Posted on 09/12/2010 8:19:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Praising God and America, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin brought an adoring crowd to its feet with her message of faith, family and the power of prayer during a Sunday fundraising event to support a Christ-centered Missoula women's residential center. "God and family and country - take a stand in that order and things fall into place," Palin told a sold-out crowd of 1,600 at the Hilton Garden Inn during her 40-minute talk at the "Raise the Roof" capital campaign for Teen Challenge. "Taking a stand for God is not always easy ... but it is always right and worthwhile," Palin said.
(Excerpt) Read more at missoulian.com ...
Citizens need to take on nearly all the responsibilities of government, as individuals and as legally accountable private groups of all sizes.
Government is like a fiendish Dr Who-fiction like combination crutch, clinging deadly vine and narcotic.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.Government, per se, is not the problem, but government which fails to secure the God-given rights of the people has failed, and must be replaced."That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Moreover, government which has over-extended its reach and encroaches on the private lives of the people, is out of control, and must be replaced.
But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."At least the king God was talking about was going to expropriate only about a tenth of the people's wealth. And slaves in the old South over a lifetime had only about a tenth of their work product expropriated. Now we're way, way over that.
Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."
The problem is the transition from a government which "governs", as the Founders designed ours, to a government which "rules".
I fear that my beloved America has already made that transition, and that it will soon be time to press the "Reset system to initial conditions" button.
Unfortunately, as in the Biblical case you cite, most Americans WANT a ruler, not the government as designed by the Founders. And this is an unspeakable sadness and huge concern.
“I love my country and I love our system, but government can’t fix the problems - government is the problem,” she said. “Government can’t dry a tear or lend a shoulder or put back together a family, or country or state.” - Sarah Palin
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She sure sounds like a certain president I loved, respected and miss everyday.
I tella I can’t wait for her speech on Friday. It’s going to be great.
Liberalism is the problem........it lends plausible deniability for govt responses to problems Individuals would take care of on their own.....
....and then Govt compounds the problem when Liberalism howls in the name of class envy or some other demon of the month.
Yes, I’m looking forward to it, too.
Apparently, C-SPAN thinks it’s a big deal, also.
They’re probably think she’s going to announce or some other nonsense.
Me too.
it lends plausible deniability
Thats a damn good answer
It’s like he’s talking through her.
It isn’t that though. She got started through his spirit and positive thinking. Obama is a negative. This should be a landslide.
Moreover, government which has over-extended its reach and encroaches on the private lives of the people, is out of control, and must be replaced.
Except that Governor Palin is right. Our Founding Fathers had an abiding distrust of government. The first government after the revolution was so hamstrung it had to be rebuilt a few years later. The government we did get by birthright was designed to be balanced around three branches, each with checks and balances on the other branches.
Over time, the checks and balances have been eroded away. The Judicial Branch was never intended to be politicized. The Executive Branch was never intended to dictate by fiat. The Legislative Branch, where all funding and laws come from was designed to be deeply divided. The House of Reps with the main power was intended to balanced by a huge gigantic speed bump of a Senate that represented States Rights.
"Fast track" bills, omnibus bills that no one reads or are permitted to read and the like are an abuse of how our system is supposed to work. Our government is very broken. To the Founding Fathers' credit, it took over a century for things to start to break down.
History has pretty much shown that left to themselves, governments tends towards being evil over time.
Just why is that "The Party of No" is something bad? That was the way things were supposed to work. That "gridlock" is something bad? "Gridlock" saved the presidency of the one of the shallowest presidents our nation ever had and in retrospect, the Clinton administration did not "accomplish" nearly as much harm in eight years as an Obama administration has managed to do in less than two.
If a President Palin can give the government a good knee in the groin and keep it reeling for several decades while power is rebalanced, bring it on. It's not like Americans need a Government as a parent. Left to ourselves we created something remarkable and never before accomplished in human history - we made a society where the poor became rich by all previous human standards (and this was decades before the so-called "Great Society").
Gov. Palin would have fitted right in at the drafting of the Constitution back there in the 1700s. (Of course, she’d have had to wear a white powdered wig and knee britches, but my point is she sees things the same way they did).
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