Posted on 03/11/2014 9:07:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That’s quite a contrast to the selfish attitude displayed by the woman who just sees America for the petty things it no longer gives her.
Exactly. If the growing tyranny in America reaches an unacceptable point, and is endangering our lives and those of our families (and don’t think it “can’t” come to that), damn right you do what you must to safeguard your family.
Hopefully, America won’t ever reach that point, but if so, blame the tyranny, not those fleeing it.
Weaklings too afraid and cowardly to stay and fight for what our fore fathers provided to us in order to ensure future generations can enjoy the same things they claim to have.
No use for any of them.
Love it of leave it.
Now the US has become tyrannical (and has prohibitive taxation) and people are fleeing it.
It would be a breath of fresh air if FReepers blamed the tyranny rather than the people escaping from it.
It is better to secede from tyranny than escape from it. But these are ex-pats living abroad. They can’t turn their current piece of soil into a free state. They can only escape."
Well said.
RE: Weaklings too afraid and cowardly to stay and fight for what our fore fathers provided to us in order to ensure future generations can enjoy the same things they claim to have.
Wouldn’t the above description apply to most other immigrants who left their countries to become Americans?
As far as I am concerned it is good riddance! Let the sorry bastards go. I had rather have them over there than them being over here undermining and betraying every chance they get.
“..but if so, blame the tyranny, not those fleeing it....”
Like those Texas Patriots that stayed at the Alamo???
Or those Patriots who stayed on Bunker Hill firing on the fed - err, “Brits” - until they ran out of ammo???
Sorry, but it doesn’t cut.
You fight for what is yours. Or it isn’t yours. You don’t rent Freedom - you either own it or you relinquish it.
Everybody dies eventually. No one here gets a free pass on their obligations as Americans - especially not when countless thousands of other folks before us PAID for it by giving their lives.
We are where are, and we do whatever it takes to make it right again.
That some want to slip out - hey, we’re not stopping them. Go on. Just don’t expect us to ever call you Americans again.
Agree.
Drone strikes in 1, 2, 3 . . .
You might be interested.
“You fight for what is yours. Or it isn’t yours. You don’t rent Freedom - you either own it or you relinquish it.”
Absolutely. You fight for it while the shred of hope exists... when that shred of hope is clearly gone, you enact a Plan B.
“...Wouldn’t the above description apply to most other immigrants who left their countries to become Americans?..”
Seek, I’d welcome them quicker and appreciate them MORE than someone born here who doesn’t appreciate it, and is willing to run away rather than do whatever they can to make it better, just so they can keep their money.
You know all the blood and trials it took for us to be here, for 238 years.
When did it become “in vogue” to run away?
Our fore fathers fled in order to build a place for future generations to have freedom. We have allowed that freedom to be squandered through ambivalence and inaction.
Now, when the opposite is needed more than ever, instead of standing, staying and fighting, they run. They have taken what they can from this country and now sit on the sidelines and bemoan what has happened.
I don’t “blame” them, I have no use for them...
Uh, we do. We are capable of doing both at the same time, you know.
Understand this...we in the "manger dawg pound" don't blame expats in general...just one specific lying coward who bashes each and every problem and bad law we have from the "safety" of his beach chair in the Philippines. This specific puke also actively tries to encourage FReepers with wavering resolve to run away just when we need every patriot here, and steeled for what's to come. Anyone who wants to turn chicken-ass and leave America just when they're needed most is perfectly welcome to do so; that's their right. But if they do, then proceed to trash America from afar, then they're gonna see the teeth of the dawgs.
BTW, Alex...where's the quote, you sniveling, lying worm? Hmmmmmmm? Still waiting for you to man up and face me, you piece of sh...uh, work.
Woof, woof! Dawg soldiers up!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
There’s always hope, brother.
Even those fine Americans on Bataan and Corregidor had hope. Some of them didn’t live to see the end of it, but they still believed. Every American in a POW camp - In Germany, in Japan, in Korea, in Vietnam - had hope.
I’m an American. You’re an American. Nowhere else in the world like us, brother. If Plan B involves bugging out... well, I’ll stick with Plan A and revise it A-1, A-2, A-3...
To each their own, I suppose.
“...as a citizen, you FIGHT to make it a better country instead of giving up altogether....”
“Bingo”, I believe is the word... Precisely and concisely put.
Ja wohl, mein mini-Führer!! :)
Did those foreign countries make the sacrifices that our fore fathers did?
Did they spill blood and write “guarantees” that ours did to provide us this country and freedoms?
Did those countries provide opportunities that this country didn’t?
Did this country provide opportunities that those others didn’t?
Those other countries more than likely don’t have the heritage we have, the responsibility to ensure freedom and opportunity to future generations.
My plan B is getting my family to safety, in another country, most likely. My destiny is very likely to eventually die of a head shot from the DHS round that’s currently sitting in an ammo box in a warehouse somewhere.
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