Well, not yet. :)
Posted on 08/29/2004 6:17:59 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
Someone in management at FR decided that it belonged in the less visible Bloggers.
I'll try to be surprised later. Maybe I should use the long list! Then I could ping everyone I know who has a ping list. I have a list of ping lists and who has them.
Don't fall for the idea that equates democracy with freedom, and don't fall for the raft of bogus "freedoms" tossed around with abandon. Protection of property is the anchor of justice, and this would result in all the freedom you'll ever need. ....David MacGregor
>>I'd say the writer came here, said some blatantly liberal garbage, got banned, and is bitter about it.<<
Or something too conservative for the moderator on duty.
<< Some percentage (probably not large) of posters to Free Republic really do want freedom and know what it is. >>
America is a Constitutional Republic whose power descends via its People FRom Almighty God.
Stand for that -- or fall for anything.
FReedom requires that I ACT American and that requires not only that I know there is no FRee lunch but that I am seen by my actions to know there is no FRee lunch.
And Good luck flogging that idea as a Tenet by which to live.
Even around here.
Increasingly our elected 'officials' of whatever party -- and who were once, Constitutionally, called 'representitives' -- discuss nothing more involved than how and where to squander the conficated wealth of America's [And therefore of the world's] most creative, innovative, productive, industrious -- and enslaved -- and never how to ensure that our nation's wealth remains in the possession of those who created it -- and who own it!
And no Moral Man can call himself so who, by way of the coercive hand of government, accepts the confiscated wealth of others.
Except, say, we farmers -- AKA: America's New Welfare Rich -- who have it coming.
Or we motor-vehicle manufacturers whose shareholders depend for our corporate profits and their dividends upon the average $5,000.00 per car tariff-tax subsidies stolen from those "FRee" Americans who buy from our foreign competitors.
And don't forget us mobbed-up-unionized dinosaur "airlines." We're, relatively speaking, "moral."
As are us geezers who demand as a "right" that the young are enslaved and taxed and robbed to ensure our doctor and hospital and chemist bills and Ponzi-scam "pensions" are not our responsibility.
Bloody hypocrites.
Blessings -- Brian
They continue to push for this damned Soviet style government that I detest.
Political correctness is their dream of "social justice" forgetful of the freedom they are taking away.
I would be proud of America if we could just bring back to our schools saluting the Flag in class and morning prayer.
Children need a belief in God. Adults can be agnostic without too much damage if they have integrity and ethics.
It did!
Hank
ALL, "selves," (individuals) are important, just as you are.
No doubt you would have said the same thing about Jefferson, Adams, Revere, and others if you had lived in their day.
Hank
Blame B4Ranch. He is the one who pinged me.
Since the the government of this country considers all property it's own, evidently, "loaned to the citizens," until the government decides to "repossess" it, what do you propose we do about it?
[The question of somewhat rhetorical, but I would be interested in your answer.]
Hank
Have you read this one too?
Oh God no. If people are interested in what I post they will search my name. I do that on certain freepers whose posts I enjoy.
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
You're comparing Clair Wolfe to the Founding Fathers???
Where do I start to rebut this?
I would say first that very often, moral values are the correct and true way. Why should they be condemned simply because they are moral or even religious?
Secondly, I would not participate in anything tyrannical, outrageous, or oppressive. Well, maybe the oppressive part if what I was oppressing was a danger to my family or my country.
These words are just hyped up criticism of drug controls and that is all it is.
I can go on, but why................................
Oh yes, that reminds me, George just signed a bill adding an addition $82 billion over 10 years to our farm subsidies, which I believe brings the total to over $190 billion (of taxpayer's money).
Now that's real freedom, isn't it?
Hank
Well, not yet. :)
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