Posted on 06/11/2009 11:33:11 AM PDT by Welshman007
An ill wind is blowing in America. Ordinary citizens from coast to coast are feeling a growing sense of outrage over what they are witnessing in Washington. At least one talk radio host states that the rage he is hearing from his listeners indicates that trouble is brewing beneath the surface that could erupt into the streets, not in violence, but in peaceful protest that sends a signal to Washington.
BTTT
I like what you said both ways, CA.
Voting booths....VOTING BOOTHS???
The coming elections will be more rigged than the last. Try another answer to a needed solution.
GREAT poster.
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but it seems like the boundaries are pushed off the scale in our era in terms of . . . where we came from to where we are now in such a short time.
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As you know, friend Quix, “Evil men and seducers will grow worse & worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
QUITE SO.
QUITE SO.
Very sobering Scripture.
Thanks, Bro.
Thank you.
AND we need at least a million people in Washington on September 12th. If the madman can conjur up a million for his inauguration, we should be able to come up with that as well. If not, we deserve the country we have.
Immediately after the election of 2008, many of my conservative friends were chanting something along the lines of, ‘We need to start focusing on 2012. We need to look toward Sarah [or fill in the candidate of your choice].’
I simply had to turn around and walk away, not wanting to trample on the pipe dreams of well-meaning people.
Working within the system is no longer possible. The system – at least as it was envisioned and painstakingly formulated by our Founders – no longer exists. Thanks to the power of the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, what passes for public and higher ‘education’, the fact that most parents have abandoned the molding of their children’s minds to the aforementioned three cancers, and a rampant ignorance and apathy among a populace of bread-and-circus aficionados, the system has been hi-jacked and transformed into a behemoth that, upon sight, would have caused our Founders to draw their swords and ready their muskets.
We prefer not to dirty our hands. Might ruin our forty-dollar manicure.
Reverence for our Founders’ vision, and the magnificent blueprint for governance that they formulated in our behalf, has been tossed aside for the better part of the twentieth century: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson, especially, ignored its cautions with impunity, and placed their own political agendas above its brilliant dictates, resulting in a gradual erosion of our Founders’ vision. But who would have thought that all of that erosion would pale in comparison with the six months that ushered in America 2009?
Most Americans have forgotten their heroic origins and have declared that divine guidance is dispensable. The have allowed a cadre of elitist scoundrels in Washington to muddy, beyond recognition – and perhaps beyond redemption -- the phrase 'of, by, and for the people', and they have vicariously written its epitaph by virtue of their eyes-diverted apathy and indifference to her brutal murder.
The majority of our countrymen no longer value:
More than two thousand years ago, Plato observed that ‘The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.’
Mankind has been struggling for more than two millenia to comprehend and retain Plato's admonition. If Americans ever successfully heeded his warnings, we have since decided that such wisdom is sadly passé. In carelessly relaxing our grip on those citizen-characteristics essential to preserving and defending a free society, the last best hope of man on earth has sentenced its children to a thousand years of darkness. [italics included in warnings by Ronald Reagan regarding a relaxing of vigilance]
The most difficult aspect to swallow of this entire travesty is the fact that the average American now has nowhere to turn. Our representatives no longer represent us. Our laws/justice system are now completely situational (depending upon who benefits from their application, or lack thereof). So where does the American citizen now turn for a hearing of grievances, or a hope of receiving justice when a crime of any sort has been committed against him? The answer? Unless he has connections, he no longer has an avenue of redress. The large majority if the crimes that will be committed against him in the future will be perpetrated by his own government -- and those crimes will continue to grow in frequency and intensity.
Over the past five months I have walked away from several many-year friendships. I can no longer fellowship with, or enjoy the company of, people who, primarily through their apathy and unconcern, are contributing to the downfall of our beloved republic and placing my children’s and grandchildren’s lives and liberties in jeopardy.
I have also abandoned a decades-long belief in political, within-the-system activism in favor of outside-of-the-system activism, in addition to preparing my family for the dark days ahead and simply seeking, when circumstances allow, to attempt to educate people regarding the genuine definition and source of our liberties. Asking them to search their hearts and decide whether those liberties are being stolen from them, and then urging them to discern whether and how they can reclaim them.
My husband and I attended a simulcast presentation of Glenn Beck’s Common Sense Comedy Tour about ten days ago. The theater was sold-out, and yet the audience responses to Beck’s call-to-arms was lukewarm, at best. I hope it was otherwise in other locations.
Beck is indeed a burgeoning modern-day Thomas Paine. Not so sure he’ll retain Paine’s passion, receive Paine’s notoriety, or achieve Paine’s timeless presence, but I have high hopes for him. He hasn’t given up on (what used to be) America. Neither can the rest of us. We simply have to have the presence of mind to alter our strategies. Don’t envision changing the complexion of our ‘leadership’ four, eight or twelve years down the road as a ‘solution’. Look beyond the ballot box to the winning of hearts and minds in spite of our ‘leadership’. In America 2009, our ‘leadership’ is our greatest enemy.
God bless you, Noumenon. You are a man of courage and conviction, and a modern day patriot of whom our Founders would be proud.
~ joanie
Bravo and EXACTLY! You wouldn’t, perchance, be interested in being one of our new leaders....would you?
That is exactly the kind of leadership we need right now. The kind that’s unafraid to tell it like it is.
Thanks for the ping!
You can’t just count the NRA memberships. Trust me! There are millions and millions of others that own, carry, believe in the 2nd Amendment and the whole constitution....
and are just AS fed up as we are.
I dont think so...the grazing herd is oblivious to the wolves, but the bulk of the posters here have been well aware of the amount of gravity weve already gained on the back side of the ole slippery slope...
my gut says that most of 'us' are/have been at a crossroads for a veeeerrry loooong time...
until the certainty of the words comes from that 'still, small voice', I can be 100% sure if its 'offensive' or self defense...
problem is that when/if I hear that voice with clarity, will the aforementioned 72 hr hold become reality if Im forthright with even my most trusted friends & family ???
also, personally having been rather flirtatious and actually runnin with my devils in days gone by, there is also a bit of angst in cozying up to those old emotions...
back in the day, I had a bit of success in being able to throttle back the 'enthusiasm' of a conflict, but over time that ability became practically non-existant, and once the switch gets flipped, I do kinda get on a roll and hit auto pilot, so to speak...
just think William Munny in the last scenes of Unforgiven, commie muzztards do NOT wanna open that can, but they can and in fact are in the process...
at this point Im not so sure if the handlers have lost control of the Kenyan commie's arrogance, or if they really believe that they have reached 'critical mass' and are working for their own final solution framework...
oh well, I'll get outta bed in the AM, go to a building full of Christs brethren, and continue to seek His Will and ask for His Direction for me & mine...beyond that is uncertainty, at least till the last chapter of His Book...
If you are right then should the disabled, who cannot take up rifle and fight, simply quit in despair?
As for me I am far more fitted to the war of ideas. We have a place in this fight, too. It is not pre-ordained that we cannot win a war without a shot fired, such as Reagan did against Communism.
I fully support *preparing* for war. If it comes I'll do what little I can to fight it. In the meantime I'll fight the battle with verbal broadsides instead of bullets. And I will not despair (much).
The face of anger. I love it. Is that your picture? May I have permission to use it?
Yep. Help yourself with good wishes. I always share whatever I post, no restrictions. :0)
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