Originally Posted by
Gunny
Does it matter whether or not they are? Context: IMO, given current circumstances, I would call it sabre-rattling. Change the circumstance and you possibly change the answer.
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” - Shakespeare
Cow down to this idiot and there will be no end to the like-minded idiots that get in line behind him. Easier to stop him now than have to stop them all later.
Are we afraid to see what happens if we step back from "helping"?
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. James Madison
Live as free people, yet without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but live at all times as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16