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To: pillut48
I'd like to think that we're going to get our act together the easy way and restore the rule of law, that our political leaders will voluntarily make the responsible choice to follow the Constitution. That seems to be becoming increasingly unlikely. I hope they will re-read Thomas Jefferson's words before they take the final steps in stealing yet another election, before they take any additional steps in stealing massive amounts of taxpayer dollars for a "bailout" to big donors, and before they further attempt to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms, which is both a natural right and the final protection against their excesses.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;
that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;
that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

We all know what Thomas Jefferson would say about the democrats of today and what they call a government. I wonder if today's democrats know that they do not rule by the divine right of kings, contrary to the entitlement attitudes of Hillary, Pelosi, Teddy/Caroline Kennedy and their clan, Obama, and their big donors.

26 posted on 12/19/2008 7:47:48 AM PST by MathDoc (War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Obama is Good.)
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To: MathDoc

Until what you´re suggesting happens, the governed are consenting.


103 posted on 12/19/2008 8:11:39 AM PST by villagerjoel (1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual!)
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