Posted on 06/29/2009 4:54:58 AM PDT by Walter Scott Hudson
Did FR crash this morning (or semi-crash) at 7:36 this AM?
It seems like the “Articles” are stuck with a Swiss Banking one as the last posted today at 7:35.
Anyone else see this?
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At one time I would have believed you. But since November 5, 2008, I have lost all faith in the American people. When all of what you mentioned happens, and it will what they will do is listen to the media. The media will blame former President Bush and the Republican Party. And so will the people.
I agree, the Tea Parties are the start..... I am willing and able to do everything possible to get rid of obamanation....
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I’m often struck by the atrocious conditions people have historically been willing to live in rather than leave or revolt. So long as they can develop a personally acceptable routine they will live it. Even today I’m baffled at white farmers still in Zimbabwe, civilians in Darfur (including a Canadian acquaintance raising his family there), and any number of other “hotspots” where the writing isn’t just on the wall - the message is screamed in everyone’s face every moment.
Last week I was touring crumbling remains of a fort, noting how not that long ago the upper crust of society lived in meager settings which would be deemed officially inhospitable today. We have a long way to fall in our modern culture before people would “do something”; so long as the TV is on and food is available, much will be tolerated.
what happened?
Look Rob - Janet Napolitano is looking for “proof” that the right wing is violent. They have shills trying to gin up the frustrated. Don’t fall for it. If you want to see violent people look at the local prisons and jails - all democrats. Look at the riots and cities burned in the last 50 years - all done by democrats. And I don’t mean one nutcase democrat - hundreds of democrats rioted. Hundreds of thousands of democrats are in jails and prisons. THEY ARE THE VIOLENT one. NOT US.
We don’t need a revolution and quit talking the “janet napolitano wet dream” talk. We need to vote in responsible people and vote out liberal idiots.
It is not about violence. It is about when it is applies.
Here are some more violent people:
The Korean business owners during the LA riots:
And, of course, this famous guy:
If our side ever gets violent, how "they" see us will be as irrelevant to us as King George's viewpoint was to George Washington on that cold evening on the Delaware.
There is violence, and then there is "violence".
Good counter-point.
[i]Are we their constituents ? If we didn’t vote for them, then we are not. A politician is in office because the majority of the people in his district believe in his views. Therefore, he is representing his constituents when he votes. So what good does it do to complain that he’s not representing those who didn’t vote for him. We need to vote in the guys/gals that represent OUR views in order to have the agenda go our way.
That’s how it works....[/i]
I disagree. If it were that simple, we’d just have a pure democracy. Being a statesmen in a republic means recognizing a responsibility larger than catering to the whims of those who voted for you instead of the other guy. It means representing the best interest of all the people in your constituency, whether they voted for you or not. If proposed legislation adversely affects one group at the expense of another, or violates the principles enshrined in the Constitution, it does not serve the general welfare.
But I get where you’re coming from. You’re reflecting the modern sense that we elect people to office, not to do a defined job, but to do whatever we want them to do for us. This is the way it has become, but not the way it is supposed to be. The election should be about qualification and affirmation of the constitutional role of government, not what the candidate can do for you or your special interest group.
They don’t listen, because they don’t have to, because listening to constituents is a defining characteristic of representative government, and that is not what we have. We have no democracy. We have no republic. We have no constitution. There is only the Nietzschian will of an elite class of oligarchs, led by a personality cultist who openly despises the foundations of the nation he purportedly serves.
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well said!
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