On 2005-08-07 14:30:00, Deborah wrote:
If you ever hang with a traditional NA, you?ll notice that there isn?t a lot of unnecessary, nervous chit chat, debating, theorizing.
Except, of course, for the Navajo, who may well be the most letigious people on the planet. Their language is so complex and nuanced that, when the code talkers of WWI put it in writing, anthropologists cried bitter tears. According to their theories up till that time, no language that complex could possibly exist w/o a written form.
The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. ... and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
-- St. George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court 1803
