The Numbers Don't Add Up ...and 'they' still have the guns

[SeveneightyWhoa]

The Numbers Don't Add Up
...and 'they' still have the guns

August 29 2006
Counterbias.com
by Mickey Z.


In the Vietnam War protest song, “Five to One,” Jim Morrison of The Doors sings:

The old get old/And the young get stronger

May take a week/And it may take longer

They got the guns/But we got the numbers

Gonna win, yeah/We're takin' over

In my youth, I took solace in the whole “we got the numbers” thing. The very idea filled with me hope…but little did I know, the ones with the guns have had it all figured out for a very, very long time. Philosopher David Hume—in 1758—explained it this way: “As force is always on side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the most free and most popular.”

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[Alacrat]

1. Sounds like it's time to get a gun