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Time for drastic measures
The Macon County Conservative Examiner ^ | 12/24/09 | Robert Moon

Posted on 12/24/2009 9:28:41 PM PST by aquapub

Now that we have been painted into a corner with the passage of this Constitution-trampling explosion of government, we have only 4 options left before things get ugly:

1) Vote them out in 2010. This option requires much patience and will not actually mean anything unless those elected actually reverse all the spending, bailouts and takeovers.

Most likely, Democrats will be punished for a few years while Republicans ride the tidal wave of public outrage into office, at which point they will throw us some symbolic scraps from the table, rather than making a serious commitment to uprooting federal tyranny. It is absolutely critical that we get actual conservatives into office and eject the RINOs in 2010.

2) Legal challenge in the courts. There is a chance that the Supreme Court could reverse this law based on the "Commerce Clause" debate (a few states being bribed and blackmailed into submission at the expense of all the others).

3) Nullification. This is where states stand up for their 10th Amendment rights and declare that, since this law is blatantly unconstitutional, they refuse to acknowledge that it was even passed.

And no, the Founders never intended for the federal government to be the sole determiner of the size and scope of its own power. State nullification was always intended as a natural check against federal encroachments.

4) Civil disobedience (the only option that requires no waiting). The politicians are now coming home to face their constituents. Escalate things by organizing a disruptive demonstration, like a sit-in.

While government creates 111 new federal bureaucracies and destroys the free market system that 84% of us are happy with, the politicians have exempted themselves from the rationed, inferior care the rest of us are left with. But they cannot exempt themselves from us.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, when government becomes adversarial to the people, it is both the right and the responsibility of the people to rise up and "alter or abolish" that government. Government gets its power from us.

It is time to step up and take back what is ours.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; constitution; drastic; measures; obamacare; time; vote
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To: Rocky

The government doing into such debt that you and your children and your children’s children will NEVER pay it off _IS_ insufferable. I just hope more people awaken to that truth and are willing to fight violently against being enslaved.


21 posted on 12/25/2009 10:28:21 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: aquapub

I think the time for talking is over. We’ve had years of shouting, writing letters, faxes and email, millions upon millions of phone calls, a protest in DC that had millions, one web site after another, and even television networks supporting the people. How much more do they need to know before doing what we demand?? We even voted out the idiots in 1994 only to no real results. We deserve freedom and liberal in our lifetimes, not if they decide to do it. We must make them do it.

Civil disobedience needs to get physical. I mean, so far their response has been, “What are you going to do about it anyway? Get lost.”


22 posted on 12/25/2009 11:17:24 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: aquapub

bump for later


23 posted on 12/25/2009 3:21:22 PM PST by free1977free
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder; lurk
I believe our best course is to worry about ourselves right now,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Before take off the flight attendant **always** warns to the passenger to put the oxygen mask on his **own* face first before helping others.

It's a Maslow’s hierarchy of needs thing. The lower levels of needs, ( food, clothing, shelter) must be met first before we can reach our own levels of “self-actualization” or help others to reach theirs.

However...A spiritual revival is sorely needed. If we repair ourselves spiritually the materials things will begin to improve immediately. But...Again, it is a personal quest first before we can help others.

24 posted on 12/25/2009 3:41:28 PM PST by wintertime
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To: lurk

That’s between America and God. It should not be a reason to refrain from doing earthly good, that such good might be abused or neglected once it has been done.


25 posted on 12/25/2009 3:55:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: lurk
Unless we use freedom to make the world a better place for many

I believe this is what we have been doing since WWII, very recently with Tsunami aid, Democracy and greater freedoms in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.

Conservatives have and will continue to support such things. It's not about big screen TVs or materialism. Its about freedom and man's inherent rights.

26 posted on 12/25/2009 5:30:20 PM PST by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Thanks

Merry Christmas


27 posted on 12/25/2009 7:11:01 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: lurk

Stated differently, but not much differently:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414997/posts


28 posted on 12/25/2009 7:48:14 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder; NathanBedfordForrest

Nathan, check out post #10 this thread, please.

Cheers!

Merry Christmas.

29 posted on 12/25/2009 10:32:05 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Amen... Well said.

Regards,
Raven6

30 posted on 12/25/2009 10:59:09 PM PST by Raven6 (The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
Excerpt:

While government creates 111 new federal bureaucracies and destroys the free market system that 84% of us are happy with, the politicians have exempted themselves from the rationed, inferior care the rest of us are left with. But they cannot exempt themselves from us.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, when government becomes adversarial to the people, it is both the right and the responsibility of the people to rise up and "alter or abolish" that government. Government gets its power from us.

It is time to step up and take back what is ours.

31 posted on 12/25/2009 11:05:08 PM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: aquapub

Any federal version of health care is unconstitutional since Article1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care. The people are not bound by any unconstitutional act committed by Congress and are therefore not required to comply.


32 posted on 12/26/2009 4:12:38 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Awesome reply-I wish I could write like that because it’s everything I had in my brain that refuses to come out thru my fingertips.

So-the only thing I can say is-”yeah-what he said”.

SZQ


33 posted on 12/26/2009 4:32:50 AM PST by homegroan (ZQczar...happily addicted to the Refresh Button.....)
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To: familyop

....................Become nonpolitical............

That is otherwise known as copping out


34 posted on 12/26/2009 4:42:32 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: aquapub; MHGinTN

.....3) Nullification. This is where states stand up for their 10th Amendment rights and declare that, since this law is blatantly unconstitutional, they refuse to acknowledge that it was even passed.......

This is already passed in Tennessee, I think and on reflection may make following a course like that in Oklahoma unnecessary

We still need lunch however


35 posted on 12/26/2009 4:48:08 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: lurk

You complicate the issue too much. Freedom is the end in itself


36 posted on 12/26/2009 4:51:26 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: bert
"That is otherwise known as copping out"

We don't owe a living (excessive personal expenditures/debts), political acquiescence or even respect to bipartisan, anti-American interests. Such sissified, worldly crooks have become irksome and no longer have our support. After the defaults and scorns to come, we'll have small government without ties to corporate socialism.


37 posted on 12/26/2009 6:19:01 AM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


38 posted on 12/26/2009 7:38:55 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: homegroan; Raven6; grey_whiskers

Many thanks for the kind reply!


39 posted on 12/26/2009 10:41:01 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: lightman
"People who, like us, live in a dying civilization, have three choices: We can attempt to avert the decline as a child builds a sand-castle on the edge of the advancing tide. We can ignore the death of beauty, of scholarship, of art, of intellectual integrity, finding solace in our own consolations. And that is what for some years I have tried to do. Thirdly, we can join the barbarians and take our share of the spoils. That is the popular choice and in the end it was mine."

--murderer in Death in Holy Orders, by P. D. James

40 posted on 12/26/2009 11:09:49 AM PST by firebrand
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