Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents.
One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They never intended God or religion to be written out of public life. They never intended government to be used to deny God's existence or for government to be used to force sexual perversions onto our society or into our children's education curriculum. They never intend for government to disarm the people. They never intended for government to set up sanctuary cities for illegals. They never intended government to “rule” over the people and or to take their earnings or private property or to deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech, free religion, private property, due process, etc. They never intended government to seize the private property of private citizens through draconian asset forfeiture laws or laws allowing government to take private property from lawful owners to give to developers. Or to seize wealth and redistribute it to others. Or to provide government forced health insurance or government forced retirement systems.
All of the above are examples of ever expanding socialism and tyranny brought to us by liberals/liberalism.
FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will. Now if liberalism infiltrates into the Republican party and Republicans start promoting all this socialist garbage, do you think that I or FR will suddenly stop fighting against it? Do you think I'm going to bow down and accept abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, global warming, illegal alien lawbreakers, gun control, asset forfeiture, socialism, tyranny, totalitarianism, etc, etc, etc, just so some fancy New York liberal lawyer can become president from the Republican party?
Do you really expect me to do that?
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
Tom Paine
There ya go!
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I’ve taken many a long short-cuts. Good lessons they were :)
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“I’ve taken many a long short-cuts. Good lessons they were :)”
Sorta like fixing the muffler on your car by replacing the spark plugs first.
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yeah, in the way that Pol Pot was a better choice than Mao
That Tom Paine quotation has always been one of my favorites and seems timeless in its ability to remain relevant.
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
Tom Paine
Yes, and it’s also a good thing to see whether one is willing to dedicate the time. If a mere 12000+ post conservative related thread isn’t worth the time, then the strength to fight for conservatism needs a little workout IMO.
“”Yeah it is. Go research and report back.””
So it never was about the issue or the question , it was simply to be annoying and confrontational, that is the type of thing that is so distracting and time consuming, and a little surprising considering the adult nature of this forum.
“If a mere 12000+ post conservative related thread isn’t worth the time, then the strength to fight for conservatism needs a little workout IMO.”
That’s right.
What’s a few ‘hours’ between friends!
A pimple on time’s butt!
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Yeah it was. It’s just that you are becoming annoying now.
And a simple one liner from Paine:
THOSE who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
If anybody is keeping a list now, add Veronique aka Veronica.
The easiest way to get zotted has been to slam and distort conservative candidates to falsely make liberal Giuliani look better. Yet, the curiousity of the light is too alluring for some.
Exactly!
“Veronica”
Though I only recognize the name from this thread, I remember that username flying into, bouncing around and getting tangled up in the wiring of the zapper a couple of nights ago. I was surprised she/he managed to make it well enough to fly off again.
Brads Gramma has great buns
She flew to another thread Jim posted on Rudy.
I guess she just couldn’t resist the allure.
“I guess she just couldn’t resist the allure.”
Definately a phenomenon!
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