Posted on 12/13/2019 6:18:51 AM PST by Romans Nine
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 entitles them... 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...
We, Therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions...
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. ——————————————————————————————— And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
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I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God
——————————————————————————————— “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
——————————————————————————————— We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.
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I do not know what to do. Watching our Republic being relentlessly attacked from within by elites who believe they are untouchable and so far above the serfs is troubling to the core. Make no mistake these elites don’t hate Donald Trump alone, they only hate him because he is actually representing our best interests instead of protecting their elitist untouchable status qoe. They have been stealing us blind for generations, ( Ukraine, endless wars, phony regulation, etc. etc.) and We the People by the extension of our President threaten their very way of life.
Very Nice Romans Nine!
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821
“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 entitles them...”
That’s a beautiful expression of what our founders were up to.
You can’t share a country with people who are dangerously delusional. You just can’t do it.
We need to make our country as it was conceived and had been for over 180 years.
Sharing that nation with the people you speak of would be as a hungry wolf in that fold. Unacceptable.
Liberalism/socialism is the opposite of freedom.
rwood
Them’s fighten’ words!
“His truth is marching on”
There is no other way this can end.
Our enemy within will not cease their efforts to take and keep power over us. They will not balk at the law, they believe they are the law.
This must come to a head.
Abraham Lincoln repealed the Declaration of Independence.
Each of us need to choose “a hill to die on” and stick to that decision.
All those boys who jammed the recruiting offices after Pearl Harbor come to mind. They saw the threat. We don’t ... but we should.
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