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Posted on 02/24/2009 11:37:48 PM PST by rabscuttle385
'People have to show that they're not going to take it anymore.'
BY DREW ZAHN
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., a staunch opponent of the federal government's increase in size and spending legislated by President Obama's stimulus package, has issued a call for Americans to stand up – literally – and take back their freedom.
"I would think it's time to start thinking about peaceful demonstrations," DeMint said in an interview with Georgia's Augusta Chronicle. "The power of the people is there. Freedom is in the people's hands right now, and it's about to slip through."
DeMint lobbied his fellow Senators to resist the $787 billion stimulus package's new federal regulations in the areas of education, medicine, welfare spending and other arenas – all to no avail, as three of his fellow Republicans joined all the Democrats in the Senate to approve the massive spending bill by a vote of 60-38.
Disappointed by the outcome on Capitol Hill, DeMint is now calling on the common people to resist government actions he sees overflowing constitutional bounds.
"Really, I think the hope right now is not in Congress to make the right decision, because they're not," DeMint says. "It's just whether or not the American people are going to stand up and say enough is enough."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
DeMint ping!
Problem is most of us have jobs. We can never match the hordes of ACORN, homeless, unemployed, and convicted felons Obama can organize at a drop of a text message.
I just have lost faith in the population. Don’t see enough spunk out there. I think the majority has gone socialist.
Oh yea, I have vacation days , do you / Is anything else more important?
Why not?
“Peaceful demonstrations” rarely if ever result in real change.
One has to get out there and kick ass.
Syncro posted that to FR on Feb 22. Read that here.
There are SO many more of us than members of ACORN!! And that is precisely what we need to do is turn out in numbers at the drop of text message.
The vast majority of this country is conservative: McCain-Palin were winning by double digits before ACORN threw the election, 80% of us are furious about the stimulus and the porkulus, and John Fund in his book, "Stealing Elections" says that the nation is CONSERVATIVE, and there is not and never has been a natural liberal majority. It is all lies, propaganda and indoctrination.
Time to identify the truth, and get involved unless you like communism and dictators that can order up your life anytime they wish.
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