Posted on 12/29/2003 8:45:05 AM PST by Sir Gawain
Conservatives, Libertarians, Americans who believe that the Constitution was and is the best document yet devised to protect human liberty, it’s time to come out of your trance and begin anew the fight for "principle before party." It is not wrong for you to oppose these actions. It is not wrong to speak ill of a Party that has lost its way. It is not treason to oppose these outrageous excesses of the Republican Party. Indeed, it may be treason if you do not.
This ought to get good.
started into the Homeland Security bit
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison
Remember RICO? see - THE HUMAN LIFE REVIEW
Power Predicts Genocide And Mass Murder First, the more democracy the less the number of its own people the regime will kill for the reasons given. However, these restraints do not well operate in times of hot or cold war, when the military or intelligence services operate in secret, and in their foreign operations are in effect totalitarian enclaves within a democratic structure. This is because in wartime the democracies largely give the military their head, secrecy prevails, wartime controls over the nation are instituted, and it is an open question whether democracies in wartime retain their full democratic character (consider the internment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War II, for example), particularly in their foreign operations.
It does not mention government in the dictionary.
" I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
--Barry Goldwater, the last Libertarian Republican.
This cannot be stated enough. For those happy with the actions of the Republican party, be glad. It's returning to its roots of big government Whig intrusion. For conservatives, now is the time to find another party. I refuse to be taken for granted by a party whose end game is nothing more than a different version of socialist rule than that of the Democrats. I can't tell you daily how 'thrilled' I have become with the idea that 'we won back the Senate'. Fat lot of good it's done
Thank you George Bush I, Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and the rest of the GOP's closeted kumbaya New World Order pansies.
Good post BTW.
Back in '93/94 I read a book called, The Ruling Class: Inside The Imperial Congress, by Eric Felton of the Heritage Foundation. It outlined many problems with Congress at the time. One of the problems was how the Libs ran Congress as an "incumbent machine", first and foremost. Since the Pubs took over, they have been assimilated by this incumbent machine, apparently, overwhelmed by its influence.
I hope I am wrong in saying that the only way to limit the Fed gubmint is to choke the money supply via income tax, if that is ever possible. There was a group of people who were trying to establish, in a legit' way, the invalidity of the ratification of the 16th amendment. I have my doubts. However, if they can prove that, at least, four states did not genuinely ratify that amendment then there is a starting point to reverse the income tax/IRS/withholding/etc., yet only a starting point, IMHO.
Since the Pubs took over, they have been assimilated by this incumbent machine, apparently, overwhelmed by its influence.
Yes, and yet they continue to muck it up and create issues for the other socialist party to re-take the reigns of power. That could reflect the schizophrenic psychology of the party.
"The once mighty conservative grassroots activists have been reduced to taken-for-granted pawns, warned to speak no evil of a fellow Republican. Above all, don’t be so childish as to 'stand for principle.' Do so at the risk of finding the label 'extremist' permanently tattooed to your name."
That's exactly what was done to a few conservatives when there was opposition to at a central party's committee endorsing a RINO well before our state primaries and, true to form, those labels and accusations came up. Just like textbook procedures. Yep, "we won back the Senate"; conservatives are certainly no better off.
I hope I am wrong in saying that the only way to limit the Fed gubmint is to choke the money supply via income tax, if that is ever possible. There was a group of people who were trying to establish, in a legit' way, the invalidity of the ratification of the 16th amendment. I have my doubts. However, if they can prove that, at least, four states did not genuinely ratify that amendment then there is a starting point to reverse the income tax/IRS/withholding/etc., yet only a starting point, IMHO.
Wishful thinking VRWC, it will not happen unless those people run for Congress and win, then change the law. See you (most people) do not PAY their taxes. Their taxes are CONFISCATED by your employer. So how do you CHOOSE not to pay? Of course if they billed you like Visa, NONE OF US would ever send in our payment. But, your employer, for the right to be licensed, will ALWAYS CONFISCATE your taxes for the USG>
...and they are winning.
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