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Charlie Daniels' Open Letter to Congress: 'You've Betrayed Your Country' (Just Wow!)
CNS ^ | August 25, 2015 | Charlie Daniels

Posted on 08/25/2015 7:04:42 PM PDT by xzins

I am a proud American who believes that America has held – and still holds – a very sensitive and special place in the affairs of mankind on Planet Earth. I believe that America has been divinely blessed and protected in our two centuries plus of existence.

I believe that America has been a counter balance that has cancelled out a lot of tyranny, evil and conquest, and admittedly, we have made a lot of mistakes. But on balance we have exerted a certain Pax Americana in the international affairs of mankind.

It took a lot of old fashioned guts for the Continental Congress to stand up to the world's mightiest military and tell them that we demanded our independence, even at the peril of going up against a far superior force on land and sea, and with only a ragtag army of untrained citizens, many of whom had to supply their own firearms.

It took courage above and beyond for Abraham Lincoln to push the country into a Civil War that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would divide this nation for decades.

It took guts to give the order for American troops to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, straight into the face of artillery and machine gunfire, wave after wave being cut to ribbons by German shore emplacements.

The history of this nation is written in the blood and courage of men who stood in the face of overwhelming odds – politicians, soldiers, statesmen and ordinary citizens who sought to do the right thing regardless of the cost or the consequences.

Well, ladies and gentlemen of the United States Congress, it seems that that particular pen has run out of ink. The courageous politicians that once championed this nation have been replaced, for the most part, by a breed of milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants who are supposed to be representing a constituency of citizens who have to live with the circumstances of their timid folly.

You don't even have the courage to face down an out of control president, even when he makes a deal with the devil. Don't you bunch of timid capons even care what kind of world you're leaving to your children and grandchildren, not to even mention the rest of us? Are you really party partisans before your parents and grandparents or even human beings?

Be honest with yourselves a minute. Go into the bathroom and look in the mirror and ask the person you see this question: "Do I really believe that Iran will not use the money we're releasing to them to finance terrorists to kill Americans, and, when, not if, but when, the Iranians develop their nuclear device, will they really use it against America and Israel?"

You can’t hide from the truthful answer to that question forever, an answer will be required of you one day.

You have allowed Obama to tilt the Supreme Court so far to the left that they're little more than a shameful extension of the Executive Branch.

You have talked for decades about the porous southern border but have done absolutely nothing about it.

You have allowed cities in this nation to declare themselves sanctuary cities where they protect the worst of the worst criminal aliens, and American citizens are paying an awful price for your silence.

You watch an impossible National Debt balloon completely out of control, knowing full well that a day of reckoning is coming that will seriously curtail the quality of life for coming generations.

You allow corrupt government agencies like the IRS to run over the very people you are sworn to protect and allow the entitlement society to expand exponentially. All the while, you are actually entertaining the idea of raising taxes on those who still work and shoulder the burden.

You compose a third of the constitutionally mandated ruling system,and you shirk your duty

and allow this nation to move a little closer to the edge every day.

Your ratings are in the single digits; your morals are in the gutter; your minds are on self-preservation; and somewhere along the way, you’ve traded your honor for political expediency.

You've violated your oaths; you've betrayed your country; you've feathered your nests; and you've sat on your hands while an imperial president has rubbed your noses in the dirt time after time.

You're no longer men. You're puppets, caricatures, jokes, a gaggle of fading prostitutes for sale to anybody who can do you a political favor.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is a legendary American singer, song writer, guitarist, and fiddler famous for his contributions to country and southern rock music. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; betrayal; congress; daniels; openletters; postedyesterday; searchworks
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1 posted on 08/25/2015 7:04:43 PM PDT by xzins
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You've violated your oaths; you've betrayed your country; you've feathered your nests; and you've sat on your hands while an imperial president has rubbed your noses in the dirt time after time.

You're no longer men. You're puppets, caricatures, jokes, a gaggle of fading prostitutes for sale to anybody who can do you a political favor

2 posted on 08/25/2015 7:04:59 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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Bttttttttttt !


3 posted on 08/25/2015 7:07:12 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: xzins

Sounds like a gig at a Trump rally is not too far behind.


4 posted on 08/25/2015 7:08:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
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To: xzins

Yep, what he said is right on the money.


5 posted on 08/25/2015 7:08:16 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Wow


6 posted on 08/25/2015 7:09:55 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: xzins

Charlie Daniels for Press Secretary!


7 posted on 08/25/2015 7:11:16 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: xzins

Great to see this article and a True Patriot! Yea Charlie Daniels! (Saw him in concert years ago at Mickey Gilleys!)Love It!


8 posted on 08/25/2015 7:11:43 PM PDT by djstex
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; SamAdams76

Daniels has been on fire.


9 posted on 08/25/2015 7:12:23 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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That’s exactly why we have Donald Trump. If you don’t like that fact.....thank congress.


10 posted on 08/25/2015 7:13:17 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: xzins

Very true.


11 posted on 08/25/2015 7:13:26 PM PDT by sport
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To: goodnesswins

Amen! We’d get plain talk, no BS.

Trump/Cruz/Daniels 2016!


12 posted on 08/25/2015 7:13:29 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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+10


13 posted on 08/25/2015 7:14:29 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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The weak-kneed talking class bemoans the rise of Donald Trump.

They know that they play the devil’s advocate with Congress and the elite as the devil.

Then they pretend they haven’t been steadily selling this nation down the river for years now.

They have no soul. They’re just chunks of flesh with breath, blood, and lust. There’s no Spirit of God in them.


14 posted on 08/25/2015 7:19:14 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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Daniels sees them crystal clear.


15 posted on 08/25/2015 7:20:40 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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Well, I’m just a simple man and I believe what this world needs is a few more rednecks, and Charlie is right.


16 posted on 08/25/2015 7:24:22 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: xzins

A good ol’ wooly-swamp beat-down. Never did think that it ever would happen again, in America....


17 posted on 08/25/2015 7:24:33 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: xzins

They can’t be shamed. Too bad.


18 posted on 08/25/2015 7:24:44 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: xzins

McGoner and Bonnie should just wake up tomorrow and resign.


19 posted on 08/25/2015 7:26:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: xzins

bump.


20 posted on 08/25/2015 7:27:05 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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