Posted on 03/23/2010 3:57:45 AM PDT by Loud Mime
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Scary words...prophetic.
ping on a repeat article
The words of Washington do not matter anymore...it is a different country..Washington is a White male...maybe in a 100 years the history books will depict him as a black man.
Thanks for posting this!
When we look back at the writings of the founders we can see that in spite of all the changes that have been made since the begininng of our country- one thing hasn’t changed- human nature.
Your sarcasm is noted.
Pass this along to your friends - - you’ll find that the new form of racism can be stopped.
While studying these materials, I was surprised that the Founders used knowledge that was off-the-shelf; they were simply repeating what they had learned from history.
You are right about human nature; it hasn’t changed. Gott im Himmel, are we seeing a terrible repeat of history and its repeated application of tyranny?
Benjamin Franklin warned us when he wrote, “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
And this gem from Samuel Adams,
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
And id all else fails, George Washington left us another one, (Take out the word “British” and it could be the future),
“If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger.”
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
Look at Congress. How many of them defend our Constitution with vigor? How many of them do what will keep them in office, even if it requires them to temper their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution?
The citizens are the ones who can force the change. It’s up to us.
I’m headed to Searchlight, Nevada this weekend. I’ll be wearing a colonial costume and carrying a sign. Perhaps we can make a difference.
And because human nature doesn’t change the importance of foundational principles cannot be overstated.
In a discussion (that turned heated) with a neighbor, he kept saying the consitution is outdated- “times have changed”. It’s hard for us- at this point in debating with others- not to go completely ballistic. I found my temper slipping away. I tried using my favorite muscle vs skeleton analogy. Without the skeleton - the muscles turn to mush. He seemed to get that and I could see his mind was working- not just regurgitating what he’d been told.
We need to be able to explain to people WHY freedom matters so much. It can’t be enough anymore to argue in the abstract with others. They must be convinced- in their own minds.
I don’t expect many converts from hard-core leftists- but the ones who haven’t ever THOUGHT about things- they may be ripe for learning.
Our rage mustn’t ever get in the way of possibly persuading someone to SEE how freedom MATTERS in their own daily life.
B4L8r
My sister is a raging liberal. I posed one question to her last month:
After government’s incredible mismanagement of Social Security, why would you want to give them control of the medical industry? Tell me why that’s smart.
Her reply: They know things I don’t know and I trust them.
yeah....like how foolish their followers are.
It’s very trying to have conversations with liberals, isn’t it? My mother would say it’s character-building.
It’s really at the core- how to convince and persuade teachable people why our principles are SO vital and important. As I said before -it’s no longer enough to know ourselves why these principles have been worth dying for- we must be able to make them relate to our adversaries daily lives.
God, Himself, has not changed either.He knows the inate evil we each come with, and He seeks to release us from that grip upon our souls.
What incredible love our Almighty Father had for His created to have sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ,to teach us what we could not underestand and then to pay for our sins with His agony and death upon the cross!
I believe that as God inspired the scribes to record His Holy Word, He also insspired our founding fathers, who were divinely enlightened, to shape the documents upon which to build a more perfect nation than those from which they came.
We are about to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. So turn from the filthy grime of every day and focus upon the amazing promise which Easter offers us if we will but repent our many sins, and turn from them to accept that wonderful promise of life everlasting with Him.
I write this as our current president is about to sign into law the very antithesis of what of what I have written above. May God have mercy upon our souls!
As James T. Kirk used to say, "Deflectors Up."
They avoid reason and objective thinking as much as possible.....maybe even beyond that.
It may not always happen that our soldiers are citizens, and the multitude a body of reasonable men; virtue, as I have already remarked is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual . . . . . Common Sense, 1776
Hamilton offers a solution that would not be well received by our present outlaw Congress:
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state.
. . . . . Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 28
Let us begin by voting the scoundrels out of office. But, what if elections are suspended? Or control is not wrested from the hands of the outlaws in Congress? The armed resistance suggested by Hamilton seems hardly practical. What, then, is left to do?
Whatever the solution, it lies in the hands of the American People. So, updating Patrick Henry, we might say, Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell; George the Third had the American Colonies; and 0bama and his Congressional outlaws may profit by their example (but, of course, they will not).
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