Posted on 03/04/2015 3:12:51 AM PST by Jacquerie
Five hundred years ago, Machiavelli wrote how governing institutions designed for FreeRepublics were not only unsuited for corrupted republics, they eventually served to enforce tyranny. His prescience was on display yesterday in the US Congress.
Designed in 1787 as the consensual law making body of a free people and their states, Congress joined in tyrannical partnership with President Obama. Under cover of the reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s fabulous speech against Obama’s nefarious plans for Iran and against peace, the Speaker of the House brought a “clean” DHS funding bill to the floor for a vote.
In support of Obama’s lawless revisions of immigration law, Speaker Boehner, dozens of republicans, and all rats voted to grant what will become de facto citizenship to millions of illiterates who have no intention of becoming Americans, but will have every motivation to support the tyranny.
Congress simultaneously destroyed its enumerated power to write immigration law, and assigned it to the executive branch. We The People delegated law making and spending authority to Congress alone. We did not create Congress to justify, endow and rubber-stamp tyranny.
Congress has joined Obama in high crimes against we, the sovereign people. What happened yesterday didn’t show compassion to poor huddled masses yearning to be free; rather, congress slit the throat of the American Republic.
A Congress designed for a FreeRepublic not only no longer serves its purpose, it has become a handmaiden to enslavement.
Congress must be reformed. We can reform it.
Article V. Now.
That ship sailed long ago.
Economic or political collapse would clean things up but the NWO can keep the lid on indefinitely by printing money and rigging elections.
When the ballot box is removed from us as a tool of freedom, we don’t have much left.
>>Economic or political collapse would clean things up but the NWO can keep the lid on indefinitely by printing money and rigging elections.
Yep. People who believe that anything else will fix this problem are dangerously naive. The Uni-Party will not permit any change except for the advancement of the Progressive agenda.
Politics is not the way out.
Dangerously naive? There is absolutely nothing to lose.
As enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, no matter the extent of enslavement, all people have the God given and societal right to design their government.
Time to toss the rose-colored glasses.
<>Politics is not the way out.<>
Good point.
That is why voting alone in national elections cannot possibly restore freedom. Rome-on-the-Potomac will not reform itself. There is too much money to be made within the existing corrupt system.
So the House Republican leadership is set up to cave and cave again. And the Senate Republican leadership is even more timid, preemptively removing certain strategies even before conflict has started.
Pretty much a mockery of a “representative republic”. And not very much of a “democratic state”, either, unless we are talking about a Soviet-bloc sort of “democracy”.
This has decayed into an oligarchy of the few passing out favors to various factions of the many. The “greatest good for the greatest number” is a concept no longer even paid lip service.
The era of “efficient” government beckons.
The Second Amendment remains the safety valve. But like an old-fashioned steam engine, the safety valve is likely to be corroded through many years of neglect and failure to provide even minimal performance by periodic testing.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Just sayin’.
Civil war is not actually illegal, its use in this territory once known as “the United States of America” is suppressed only by a very bad experience 150 years ago, when one side was underprepared and the other was unwilling to listen to the real complaint, not the one in which they framed the conflict.
The President writes laws, determines funding, makes treaties, is in the process of both wholesale ethnic replacement of native Americans and shutting down all political opposition as he bans bullets.
What is your solution?
Revolution.
The Framers bequeathed a constitutional, peaceful way for the states to revolt against an oppressive government. We must use it.
We are not voting our way out of this. No one is going to save us from Obi Won Kenyanesian.
The Give Obama Power party just showed their hand.
There is no opposition party.
The more I read and hear, the more I am thinking a complete revolution is in order if we ever plan to take this country back to the America I once knew. We had problems back then but NOTHING remotely close to the corruption we see in our politicians and the political system of today. When the American people voted for a “conservative” government, what did they get? More of the same. Nothing has changed. Guess the time for a revolution is in order.
Repeal the 17th amendment,
To make it really hurt, repeal the 16th amendment
bmp for later
Agree. The 17th empowered the Left, and the 16th funded it.
>>The states, not the uniparty, have the controlling inputs to an Article V convention. Article V is one of the few remaining uncorrupted constitutional clauses.
It’s only uncorrupted because it has never been used in the progressive era. If we actually had a convention, it would be flooded with lobbyists, “experts”, academics, Chamber of Commerce types, and lawyers. No one would represent the working people, exactly as the Uniparty does.
The states will not send representatives with plenary power.
Only delegates will attend. These state delegates will have commissions which detail exactly with what they can vote for and how to vote. I know FL and IN have existing statutes that deal with their delegates to an amendments convention.
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