Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why I’m Leaving America
Dollar Vigilante ^ | August 31, 2012 | redmond W

Posted on 11/19/2018 5:04:02 AM PST by vannrox

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 next last
To: vannrox

This screed is verbose and filled with vague concepts. It is puerile.


41 posted on 11/19/2018 5:48:03 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

We knew a couple....both had good jobs.....but they planned & finally implemented their plan to move to Belize...Belize is all they talked about

They retuned the next year....it wasn’t utopia after all....
....I think someone broke into their dream home, among other things


42 posted on 11/19/2018 5:50:13 AM PST by Guenevere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

“But we will make sure that you have the tools to thrive even as the assorted statists, brainwashed, fasco-communist tax slaves around you get shell-shocked by the ongoing economic collapse and increasingly rough handling by their political overseers.

We should have it all together in just a few more weeks. Keep an eye out for more updates.”

And we will ship it to you in either the money saving soft cover addition for just $9.95 or the deluxe hard cover gold embossed edition for the low, low price of $15.95.

Order in the next 25 minutes and we will DOUBLE your order....just pay an additional fee.


43 posted on 11/19/2018 5:51:46 AM PST by billyboy15 (Es)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

——Coercion is your single purpose——

The only workable response to coercion is physical resistance.

Leftists must be physically smacked down. Otherwise, they will continue to coerce


44 posted on 11/19/2018 5:54:04 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

If the US “collapses” ( whatever that means), the world collapses. There won’t be a corner dark enough to hide in.


45 posted on 11/19/2018 5:54:20 AM PST by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

Most freedom advocates wind up going south. NOT BECAUSE WE WILL FIND GOVERNMENTS MORE COMMITTED TO FREEDOM. They are almost always much worse than ours, and only Guatemala has a constitution guaranteeing rtkba. It is rather that if you have two governments that are totalitarian, you want to choose the one most disorganized, disheveled, and incompetent. You stand a better chance of being left alone.

This guy is not writing for the blue hairs here whose only idea of Latin America/South America is the “news” they get on Fox, visions of drug lords melded with a caricature of sleepy sombrero wearers in a dusty street somewhere. He is writing for those who have the same degree of contempt for “patriots” here as the emigrants had for the “patriots” of Holland, England, France and Italy to came to the USA back when they came for freedom.

As a matter of fact, there is more practical freedom in any number of African or South American countries (not including Hungary and Poland) than here in the USA, plus you don’t have the appalling hatred for the Christian base of law and values you see institutionalized in the USA and much of the west.

I totally get where he is coming from. Considered it myself, in fact.


46 posted on 11/19/2018 5:55:22 AM PST by mostly_lies
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

The author certainly didn’t learn to spell in America.


47 posted on 11/19/2018 5:55:58 AM PST by miss marmelstein
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Truth29

His book;

http://www.blurb.com/b/6550669-the-sailboat-diaries

Looks like he was back in 2015.


48 posted on 11/19/2018 5:56:48 AM PST by Romans Nine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

I’m not sure who said this. Some attribute it to George Washington:

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”

Of course the government uses force. How else can you run a large, complex society?


49 posted on 11/19/2018 5:56:49 AM PST by beejaa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

Wow, I almost forgot about “Don’t Give Up On Us”. Awful stuff. Yes, a strange musical time indeed. Just post Vietnam and slightly prior to disco. I actually dropped off the musical timeline at that point and retreated back to the late 50s & 60s where I remain today.


50 posted on 11/19/2018 5:58:04 AM PST by JonPreston
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

Colorado is becoming Sodom on the Rockies. Wyoming looks better every day but my family is here. I miss my little home town that got overrun by Boulder. There is still some hope but there is much more despair.


51 posted on 11/19/2018 5:58:08 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mountainlion

We lived in Louisville when we went to CU in the 70s. The whole state is just a suburb of LA now. It’s a real shame.


52 posted on 11/19/2018 6:02:02 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: beejaa
Of course the government uses force. How else can you run a large, complex society? Geez, I am sure we have no idea.... /s We could try individual liberty so long as we do not impinge on the rights of others? Nah.... too utopian.... Geez again.
53 posted on 11/19/2018 6:02:40 AM PST by mostly_lies
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

During the last presidential elections, my wife and I were looking at places in Canada.

We did that because we knew that Hillary was going to steal the election, and within weeks the US would literally be at war.

It’s a tough moment, deciding fight or flight.

If one can fight from a remote location, and be somewhat effective.. than hey.. whatever.

Because under the left it does mean physically fighting. I think I’m ready to now. My daughter is a bit more grown up (Not an infant anymore) but I do wonder if it’s worth dying for this country when half the people are completely insane and deserve none of it’s treasures.


54 posted on 11/19/2018 6:05:20 AM PST by Celerity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mostly_lies

You favor anarchy? At this point in our history, we can’t even agree on what individual rights are. Are they the negative rights of the Bill of Rights or the positive rights of President Roosevelt? About half the country supports each system.


55 posted on 11/19/2018 6:06:09 AM PST by beejaa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

More of a manifesto type rant than anything else....most who bitch and then tell us why they’re leaving would be more effective to wait and then tell us why they actually left....where is the guy relocating to?


56 posted on 11/19/2018 6:12:52 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

The author is a sophomoric, liberal, socialist, sociopath who thinks the nation revolves around “zitself”.

I suggest he /Ze whatever finds all the like-minded associates he can find, and sail off into the kind and gentle arms of “mother gaia” and be gone.

It is directly due to self-absorbed types like this our nation is having a major identity crisis; either we are a nation of strong men and women ( yes, not the rest of alphabet sex soup ought not to be included as they are not capable of growing the next generation of citizens) who roll up sleeves, find jobs/livelihoods, marry, bear children and sacrifice their youth for their offspring and each other; collectively creating the most safe, secure and productive society of people on earth. The liberties and freedoms we willingly forego as a component of the right to live in security are over come by the total effect of that social contract between free men and women.

Good riddance. Anyone who thinks bailing is a wise and honorable option is not worthy of the benefit.

I think I know this guy; he could be my pot smoking tree hugging teat sucking guitar strumming brother in law from Asheville NC who continually begged for money to fund his “American journey of self discovery” a decade or two back. I told him that if I gave him money, I wanted a contract for 50% of the rights to his songs and albums. I have not heard from him since the US Embassy in Finland called and asked for me to pay for his airfare back to the US, as he was being deported, which I impolitely refused.

They are not us. Good riddance.

Too bad the reality of this article is that he is probably getting SSDI for PTSD or some such condition caused by the “system”. He ain’t got the balls to depart; in his real mind, he knows better. Unless he was the guy who was killed by ISIS while pedaling though some ‘stan last summer with his GF on mission of tolerance etc., but I doubt it.


57 posted on 11/19/2018 6:14:06 AM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

If we had a system where nobody had to go to school or pledge allegiance to the country, we would have a country full of useless people. We would be invaded and everything seized by better organized and more disciplined people.

Life is not perfect and idealism should be a guide and not a law.


58 posted on 11/19/2018 6:14:34 AM PST by BlackAdderess (Dear GOP, please learn to punish bad behavior and reward good behavior instead of the opposite)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vannrox

Running away is NEVER the answer to your problems. Stay, stand and FIGHT!


59 posted on 11/19/2018 6:20:44 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wastoute
My direct ancestors came to Boulder in the 1870’s. More distant ones were in Denver in the 1850’s. The first bricks made in Colorado went into his oven at the bakery. Now the state has become dictators first and peons last. Totally unAmerican.
60 posted on 11/19/2018 6:21:29 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson