Posted on 11/21/2009 8:06:16 PM PST by LTC.Ret
It's time.
No, I am not some crazy fringe lunatic. I am one of the most law abiding citizens around. I don't even have any moving traffic violations ever, in 40 years of driving, only a ticket once in college for an unnoticed (by me) expired inspection sticker. Never drank, never smoked, never tried drugs. I am the LAST person anyone would expect to say NO, NO MORE, NO WAY!!!
But it's time.
I served my country voluntarily for 31 years, and did my level best to give back to the Army and my soldiers more than they gave me. I have been awarded and decorated. I have served under Democrats and Republicans alike, with never a single disciplinary strike against me.
But it's time.
I started my small business from scratch and have provided jobs for lots of people along the way. I serve on the Chamber of Commerce and other civic organizations, and spent 18 years working with a nonprofit. I have dedicated myself to improving my community and making a positive impact, NOT making waves.
But it's time, and I CHOOSE LIBERTY.
If the powers that be in Washington can make law-and-order ME so uncomfortable with the direction they are taking that I am thinking of civil disobedience, then they don't know how close they are to a civil upheaval of the masses.
I will be the next "Rosa Parks", if that's what it takes. I will say NO, NO MORE, NO WAY!!! The government has NO RIGHT to MAKE me buy health insurance. The government has NO RIGHT to FINE me or JAIL me for NOT BUYING health insurance. Perhaps if people see government injustice happening to me so undeservedly, while standing up for my Constitutional rights, then they will be rallied to rise up and reclaim our government with freedom and liberty guaranteed once again.
It is time for me to ask my state to give serious consideration to SECESSION if the unconstitutional Washington power grab can not be stopped NOW. I will be on the phone Monday talking to everyone who will listen to try to get that started.
It is time to TAKE AWAY the voting rights of anyone who is not directly paying income/property taxes, so that all voters will have "skin in the game" as they say.
If you are a PRODUCER who WORKS for a living, move here to this state and WELCOME. If you are a TAKER --- GO AWAY!!! It's time to CULL THE HERD!!! Too many have taken advantage of this nation's largess for far too long.
We need to do away with WELFARE and other entitlements in this state and others, so that it will be a good place once again for PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY to grow and flourish. If someone isn't working and is in need, they had better hope they are attending a CHURCH or have FAMILY/friends that are willing to help them out, because it is NOT government's job to do it and we need to STOP it NOW!!!
It's time we stop government by bribery and prostitution:
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., asked Madam Mary Landrieu of Louisiana if she would do IT for a 100 MILLION dollars.
Madam Landrieu of Louisiana replied "YES", she would do IT for a 100 MILLION dollars.
So Reid asked Madam Landrieu if she would do IT for one MILLION dollars.
Madam Landrieu replied, "What kind of a woman do you think I am?"
Reid answered, "We've already established that, now we're just negotiating the price!"
Madam Landrieu, you were bought and paid for, so don't quibble and blame others for the label you earned! And she wasn't the only one. But it wasn't even Majority Leader Harry Reid's money --- it was MY money and YOUR money that Harry Reid bought her with, and WE didn't get anything for that cash!!!
It needs to STOP here and now. We get LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS --- and NOTHING ELSE. No More FREE RIDES!!!
Speak the TRUTH. No more political correctness. If you can't handle the TRUTH --- TOUGH. Find some other country to ruin, but I want my USA back!!!
"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" --- NEVER TRUER!!!
The original had Declaration had about 30 abuses. I’m sure we could narrow it down to that. It was enough the first time after all!
Hope to see you in the same camp they’ll send me. Once they have destroyed our ability to work for a living, we’ll all be filing out forms — being questioned by pensioned govt workers (with govt healthcare) recently hired from ACORN — submitting papers (not if your an illegal alien — then you can’t be scrutinized) — filling out forms to get the necessities of life or told where you will live or whether or not you can have that operation — and they’ll be checking all of your most intimate details in the national database (accessible to all govt workers) who will decide that boxes A + B + C means 1) you can’t own a gun 2) you can’t drive a car 3) you can’t take a trip —
oh yeah just wait — and the kiddie twits who voted this in won’t even know there’s anything wrong since they publish all their personal details to the world anyway —
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yes i’m ready for whatever — will read again the fates of signers of the declaration. I won’t live that way. I believe that is why the inner city welfare recipients hate everyone so much — the crass humiliation of the welfare system itself — and that’s what’s intended for all of us ...
Excellent, your a true patriot.
Personally, I am so sick and tired of the lies from the msm and left about global warming, gays, racism, medicare, hatred for Sarah Palin, TV Sit coms, recycling, and I could go on.... but I have reached a boiling point.. I am sooo over this I want my country back.
Just a comment about a country that lives the way that we may have to.
Criminals, crooked cops (same), etc., just roam the neighborhoods; fed-up citizens often take care of business; bodies of criminals (regardless of status, but certainly criminals) are just found laying around.
There are no prosecutions, nobody can keep up.
Just not a place I want to be in, but might come to that.
Thank you sir for your service. You are not alone, not by a long shot. The clock is ticking, the time is coming. We will stand together, brothers and sisters all.
I fear for the country that my children will live in. I join you in helping to make sure it’s not an Obama Nation.
Good rant. You’re not alone.
Yep. And remember rule #1: Don’t talk.
In re-reading the Declaration to my kids the other day, I think there were about 6-8 that could be pulled directly from it.
Amen FRiend! Loose lips sink ships!
Maybe we should remind the Democrats of Dr. King's words
I got a smile from some of the things that you included in your post.
I hold that most men have been in rooms during their life that they would not have wanted to had died in. Many good men have a little bad boy in them, yet few like to admit it.
Cheers.....
they wouldn’t understand
Excellent rant, Sir.
Live Free or Die.
If they do, I’ll start my own personal vendetta against FR. I’m about to the edge myself and I’m more mad at republicans than democrats. I’ve already had one post “removed by moderator” and I don’t really give a flying fvck anymore. If this country is gonna go to hell, then let it go with a bang.
Let “eager beavers” try *civil* disobedience before you do. Ghandi made it work against the British, MLK made it work against our government circa the sixties, but those in power here now have no consciences, and are probably impervious to civil disobedience. Wait a while, and if things go as I fear, some of us will try some very uncivil disobedience. See tagline.
Has anyone thought about how easy it would be for a foreign invader to actually attack Ft. Hood and destroy the place? How hard would it be for several squads of infiltrated troops to attack our bases simultaneously, and win the day? By the time our forces could regroup, the command and control structure will have been destroyed. We are rotted from the inside, with the only thing holding us up is our facade of stability.
Have your stores of food, water filter and water, some barter items and lots of self defense equipment, the S is inches from the F.
That would be throwing a lot of gasoline on the fires of civil war were your scenario ever to come to pass.
Well stated. Now harness the frustration to bring about action, I am right beside you.
“No MORE” bump!
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