"Allllll righty then...."
Posted on 10/13/2016 1:16:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Panama City Beach officials are calling Donald Trump's rally at Aaron Bessant Park a roaring success, despite the short notice.
"We really didn't finalize most of the information until Monday and even into Tuesday on where and how the event logistics were going to happen," said Mario Gisbert, the City Manager.
Gisbert says the event came together with the help of multiple agencies.
"Pier Park offered up their parking lot," said Gisbert. "Our police department moved up and down the road to make sure we had things traveling smoothly. I'm sure we had connections with Bay County Traffic Control helping with the traffic lights. So it's a huge team effort."
The event happened with minimal issues.
"As far as I know, we had one arrest fairly early on in the event," said Gisbert. "The gates weren't even opened."
According to PCB Fire Rescue, there was approximately 8,500 to 9,000 people within the gate and several thousand more outside it.
How we will be judged" by future generations is by whether we have preserved the Constitution's principles and ideas, and by whether those who judge us can enjoy "the Blessings of Liberty," protected by that Constitution.
Ultimately, history always records the exact periods of time and the means by which nations become free, and it also records the period when artful and designing officials lead their citizens into yielding up their liberty.
America's history will be no different! We can read the ideas and principles upon which this Republic was formed--ideas rooted in enduring principles of right and wrong and of Creator-endowed, thus unalienable, life, rights, laws and liberty.
As we allow imperfect persons who have gained positions of power to confuse us, to lead us to yield up our liberty, then we deny our inheritance and lay the burdens of our foolishness and constitutional illiteracy on those who will follow, and they will judge us, as well they should.
The choice is between individual freedom and slavery to government--a tyrannical form of slavery.
The formula structured by the Constitution of the United States and laid out in its philosophical foundations--as asserted in the 1776 Declaration of Independence from an overly-powerful government administered by King George III--were explained by America's Founders.
Their writings and speeches, as well as the wisdom writings from previous defenders of liberty, are available online.
THE FEDERALIST, that collection of 85 essays explaining the Constitution's provisions and protections, now can be read in every home and school as a means of enlightening a public which has become too willing to yield their Creator-endowed liberty to a collection of would-be tyrants who call themselves "progressives," but are, in fact taking American citizens back to the bondage from which their ancestors fled in other parts of the world.
Several years ago, a business man by the name of James R. Evans, in his book, "America's Choice: Twilight's Last Gleaming or Dawn's Early Light," suggested 7 simple principles which every citizen could benefit from considering as they watch the so-called "progressives," now led by Obama/Clinton, attempt to enslave them through legislation and Executive Orders.
"1. Does this legislation or idea increase, or decrease, individual freedom and creativity?"2. Does this legislation or idea increase, or decrease, the power of some citizens over other citizens?
"3. Does this legislation or idea recognize that the persons who will exercise the power are themselves imperfect human beings?
"4. Does this legislation or idea recognize that government is incapable of creating wealth?
"5. Does this legislation or idea authorize taking from some what belongs to them, and giving it to others to whom it does not belong?
If 'thou shalt not steal' is a valid commandment, can we assume that it is meant to apply only to individuals and not to government (which is made up of individuals), even if those persons in power pass laws which sanction such redistribution of the wealth of others?'"6. Does this legislation or idea encourage, or discourage, the very highest level of morality and responsibility from the individual?
. . .when government makes actions 'legal' by some citizens at the expense of other citizens, the result may be behavior which would not be considered possible by individuals acting alone."7. Does this legislation or idea propose that the 'government' do something which the individual cannot do without committing a crime?"**
**7 principles drawn from James R. Evans book, "America's Choice," and reprinted in a Stedman Corporation (Asheboro, NC) booklet entitled "I'm Only One, What Can I Do?"
The simplicity of these questions and of the core message of the following words by some of America's Founders might jar some citizens into a recognition of what "progressives" and this Administration are doing to the future of liberty for their posterity:
"...nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams"This was a favorable moment to shut and bar the door against paper money." [This statement referred to a proposed provision in Article I, Section 8, that would have read 'and emit bills of credit (paper money) of the United States,' which the Founders rejected by an overwhelming vote.] - James Madison- Notes of the Federal Convention 1787
"...there have always been those who wish to enlarge the powers of the General Government. There is but one safe rule...confine (it) within the sphere of its appropriate duties. It has no power to raise a revenue or impose taxes except for the purposes enumerated in the Constitution....Every attempt to exercise power beyond these limits should be promptly and firmly opposed." - Andrew Jackson's Valedictory
"...experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government), those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate...the minds of the people...to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth. History, by apprizing them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views...." - Jefferson's Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge for Virginia
"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?...the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it....It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free." - James Madison
"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson-First Inaugural Statement of Principles of Good Government
one arrest.
I wonder for WHAT?
Does PBC county post arrest records? ;-)
The massive Trump rallies are astounding because the Trump campaign can manage the logistics of the event.
Hillary’s “campaign” would be hard pressed to arrange parking for the 80 or so people she gets to attend her speeches.
Trump, on the other hand, can get 20,000 people accomodated for an ad hoc event on a week’s notice.
I still don’t see how Hillary ever managed to get Chelsea’s wedding to come off.
Probably an SEIU or BLM protestor, not a Trump supporter.
remember Hillary has to do her rallys in colleges because students are bribed with credits
"Allllll righty then...."
Panama City and the surrounding vicinage is probably the most Trump friendly area in the country.
That contrasts, of course, with Gainesville, Florida that would enthusiastically vote in Pol Pot if he were running for mayor and would overwhelmingly support Ernesto Guevara to be police chief. I think there must be as many abortion mills in GVL as in the rest of the state and girls get pregnant deliberately just so they can support that "progressive" industry.
Parking problems are eased somewhat for Mrs Bill’s “rallies” by the fact that most of her people come on buses.
I proudly took my ballot to the post office earlier with my vote for Trump/Pence!!!
Does anyone know where one would look up the attendance numbers from Trump’s rallies?
Enthusiasm - it gets people to the polls. Trump supporters have it; the felon’s supporters don’t Fox News last Friday 70/57.
We are driving across Texas highways/byways, today, seeing ALL kinds of Trump/Pence signs....many of the YUUUGE signs, too!!
A few posted on hay bales :)
And she would spend 5X the money doing it.
My sister and her husband went to Lakeland Florida rally for Trump yesterday. Said probably 10K people there. They waited in line for an hour, secret service agent tapped her husband on shoulder and sir can you come with me, said it was all good. Took them to another line for Veterans (he’s a Nam Vet). They waited about hour there. Then were escorted on stage to sit there behind Trump. They said it was good rally huge turnout.
Sister lives in Lakeland, Florida, POLK County. She said big republican area.
FWIW, I went thru the Palm Beach County arrests for yesterday and saw several arrests for battery and DUI, but nothing of particular note.
https://www2.pbso.org/blotter/index.cfm?fa=blotterwp
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