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Has "Government of THE PEOPLE, by THE PEOPLE, for THE PEOPLE" perished from the earth?
American Minute ^ | 11/22/2015 | Bill Federer

Posted on 11/22/2015 6:22:37 AM PST by EternalVigilance

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To: GenXteacher

Better to just take the controls back. Which we still have the power to do, if enough of us would simply realize it.


81 posted on 11/23/2015 7:09:11 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Isn’t it funny how Lincoln brings out the best - and the absolute worst in people? The lost causers can be nettlesome but they are basically toothless. ;’)


82 posted on 11/23/2015 8:06:42 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Paladin2

This is why we were given The Second Amendment.


83 posted on 11/23/2015 8:15:21 PM PST by jmacusa
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To: rockrr

No kidding. :-)


84 posted on 11/23/2015 9:41:49 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

I’d like to share your optimism, but the controls don’t seem to respond.....


85 posted on 11/24/2015 4:43:15 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: GenXteacher

Not so sure many of are even making the attempt to grab hold of them.


86 posted on 11/24/2015 5:00:02 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: rockrr
The lost causers

Isn't it ironic that you can apply that term to anyone today that thinks that the federal government can be reined in and limited to its constitutional bounds?

I agree that Lincoln brings out the worst in people, such as, politicians who recognized Lincoln's victory as a the tool to eliminate states rights and form the all powerful, oppressive centralized federal government and posters on the internet who continue to applaud his criminal acts and stick to the revisionist history as taught in the federal government's indoctrination centers.

87 posted on 11/25/2015 4:17:07 AM PST by cowboyway ("The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."---Tacitus)
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To: EternalVigilance
Better to just take the controls back. Which we still have the power to do, if enough of us would simply realize it.

2014 proves that voting doesn't work. If you have a solution that will work lets hear that instead of empty rhetoric and hand wringing.

88 posted on 11/25/2015 4:20:49 AM PST by cowboyway ("The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."---Tacitus)
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To: GenXteacher
I’d like to share your optimism, but the controls don’t seem to respond.....

"American is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bastards." Claire Wolfe

89 posted on 11/25/2015 4:23:51 AM PST by cowboyway ("The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."---Tacitus)
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To: cowboyway
Isn't it ironic that you can apply that term to anyone today that thinks that the federal government can be reined in and limited to its constitutional bounds?

No, because that isn't accurate. It is the lost causers who spout the revisionism, hence the name. "States rights" would still be under attack even if the insurrectionists has succeeded.

The only states right that the slavers ever expressed an interest in was the state right to own other human beings (well, and the states right to dishonor their commitments).

90 posted on 11/25/2015 6:57:46 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr; EternalVigilance
It's absolutely accurate and you know it.

Returning this gargantuan federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.

Reining in executive power is a Lost Cause. Every president wants and gets more power, regardless of repub or dem. The current president that you voted for has even spoke of becoming a dictator.

Reining in judicial power is a Lost Cause. The courts have long been used to legislate from the bench. It's a tool used by both repub and dem.

My ancestors in 1860 were not obligated to commit to an unconstitutional government any more than I am obligated to commit to the current unconstitutional government.

Eternal vigilance is on the right track but he is either too naive to understand that returning the current federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause or he doesn't have the balls to say that the current federal government needs to be abolished and replaced with governments that are more suitable to the various cultures spread around the country.

91 posted on 11/26/2015 4:56:09 AM PST by cowboyway (Returning the federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.)
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To: jmacusa
This is why we were given The Second Amendment.

The Second Amendment doesn't give you the right to keep and bear arms any more that a birth certificate gives you life.

The right to keep and bear arms and defend yourself against thugs and tyrants is a God given/natural law right. The 2A simply documents that and all other natural law rights.

92 posted on 11/26/2015 6:01:50 AM PST by cowboyway (Returning the federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.)
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To: cowboyway
We are one of the very few nations on Earth that allows it's citizens to be armed and that ‘’natural right’’ is under constant assault. It's only the sheer psychical size of this country and it's population that prevents total gun confiscation. I don't believe in ANY gun controls laws what so ever. This country never had them until Democrats introduced them.
93 posted on 11/26/2015 6:25:55 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: cowboyway

I’m no fan of this current administration but how exactly is it ‘’unconstitutional’’? And just so you know I vote Republican.


94 posted on 11/26/2015 6:27:36 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: jmacusa
I’m no fan of this current administration but how exactly is it ‘’unconstitutional’’? And just so you know I vote Republican.

Jonathan Turley House hearing on executive power

95 posted on 11/26/2015 6:52:23 AM PST by cowboyway (Returning the federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.)
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To: jmacusa

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights would get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.”-—F. Lee Bailey


96 posted on 11/26/2015 7:11:52 AM PST by cowboyway (Returning the federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.)
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To: Paladin2

I’m glad the Constitution and Bill of Rights was written before we got such “smart” people in the District of Corruption.


97 posted on 11/26/2015 7:14:17 AM PST by JayAr36 (How much more corruption will we willing to take from the Washington???????)
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To: jmacusa

The war in Libya with no authorization by Congress, and when they didn’t agree he decided to go against his legal advisors anyway (Constitutional Lawyer that he is NOT).

0vomit care - totally illegal to force us to buy any commodity as a citizen

Fast and Furious illegal gun running.

Bringing a lawsuit against AZ through the UN.

Holding an office in the UN at that same time he is President.

Defense of Marriage act.

His association with the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist organizations.

Leaks to Hollywood of vital information regarding raid on bin Laden.

Failure to protect our citizens on the border.

Campaigning from the White House is illegal.


98 posted on 11/26/2015 7:15:14 AM PST by cowboyway (Returning the federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.)
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To: cowboyway; rockrr

Why waste time on a political activism site if it’s all over, and if you’ve already given up?


99 posted on 11/26/2015 7:29:55 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: cowboyway
No you're right they didn't have that. And neither did LBJ to send troops to Vietnam. I don't think Reagan had authority to send troops to Lebanon. It's that tricky War Powers Act. It seems to give a wink and a nod to giving the C-in-C to circumvent Congress.
100 posted on 11/26/2015 8:30:51 AM PST by jmacusa
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