Posted on 06/08/2007 2:59:53 PM PDT by joanie-f
“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned.
“When the cause succeeds, however, the timid join him ....
“.... for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
— Mark Twain
Shaking my head...
bttt
1. We did not arrive at this point in our history overnight. It took a VERY long time for those who, from the beginning, have sought to undermine the foundations of this most noble brush with liberty in the history of man.
2. Ultimately it is we the people who are at fault and not for lack of very adequate warnings from those who preceded us as to what it would take to maintain a republic such as ours over the long haul.
If you had said 1860's you would have been much more on the mark IMHO.
The seeds for the destruction of our republic were planted at her birth. They received enormous cultivation during the mid-nineteenth century. And they have grown exponentially over the last forty years.
The thing is, the enemies of our republic have become much more emboldened, their tactics much more overt, and the symptoms of the decay much more apparent, that even a few of the complacent among us are beginning to notice what was there from the beginning ... and what we failed to eradicate, despite the clear blueprint provided for us.
I like your line, Lets do nothing some more, but for the fact that 'nothing' isn't precisely what our government is doing. Our leadership is very active implementing an agenda, and playing an active role in preventing what needs to be done -- especially, but certainly not exclusively, where sealing our borders is concerned.
They are actively thwarting state and local governments, American citizens in general, and Border Patrol agents, from doing what they themselves refuse to do. They are actively playing with legislative semantics, and meeting feverishly behind closed doors, in order to create and maintain the façades that (1) their goal is the same as that of the majority of American citizens, and that (2) maintaining the sovereignty of our republic has any revelance -- other than as an inconvenient roadblock -- in their insatiable quest for power.
And you know that they hold daily briefings in order to ensure that the mainstream media are performing their duties of bread-and-circus diversionary 'reporting' and maintainence of the sanctity of 'talking points' (see Chapter Six of Mein Kampf for further clarification).
I would imagine that all of that non-passive activity requires a significant amount of time and effort, wouldn't you?
(I know I'm preaching to the choir in addressing this response to you, but felt the need to vent anyway.)
~ joanie
It is so disheartening to see the state of our Republic...from the immigration travesty to so many other travesties. Here in Idaho, in the intermountain west where so large a percentage of the people still hold fast to the way of life and the values that made this nation what it is...even here in the last week we have witnessed the following:
1) Constant national and local coverage of a spoiled girl's experience with the law in Los Angeles. When Idaho's own sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom on distant shores, when so many other things are happening, yet we are bombarded with a very small case that should have been handled straight forwardly and without being deemed worthy of national news IMHO.
2) A Federal Judge overruled the Bureau of Land Management's agreement with local ranchers and removed cattle from 100,000s of thousands of acres of range land because in this Clinton appointee's opinion, the BLM did not do "enough" studies with Fish and Wildlife over the impact to any species that may eb endangered in the area. HWayne Hage and his wife Helen Chenowith-Hage are turning over in their graves.
3) In Ada County, the most populas in the state, the state government is going to shut off dozens and dozens of wells, ruining and idling productive farmland so that the Bull Trout can have more water in the River...a river that is not hurting for water in the least.
4)Boise Idaho held it's Gay Pride march today. It was a disgusting and sickening spectacle...and my heart aches and my ears hurt from the report of such behavior, so openly displayed, and so "offically" condined.
The poor people of this land have been lulled, they have been indoctrinated from early ages, and they have been beguiled into accepting a notion that diversity means strength, that diversity at almost any cost is somehow good. Well, coming from diverse backgrounds can and does add perspective for us all...but being UNITED is what is good, and being UNITED is what makes us strong, particularly when we are united upon fundamental, everlasting principle and truth.
The people who founded this nation and suffered, bled and died for its birth understood this. we should never forget it.
The same types of things...in spades,...are playing themselves out all across our nation.
I was talking to a co-worker when we were working at one of the regional dams for the federal government this last week. We were talking about just these issues. We both agreed, that we do not know when, but that at some point, such activities, such mass indoctrination, will one day cause us to fall over from our own weight.
He believed it will be sometime when our grandkids grow older...after we are gone.
I said it may be...and even could be longer. But I also said it could be sooner too...even much sooner. Events could overtake us within the space of a day or two that brought it crashing down. Bio-terror, nuclear terror, economic warfare, horrible natural disasters...there are many possibilities.
But this fellow...a good salt of the earth man...a local farmer who had to take an extra job to make ends meet, and who has done so and who, with his wife is raising a wonderful family...he remains optimistic about the ultimate outcome. As do I.
Despite the painful and distressing events of the day. Despite politicians who are blatantly leading our nation to destruction. Despite so many of our own people who have become hooked on entitlements, who are so eager to get what they can from their hard working neighbors and countrymen...despite so many who have been educated to hate our nation and what it stands for...still there is reason to hope.
In the 1980s, most thought that we were on the brink...and under Carter we were.
But then a miracle occurred. In the midst of the dominance of the democratic party in the political areana...in the midst of the push for cultural, sexualy, moral, and foreign policy malais...Ronald Regan came on the scene. And the people elected and chose him overwhelmingly...and time was purchased, a measure of our greatness was retained and we moved on.
Although he has failed in so many critical areas...in 2000 and in 2004, at a time when again the forces of abject betrayal and treachory are working from within to destroy us...this nation picked Bush over Gore and then over Kerry. it was a near thing...and with either of those two things would have gotten much worse, quicker. But the people came out in record numbers and voted...and it was based on most of the same issues we are hearing belabored this time around again.
Then we have this immigration bill fiasco. Clearly a quick and direct ticket to ending our soveriegnty and continuing the push for a borderless, stateless North American Union...and a stab in the heart at our culture and way of life. Again we see the American people rising up and making a difference. Make no mistake, the votes this week are a result of millions and millions of direct phone calls, in person visits, emails, letters, and faxes.
With these types of things going on at the same time we so much else depressing...I say there is reason to hope. There is a vast segment of our population that can and will act. They have proven it over and over again. Sometimes it takes longer than we hope...many times much ground is lost between. But the power is out there to make the difference.
Now, I blieve that there is a very difficulty and very wrenching coorrection coming. I do not know when...could be sooner than we all can imagine...could be decades. But it is coming. And it will be ugly.
But I still hold out hope, that with the blessings of Heaven for the sake of those who do hold fast to moral principle, that it might somehow, miraculously be avoided in favor of a tremndous revival spirit taking hold. But if it is not to be...I still have absolute faith that right will prevail and that God in Heaven will honor those who do hold faithfully to the blessings of liberty and their foundation that He has bequeathed upon this land.
Sorry to be so long winded...but I needed to vent all of this.
God bless you Joanie and God bless all Americans who love liberty and recognize and cherish, and with a pasion will defend at all costs all that it is based upon.
So many of them here on FR have checked in on this thread.
I was referring more to the rapid moral degradation that has occurred in this country beginning in the 1960s and that has resulted in the unfortunate mess we find ourselves in today with our loss of freedoms and elected “leaders” who kowtow to a mystery agenda rather than doing the will of the people.
1.) Repeal the 17th Amendment and and return the election of Senators to the state legislatures. The states have been without a voice since the passage of the 17th and the resulting horse race ends with senators being more beholden to major donors than to their states or their constituents.
Why should a senator from MA, for example, be more beholden to Barbra Streisand than to a citizen of East Boston?
2.) Drastically increase the size of the House. The number "435" is not chiseled in stone, it is a number arbitrarily picked by the congress itself!
The total number of representatives is currently fixed at 435 by Public Law 62-5 of 1911, though Congress has the authority to change that number. In 1911 the U.S. population was about 1/3 what it is now or about 92 million, which to my little carpenter's mind means we have 2/3 less representation than we had less than a century ago. Today the average congressional district is approaching 700,000!
It's ridiculous to believe that any congress critter can know the minds of 700,000 constituents and this in the body that is supposed to be "close to the people."
We are taxed and hounded more today with the mere "color" of representation than our forefathers ever were by the distant British king, but then today's citizen is practically a nonentity compared to our dynamic ancestors, so we sit and take it.
I would add a third reform: Move the capitol to Iowa or Nebraska and make Washington D.C. a museum. No explanation needed...
Democracy is just another term for Socialist mob rule.
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You are absolutely spot on!
Thank you for a most excellent effort. I shall read it again and again.
Thank you! I cannot disagree.
AMEN!
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner.
impressive bump !
We should, IMHO, throw this communist inspired mess of a tax code we currently suffer onto the ash heap of history and replace it with one more in keeping with what the founders envisioned.
Bump for a great essay!
...how does she DO it?
Cheers!
Footnote from the great state of MA...Friday, our duly elected Gov. Daval or Laval (can’t remember which), Patrick, democrat and numbskull, made his first appointment to the state board overseeing education. Ta Da! Rita somebodyorother from Brookline, on record as being extremely vocal in opposition to the much hated MCAS test, which attempts to insure that kids graduating from high school can actually read and write and thus are employable. He also plans to make community college open to all and free!!! (Also raising taxes. Who knew. What a surprise.)
Loved that line, too. ‘enter elitist rule stage left’. Wonderful.
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