Uncle Scott Ferguson

Posted September 14, 2008, 11:38 p.m.

I mentioned a few weeks ago now that posting would be light due to an unexpected death in the family. The death was my uncle, Scott Ferguson, who lived in the area (Reston) with my grandmother.

His death notice was printed in The Washington Post today.

I’m still not going to go into a lot of detail . . . but I wanted to at least add a name to what little I had said before.

The text of the death notice asks Uncle Scott’s friends and co-workers to “keep him in [their] thoughts and prayers.” I hope you will do the same.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Diplomacy is utterly useless when there is no force behind it; the diplomat is the servant, not the master of the soldier.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

We have to view technology as what it always has been—a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.

There can be no higher international duty than to safeguard the existence and independence of industrious, orderly states, with a high personal and national standard of conduct, but without the military force of the great powers.

In democracies, the welfare state is the beginning, and the police state the end. The two merge sooner or later, in all experience, and for obvious reasons.

I believe more in the goodness of bad people than I do in the badness of good people.

All things would tend towards nothing, unless the hand of the Almighty preserved them.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves. . . .

It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

A philosophy without heart and a faith without intellect are abstractions from the true life of knowledge and faith.

If you wish to attain holy recollection, you will do so not by receiving but by denying.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right.

Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.

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