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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~ping~ for the group.
I date the second American revolution as the election of 1800, the third as the gutting of property rights during the New Deal and the 60s as the fourth. Some may want to toss in Lincoln too.
From the time your alarm wakes you with Daylight Saving Time until you put your head on your pillow with the “do not remove this tag” warning at night, you are literally under the thumb of the government....and you pay for the privilege. The millions of government employees have to churn out rules and regulations to justify getting a paycheck that is much bigger than yours.
The Founders would be so disgusted with Americans today.
In the eye of the beholder I suppose, but pivotal moments in and of themselves.
There is a heartwarming quote that 0baMao should have woven into his 0val 0ffice rug.
To be sure, the tentacles of government reach deep into the structure of our society and culture. The author offers up some hope for the future, albeit a long shot IMHO. Upending the Rats’ maze created by our would-be masters will be a considerable challenge.
Must-read ping.
These and the Warren Court, were counter-revolutions.
We are now in the process of defeating the counter-revolutionaries.
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Har! Would that it would do any good.
Similar thoughts from Patrick Henry: “Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”
“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.”
It happened on on July 9, 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted by Congress (but never lawfully ratified).
Power, Legitimacy, and the 14th Amendment is a good, brief introduction to the issue.
I've heard the same said of the 16th Amendment but never really dug into it. But the 16th has certainly done as much to empower a feral government beyond its enumerated powers as any other single event. Granted, the author's points of reference are a bit arbitrary but he makes a good case for the 60's and their effect on the collective psyche of the nation.
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This year marks my 43rd year in the war against those who say there is no reason, no ability and no absolutes. 43 years in a war against those who say private property and profit are evil. 43 years in a war against those who have no problem ruling, regulating and taxing my efforts in order to fill their own pockets — all in the name of the “public good.”43 years at war, eh?
I’m sure it wouldn’t do any good to him. 0baMao reviles the concept of cause and effect. Great quotes. I hadn’t heard the first one before.
Not nearly enough; figuratively speaking of course. ;^)
A very long read but right on the money.
Neither the 14th nor the 16th were ever lawfully ratified, and in any event, they both violate the Constitution of 1789, so they are void for that.
Not that that bothers the government, of course.
What people don't understand though, (and for what it's worth) is that - if they are presumed lawful - the 16th is empowered by the 14th.
In fact, everything the Leftist Rats & RINOs do is empowered by the 14th - that was why it was created.
Without it, collectivism is stopped dead by the original Constitution.
No nuance - it's black and white. That's why the Left will NEVER allow it to be touched without another civil war, because losing the 14th means they are completely destroyed, once and for all.
And they know it.
These wars come down to fairly simple proposition which is: There are those who wish to enjoy a quiet life and enjoy the fruits of their own labors and then there of those who cannot live quietly and will not labor. Producers and looters. In the wagon or pulling the wagon.
We English love to fight and unfortunately one half of our countrymen always seem to wish to lord it over the other half which means trouble inevitably follows.
Call Obama what you will but he as always struck me as a tyrannical English King wannabe.
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