Ranting Anti-Opus to Cynics and Trolls (vanity)

OK--Rosen didn't get convicted in the criminal trial (civil one yet to come!) and Bolton is still blocked along with some fine judges.

BUT Hillary and the rest of her DNC and RINO ilk WILL have to answer for her/their crimes, certainly to God and, God help us, to America!

What can we do to make it happen? When all is said and done, much more is said than done. If you are one of the people who mainly post chit-chat and do little of political substance outside of FR, I rant in your general direction.

I assure you NOBODY is more ticked than I am about the Senate "compromise" deal that really is a "divide and conquer" strategy deviously used by the Democrats against those who are: (1) political whores, (2) have skeletons in their FBI files or (3) both of the above.

I assure you that NOBODY here fighting the Good Fight needs nay-sayers who see an occasional casualty and frequent flesh wounds--to think this WAR is over. This is a marathon, not a sprint. If your idea of political battle is that we can vote in an apparent majority on November 3, 2004 and then sit back and watch our team "kick donkey" across the political playing field without losses, without disappointments, without setbacks, then it's time to wake up to the INCALCULABLE resistance our team has faced and still faces against the combined resources of the Marxist-infiltrated Old Media, the Marxist-infiltrated, NARAL-controlled Democratic party, the Aztlan-friendly Open Borders types, the Islamo-friendly Axis of Evil and the absolutely anti-American ACLU/PFAW conspiracy.

I too am FURIOUS. So is Doug from Upland, Jim Robinson, Pukin Dog, Lazamataz, Southack, Mia T, JohnHuang2, Hole_N_One, Congressman BillyBob, Yaelle, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, Petronski, B4its2late, Charlite, Peach, Onyx, Prairiebreeze, Mo1, Kcvl, Kristinn and the list here could go on for probably FIFTY THOUSAND more.

And there are people counting on, praying for, the success of CONSERVATISM, the preservation of AMERICA and its original ideal not just at FreeRepublic but all across America. 62 MILLION Bush voters--plus millions who believed Kerry's false promises to deliver it. And not just all these across America--but surely a BILLION all around the world--people hope and pray for the continued success of the Bush Doctrine.

Tony Snow is dedicated to helping get the truth out about Hillary, Sean has had repeat appearances of Peter Paul. Rush is all over the RINOs. Laura Ingraham skewers with ridicule. Dr. Laura preaches principles that lead to Conservatism. James Dobson has millions of listeners who pray and vote. We have an ARMY of talk radio hosts and a raft of conservative forums and myriad conservative bloggers. Glory, Glory Halleluia! The Truth Is Marching On, AND GROWING LEGS.

YES -- I am FURIOUS, that Senator Frist hasn't yet learned how to play the strongarm negotiation tactics necessary to herd the wildcat narcissists like McCain and a few of the conservative Democrats into line. (I think Frist can still redeem himself--if and only if he REALLY GETS MAD)

And yes, I'm FURIOUS that our elected employees, including President Bush, haven't taken the Constitutional Option on a roadshow and force-fed the Constitutional Option down the Donkey throats so far it comes out the other end.

I'm not calling for any true GOP heads to roll. John McCain is NOT a true GOP, he is a Trojan Horse being manipulated and/or self-gratified. I most certainly DO want McCain OUT of office and will do all I can to make it happen.

And Dirty Harry Reid is an abomination. I call for Nevada FReepers and other Conservatives to come up with a strong challenger to take this moral debris out of the Senate, next chance you get.

I call on Ohio voters to make an example of the father-son candidacy. Let RINOs tremble everywhere, for they have awakened a Conservative sleeping giant and filled us with a terrible resolve.

Senator Frist--NO MORE NICE GUY! Cut the civility, forget the Senate "traditions" and get rid of the obstructionist cancer before it kills Lady Liberty. Take some MEAN pills, go ahead. It could do wonders for your reputation, even at this late date.

Yet--we are to be angry and sin not. We are to hate the sins and love the sinners. And we are to punish evildoers consistently to drive evil from our land. And we must use our rightous indignation to spur us on to push PAST the resistance.

Remember and take heart! The signs are all around us that the Liberal stranglehold is fighting for its life, gasping for air--and yes, able to still deliver some flesh wounds like the filibustering. But there is hope. There is the Internet. There is FreeRepublic. And there is God's PROMISE that the evildoers shall be punished. And I say about these evildoers, why wait for eternity? Let's punish them at the polls (and where deserved, with prison time and yes, executions for treason) Let's NOT punish each other as we line up at the Conservative Hospital for John Kerry Purple Heart level flesh wounds in the Culture War. Let's uplift each other, focus on the positive--which in this case is how to get the TRUTH out to people and how to put out of office those who obstruct--and out of business those who enable. That is punishment that God demands be executed.

To paraphrase David, as he prepared to fight Goliath, Who are these uncircumcised heathen Democrats who dare to defy the Living God?

We are told that the "battle is NOT of flesh and blood" so how can we win if we do not turn to God? We are assured that God is not mocked. Psalms 2 and 3 are terrific rants by David and many know Psalm 2 as part of Handel's Messiah. God indeed is still sovereign. Let's pray for our leaders and work like crazy.

Let's pull together here and play as a team. We are to pray for our leaders, are we doing that? We are to humble ourselves, are we doing that? And we are to be as wise as serpents and yet as innocent as doves. Beefing here doesn't change the minds and hearts of your uninformed neighbors who voted for Kerry, deceived into empowering the Democrats to nip at our heels as we march forward in the war for America's heart, mind, soul and future. YOU are the person best able to convince people you know--of the truth. Get the news out, don't just be an info-sponge, SHARE the news with others!

Thanks for reading and considering and praying about this. And most importantly, calling out to God in both victory and defeat, for God hears the cry of the oppressed, the cries of the aborted, the cries of the victims of repeat criminals.

Do you think the DNC blockage of Bolton is purely for show?

No, they like Kofi. Like I said, that's really all this is about. It's the Democrat vision of a "humanitarian" organization vs the neocon vision of a more militarized kick-butt organization. Either way doesn't bode well for our national sovereignty. We need to get out, and until then, keep it as powerless and impotent as possible.

If Bolton is pure politics, that seems to me to be a bad move on the part of the Dems, because they will get very little long-term benefit for the disruption they've created.

Take a look around. Look how dispirited Republican followers have become because of it. Despite Dem election losses, the rabid Dems have gotten some red meat thrown their way. Which party's coffers has this stunt helped & which party's coffers has it hurt?

Seems to me they're shooting an awful lot of their ammunition at the Bolton nomination, and will likely be punished for it at the ballot box, at least some ballot boxes.

Don't count on it. General elections are always turned by the "undecideds" & they're not paying attention to any of this. Those who are not interested in it now will not be turned by any TV commercial trying to get them fired up about it months or years from now. The point that is being pushed is by showing Republican inability to lead & the spin on it will be that it's all the Republican's fault. When you have people who want to see the Republicans lead thinking that way, it's not difficult to get people who aren't paying attention to think that way too.

I'm pretty furious at it too.

I cannot understand the motivation of the Marxists in our midst. Frist needs to grow a pair and it makes me want to have him punished by not getting re-elected. Then I think of the alternative and that's simply unfathomable. A dem conrolled house/senate. Shudder.

Makes me want to tune it out entirely and move to Vanuatu like a friend did. (unrelated to politics, has a banking job).

If I thought that the UN would fold up it's tent & just go home if the US pulled out, I'd agree.

My post wasn't calling for a pullout from the UN (though I don't think that would necessarily be a bad idea, either, since they're heavily dependent on us). What I said is that we shouldn't be encouraging it to be more powerful (or "effective" or whatever buzzword the administration wants to use). As long as we stay in, we should be inhibiting it at every opportunity.

We are assured that God is not mocked. Psalms 2 and 3 are terrific rants by David and many know Psalm 2 as part of Handel's Messiah. God indeed is still sovereign. Let's pray for our leaders and work like crazy … We are to pray for our leaders, are we doing that? We are to humble ourselves, are we doing that? And we are to be as wise as serpents and yet as innocent as doves. Beefing here doesn't change the minds and hearts of your uninformed neighbors who voted for Kerry, deceived into empowering the Democrats to nip at our heels as we march forward in the war for America's heart, mind, soul and future. YOU are the person best able to convince people you know--of the truth. Get the news out, don't just be an info-sponge, SHARE the news with others! ... blurblogger

I taught an adult Sunday school lesson this morning on Matthew 10:27: ' … what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs!'

I wish I had read your essay before preparing the lesson – I would surely have excerpted it, with your permission.

Thank you for a passionate and eloquent essay that so beautifully reflects scripture, and exhorts us to not simply ‘preach to the choir,’ but to wear out some shoe leather and seek out those who may be uninformed, yet willing to listen.

~ joanie

There is a difference between putting more people into blue hats & something like PSI. PSI leaves every nation's sovereignty intact, but defines a shared goal for nations to work together to meet.

Power is exerted in a number of ways, not just through the brute force of soldiers. As countries get more and more in the habit of obeying UN resolutions, the pressure is going to be greater and greater for us to do the same, if we want to keep other countries complying with resolutions that we sponsor. No matter how you slice it, a "more effective" UN translates to diminished sovereignty of the member states. There's no way around it. And just to get an idea of the type of "effectiveness" Bolton has in mind, we can just listen to him from my link at #126:

We must also work together to help Member States build capacities to combat terrorism as outlined in Resolution 1373, passed on September 28, 2001. This resolution obligates all U.N. member states to use their domestic laws and courts to keep terrorists from sheltering resources or finding safe haven anywhere in the world and to cooperate in investigating, prosecuting, and preventing terrorism wherever it may spring up. The U.N. Security Council is monitoring compliance with the requirements of this resolution, with impressive results: to date 142 countries have issued orders freezing the assets of suspected terrorists and terrorist organizations; accounts totaling almost $105 million have been blocked - $34 million in the U.S. and over twice that amount in other countries.

Now you can certainly say that this is all a good thing on the surface: No one can argue that it's undesirable for countries to take steps to counter terrorism. What matters here, though, is that the UN is able to call the shots the way it does. In other words, it's acting like a government, and governments have a tendency to get more powerful, especially when few people are paying serious attention.

I don't see any requirement for any nation to remain a member of the body. Therefore, it is unable to act as a worldwide governing body.

Bolton took a stand against the gun grabbers in the UN. To me his message to the UN is to stop trying to reach into areas of national sovereignty that have nothing to do with relationships between countries, while at the same time redirecting the UN into areas that *do* affect relationships between nations. Terrorism crosses borders. If it didn't, UN the shouldn't be actively involved with it.

I don't see any requirement for any nation to remain a member of the body.

It doesn't matter whether they're "required" to or not. The fact is that they almost univerally (or perhaps completely universally) do remain, and that wouldn't be the case if there weren't consequences for leaving that countries aren't willing to accept. Once you have that basic element, you effectively have the beginnings of a government. Governments have a tendency to get more powerful over time, especially when few people are paying serious attention.

To me his message to the UN is to stop trying to reach into areas of national sovereignty that have nothing to do with relationships between countries, while at the same time redirecting the UN into areas that *do* affect relationships between nations.

We should know from our own constitutional history (think "commerce clause") that there's almost no problem of government that can be incontrovertibly considered a purely internal matter. It's a total fiction to say that by confining a superintending authority to "external" matters only, it won't end up swallowing all powers. Either you're a sovereign nation, or you're not a sovereign nation. That's all there is to it.

It doesn't matter whether they're "required" to or not.

You're wrong. It matters a great deal.

The fact is that they almost univerally (or perhaps completely universally) do remain, and that wouldn't be the case if there weren't consequences for leaving that countries aren't willing to accept.

You mean like the consequences the US faces for staying out of the world court & Kyoto? For many, staying has more to do with carrots than sticks. Some stay because they think it's a good place to gang up on the bigger guys (the US). How has that been working out for them?

Once you have that basic element, you effectively have the beginnings of a government.

I disagree with your premise. From your previous quote from Bolton, I don't see anything in there about enforcement. I see a requirement for members. I see monitoring of activities. I don't see any kind of stick for misbehaviour. Okay, so you flunk & the UN issues a resolution against you, then what?

Governments have a tendency to get more powerful over time, especially when few people are paying serious attention.

But you're dealing with someone here who is not accepting the premise that it is a government. Short of the US pulling out, what would you like to see in the American rep to the body? Do you want someone who is going to show up there every day to tell everyone that the organization is useless or that is should be made useless?

You mean like the consequences the US faces for staying out of the world court & Kyoto?

Don't underestimate those consequences. Every time we get behind some international court for prosecution of alleged "crimes against humanity" (as with Yugoslavia and Rwanda), we end up giving more prestige to the ICC, and thereby more credibility to those in this country who urge us to join.

For many, staying has more to do with carrots than sticks. Some stay because they think it's a good place to gang up on the bigger guys (the US).

No, they stay because if they leave they'll miss out on assistance from the World Bank and IMF, as well as other assorted UN agencies. Not that these things do all that much for the populations of these countries, but they're often nice sweet deals for the people who run the governments. It absolutely doesn't matter what methods you use to keep countries in line, as long as they're effective.

From your previous quote from Bolton, I don't see anything in there about enforcement. I see a requirement for members. I see monitoring of activities. I don't see any kind of stick for misbehaviour.

He also noted the high level of compliance. These countries aren't just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.

Short of the US pulling out, what would you like to see in the American rep to the body? Do you want someone who is going to show up there every day to tell everyone that the organization is useless or that is should be made useless?

He doesn't have to tell anyone anything if he doesn't want; all he needs to do is veto everything and gum up the works as much as possible.

From FR sidebar:
"This week's USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll states that an overwhelming 80% of liberals were likely to support Hillary for president, compared with 58% of moderates and 33% of conservatives. I cannot believe that ANY conservative at all would support Her Heinous..."

80% of "liberals" means 80% of centric factions and felons.

MEDIA pro-Clinton spin again! Brainwash & deception.

What Americans could possibly want Bill Clinton in the White House as First Husband to an "unwomanly" and ruthless woman president who believes Americans "are selfish" - the very horror of it all.

Bill Clinton is garbage added to Hillary Clinton's already very heavy negative baggage. I like it when Hillary sounds like a Banshee - it becomes her.

Soros must have bought the Gallup Poll, CNN and USA Today to propagandize in favour of Hillary.

If Hillary is defeated in the NY senate race in 2006 she might defect to France - Chirac needs help.

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