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Hieronymus

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2. Thomas Jefferson said:

Sun Jul 2, 2017, 12:42 PM

Jul 2017

"The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them."

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We Must DEMAND His Removal From Office Now!!! [View all] LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 OP

We can demand until we're blue in the face and nothing will happen The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #1

And If We Feel Our Republic of the United States of America.... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #5

So what do you suggest we do, besides "demand," which will do nothing, The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #7

P/S:.... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #9

Oh, yay, trending on Twitter! BFD. The only thing that will have any actual, The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #10

Any good tactical strategy is a four frontal attack bresue Jul 2017 #17

First, you gotta use all caps. DEMAND EL34x4 Jul 2017 #20

And here I thought this Democratic Underground was a strategy board...not a bitch session... bresue Jul 2017 #23

Thomas Jefferson said: Hieronymus Jul 2017 #2

EXACTLY.... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #6

This needs wide circulation pandr32 Jul 2017 #26

Instead of making demands that will never be met, MineralMan Jul 2017 #3

Yup.... pangaia Jul 2017 #4

+a really big number onenote Jul 2017 #8

Why not do all? bresue Jul 2017 #21

You have access to Google, right? MineralMan Jul 2017 #32

45 was elected to do a JOB, not tweet discriminatory and violent tweets while on the JOB!!! bresue Jul 2017 #11

No You Are Not Alone in your confusion... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #13

And a unicorn, we must DEMAND a unicorn sarisataka Jul 2017 #12

K&R.. spanone Jul 2017 #14

Thank You.... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #15

😎👍🏼 spanone Jul 2017 #16

demand of whom? edhopper Jul 2017 #18

How about we demand enforcement of our laws!!! bresue Jul 2017 #22

We're down for that.... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #24

By whom? edhopper Jul 2017 #25

"... insult with the intent to cause great bodily harm ..." dumbcat Jul 2017 #19

And you think the next guy, Pence, marybourg Jul 2017 #27

So You Believe.... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #28

Our voices and the tone of our voices mean something. Demand. Lint Head Jul 2017 #29

Thank you.... LovingA2andMI Jul 2017 #31

Why? colsohlibgal Jul 2017 #30