Posted on 06/11/2016 10:27:40 AM PDT by RevelationDavid
Dear Patriots....
Lately I have become more and more pessimistic concerning the future of our once great country. I firmly believe that Donald Trump is our last best hope to secure the freedom so preciously paid for by so many of those who have gone before us.
....With their actions, their blood, their fortunes and so many of their lives they left to us a priceless jewel That we called America. In my heart, I feel so gravely wounded for our country.... Watching our once solid political democracy/republic fall into the hands of self serving global interest… I question for the future.
Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one course of action left to thoss who will not sit passively by and watch our nation lose itself.... in it's socialist decadence and moral collapse and decay ... just as so many great countries have in history..
It is my belief that even a blind man can see where were headed…My question is to the patriots on this board… Will you passively watch our country die?
… Or will you sacrifice for a chance for it to live again?
Should you choose to respond to this post… Please be reasoned in your words. Remember that this is an open forum and because of that all words are always "overseen".
My friends, now IS the time to find your inner voice… And come to certain conclusions within yourself.
May God bless you and may God bless once again the United States of America.
Where do I sign?
I will always continue to fight the good fight. How that looks depends on many things.
Right now the road is trump all the way. We will see what November brings
You've convinced me.
I'm joining Black Lives Matter and gonna beat up some cops.
I, personally, am tired of waiting. There is a disease in the land that will not be excised by voting.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic
This “Revolution” will amount to nothing more than a blip on the radar screen if it doesn’t at some point result in the MAJOR REDUCTION in the size and scope of the mostly unconstitutional $4 trillion central government, reestablishing 1) the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land against the feds and 2) state sovereignty and financial independence from the feds (it’s up to YOU, states and citizens of each state).
That is why the most important criteria for Trump’s VP must be someone who is ready, willing, and able in eight years to walk into the WH and relentlessly dismantle the unconstitutional portion of the $4 trillion central government which is at least 80%. That would mean, among other things, shutting down MOST of the cabinet departments and dismantling the unconstitutional Administrative State with it zillions of unconstitutional regulations. It would mean sending hundreds of thousands of government workers, bureaucratic heads, and officials home packing. Short-term loss for them, long-term recovery for our nation.
That is why the Reagan Revolution, as good as it was, was so short lived. The D.C. apparatus remained intact.
As Reagan himself said, his “revolution” wouldn’t go anywhere unless American institutions beginning with the government were commandeered by true freedom-loving Americans.
I too agree Trump may be our last shot at the presidency. However, I fear that demographics, culture and gov’t dependency may have gone past the tipping point.
The birth rate of the people who made this country great is too low, while we have imported third world people in great numbers.
What field office are you out of?
Hold my spot.
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“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”
Such a short time that our right hands were raised in the air… And to some those words still ring true.
You realize there are many, even at this forum, who won’t even boycott the companies that are pushing the leftist agenda, because they don’t want to give up their entertainment and other conveniences.
indeed
The perfect answer,2k.
Freedom is threatened big time by those who want to build a world of big government intertwined with big business and big banks.
99 percent of all politicians aren’t worth voting for because they are sold out to it including 95 percent of those or more who ID as Republicans.
Trump got my vote in the primary and I support him in the general election, but the notion that he alone will ‘save us’ is over the top.
I hope people find God, the God of Sanity and Sobriety, Peace and Serenity, if you will.
Its time to stop intoxicating ourselves with all the ‘drugs’ out there from booze to prescription medicines to credit cards to naked people and the list goes on.
Ronald Reagan said that our prayers should be that we would be on God’s side instead of God being on our side.
God can help us to find the right answers regarding the right actions we must take to secure liberty for all.
I’m not trying to preach as much as I am trying to share my own personal experience and suggest a way forward.
I posted in support of the folks protesting in Oregon earlier this year and still post in support of the imprisoned people there and elsewhere.
Its time for some new priorities here, way past time.
There isn’t a living being within 100 miles of me that do not understand my disgust with our politicians selling out the USA for their personal gain.
This Nation can be regained by eliminating the education departments first. Federal Unions go next followed by every alphabet agency making rules without Congressional approval.
That is just the start. (Of course every EO Obama dreamed up is DOA.)
LOL!
I’m with you.
We probably need a permanent list of Leftist companies and their products.
Truly, it so insidious that who can recall all of the names that should be boycotted.
ATT and TARGET are pretty easy, but it may actually be easier now to promote an exclusive List of Patriot Companies to actually encourage *support*.
But you’re right. How to dump ATT? They are everywhere. Phones, satellite television, internet providers..... sports and stadium providers.
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