Posted on 08/31/2010 10:42:05 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
The changes were basically undetectable, that is, until the start of the Second American Revolution. From the start of that revolution America began to change – rapidly – openly – ruthlessly. From the free, prosperous nation we once were, America is today drowning in a sea of rules and regulations.
Every aspect of our lives have become controlled by government edicts and intervention. From a mere trickle those government controls became a flood – until finally, today, the Republic of our founders is literally unrecognizable.
When did such a drastic change take place? Who perpetrated it? How did they pull it off before our very eyes? Winston Churchill once said, “If you don’t look facts in the face, they have a way of stabbing you in the back.”
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No real disagreement here. The 14th was, and is an affront to our freedoms.
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Been that way since the beginning of time I suspect; deadbeats will always be with us. The trick is to keep would-be looters and freeloaders in a position where they become VERY hungry if they don't help pull the wagon. The author's point that I wholeheartedly agree with is that we brought this upon ourselves; we allowed it to happen. It is such a tangled web now that any efforts to free ourselves from this quicksand will most likely be painful.
I think that when it is all said and done we are going to plainly see how big the "New America" crowd media distortion has been. Obama is just visual representation of significant distortion masquerading as a hero.
We were blessed with eight years of Ronald Reagan -- the idea of America, personified.
I followed the development of the police powers of regulation from prohibiting or conditionally permitting actions injurious to the general public’s health, safety and morals to regulation for the advancement and promotion of the general public welfare or benefit.
I followed the development of State Fish and Game regulation as it went from the State's power to constitute the actions creating privately owned property from the public domain (”take” of fish and game) to the State's power to regulate Fish and Game as an essential component of the food supply - under public health and safety. Then, I followed assertions of the collective ownership of fish and game and the ability to prohibit and regulate the impact of private land and water use on habitat and to require mitigation measures, including the uncompensated surrender of privately owned property.
He is a British subject after all!
This is exactly why the framers put the NBC clause in the constitution. To prevent by proxy rule of foreign concerns.
The illegal manner in which the 14th Amendment was “ratified” is the darkest hour in American history. Some states (i.e., the Confederacy) were not allowed to vote for the Amendment in Congress or for ratification.
What strikes me about the 14th Amendment is the sentence:
“But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.”
Today, our milirary is being denied the right to vote in five states and severely abridged in others. How does one file a suit to enforce this, on behalf of our brave men and women? If one segment of our population is denied the right to vote - AND TO HAVE THAT VOTE COUNTED - who will they deny next?
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Bump to myself for later. Thanks for the post FGS!
“In the first place, we ask that they will agree to certain changes in the Constitution of the United States; and, to begin with, we want them to unite with us in broadening the citizenship of the Republic. The slaves recently emancipated by proclamation, and subsequently by Constitutional Amendment, have no civil status. They should be made citizens. We do not, by making them citizens, make them voters,—we do not, in this Constitutional Amendment, attempt to force them upon Southern white men as equals at the ballot-box; but we do intend that they shall be admitted to citizenship, that they shall have the protection of the laws, that they shall not, any more than the rebels shall, be deprived of life, of liberty, of property, without due process of law, and that “they shall not be denied the equal protection of the law.” And in making this extension of citizenship, we are not confining the breadth and scope of our efforts to the negro. It is for the white man as well. We intend to make citizenship National. Heretofore, a man has been a citizen of the United States because he was a citizen of some-one of the States: now, we propose to reverse that, and make him a citizen of any State where he chooses to reside, by defining in advance his National citizenship—and our Amendment declares that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.” This Amendment will prove a great beneficence to this generation, and to all who shall succeed us in the rights of American citizenship; and we ask the people of the revolted States to consent to this condition as an antecedent step to their re-admission to Congress with Senators and Representatives.”
~ The Reconstruction Problem, speech by Rep. James Blaine (R-Maine), Skowhegan, Maine (August 29, 1866)
“Be assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution.” ~Orville Browning, Senator for Illinois (1867)
“The Founders would be so disgusted with Americans today.”
They would not be alone.
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Quoting Churchill and alluding to the the will of the British to fight to the last man woman and child to defend their island against the National Socialists, then ending with a squishy call for "revolution" that really isnt anything other than the same losing strategy we've been suckered into for decades just deflates the whole piece.
Winston Churchill once said, “If you don’t look facts in the face, they have a way of stabbing you in the back.”
“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
Here is where the rubber meets the road. People need to be serious about this and take serious action to remove ourselves from our enemies influence. This can happen by completely crushing them or by separating from them, and I honestly do not care what avenue we take any longer. Both Avenues will require violence, one way we are the aggressors and the other way we will be defensive in our stance. I think the defensive path is the best path but that option will not be available forever. This is the reality of the situation. There will be no slow transformation or "restoring" of what was lost. It will either happen in a series of well planned and decisive actions or it will not happen at all.
Our enemy is not only those in government but it consists of those who vote for them, support them, indoctrinate for them and distribute propaganda for them. Our enemy is roughly half the nations population. Either because they are true believers in forced collectivism or because they are weak minded enough to be influenced by the indoctrination and ongoing PR, this includes a growing number of folks in our military. There is no F'ing way around that battlefield condition and wishing it away wont work. It needs to be taken into consideration and factored in to the battle plan.
The choice is ours...
We can continue to play childrens games and dress up like "revolutionaries" and keep telling ourselves that everything will get better if we continue to live within our comfy little bubble and wait for all these people to have a F'ing epiphany and become hard core believers in something they have been indoctrinated to abhor.
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We can become serious about this and take serious action based on the realities we currently face.
We must push to repeal the 14th, 16th, and 17th amendments, at the very least.
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Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but the warning tag is for the manufacturer and the merchant. The consumer may do as he or she wishes with the tag. The tag is supposed to contain information on what materials are used to make the product in question. Do I agree with the mandate? No. Do I, as a consumer, want to research what I'm buying? Yes.
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