
As If Nothing Else Mattersby Michael DoyleHow do you protect Russian speakersBy bombing them into oblivion?Mix up that experiment in your beakerYou say you’re doing this as a guardian?Returning to the homeland of the RusWhile treating the natives as if … Continue reading
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With An Inept Jab
With An Inept Jabby Michael DoyleWith an inept Parkinson jabPutin attempts to plantThe false flag of a bioweapons labAs part of his hateful rantClaiming Ukraine as part of his empireBasing this as birthright of the RusBut such a claim has … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Base, Bioweapons Lab, Birth Pains, Birthright, Calling Out, Choice, Claim, Danger, Empire, Escalation, Expire, Extremist, False Flag, False News, Fought, Freedom, Grains, Hateful, Historical, Independence, Inept, Jab, Legacy, Life, Mother Russia, No Explanation, Parkinson's, Plains, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Putin, Rant, Rise, Sad, Sought, Strain, Tartar, Territory, Test, The Fight Is On, The West, The Will, Transcendence, Truth, Tyrant, Ukraine, Vain Attempt, Views, Voice, World, World War III
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First Principles: How Strangely Will the Tools of A Tyrant Pervert the Plain Meaning of Words
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” — Samuel Adams, 1776
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First Principles: A Free Government, Which of All Others Is Far Most Preferable, Cannot Be Supported Without Virtue
“In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of … Continue reading
A Republic To Be Kept
A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom
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Lessons In Life’s Suffering
Lessons In Life’s Sufferingby Michael DoyleSpring isn’t the sameWhen love has been lostSorrow calls out the nameBut refuses to pay the costThe thing held sacred as follyTouch the inner workings of the soulA moment away from devotionHas the depth of … Continue reading
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Tagged Circumstances, Clings, Control, Decision, Deeply Morose, Depth, Devotion, Divinity, Fallen Knee, Feel, Folly, Forlorn Eyes, God, Hides Within, Human's Being, Infinite Femininity, Inner Workings, Lessons, Lies, Life's Suffering, Lost, Love, Matchlock Pistols, Matter of Finality, Mortality Known, Mother Mary, Name, New Meaning, Ocean, Pay the Cost, Perishing Soul, Poet's Pen, Poetry and Poems, Reveals, Romantic, Sacred, Same, Scribbled Verse, See, Serious Passions, Small Hope, Smallest Details, Sorrow, Soul, Spring, Tales of Ossian, Teach Me, Time, Touch, Truth Bent, Tyrant, Waking, Worse, Wrecked and Weak, Young Lovers
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First Principles: Wherever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins
“The difference betwixt a king and a tyrant to consist only in this, that one makes the laws the bounds of his power, and the good of the public, the end of government; the other makes all give way to … Continue reading
Swing Around the Circle
Civil War ends and an attempt at racial justice was attempted. How did things get so completely flawed? Swing Around the Circle by Michael Doyle A country brought to ruin sought salvation From a barren wasteland in need of transformation … Continue reading
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