Posted on 06/24/2005 7:44:17 AM PDT by skinbc
I am usually content to browse the Free Republic postings, interjecting the occasional post on issues I consider particularly important. I consider myself to be one of the Silent Majority, the core of America.
I left college at 18, frustrated by lofty ideals with no action, people who preach yet lack the courage to actually make a difference. I joined the Army, and became a man. I served in the former Yugoslavia, bringing freedom, and stability to other lands, spreading the American ideals, and ultimately, protecting our nation in the process. Since serving, I have started a family, worked the long hours, and have taken my place in the middle class.
I have endured the taxes, the socialization of our nation, and the degradation of America, all in the name of my family. I wake up each day and put in the long hours so that my daughter will have a better life. My one solace was that of many parents, that I would be able to secure my childs future with my assets, primarily my home. I always considered my home to be my greatest asset, the one item I could leverage everything else against to secure the well being of my family. That feeling was destroyed on Thursday.
I made a decision today. I will not go quietly into the night.
I call all to action!
I call for the resurrection of the Continental Army, or whatever that body would be today. I am not calling for outright armed conflict, not yet, but I am calling for Americans to stop talking, and organize a response.
Our founding fathers started this great nation with a feeling. They didnt know exactly which direction this nation would take, they just new it had to take a different path than it was currently on. Its a feeling you get and cant quite explain. You just know it isnt right, and something has to be done.
I am earnestly waiting for the Jefferson and Adams of our day, to stand up. I hold out hope that from their moths will flow the new Declaration of Independence.
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Strange, when nothing has changed.
What is the average Americans breaking point? At what point will people say enough is enough?
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Do you need someone standing in your living room, informing you that what was your is your no longer. Does it continue to be OK, as long as it is your neighbor and not you?
Wow!
You'll be paid whatever the state determines is the value of your property if there were no development. In other words, you'll be ripped off.
Get yourself elected to local office. Barring that, volunteer for your local planning commission. That's where you can use the power of government to stop eminent domain abuse. This can be used as a base to make your neighbors aware of property rights abuses and throw politician/thieves out of office.
My heart wants to go with you. I'll say this: you have guts. Thank you for serving our country. Your fire is contagious. But consider this: what did the militias do for Terri?
Actual value meaning assessed value? Actual value meaning to the developer? Actual value meaning what the property owner thinks? Actual value meaning what the general public will pay? And besides I thought it was "fair market value."
"impeachment of the guilty justices."
That takes stones. Republican congress critters haven't shown any lately, especially where it counts: Getting conservative judges and justices on federal benches.
Note: Getting Republicans elected to congress doesn't guarantee that they'll perform as expected. Witness Arlen Specter and Pat Roberts (R-KS) that authored a bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429777/posts
to register all firearms, for the sake of Homeland Security.
Yes, it has been educational. Some like to say that a public process should be more transparent. Well, eminent domain has just become more transparent. Otherwise, no change.
Amazing isn't it that what you thought you had rights to you now are not quite sure. I agree with you.
Case in point: Tracts of land from a family farm in North Carolina were condemned by the State for a highway. So far so good, that's public use, right? The just compensation? The State said and the courts agreed that the increase in the land value engendered by the highway was the property owner's compensation. Just compensation is whatever the powers that be say it is.
"That takes stones. Republican congress critters haven't shown any lately, especially where it counts: Getting conservative judges and justices on federal benches."
You got me there. How can I defend that pathetic senate's honor?
I don't know. Maybe this is an accumulation of outrage by people. Abortion rights. Prayer in school. 10 Commandments. Terri. And now this. It's darn frustrating. Sorry to compare. Not fair. FRegards....
The things the Founding Fathers had going for them we lack.
The seat of tyranny was hundreds of miles away across a long ocean. The seat of tyranny today is right in our midst.
In the 1700's the military power and law-enforcement power was in the hands of the people. Today Law-Enforcement is controlled by the Courts - the object of many of our problems. And the access to and familiarity with, firearms by the general public has been serious compromised by the erosion of the Second Amendment by those same courts
The average American back then was more physical, more prone to action, more concerned with their rights.
Today's average American is a pathetic couch potato, mesmerized by a computer screen and cable T.V., and deprived of any serious knowledge of their rich political and social history by a cadre of left-wing revisionist educators.
There was far more demographic unity back then. Today Americans have permitted the government to Balkanize them into separate ethnic groups which struggle against one another instead of uniting agaist their oppressors.
The solution is for a viable third party, for Americans to become more vocal, more openly oppositional.
There are avenues available for reining in these rogue judges. Congress can pass a law removing the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts from certain issues.
The Constitution itself should be amended to permit a 2/3rd majority of Congress to overrule a Supreme Court decision on Consitutionality. After all, the doctrine of Judicial Review is found nowhere in the Constitution - it was declared by the courts in Marbury versus Madison.
All Congressional offices should be limited to two terms. People who are interested in being career Congressmen are not willing to make strong stands against the system which keeps them in power, pay and pensions.
Federal Judges should have a limited term of office - especially in the Supreme Court. We have had senile old men who could barely think sitting up there in their dotage - read "Men in Black".
Today, there should be enough outrage over this most recent egregious violation of our rights to draw crowds of THOUSANDS of angry demonstrators down to Washington to demand our Congresscritters do something about this violation.
But I doubt if ANYONE will appear, and if they do so, they will ignored or ridiculed by the press.
What you want are the Sons of Liberty.
The people are not ready for the Army. Work on their minds first.
I wouldn't be so sure- I live in the New London area and I can attest to the fact that the people in this area (the middle class folks- not the other ones) are beyond outraged.
I wrote a letter to the editor a few months back in answer to those who were blaming the "evil" pharmaceutical that was looking to buy this property from the state.
It is not "big business" who is the problem. They can't be blamed for "wanting". The people to FEAR are those who can TAKE this property- the Connecticut government, who's greed has created the problem.
Keep in mind, the government in this state gets MILLIONS per MONTH from the casinos, just raised taxes on EVERYTHING from gas to cigarettes, phone use and sales tax, and NOW will take the homes of these people and sell them to the pharmaceutical for some outrageous amount of money. It is making those middle class folks NOT living in Fort Trumbell to ask themselves- what exactly ARE they doing with all the money?
I predict a HUGE change after the next election...
Excellent point!
Jefferson and the rest picked a point in time to stand. Thats what makes their contributions so great, the point that they did stand up!
Its always an accumulation, the question remains, At what point do we stand?
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