User:Ancheta Wis/Contributions
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- I subscribe to the tradition exemplified by the New York Times and am also pro-defense.
- Article 3 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man: "The sovereignty of a government lies in the nation" (the people) -- Thomas Paine.
- Corollary: A nation whose survival is threatened, will defend itself, as in the UK, 1940: this was their finest hour.
- Corollary: A nation will defend its peoples, as the US defended my own homeland, after the simultaneous attack on Pearl Harbor and on cities in Southeast Asia.
- Corollary: No nation can invade the soil of another without opprobrium; Tom Paine spoke a truth which we ignore at our peril, to the present day and in the future.
- "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws." --from Abraham Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.
- The People: If you want to understand the American people, you might start by attending a baseball game (little league will do). I grew up in the American Southwest, but now live in the American heartland, and still miss the night sky, filled with stars. As a boy, I hiked and climbed in the Franklin Mountains, and was once caught in a dust devil. See the Potrillo flow field if you want to see the undisturbed American West. Be sure to bring water and wear a hat; your cell phone will be useless.
- The Land: I have climbed Pikes Peak. Yes, I have skied Purgatory, Alta, Park City and Mammoth Mountain. Yosemite is the most beautiful place; I recommend the Mist Trail.
- The Laws: King Canute understood the limitations of political power: "When one flatterer gushed that the king could even command the obedience of the sea, Canute proved him wrong by practical demonstration at Bosham, his point being that even a king's powers have limits."
- Article 3 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man: "The sovereignty of a government lies in the nation" (the people) -- Thomas Paine.
- I have studied with Richard Feynman, Kurt Lehovec, Lew Kowarski, Raja Rao, William Arrowsmith, and am a former oboist, published author and a co-inventor for one patent.