Posted on 03/27/2015 3:53:08 AM PDT by HomerBohn
“Wake up, America,” people cry. “Have hope, faith, and heart that the republic can survive,” others proclaim. Honestly, I don’t know why everyone can’t face the reality that it’s dead already; the dream, the great experiment of America, has failed. While the idea of an American republic has been kept alive to assuage the masses, the reality is it was taken from us years ago while we slept.
Face it; liberty is gone. Freedom exists now only in the ideology of the Constitution, not in the practice of “democracy” and a U.S. government that rules us with tens of thousands of “laws” that yoke us to an indentured servitude of paying for its spending spree. Those in government have completely usurped the power of the people, all under the guise of protecting the people from, well, themselves. That’s because, left to their own devices, the people would choose to do things that are bad for their bodies or maybe even good for their bodies, but bad for corporate profit bottom lines — lobbyist corporations, the bedfellows of government. The people, however, should have the absolute freedom to do, say, eat, be or think whatever they want; but they don’t, because Big Bro says, “no.” And that’s that. No more republic.
So where is the outrage? Where are the people fighting the overthrow of their God-given liberties? Where are the true patriots? Nowhere. They’re still talking about preparing for action while not even realizing the game is already over; the past inaction all these years has assured the king’s victory.
But, what if it weren’t over? What would be the threshold that government would have to cross to make the people rise to take back their Creator-given rights?
During a “Support Rural America Sheriffs’ Event” a while back, six sheriffs told their stories and imparted upon the constitutionally patriotic attendees that they would stand for the peoples’ constitutional rights. As I was listening, I found myself inspired to hope for the future by their stories. Then an analogy sprang to mind…
What if the people were like Israel, fighting against others who didn’t believe they should even exist — the people just wanting to be free and left alone, to have a country that is theirs.
The U.S. government is like Iran. It has grown ever powerful and believes it is because of it that the world is different today. It believes that the people shouldn’t freely have a country to call their own, and it is doing everything it can to make sure they don’t. In fact, it is building the potential to nuke the people’s constitutional rights once and for all and has plans to sell off their lands. The people, as intended, would cease to exist.
The Oath Keepers and the Constitutional Sheriffs, those who are in positions of power that truly believe in the constitutional republic, are likened to the international community that has protected the people all these years. They believe that you have to work within the confines of the government itself (“play by Iran’s rules”) in order to make a difference. They believe the courts aren’t corrupted beyond belief; they believe government still believes it is accountable. But they are wrong. And because of these beliefs they refuse to draw that line and truly support the people.
Right now, you could say I am like Benjamin Netanyahu. I am asking: “Where is the red line in the sand? What line does the government cross before we act? Dare I say before we revolt?” The question is, of course, moot, as the republic is gone already and the question was answered before it was asked: There is no line. We are ruled now by an elite few who can simply create law through executive order and administrative processes. We the people are slaves to our own insecurity while clinging to old ideologies long gone.
God bless America. You were loved.
And more and more we are consumers willing and demanding to have others pay for what we consume.
We have largely forgotten the pride of self-sufficiency, the pride of earning our own bread and the pride of ownership of our own destiny.
We have become slaves and haven’t yet realized that fact.
So, how close to 0% before one ‘calls the game’? Sorry, the Republic was lost over 100 yrs. ago.
We’ve already regressed to the title of serfs in all but name; I don’t believe even their burden of taxes were as high as most. Even more are economic slaves to the ‘generosity’ of govt welfare. No State stands up to assert its 9th, 10th Rights, or those of its Citizens (all being bribed with the $$ of their own peoples, if not drunk off the power/$$ of their own unconstitutional lawlessness).
Yet, I see only lip service paid to our founding documents. Even Cruz touts replacing the income tax...with another slavery tax (flat tax. Nothing ‘voluntary’ there!). Where’s his call to return to a limited govt? How ‘bout abolishing medicaid, SS and the other ponzi schemes, Cruz? Are those not also bad, if not worse?
Nowhere do I see a repeal of any law, any dept. and agency, let alone a start of discussion that BEGINS with/in/based-upon...the Constitution.
Lip service, bloviating and pomposity.
Even if the rumbling of taking back our Life, Liberty and Freedom grow, boot of govt will just assert more pressure to the neck of the Republic. Even if War of Indep. II were to break out, it would never be the same, nor as free, as after the 1st.
Thank God you weren’t at Omaha Beach during WWII.
Of course, you wouldn’t have been there. Men were there.
You want to curl up and hide from your moral obligations?
OK, leave it to the men to do what needs to be done.
Regardless of the Leftist debate tactics, the original question still stands.
Though, I’d still love to hear of this ‘moral obligation’...to whom? Consisting of? Defined by?
Sounds like more Socialist ‘it takes a village’ guano.
But, if ‘men’, like you, is what it took to get us where we are today, I’ll gladly leave the mess-making up to you and yours. Those of us that refuse to hold our nose for the ‘lesser of’ will continue to fight the debate of ideas, hearts and minds.
This is all part of God’s will...how we react to it, the faith that we have and never lose in God Almighty during events that shake us to the core is what matters.
How close to zero? It’s so obvious it doesn’t need answering but for people like you.
Zero.
That’s why you aren’t suited for the fight.
Bless your little heart. One too blind to see it’s ALREADY 0% and we’re watching the ‘slip into slavery’ part of the cycle.
But, thanks for trying. Maybe the next GOPe you ‘vote’ into office will lower the gauge of the chains that are surely to come to most.
I only hope I can take a few with me before I pass.
We are at 0% and yet you are on the internet still whining and not in front of a government firing squad for saying the things you’re saying?
Your perspective is more than bit out of whack.
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