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Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?
IBD Editorials ^ | July 30, 2010 | ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A. ROBINS

Posted on 07/30/2010 4:56:15 PM PDT by Kaslin

The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?"

Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.

Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do.

Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.

Barack Obama, however, has pulled off the ultimate switcheroo: He's diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.

He may soon bankrupt us and replace our big merit-based capitalist economy with a small government-directed one of his own design.

He is undermining our constitutional traditions: The rule of law and our Anglo-Saxon concepts of private property hang in the balance. Obama may be the most "consequential" president ever.

The Wall Street Journal's steadfast Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that Barack Obama is "an alien in the White House."

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


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To: Kaslin
Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”

Opening lines of 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe

41 posted on 07/30/2010 6:05:54 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: balls

Here is another one:

http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html

It’s illegal to own or sell or possess in any way any part (including feathers) of any migratory bird. And yes people still get arrested for this.

We have put up with this since 1918, a law that makes it illegal to own or possess a single feather from a migratory bird.

And there is the Lacey Act, a similar act. I ran across some re-enactors who had turkey feathers in their tricorner hats. They used to use found-in-the-woods hawk feathers, but they had been warned by cops that they could be arrested under Migratory Bird and Lacey Act, just a warning- this time- boys! And don’t forget you are in possession of (blackpowder) firearms while feloniously possessing the feathers!

Google Peggy Ann Bargon for a typically outrageous use of this law.

I think if America understood what is being lost and at what rate, it might make a difference, but only if it interfered with a Bowl game or three NASCAR races in a row.


42 posted on 07/30/2010 6:07:45 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: balls

Crossed posts. I think you may be right.


43 posted on 07/30/2010 6:10:47 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Kaslin
a small government-directed one of his own design.

Small government it will not be. Larger government with more control is what he is aiming for.
44 posted on 07/30/2010 6:13:22 PM PDT by JSteff
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To: Kaslin
He's diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.

In 1959 Eisenhower asked Ezra Taft Benson to teach Nikita Khrushchev about Agriculture.

Ezra Taft Benson relayed a conversation...

"Your children will live under communism." Khrushchev said. "On the contrary," Secretary Benson replied, "My grandchildren will live in freedom as I hope that all people will." Khrushchev then retorted: "You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept Communism outright; but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won't have to fight you; we'll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands."

45 posted on 07/30/2010 6:15:57 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: SampleMan

That might be too long for a tag line, but good luck. I had to try mine several times to get it in.


46 posted on 07/30/2010 6:17:32 PM PDT by JSteff
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To: STONEWALLS
Sometimes I wish Idaho and New Mexico could swap places on the map.

Arizona+Idaho+Texas. Yea I'd live there in a minute.

47 posted on 07/30/2010 6:28:29 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: svcw

That’s an interesting thought. Quite possible, too.


48 posted on 07/30/2010 6:37:05 PM PDT by FourPeas (God Save America)
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To: j.argese

“My personal belief is anyone who is historically knowledgable understands revolutions eat those who start them and nobody wants to be point man.”

Sometimes. In the case of the French Revolution, you are right. The Russian Revolution, partly right (see: Trotsky). The Chinese Revolution, not really. Our revolution, no.


49 posted on 07/30/2010 6:38:35 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: bigbob
Revolution is risky, dangerous, committed work. Different from just having conversations, posting on the internet, and bitching over coffee down at Starbucks.

No question that is true. But revolution isn't just guns and sabotage. It can (and should) be something like the Governor of AZ refusing to acknowledge a fascist court ruling and continuing to enforce the real law. A large coordinated effort by private sector groups to simply refuse to obey illegal federal edicts. A couple of mainstream Republicans in the Senate standing on the floor and call Obama and his Dem followers fascists and an illegal government. Revolution could be the entire Republican membership of the House blockading the halls and physically stopping business and votes.

It can be done, but our so called representatives would rather have the crumbs tossed at them from a despotic ruler than take any risk to uphold the Constitution as they are sworn to do.

50 posted on 07/30/2010 6:57:01 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
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To: JSteff; Kaslin

The article is talking about small economy that Obama is producing, not small govt.


51 posted on 07/30/2010 7:10:26 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: ChildOfThe60s
No meaningful armed revolution will start until states start to secede, then all bets are off.
52 posted on 07/30/2010 7:37:49 PM PDT by fatman6502002 (Time will tell)
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To: firebasecody

A good friend of mine likes to say now, “There will be no problem until the first federal worker gets laid off”. Perhaps he is on to something.
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Ummm, what is being done to the private sector is unsustainable. Without a private sector, you have no public sector...it’s only a matter of time before these government workers lose their jobs.

Doubt me? Look what the Governor has to do to public workers in California. California is a microcosm of what the country faces at large.


53 posted on 07/30/2010 7:42:58 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: redpoll

If only more people (beyond FR and active conservatives) would read Angelo Codevilla’s article then their anger would be more accurately directed and the stereotypical rhetoric would be replaced with rational objections. Unfortunately it takes an attention span longer than the average TV show and an ability to put aside personal bias. I find it heartening though that many I speak with know of his article.


54 posted on 07/30/2010 7:49:53 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberals are cruel hateful people who think they pass as respectable citizens.)
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To: Kaslin

Will Washington’s Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?
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Hey, I’m down for a Revolution.


55 posted on 07/30/2010 9:37:49 PM PDT by no dems (Palin/Jindal in 2012 or Jindal/Christie in 2012. Either is fine with me.)
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To: ought-six

Just food for thought, would you consider the American Revolution a civil war, not actually a revolution?


56 posted on 07/31/2010 12:20:35 AM PDT by j.argese (Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
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To: j.argese

Civil War means imposing a political reality on a populace by means of War. Revolution means changing the way of governance.

The American Revolution was an insurrection and a separatist movement.


57 posted on 07/31/2010 12:34:53 AM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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To: Kaslin

On the IBD website this article has 216 replies so far this morning. The usual number of replies to an IBD editorial is 6 or 7 with a rare one getting 15 replies. I have never seen anything close to 216 comments before.

This one has really hit a nerve. And two more Freepers have posted it here since you did.


58 posted on 07/31/2010 4:54:52 AM PDT by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: maica

That is a lot of comments on the IBD Ebsite


59 posted on 07/31/2010 5:07:06 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Correct.


60 posted on 07/31/2010 5:07:07 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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