The g*ddamn left will kill this country. Didn't Feinstein set aside 6 Million acres of desert not too long ago? When it comes to quad-runner vs. tortoise, the turtle had better pick up the pace.
What the h*ll ever happened to "this land is your land, this land is my land"?
Welcome to Gulag California. The abuses committed by the left against the citizens of this state are on par with Abu Ghraib (sp?) They may not have nude citizens stacked in pyramids or leashes attached for their personal pleasure (well, ok, maybe in San Francisco), but, they're getting damn close. At times like this I'm reminded of these words:
From the Declaration of Independence....
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. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Individuals are perhaps more suseptible to abuses from the State than were the colonies as they pose less of a threat to an absolute despot. Unorganized, racially fractured, publically educated....yeah, that's the guy you want sharing your foxhole. < /sarcasm>
I like this part. It's so descriptive of today. Just replace "Colonies" with "Rural Counties" and then one realizes what has happened since the Warren Court's infamous "Cows Don't Vote" ruination of rural representation!!!
Fabulous rant! Right on the money... Tax money, that is!!!
Hey Dan! How come Rico isn't pounding his chest against these stupid GovernMental control freak/land grabbing bills? I know he just lost a tough campaign, but now is when we find out what he's really made of and we need his help, right? Doesn't he need a "cause" to focus on the foolishness of liberals? This would seem to be pretty close to It!!!
We need a Sierra-Nevada champion!!! NOW!!!
Arnold stated that he was for something like this prior to the election in a position paper on the environment...C-O did an analysis, and could probably provide the link if you are interested.
My favorite quote from the Declaration is - "He has erected a Multitude of new Offices and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People and eat out their substance."
Madison also has a quote about more liberty is lost to gradual usurpations than to violent uprising, or something like that. Great rant by the way.