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To: danamco

Stop with the hyperbole. Multiple question marks do not indicate the soundness of your approach, or the folly of others for their disagreement. You attempt to ridicule my comments by positing that I could consider George Washington un-American (presumably, for agreeing to lead the Continental Army against the British, once the Colonists had declared their independence from England. Without writing an historical dissertation on the subject, let me just point out that the Colonists engaged in just the sort of conduct I espouse, but not you. That is, for several decades before the American Revolution, colonists had entreated the Crown to amend their conduct. And colonists, restricted by the lack of any electronic means, managed to create avenues of communication with others, to discuss and debate how to proceed. (Few would argue that Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” pamphlets in large part coalesced support for the ideas that led to the American Revolution.) What I am saying is that, espousing a revolution absent the extensive efforts at change characterized by the conduct of those patriots who fomented the American Revolution, with the support of the majority of their fellow colonists; would make it appear that, your objection to the status quo is directed more to the person who won the election than to a bona fide belief he has somehow usurped the will of the people.


69 posted on 11/24/2009 2:05:45 PM PST by jbjd (http://jbjd.wordpress.com)
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To: jbjd

These words are worth repeating BECAUSE ALL ELSE HAS FAILED!

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


73 posted on 11/24/2009 2:35:22 PM PST by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1. Afghanistan Updates Daily on My Profile)
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To: jbjd
Stop with the hyperbole.

What do you mean by that?

I didn't try to ridicule you, but your "nice" wordings seems you are doing exact that to me!

Your post sounds like the guys in the UN, talking and talking that leads to nowhere!!

I have come to think it is very naive to rely on any measure to get rid of the usurper by our scared (corrupt ?) judicial system and is a total waste of energy which has been proven from multiple cases thrown out of court the last year!!!

There are movements brewing all over the country, Tea Parties (?) in protest and when you don't have bread and butter on the table for your kids, something drastic is going to happen, whether you like it or not. In my State the "official" unemployment is now 11.2% and the unemployment cash coffer is EMPTY.

What do you think will happens when the unemployment rate reach 25-30%, which I believe it is heading toward?

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." President Ronald Reagan

80 posted on 11/25/2009 6:50:39 AM PST by danamco
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