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Or drive around the Capitol and gridlock traffic while honking thousand of car horns.
Posted on 03/19/2010 5:07:13 AM PDT by ConservativeHideout
Last week we were all introduced to the “Slaughter Solution;” a procedural method that could be used to get around the requirements of the Constitution to pass a bill without actually voting on it. I have read a number or articles both defending and condemning the move.
For me any attack on the Constitution needs to met with a swift and overwhelming response. Most of us picked up the phone and called our representatives, and expressed our deep concerns to some nameless staffer who took down our information and promised to relay our frustrations to our congressman or congresswoman. I have already done this twice so far this week. Some have emailed lengthy rants to their representatives about how the Democrats are trying to destroy the Republic using unconstitutional procedures. Ok I did that too. It has been somewhat of a frustrating week for many of us and when I get this frustrated I turn to God and the Founders.
God sustains me and the Founders feed me. I was thinking about how we have drifted so far away from the basic principles that this country was built on. How we have let the enemies of liberty into the halls of congress to decide our fate. The more I thought about the “Slaughter Solution” the angrier I became at myself for allowing it to reach this point. You see I had become complacent as a citizen of this great country. I failed to act when I saw the forces of progressivism creep back into our political arena. I viewed it as a passing political fad that would never find traction in the United States of America. How wrong I was. I totally underestimated these forces that hid in the shadows, waiting for the right crisis to hit. What looked like a fad, ended up being a well organized machine; a machine seeping with radicalism and one goal; to transform the United States into a wealth redistributive society. This brings us to the real crisis; a Constitutional crisis we face today, that just might change the face of America forever.
So tonight I decided to turn to my favorite radical. No not Saul Alinsky. But a radical that stood up against tyranny and defiantly declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;” Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father for a number of reasons, too many to discuss in this post. But the one thing I admire the most about this man is that he was an ardent supporter of states’ rights and limited government. He embraced the notion that the people were the masters and the politicians were the servants. This is the type of statesman we need now; a statesman that will stand up for the people.
I opened one of my books on Thomas Jefferson and found a few quotes that might provide us with our own solution to the problems we face with our Congress and Executive branch of government. Please read with a clear mind and determined spirit.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Could the contrary of this be proved I should conclude either that there is no God or that He is a malevolent being. (1797)
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. (May 27, 1788)
The God, who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. (1775)
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. (March 1801)
In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. (1798)
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. (March 4, 1801)
How have we drifted so far away from this philosophy? How can we get it back? Where are the men and women in Congress that will take up the cause for liberty and say enough of this madness? Perhaps they too should look to the past to find solutions to the problems we face today. I looked and found the “Jefferson Solution.” It’s really that simple.
Liberty forever, freedom for all!
Note the walking-distance metro stop. Park anywhere and ride the metro in.
Or drive around the Capitol and gridlock traffic while honking thousand of car horns.
Who’s Jefferson? I live in Texas. They’re not gonna teach us about that guy any more. He wasn’t a “good” Christian so they took him out of our history books.
It started with man trying to stop the boom-bust cycles of the free market. The progressives of the early twentieth centry are the major culprits. Once you go down that slope, the natural progression is to have gov't try to fix all of society's problems -- attempt to create a heaven on earth, so to speak.
Education is the first step towards getting it back. Revamp the curriculum. Insist on local funding and local control of schools, perhaps taking them to the private sector. Vote out the bums. Amend the constitution to solidify states rights.
BS, forget about those inner family fudes, and focus on the enemy. I do not simply "live in Texas". "I am Texan." Texas is not where you are born but a State of Mind, Heart and Attitude. If you want a real battle, pick on one of our own. We will be there. Some of my ancestors were here during the Republic.
Ending indoctrination is perhaps our most important struggle. My fear is always that they will one day indoctrinate a critical mass of useful idiots that will finally finish giving away all of our freedoms.
The next thing you know, kids will know more about George Jefferson (and Weezie) than Thomas Jefferson.
I heard that, and next up Amnesty, oh er um, "Immigration Reform". There will be the critical mass of which you speak.
You expressed very eloquently what I’ve been feeling since first learning of the “Slaughter Solution” and the 75 years of history behind “deeming” that our elected representatives have not only used regularly, but that no one has challenged (thus making all of us complicit in their illegal acts). We no longer live in the country I’ve always believed existed, only to be so very disillusioned of that fact this week. If our own representatives ignore our Constitution, and the bills that are not actually voted on are passed into law, and our executive and judicial branches allow that to happen, what exactly are our military people fighting for? We don’t have a Constitutional Republic any longer, and the sad part is, it’s taken many people (myself included) over 75 years to figure that out. We need to start over, because there’s no “fixing” this.
I share the same fear as you. I am seeing a glimmer of hope given what just happened in TX. Even the USSR story shows that indoctrination does not work for ever. Hegel was right. Social system that break down are replaced with something better.
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