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The Constitution can be restored. The Constitution must be restored if we are to recover our lost freedoms and preserve it for our children and grandchildren. All democracies end in hyperinflation or bankruptcy whenever the public learns to vote itself benefits from the treasury. Is there anybody that actually believes the US can escape a similar fate if we don't restore the Constitution.

This is the first of a series of articles that will be published in the days and weeks ahead on FreeRepublic. A small group of Freepers has devised a simple plan that can be easily implemented. If successfully implemented, this plan has a better chance of restoring the Constitution than any plan you have ever seen or are likely to see.

1 posted on 10/17/2005 2:10:23 PM PDT by HopefulPatriot
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Whenever the public learns to vote itself benefits from the treasury, as opposed to just the government employees giving themselves bloated salaries, benefits and pensions?


2 posted on 10/17/2005 2:16:40 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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I look forward to reading more of the ideas you espouse. Your preamble, if that is what it is, is provocative and well written.

The only way to reign in govt is from the grassroots, as the leadership is already entrenched and unwilling to change.

4 posted on 10/17/2005 2:23:57 PM PDT by jeremiah (People wake up, the water is getting hot)
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The Constitution can be restored.

The Constitution is not the problem.  It's the Judiciary and the weak-kneed RINO's that are to blame.  Since we are in the majority we have to accept the responsibility of governing and it isn't being done across the board.  The Miers selection is proof of this weakness.

5 posted on 10/17/2005 2:24:18 PM PDT by quantim (Detroit is the New Orleans of the North as an example of a failed welfare state.)
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My Daddy always said if you're gonna dream, dream big!

Seriously, for things to change for the better, every single politician in Washington needs to be fired. Of course this won't happen, the political machine that runs DC will never allow the surfs to regain their lost freedoms. Face it, they're (politicians) are all corrupt. We need to wipe the slate clean.

But I will join in on your quest, please let me know if I can be of any assistance.

7 posted on 10/17/2005 2:28:07 PM PDT by CrawDaddyCA (There is no such thing as a fair fight. Thou shall win at all costs!!)
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It is no secret and not necessarily a bad thing that speech is limited in our Forum

HopefulPatriot

Since Oct 15, 2005

***************

Welcome to Free Republic.

8 posted on 10/17/2005 2:28:52 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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If you start or have a ping list, please add me to it. Thank you.


11 posted on 10/17/2005 2:43:12 PM PDT by loboinok (Gun Control is hitting what you aim at!)
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Hopeful indeed. I look forward to your future articles as you lay out your plan. Could you add me to your Constitution ping list, if you have one?


12 posted on 10/17/2005 2:51:31 PM PDT by shezza (Bless the folks in the trenches)
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Ping for the Restoration of the Constitution.


14 posted on 10/17/2005 4:45:00 PM PDT by Reaganghost (Democrats are living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
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I have been reading a lot about President Reagan lately, including both of Peggy Noonan's books on him. He did compromise, both as governor of my state and as President. It appears an unrealistist history has been written about him in people minds these days.

There is also an unrealistic idea of how President Bush should govern this country, or which he is the leader of ALL citizens, not just pure conservatives. It is a different story when you are actually doing the job, as some of you should well realize.
17 posted on 10/17/2005 5:34:05 PM PDT by ladyinred (It is all my fault okay?)
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syme alert


19 posted on 10/17/2005 6:08:40 PM PDT by I8NY
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This is a solid, well-written beginning. The premise is correct. The conclusion is correct. But the devil is in the details between step one and step last. I look forward to reading the coming installments.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Racially-Based, Academic Nonsense"

21 posted on 10/17/2005 6:21:48 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Quoted by Rush, again, this Thursday. Hoohah.)
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Outstanding! Bring it on! Let's roll!


23 posted on 10/17/2005 6:57:35 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: HopefulPatriot; Jim Robinson; Bob J; DoughtyOne; MeekOneGOP

Thank you.

However: Given that our parasitical political classless have so successfully reversed our nation's Constitutional direction and have restructured America's Founding Law to replace we the People with they the political, judicial and [Much-more-insidiously and efficaciously-FRankensteinian] bureaucratic Tyrants; any effort is doomed to failure that bypasses as the first essential step of our struggle to FRee and to restore the United States Republic, the imposition of Term Limits upon all feral politicians. [And judges and, especially, upon bureaucrats]

And any 'idea' that descends from the premise that a FRee Republic is to be found among any existing political, judicial and/or bureaucratic structure and/or organisation is as delusionally fantastic as is the false premise from which it seeks to descend.

And thems the facts.

Blessings -- Brian


25 posted on 10/17/2005 9:25:59 PM PDT by Brian Allen (Patriotic [Immigrant] AMERICAN-American and Aviator by choice - Christian by Grace)
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It is self-evident why replacing a socialistic Republican with a Constitutional conservative is an improvement, but this series will help you to understand why it should be acceptable to risk losing a socialistic Republican's seat, even to a Democrat, as part of an intermediate step that moves the entire Republican Party itself substantially to the right.

To disprove this premise, I merely cite a counterexample: hillary clinton.

Imagine how much better, how much safer the world would be today if Rick Lazio... or Rudy Giuliani... had won in 2000.

Alternatively, imagine the clintons controlling the Senate....

Now imagine how much better, how much safer the world would be if the rapist had lost in 92'... of even in '96....

So while the premise is untenable post-9/11, (we no longer have the cushion of time or circumstance to survive a clinton... or even the generic Democrat), given modern, real-world conditions, it is also demonstrably unexceptable anytime, witness the clinton 'presidency.'

 

 



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WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?

by Mia T, 8.18.05

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thanx to jla and Wolverine for the audio


DISCUSSION


"I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do it because they have a country in targets. Bin Laden did it.'

I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed and I was full of regret that I didn't get him."

bill clinton
Sunday, Sept 3, 2002
Larry King Live

"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan.

We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].

At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.

So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

bill clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer

MAD hillary series #4
NANO-PRESIDENT
the danger of the unrelenting smallness
of bill + hillary clinton



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deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"


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FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME! 

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
by Mia T, 6.04.04


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The Bush Doctine is built on two pillars, one -- that the United States must maintain its absolute military superiority in every part of the world, and second -- that the United States has the right for preemptive action.

Now, both these propositions, taken on their own, are quite valid propositions, but if you put them together, they establish two kinds of sovereignty in the world, the sovereignty of the United States, which is inviolate, not subject to any international constraints, and the rest of the world, which is subject to the Bush Doctrine.

To me, it is reminiscent to [sic] George Orwell's "Animal Farm," that "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

George Soros


DISCUSSION



WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?



THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans


pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA


The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)


Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power
REASON 1: SHE HIRED JAMIE GORELICK


sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)


BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


"I support the poor but not the war on poverty."


THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES


CINDY SHEEHAN'S JUMP-THE-SHARK MOMENT?


"SONNY" CALLAHAN + BILL CLINTON'S CINDY SHEEHANS


BILL CLINTON'S CINDY SHEEHANS (courtesy Sean Hannity)


THE ROOTS OF CINDY SHEEHAN
(COURTESY JAMES TARANTO VIA RUSH LIMBAUGH)


COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

 

28 posted on 10/18/2005 3:57:28 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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You appear to have an intimacy with FReepers that exceeds your 10/15/05 sign up date. What is your other screenname and why are you not using it for this post?


31 posted on 10/18/2005 4:54:38 AM PDT by Rebelbase (""As far as I can tell, she (Miers) is every bit as conservative as George Bush." --NCsteve (FR))
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Ping!


37 posted on 10/18/2005 6:41:49 AM PDT by HopefulPatriot
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that any Republican is better than any Democrat,

Nonsense.

40 posted on 10/18/2005 6:45:52 AM PDT by Protagoras (The "Patriot Act" ain't about patriotism)
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With your signup date, it would be interesting to know just whom you represent, what is the true goal and why...


42 posted on 10/18/2005 6:46:54 AM PDT by cynicom
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Ping!


43 posted on 10/18/2005 6:49:17 AM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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Ping!


46 posted on 10/18/2005 6:55:57 AM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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