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Posted on 04/21/2015 4:30:49 AM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Ted Cruz is firing back at The New York Times for calling his support of the Second Amendment “strange” by reminding the paper that he wasn’t the only “ridiculous” one who felt that way about gun rights.
The Texas Republican penned an op-ed for National Review on Sunday, featuring quotes from five gun-loving American patriots, driving home the message that if guns were OK with them, then guns must not be all bad.
Cruz wrote:
“The writer, the lead editor for the Times’ editorial page, continued, ‘I just don’t get the argument on constitutional or historical grounds’.”
“Perhaps this will help. Let’s survey some other ‘silly’ people who have embraced this heretical understanding of our liberties.”
So here we go. Courtesy of Sen. Cruz, five Americans who said they were okay with guns.
“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms…”
“But if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights..,”
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”
“The only refuge left for those who prophesy the downfall of the State governments is the visionary supposition that the federal government may previously accumulate a military force for the projects of ambition. The reasonings contained in these papers must have been employed to little purpose indeed, if it could be necessary now to disprove the reality of this danger. That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterrupted succession of men ready to betray both; that the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment; that the governments and the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering storm, and continue to supply the materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads, must appear to every one more like the incoherent dreams of a delirious jealousy, or the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal, than like the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism.
This fight will be won or lost in the media.
This is what winning looks like.
Cruz or lose!
I still say we switch the motto to CRUZ CANT LOSE! or CRUZ THEY LOSE!!
Liberal papers have set the agenda for too long.
Conservative candidates should just flip them off.
Yeah, Cruz versus the Teleprompter....
SPLC = one man and a fax machine catering to those who want to believe.
When can we stop pretending that Rand Paul is sane, that Walker has any charisma at all, that Rubio isn’t a waffle, that Hucksterbee isn’t Incredibly Irrelevant, That Bush isn’t a World government man, that Christie isnt just toast, that Graham isn’t gay and just all support Cruz?
I had to read this carefully three times before I could begin to understand it.
Read the Madison quote carefully.
Particularly where he talks about the people and the States electing a string of leaders inclined to tyranny.
He’s talking specifically about how the States elect Senators. Or at least did, before the 17th Amendment. IOW if you want to find the thing that has, more than anything else, enabled the spread of tyranny, thats the place to look.
To totalitarian fodder....individual rights are strange.
I like him - I like him a lot - but it is still early.....my only desire is if he would pull a Rand Paul and turn the tables like Rand did with the gotcha abort question
I'm amused by this guys demeanor though - he always seems unflappable, with that faint smile, while dems get all foamy in response to his logic and policies
Rand did a great job with that one. And repubicans should HAMMER home the 9 month abortion issues, show pictures, sonograms, play nasty and dirty, most Americans know this is just murder at nine months, let it hit home, but republicans are too wishy washy
It's only early if you don't care who the nominee is.
As for me and mine, all time and effort and extra money go to Cruz. I KNOW what I want in a president. It ain't what the media and GOP-E pick, that's for sure.
/johnny
Way to go, Ted!
It's early days, early days. Patience.
not a virtue of mine. I will try harder.
I LIKE IT!
:)
You know, things are more like they are today than they ever will be tomorrow.
If you read the Madison quote carefully, you see that he is describing conditions of today’s society rather well.
What the founders did not forsee was the centralization of the media and its takeover by an ideology dedicated to advancing the power of the state, by any means necessary.
Decentralization of the old media power is the primary fight. It is accomplished by exposing their agenda, propaganda and lies. That is our fight, it is the fight that freerepublic does well. We have to win, because, as Ted Cruz says, we have nowhere to run to.
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