Posted on 08/29/2002 1:00:30 PM PDT by feelin_poorly
Shortly after 9-11, TV talk-show host Sean Hannity said, "Thank God, we have an honest man in the White House!"
And when you think about it, a great deal of what you might believe about the so-called War on Terrorism is based on statements from George W. Bush. You have only his word, or that of someone in his administration:
Since America is endangered by the "you're either with me or against me" tactics of the Bush administration, it becomes vital to know whether we can trust the man in charge of our government.
The record
So does George Bush's record inspire confidence in his honesty?
Unfortunately, this is the same man who has referred to trillions of dollars in budget surpluses – even though the federal government hasn't had a budget surplus since 1956. (The appearance of any "surpluses" was created by taking excess receipts from Social Security and applying them to the general budget, even as the politicians swore they were protecting Social Security.)
Mr. Bush even has the chutzpah to refer with a straight face (well not exactly a straight face, he loves to smirk) to corporate executives "cooking the books." He neglects to mention that many of the corporate bookkeeping methods the politicians are so incensed about today were motivated by rules imposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
And George Bush is the same man who in 2000 said he believed in "limited government." Most people assumed he meant a government limited by the Constitution. In fact, he took an oath in which he swore to uphold the Constitution.
But he's violated virtually every one of the first 10 Amendments – especially the Ninth and 10th Amendments, which are meant to impose precise limits on his power.
So his belief in "limited government" apparently means government limited to what he wants to do.
George Bush is the same man who in one breath tries to ingratiate himself with you by saying, "It's your money, not the politicians' money" – but in the next breath, he says he's entitled to one third of "your money."
George Bush is the same man who said he has learned more about political philosophy from Jesus of Nazareth than from anyone else. But he's proven by his actions that he doesn't really believe such things as "Blessed are the peacemakers." And "the meek" who Jesus said would inherit the earth are in Mr. Bush's eyes really just "collateral damage" in his plans to tell the world how it must live.
Is honesty important?
In these and in so many other ways, George Bush has proven that he's not an honest man – and that we shouldn't trust him with the safety of America.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson understood that we shouldn't put our trust in any politician. He said we should bind them down from mischief "by the chains of the Constitution." And a truly honest man wouldn't even ask you to trust him.
Contrary to what you might have thought, this isn't an article about George Bush. It's an article about you. Are you going to demean yourself by putting your faith in a man who has done so much to demonstrate the folly of such faith?
Are you going to let politicians stampede you into throwing away the Bill of Rights, based on "evidence" you never see, reassured by politicians who have proven that the truth is secondary to their own ambitions?
Don't you have enough respect for your own mind to make your own decisions, refuse to accept conclusions without evidence, and be something better than a cheerleader for a politician or a political party?
Government censor Cato, private citizens exercise their God given right over their private property.
Can you REALLY be so naive as to believe that ANY of these madmen are enough of an idiot to nuke the US?? You have GOT to be kidding!! If you're serious, you've been listening to too much network propaganda (the Germans did the same thing when the Nazi party first started doing their war dance). The US would annihilate ANY country that tried that. It's called having a good offense and is one of the perks of being the remaining world super-power. Even China (as bad as they are) can only dream of launching an out and out attack against the US as long as we control most of the satellites and most of the long range tactical nukes. Russia had nukes and the story during the cold war was that they might drop one on our heads at any time. That story was as effective then at getting the feds what they wanted as the half-baked Sadam story is doing right now.
How so? What policy?
I am happy to see that you understand the importance of our culture...or actually that we have any culture at all. I'm not sure how you reconcile this critical idea with your lack of concern on how mass immigration is displacing the traditional American Culture but it's nice to know that you think our culture is a check on an over-reaching federal government. On that I agree. I just wonder what might happen when our culture is no longer as dominant as it once was.
This lie is so silly I feel like I am wasting my time just pointing it out.
Diagram of the black helicopter reproductive cycle. Note that infected cattle can also be under control of their PBH, causing them to become NWO agents (misleadingly termed Mad Cows in the NWO controled press after the need to cover up any evidence of their conspiracy).
Trust me, we won't be seeing any hard evidence, besides official statements from the Bush Administration and members of Congress. The hard evidence out there will probably be kept out of the public eye for a while, since it may compromise whatever ground intelligence we do have in Iraq. The Bush Administration will probably be briefing members of Congress on this issue, but the information will stay classified.
That's it! It's not my fault that you're moronic. When I was invited onto this thread, I was at work and I kept up with it until 5pm when I left to run errands and come home. I wasn't anywhere NEAR FR at 9am this morning. My first post to this thread was at 3:14 PM this afternoon and there is an hour gap from appox. 6 to a little after 7. You evidently made your little attack while I was still playing catch-up on page one and making posts to others. You sure assume quite a bit to have no reading comprehension skills to speak of.
You are obviously no better at reading time stamps than you are at locating original founding documents.
Don't worry about praying for me, honey. I prefer that my friends help me in personal matters.
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