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Chris Wallace Thinks Thomas Jefferson Is a Threat to America & Other Attacks on Liberty
KrisAnneHall.com ^ | Oct. 27, 2018 | KrisAnne Hall

Posted on 10/28/2018 11:01:43 AM PDT by Texas Eagle

The lunacy of the media, the irrational and unlawful behavior of the judiciary, believe it or not they are all tied together. Not ignorance, but willful denial of easily obtainable facts and the rule of law that you and I are bound to, but they seem to feel impervious to. George Washington, Thomas Paine, & Thomas Jefferson have some very stern words for us. Do we have ears to hear?

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TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: jefferson; liberty; media; press
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Fast forward to the 25:00 mark to listen to the discussion about Chris Wallace's lack of historical knowledge. He can't "imagine" a sitting President being critical of the press. He is obviously blissfully unaware of Thomas Jefferson's epic beatdown of the press of his day. Enjoy.

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1 posted on 10/28/2018 11:01:43 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle

The Kenyanesian Usurpation proved they have no regard for the Constitution, the rule of law or truth.


2 posted on 10/28/2018 11:03:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Texas Eagle

Everytime I see Wallace I think of dan rather.


3 posted on 10/28/2018 11:11:58 AM PDT by meridenite
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To: Texas Eagle

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Wallace is worm puke!

Thomas Jefferson actually was the president that contributed the most to America’s freedom and greatness.

Beyond the Declaration of Independence, without his brilliant astronomically based land division system, it would have been impossible for us to expand smoothly into the western territories, and become the only free state since Solomon’s Israel.


4 posted on 10/28/2018 11:13:20 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Texas Eagle

Hall’s conclusion: Fake News is more damaging to a free press than Presidential criticism.


5 posted on 10/28/2018 11:15:49 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: editor-surveyor

without his brilliant astronomically based land division system,


Although he helped with the Land Ordinance of 1785, I don’t think Jefferson gets credit for the township layout plan. On the other hand he did, despite his misgivings on taking on a power not specifically granted in the Constitution, purchase Louisiana from the French.


6 posted on 10/28/2018 11:22:43 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Texas Eagle

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” – Thomas Jefferson


7 posted on 10/28/2018 11:23:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: hanamizu

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You have no comprehession of of our federal land division system.

It is entirely of Jefferson’s design.

No significant changes were made to Jefferson’s brilliant instructions until 1973! Those changes simply allowed the use of current technology in electronic distance measurement.
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8 posted on 10/28/2018 11:29:27 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Texas Eagle
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

General William Tecumseh Sherman

9 posted on 10/28/2018 11:31:00 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Texas Eagle

Who called the fake media “enemies of the state”?

Lock and load.


10 posted on 10/28/2018 11:39:01 AM PDT by nonsporting (Investigate Ford and her legal team)
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To: Texas Eagle

Put Chris Wallace on water skis in swim trunks and a leather jacket because he has just jumped the shark.


11 posted on 10/28/2018 11:50:57 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Texas Eagle
[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632

"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33

"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226

"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155

12 posted on 10/28/2018 11:53:48 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: editor-surveyor

You have no comprehession of of our federal land division system.


Well, I have some comprehension, but I will defer to your experience and knowledge. I did look up the Land Ordinance before I replied and got the impression that while he served on the committee, that the committee decided on a variation used in Western New England. Certainly the scientific way of surveying land would appeal to Jefferson. I live in MO and my property is described as it would have been using the Ordinance. But I live near KY and their land surveying system is a holy mess compared to ours.


13 posted on 10/28/2018 11:56:13 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: loveliberty2
Thanks for the assist.

Obviously, Jefferson was not opposed to a free press, he was critical of a press that didn't take its own role in advancing Liberty seriously.

14 posted on 10/28/2018 11:59:06 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: hanamizu

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Jefferson was the only man sufficiently educated in Math, geodessy, and physics at the time to devise such a system.


15 posted on 10/28/2018 12:00:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: meridenite

Chris Wallace cannot think.


16 posted on 10/28/2018 12:02:51 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: hanamizu

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Land division and description in the eastern states began as a lawyer’s dream.
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17 posted on 10/28/2018 12:05:26 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Off topic, but I think of the Jefferson-Adams story as being inspiring. Friends, fierce political enemies, and at the end of their lives friends again. Both dying on July 4, 1826 with Adams’s last words being “Jefferson lives”. How is it that such a small country back in 1776 was able to produce so many giants?


18 posted on 10/28/2018 12:11:33 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

IIRC, Jefferson’s last words were, “Adams lives”.


19 posted on 10/28/2018 12:22:10 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: hanamizu
Could it be that one can account for that breadth and depth of knowledge possessed by America's early generations as having come from being free to inquire and to study the great writings from previous generations--including those from religious sources?

One of the great tragedies of the past 100 years of education in America may very well be the deliberate "erasing" of the ideas of liberty from the libraries, textbooks, classrooms and so-called "public squares."

20 posted on 10/28/2018 12:28:10 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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