Posted on 02/21/2009 12:54:41 AM PST by EternalVigilance
In a generally unheralded speech about the so-called "stimulus" package, dated February 10, 2009, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said:
Let me conclude by saying we are at a seminal moment in our country. We will either start living within the confines of realism and responsibility or we will blow it and we will create the downfall of the greatest nation that ever lived.This bill is the start of that downfall. To abandon a market-oriented society and transfer it to a Soviet-style, government-centered, bureaucratic-run and mandated program, that is the thing that will put the stake in the heart of freedom in this country.
Coburn says that the policies being pursued by Obama will lead to a "Soviet-Style, government centered, bureaucratic-run and mandated" result. As I recall, the Soviet-style of government was a communist state.
Coburn concludes that the continuation of such Soviet-style policies will "create the downfall of the greatest nation that ever lived."
Until a friend sent me an email about it on Friday, I hadn't read Senator Coburn's speech. But on Thursday evening in Hastings, Nebraska, when asked about Obama's policies, I said that he is a radical communist, and that if Americans who care about liberty (i.e., who don't want to put a stake in its heart?) do nothing to stop him he'll bring about the destruction of the United States.
Though I never watch Keith Olbermann's drivel or anything else on MSNBC (and advise others to practice the same abstinence) I read that in response to my comments he questioned my sanity.
If I'm out of my mind, I guess I'm not the only one.
I also read that Olbermann tried to make something sinister out of my saying that unless Obama is stopped (in his efforts to establish a communist state) the U.S. will be destroyed. Compared to the sort of language used against say, Ronald Reagan and G.W. Bush by Democrat and left wing-critics, this is a polite and reasonable exhortation to political action. However the effort to construe it as something else smacks of the tactics employed at the famous show-trials of Stalin's era, even as Olbermann's suggestion of insanity brings to mind the communist practice of committing dissidents to psychiatric hospitals. Could their use of such tactics be the reason Olbermann and his "We're all socialists now" Newsweek buddies (like his guest for the segment, Jonathan Alter) don't want us using the "C" word? We might remember the tactics of communist repression, and notice some similarities.
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Obama is going to put the civil right movement back 60 years.
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My boss is on his way to Mexico for vacation. We are a very small business. I take this as a good thing. But thanks for the list.
They don't know what responsibility is to be an American. Grandma and Gramps can take care of their kids, they get their news from MTV and think freedom is free.
They are buying $200 Nikes, Coach Handbags, iPhones, Clubbing and promoting Global Warming rallies, while America is taking a sled ride that's going down hill at warp speed.
Keith Olbermann is MSNBC’s affirmative action hire for mental defectives. His proclamation of one’s insanity should be considered a clean bill of mental hygiene.
Just like Oprah has put women back so many years.
ROFL...
Hilarious, and right on the mark!
“Obama is going to put the civil right movement back 60 years.”
He already has.
And the sixteenth hour being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers.
And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automations of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."
Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom?
Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.”
Thomas Jefferson 1816 Third President of the United States 1801 -1809
That quote should be on FreeRepublic’s home page in bold.
THat Thomas Jefferson quote seems to be fake
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Near-perfect_republic
THat Thomas Jefferson quote seems to be fake
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Near-perfect_republic
Self ping for later follow up. I thought something like this was ascribed to Ben Franklin when some lady (his wife) asked him what type of government they created and he said something like “A Republic, if you can keep it”.
Regardless - SOMEONE sure wrote it, and was spot on.
Letter to Samuel Kercheval
Thomas Jefferson
June 12, 1816
EXCERPTED------>>>>
I have thrown out these as loose heads of amendment, for consideration and correction; and their object is to secure self—government by the republicanism of our constitution, as well as by the spirit of the people; and to nourish and perpetuate that spirit. I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty—four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow—sufferers. Our landholders, too, like theirs, retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries, and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, and the glory of the nation. This example reads to us the salutary lesson, that private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
There truly is...
Right now, there is an overwhelming majority of Patriotic folks that are sitting back, and waiting. They are waiting for something epic to happen, an unknown line that is crossed (for many it will be the attempt to confiscate firearms), and, Leadership that points the way to overcome this travesty.
It's that right moment, and that right person, or group of people that will begin what must be done to put out the fires of this conflagration.
Some say we must right these wrongs at the next ballot box in 2010. More and more are reaching the conclusion that America should not, can not, and will not, allow this communist coup d'etat to fester any further. That there may be no possibility of fair elections and peaceful transfer of power by 2010...
It is a political perfect storm... Sweet Liberty is fueled by her economic engines, the same engine that has thrown a rod and is currently afire, lit by avarice, greed, and lawlessness.
Add a hopelessly deluded egotistical narcisst with no history of accomplishment, or, real life experience, that serves as a puppet for minds far greater (and evil) than his own, and behold the horror which our Nation's Founders feared most...
ping for later perusal
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