Posted on 05/26/2013 3:39:40 PM PDT by SatinDoll
As you prepare to grill out your steaks and fly your flags, take time from the swilling of beer to consider the following.
Our government is completely out of control. Benghazi, Fast-n-Furious, IRS Abuse, 100,000 perjured affidavits, phony securities marketed under false pretense, Congressional force used to commit accounting fraud, money lanudering and more. There is no longer a rule of law; the Golden Rule has been turned into "Do unto others, run like hell and, if caught, bribe Congress or threaten economic collapse." While that contains a slight amount of hyperbole, the operative word there is "slight."
There is no current political party that answers to this issue. Even the so-called Libertarians. Adrian Wyllie, for example, current chair of the Florida Libertarian Party and candidate for governor, surrendered his driver license not because he believed he had a fundamental right to travel but because the Florida Government demanded that he prove who he was in order to renew that license. Once you cede the point that travel upon a public way for private, non-commercial purposes is a privilege then you have lost this argument entirely because by definition a privilege may be conditioned upon whatever the grantor wishes, and identifying the people to be granted the privilege is certainly among the fundamental characteristics associated with same. From logically-defective predicates come indefensible policy -- every time.
The reason there is no political party that answers to this issue lies within us as the electorate. We the people are the problem. It is not they, it is us. We want security and will sacrifice liberty to obtain it and in doing we wind up with neither. We want to grant the government the right to criminalize statistical probabilities rather than actual harm to others. We seem to be incapable of dealing with the logical fact that once you empower a government with the ability to make something a crime based on statistical probability anything becomes subject to prohibition or regulation. This is the exact opposite of what was called forth in The Declaration of Independence.
When a nation loses the rule of law it becomes a defacto monarchy with subjects who are factual slaves to the ruling classes. We have descended into a pit in which we debate which political entity (whether it be a mayor, sheriff, Congressman, Senator or President) will have power. In short we are attempting to choose our master predicated on whether he will promise us hot or cold porridge. Unfortunately as with all master -> slave relationships such promises are utterly unenforceable and are never fulfilled. Did you ever consider that on a Plantation with 20 slaves and fewer than a half-dozen white slave-owners (only one or two of whom were prepared and capable of offering resistance) there was never, in fact, any ability to enforce slavery as the slaves outnumbered the masters by a factor of 10 or more? Today we have 330 million people in America, more or less, and perhaps one in 300 of them is in a direct position to offer resistance. Our willing acceptance is why there was robosigning, why there have now been three successive and near-identical bubbles in asset prices (the third of which we are in now), why the employment participation rate has not recovered, why food stamp recipients continue to climb, why a hospital childbirth with three nights stay for the mother and baby that by offical inflation numbers should cost $1,000 in cash but is in fact 10 times or more that amount and why your purchasing power has been intentionally and systematically destroyed by a Congress and Federal Reserve that intentionally and publicly violate the very alleged black-letter law that created said Fed.
And finally, we were and are not forced today into our position as slaves, we have and are consenting. We put the manacles and chains on our own hands and feet and keep them there despite the presence of chisels and hammers with which we could remove them at any time. The black community, for example, was promised education and good jobs by the liberal wing of our government. What they factually got was the destruction of the family unit, the rise of the "gangster" culture, drug dependency, outrageous percentages of black youth born to single mothers along with economic devastation and dependence. Today we claim that giving away "free money" and even more in "loans" is the path to education for all yet the national college graduation rate for black males six years after matriculation is just 35%. Predictably we blame this on the poor state of our primary and secondary education system but in point of fact you need exactly one skill to be able to succeed, if you want to: reading. If you can read you can learn anything, provided you want to. This problem is not limited to blacks but it is certainly evident there in a way that simply cannot be ignored. The bottom line is that we do not remove those manacles not because we fear being murdered by our government but because if we do remove them and return to The Declaration in all of what we consent to the freebies will cease. Thus, if we sit on our ass, we will literally starve.
Adhering to some political philosophy that is not founded on the principles of The Declaration and cannot trace each and every position it takes back to that document in a defensible and articulate manner is consent to slavery in some form or fashion. Today we have no political party available to us that actually stands for The Declaration and nobody clamors for it, because if there was such a clamor the formation of said party would have already happened.
Over a million Americans have died through the years in an attempt to protect The Declaration of Independence and what it stands for.
As you grill your steaks this weekend and drink your beer you might wish to ponder exactly how much of that beer, once used, you are*****ing away on the founders and what they gave us.
In 1976 I voted for Jimmy Carter. Biggest mistake I’ve ever made and I regret having done so.
When you don’t have sufficient information - because the press is bigoted and biased and isn’t doing its job - making an informed choice is difficult. The Republicans at the time were acting like they had lots to hide. So I made a mistake.
(In those days one had to read a variety of publications to get scant facts. Now I just come to Free Republic.)
After 1976 I researched the candidates running for the two top national positions. That is how I came to know there was a conspiracy behind Barak Hussein Mohammed Obama II as information was literally being scrubbed off the internet as I was reading.
Our political parties are supposed to be honorable. They aren’t any more, and we must be vigilant.
That is why Sen. Ted Cruz, who isn’t going to take any crap off of anyone, is so refreshing.
Thanks pal. Coming from the preeminent mediocrity on the compost heap that’s quite a compliment.
Did you read the article? Government control comes on little “cat feet”.
Denninger used vehicle licensing as an example. Why should driving on public roads our taxes paid for be considered a ‘privalege’?
And Social Security? The government spends that money as soon as it lands in the government’s treasury, but we’ve bought into the idea that it’s ‘ours’ because we’ve earned it. We expect them to pay it back to us later. That is how the government controls us and we stupidly go along with it.
The monster behind most of this if the Federal Reserve, which isn’t part of the Federal government as it is privately owned. They print our money and receive bonds, government debt, in exchange.
How it was established is an example of corrupt government. Bankers and international financiers couldn’t persuade the Republicans in Congress to pass legislation establishing a national bank, so they conspired with the Democrat Party to do so. This happened around the time of WWI. After Democrats made all kinds of promises to constituents that they wouldn’t establish a national bank, they did so when Congress was in recess and Woodrow Wilson signed it. It was called, The Federal Reserve, to hide its private ownership.
Sound familiar? The perversion of our liberties has a long history, old before you and I were ever born.
What I keep reading on Free Republic is everyone expects a savior to come along and bail us out. Wrong!
We must do this ourselves.
This is exactly what the international financiers have been trying to achieve since the time of Lincoln. Divide the U.S.A. makes it easier to conquer.
I don’t call people names, but succession is the stupidest idea of all. It falls right to the plans of Globalists.
I used to be a Democrat too. I voted for Carter. And Mondale and Dukahkis and Clinton, twice. I used to be a drunk too.(23 years sober.) Being a liberal is a lot like being an addict/and or an alcoholic. It’s all emotion over intellect. When one is sober and in the waking world it’s intellect over emotion. Under the influence however the equation is reversed and it becomes emotion over intellect. Liberals are all about emotion. They meant to do well but(fill in the excuse). They’re never about positive results.
So if the South-Mid West were to secede for example, they would be unshackled form the political correctness and would be FREE (that is the key point freedom) to build the most formidable Army and Navy the world has ever seen. They could ACTUALLY patrol its borders and follow the Constitution. So screw the UNION, better to be smaller and free-er that shackled to a region with people that think like you in it.
OMG, I would never admit that in public.
Have you ever heard of Bill Still?
He has put out a DVD called the Money Masters. It explains how European financiers were determined to destroy the U.S. financially because they knew we would become a competitor to Europe’s hegemony. Mind you, this was before 1812.
I suggest you watch the DVD. It can be bought through the internet or watched on youtube.com. Mr.Still does a thorough job or explaining how Globalism originated, and you will understand how the Union is our bulwark against being conquered.
Te seceding nation will have its own monetary system, hopefully gold backed.
PS: We ARE being conquered by 535 nitwits in DC.
Actually, there is.
-- Thomas Paine, the American Crisis, March 5, 1782 "Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes. But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole." -- George Washington, Farewell Address"The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred in her constitution, that we ought to watch every word we speak, and every thought we think, that we injure it not, even by mistake."
"The success of the cause, the union of the people, and the means of supporting and securing both, are points which cannot be too much attended to. He who doubts of the former is a desponding coward, and he who wilfully disturbs the latter is a traitor."-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, PHILADELPHIA, April 19, 1777
Voting for Jimmy Carter in 1976 might be forgivable if you were young and stupid. If you are a person who was analyzing markets and supposed to be smart, and you are well-read, and you are voting for Obama in 2008, you are not someone whose judgment can be trusted. Everyone here knew he was a Marxist with Islamic sympathies. A true believing, manifesto-thumping Marxist, not a fabian socialist like Bill Clinton. We knew McCain would disappoint us, and it pained us greatly to vote for him. But we also knew, once we looked at Obama and his background, saw who his friends were and the environment he came from, that he wanted to destroy this country and all it stands for. That Denninger couldn’t see that makes his advice forever suspect, even when it is correct on occasion.
You as sick as your secrets Grasshopper. Admitting a mistake is the first step to ensuring you don’t make another one. You freely admit to the world you’re a Confederate. They were Democrats. So what does that make you? Besides an imbecile?
Give it a break crazy man.
I hope you’re standing in front of a mirror when you’re saying old buddy. You are SO easy to spin up dude. There’s a lesson in positive self-discovery in that if you’re smart enough to see it. You might even thank me for it someday *GASP* Have a nice night dude.
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