Those threatening members of congress are not patriots

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 03/26/2010 | John G. Winder

[Patriot1259]

The proper terms to describe those misguided few who are now threatening members of the U.S. House are “cowards” and “terrorists”.

"We've had some very serious incidents that have occurred in the last 48 to 72 hours," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, said during a press conference on Wednesday. A spokesman for Representative Russ Carnahan told politico.com that a coffin was left in front of the congressman's home in St. Louis. Additional incidents have included threatening phone calls, vandalism of offices and threatening profanity-laced voice mails.

These are not patriots exercising their right to free speech. These are cowards terrorizing and bullying from the safety of anonymity those who, like it or not, have been entrusted as our representatives by the people of their respective Congressional Districts.

I despise the behavior of this current Congress. I believe in passing health care reform legislation this Congress has violated all of its duties and has spat upon the Constitution. I have no use for any of the people who voted for and passed “Obamacare.” However, they have been elected by the people. They are the leaders the people have chosen.

These threats, and profane voice mails, vandalizing offices, are not the acts of patriotic resistance nor are they acts of rebellion. They are acts of stupidity. They are crimes. It is a crime to threaten a member of Congress for performing the duties of their office no matter how much you might disagree with the decisions, politics or ideology of members of Congress.

[GailA]

Wouldn’t put it past a left wing nut job to have been behind the calls, or a dem operative. After all most of us couldn’t get through their FULL voice mails to leave a message.

[Patriot1259]

The founders had no recourse via the election booth - we do - thanks to the founders.

[Electric Graffiti]

What’s with this hostile attitude? This boxcar can easily fit 200 people. It’s got air holes and you don’t have to travel too far.

Relax and enjoy the ride.

[from occupied ga]

The founders had no recourse via the election booth - we do - thanks to the founders

The founders did not set up a democracy (mob rule) Unfortunately that's what we have today. 0, Pelosi, and Reid wipe their a$$e$ on the constitution every day, so recourse to the election booth is not really all that useful, since they acknowledge no restraints of any sort on government. Tyrants elected by majority are still tyrants.

[JimRed]

Those threatening members of congress are not patriots

That is correct. They are NOT Patriots; they are Obama’s minions running a false flag operation to try to discredit the Patriot movement.

We need photos and videos of those who show up at our gatherings with signs and shouts promoting violence or racism, so we can later identify them and show what they really are.

As for those of us who refer to “watering the tree of liberty”, that is not so much a call to violence as a call to excise a cancer before it kills us.

[ExTexasRedhead]

I would tell these fools to look at the radicals and thugs within this Administration and this Congress before looking elsewhere. In fact, how did any of these thugs get security clearances???

[metesky]

These threats, and profane voice mails, vandalizing offices, are not the acts of patriotic resistance nor are they acts of rebellion. They are acts of stupidity. They are crimes. It is a crime to threaten a member of Congress for performing the duties of their office no matter how much you might disagree with the decisions, politics or ideology of members of Congress.

During the run-up to the American Revolution, patriots and Sons of Liberty hounded governors, tax collectors, opposition newspaper editors and publishers and other colonial officials so much that many went into hiding rather than perform their duties. In Boston the Royal Governor and most of the Tax Commissioners beat feet to Castle William on one of Boston Harbor's many islands in order to put three miles of blue water between themselves and Boston's Sons of Liberty.

Holding officials feet to the fire is as American as apple pie and we should relearn the lesson ASAP.

[Pecos]

Excellent point. Perhaps the caller was able to leave a message only because he knew the phone number reserved for staffers.

[Boucheau]

I have been thinking that it’s pretty unpatriotic that Americans haven’t stormed DC.

But that’s just me. I actually believe we should be free from the force and coercion of other men.

I know, how outdated, and extreme!

[Wyatt's Torch]

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[Husker24]

When half of the country is on the dole and pay no taxes, elections are meaningless. They will keep voting themselves more welfare at the expense of the productive class. We will end up with a few super rich elite, who can manipulate the judicial system with money, afford any penalty put upon things that the elite don't want the populace to have. (permits, licenses, fees, punitive taxes). When all else fails politicians will just keep lying to get elected. Obama ran as a moderate to trick enough white people to vote for him, the media went along for the ride and would do so again. You can vote all you want, it wont change a thing. Were on downward spiral. We are a nation divided into mainly two diametrically opposed viewpoints. The only solution I can fathom is the freedom loving/conservative part of the country break off from the rest, write a new constitution with said right so incredibly spelled out that there can be no legal loopholes. Judges will be elected so that they will have accountability. Unfortunately none of this will happen, we will just muddle through as usual.

[farmguy]

Its the ones who are very, very quiet ya need to be afraid of.

That's exactly right. Even if things quieten down over healthcare, Pelosi has already signaled that this is how they intend to shove other things down our throats. There is no feigning cooperation now. They have the propaganda machine working for their side and their attitude has changed to one of the arrogance of having absolute control.

I keep telling the wife that as pissed off as I am, for sure there are those out there that are even more pissed off about this and have the training and/or demeanor to show how serious they are. They are the ones that aren't talking about it or doing high school pranks like tossing bricks through windows.

Right or wrong, it's coming, bank on it.

[wintertime]

I don’t wish it because it will not end well for the republic.
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Neither do I. When violence is smeared around it has never been a one sided brush.

[Texas Fossil]

Its the ones who are very, very quiet

Yep!

[surfer]

You actually still believe that?

You actually believe the US Constitution is still in force?

Wake up...

http://www.eutimes.net/2010/03/world-mourns-as-communist-darkness-falls-upon-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:%20TheEuropeanUnionTimes%20%28The%20European%20Union%20Times

We are in this position because of the stupid GOP...they are 100% to blame for this takeover and somehow you think electing the same idiots back in power is actually going to make a difference...enjoy your dellusions.

[Sarajevo]

The proper terms to describe those misguided few who are now threatening members of the U.S. House are “cowards” and “terrorists”.

It seems that any form of disagreement with the annoited elite is now "cowardice" or "terrorism". This is as bad as the constant use/misuse of the race card.

[wintertime]

The only solution I can fathom is the freedom loving/conservative part of the country break off from the rest, write a new constitution with said right so incredibly spelled out that there can be no legal loopholes.
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Fundamentally, if our experiment in self rule is to succeed, we must be a nation of honorable and honest people with the good will to make the system work.

In other words we must be a people who fears God, and whose roots dive deeply into Judeo-Christian morality.

It is impossible to write enough laws that are tight enough to corral evil.