Posted on 04/10/2006 5:52:04 AM PDT by IrishMike
In thinking of a response to your post, I thought this is most fitting. I remember from when I was a young girl, our preacher quoted this more than once.
Matthew 13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
I think we have more than a fair share around here.
I can't answer that but I do know there are a growing number of us that are sick of the increasing tendency of FReepers to "go ugly" in a many of our threads. Personal attacks, foul language and vitriol are becoming the norm rather than the exception. Agenda is trumping fact and ranting and raving is overcoming civil discourse.
It's high time for The Boss to clamp down, not just on Travis but on a few more that are known for hurling insults.
Sorry to see Travis go by the way but if Jim doesn't see fit to reinstate him, so be it.
Caution..
Waking people up to extreme danger may be hazardous to certain other folks well being..
Bump.
;-)
I'm with you brother "River Rat"
Doc H
2/39th 3/60th 9th Infantry Div RVN 69-70
mark for reading.
thanks for that link....I'll have to look at it later; this is crazy!
God Bless the minutemen. We love you!
God Bless the minutemen. We love you!
God Bless the minutemen. We love you!
God Bless the minutemen. We love you!
I may be stupid but not securing your nation's borders while hassling its citizens seems a darn poor way to go about it.
The main thrust of the WOT resembles the WOD and that is a WOF/WOR.
Bush has called the Americans brave enough to do something vigilantes while ,by not budgeting the 1800 Border Patrol positions, he resists the will of the people and Congress.
He said he would sign a extension of the AWB,only good conservative Congressmen responded to the Constitution and the people and voted it down.
He has vetoed nothing.
He has expanded the federal government and the debt.
He has launched a questionable war and asked the troops to fight under restrictions and not mobilized the nation to do the job and be done with it.
He has been a great disappointment.
Yet he was apparently the better of the two.
You would think we could find some other than a ski bum who married for money vs. daddy's little rich boy who failed in a couple of business.
Heck,maybe Bill Gates SHOULD be President since he is a bigger success.
Disingenuousness is still dishonesty.
Shameful.
Yeah. Those folks in D.C. aren't the slightest bit interested in securing our borders. If they were, it would have been done years ago. Another freeper said Bush and all them folks just believe in "World Peace," while apparently being quite loyal to the U.S. That's probably part of it, but more likely it's just a handy-dandy excuse to continue being the do-nothing, money-changers that corrupt human nature ascribes.
With the exception of the word nonsense, I agree with your statement.
But what will he do to save the Union?
What will congress do to save the Union this time around?
Well, they didn't really save it after all, did they? They only re-structured it -- and they will re-structure it again.
Will they re-write the Constitution again, add Amendment 14-A, granting illegals all the privileges and immunities of 14th Amendment citizens?
Seems to me amnesty and acceptance of illegals in any form and open borders is a de -facto alteration of Amendment 14 without benefit of legitimate passage.
Maybe it will avert a civil war. Right? Too bad we have to act from a position of weakness. When was the last time we acted from a position of strength and resolve? I forget.
Muzzies getting the path well-paved by others.
These words by Travis are absolutely true, and as a resident of southern California, like him, I can attest to that.
Our "leaders" are indeed selling America out. How many "elected ones" are speaking up for American citizens? Very few. How many "elected ones" are speaking up for illegal immigration? Most of them.
Something REEKS in Washington, an invasion by a third world dump is being encouraged, and it doesn't bode well for America's future.
Passions run high when a perception of deep betrayal, injustice, and the instinct to survive are a part of the mix. And I dont believe any informed conservative can cite a time in his life when all three were more a part of his daily thoughts and fears than they are now.
It would appear that, even here on this forum, those who still possess sufficient insight to comprehend that we are under an unprecedented attack by an malevolent invading army, and who exhibit sufficient courage to declare that those in leadership positions in Washington who are doing nothing about it are betraying this republic, find themselves in a shrinking and ill-treated minority that is consistently smeared, called radical, alarmist, hostile to Latinos, and a myriad of other undeserved labels. Travis has even been called imprudent (*gasp*) on the thread.
Prudence is not called for in the current political climate. Courage is.
One senate Republican aide, gutsy enough to call a spade a spade, recently observed that there is a paralyzing fear of the illegal-immigrant lobby in Washington. It matters not that the large majority of American citizens believes that illegal immigrants should not be offered any kind of amnesty, and that an even larger majority wants to erect a security fence along our southern border. Representative government appears to have given way to rule by special interest and the amassing of political power.
Its time for our leadership in Washington to stop their incessant, self-promoting and power-mongering, mute their phony political pre-election posturing, and start leading. And if they will not, its time for the citizenry to do something about the malaise at the top.
We are not calling for a revolution. We are begging our leadership to lead, so as to avoid one. Criminals are streaming across our border. Eleven million of them are living among us. They are arrogantly demanding rights without responsibilities. They are staking out illegitimate claims to our homeland. They are looking at two-plus centuries of success and prosperity, built on the blood and sweat of those who came here with a respect for our laws and a willingness to shed their blood, and work from dawn to dusk and they are scheming to steal those hard-won successes and rewards, and to bring this republic to her knees in the process.
Its parasitic. Its wicked. Its unjust.
I, for one, am tired of debates about racism, legal technicalities, economic indicators, which party is doing more for the middle class, and the rest of the election-year issues that have been fabricated, or conveniently politically magnified beyond rationality You want to do something for me, leaders in Washington? Stop creating issues and problems so that you can get re-elected on promises to solve them. And start staring down the genuine evils that threaten to erase our national sovereignty.
Stop the interminable debates about how to deal with those illegal immigrants who have broken the law and are working in the U.S., and obtaining education, health care, court costs, legal representation, etc. at no cost, while the American taxpayer must pay obscenely burdensome taxes to obtain the same for his family. That criminal behavior and resultant inequity must be identified, acknowledged and corrected. But we face a much more pressing problem that needs to be solved now. And every day that you persist in political posturing simply serves to render the problem even more deadly. We must stop the flow of illegal immigrants. We must close our southern border.
Although unfair, and continually sapping our national fiscal strength, its not the illegals effect on our economy that is killing us. Dollars and cents are never the bottom line in a free society. Liberty and sovereignty are. And both precious entities are growing ever more precarious in America 2006.
If a deadly toxin is seeping into your house, in higher concentrations each day, do you sit in your livingroom debating among family members how you should attempt to neutralize its toxicity so as to avoid eventual death for you all? And do you quibble incessantly over who should have the power to make such decisions?
Or do you first locate, and seal up, the source of the leak?
Never did I believe that I would live to see the day when the leadership of this country would place more importance on poll numbers, phony economic considerations, special interests, and the desire to win re-election, than on the sovereignty and security of America. And I believed it even less likely that that disgusting and obscene state of affairs would occur with a republican occupying the White House, and republicans in the majority in the house and senate.
Thanks to politicians (both republican and democrat) without character or conscience, obsessively focused on cheap labor and more votes (read: the amassing of personal and ideological power), media that hold in disdain the America that once was, and racist pressure groups, our republic sits on the brink of a terrible abyss from which, for the first time in our history, only the American citizen can pull her back.
God bless (and we must support) the Minutmen.
dont be surprised if, some day in the not too distant future, the Statue of Libertys torch is replaced with a sign reading It Worked Fine at First Florence King
~ joanie ....
Most excellent post bump
All I can say is wow. And Thank you. It amazes me the American citizens that are sitting back and doing nothing. As long as their present family and material goods are not in jeopardy, there is no involvement. Just wait until their kids or grandkids get gangraped by these criminals. I know that sounds harsh. But I feel like we are riding on the Titanic right now and many are ignoring the life boat directions.
We are about to have a state of lawlessness upon us. Who is in charge?
We do if the offense occurs on private property. It's my understanding that the Minutemen operate on private property, at the request of, or with the permission of the landowner. The people are trespassing as well as entering the country illegally. The MM report them to the authorities. Just like you can, or could, call the highway patrol on your CB or cell phone to report a speeder or reckless driver, and you don't even have to be on private property to do that.
The bottom line is the the MM are doing their ordinary civic duty, reporting misdemeanants to the police or sheriff. Now if the law breakers are committing a felony, witnessed by the citizen, such as aiding or inducing someone to enter the country illegally, then the citizen may make an arrest, at least in most states and jurisdictions, and certainly under the common law.
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