Posted on 04/03/2014 7:27:13 AM PDT by Kenny
“why people aren’t all over the news talking about what patriots these men are”
The media (MSM) ARE the enemies. Look how they demonize and denigrate the Koch bros and any patriots for that matter. We are in a culture war. Make no mistake...liberals and progressives WANT the downfall of a free society so THEY can dictate how things should be.
I don’t know why leftists hate them so much. I mean the Koch Bros support gay marriage, abortion, and legalizing drugs. I would think they would at least be neutral towards them.
You’re right - we’re in a war... Charles Koch’s one of our brave Generals ...
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
God bless you, Mr. Koch.
We aren’t going to be able vote or talk our way out of this.
The fact that the oatmeal-drooling Harry Reid hates the Kochs is a good reason to like ‘em.
Because they aren’t. Oh they are on our side for now, but Patriots? Not a chance. They are in this 100% for themselves. The MOMENT we get in the way they’ll turn. Don’t believe it? Wanna buy a bridge?
How many “Patriots” have been lauded only to find out they are not? Many.
When there is this kind of money involved, they are in it for one group. Themselves. They will sell America down the river if it is in their interest. So use THEM for now before they use us.
But patriots? Not a chance.
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It will be the same “liberals and progressives” who will be responsible for a second American revolt.
Leftists are about power.
Libertarianism is in opposition to gov’t power.
Regarding your post 10 - - paranoia can destroy Ya.
The Left and the GOPe are for Big Government and cronyism. The Left's promotion of immorality is a means to an end. It creates a dependent class that keeps the Ruling Class in power.
It’s useful propaganda for fundraising. The Dems whine that they don’t have resources to combat ‘un American’ activities funded by the Koch’s to beg for more campaign contributions.
BTW, C. Koch had me at ‘Create value’... just sayin’.
He’s a phoney baloney.............Dude financed the Clintons.
Today's 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" 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 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
Koch Brothers support open borders. I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.
All this BS about freedom is cover for supporting economic policies that will further enrich them. I might belive them if their supposed principals ever contradicted their economic interests.
Conservatives need to favor the interests of the people over the billionaires or conservatives will be consigned to the dust bin of history, probably sooner than many realize.
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