I think we are dealing with something much bigger than we may think we are.
The thought frightens and chills me to the bone.
Crickets...
5.56mm
To quote Tokyo Rove “FU”.
I like Jim DeMint. A lot. But, he does not yet speak for “Washington,” so I don’t believe the headline. They don’t hear us yet.
To protect themselves at any cost.
I put the elitist, Beltway Republican establishment in this category. They simply have no fricking idea of what truly matters to the rest of this country and they never will, period. Fire them all.
“Common sense” again. Weren't a bunch of Freepers going ape sh*t over Republicans using that term?
Anyway, they can hear us now, but that doesn't mean they'll listen. Look how hard they are working to take out Conservatives even after the Primaries.
Over the past few years, particularly since 2008, the Internet has made it possible for ordinary citizens to read the documents of their freedom in the quiet of their homes, to read all of the writings of Washington, Jefferson, the Adamses, Madison, and all the other intellectual giants of 1776 and 1787, and the populace is informed, knowledgeable and seeing through the would-be tyrants who wish to control them.
While speaking of Caesar, Jefferson said: "But steeped in corruption, vice and venality, as the whole nation was,... what could even Cicero, Cato, Brutus have done, had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country?... No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. Their reformation then was to be taken up ab incunabulis. Their minds were to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments proportioned, indeed, but irremissible; in all cases, to follow truth as the only safe guide, and to eschew error, which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. But this would have been an operation of a generation or two at least, within which period would have succeeded many Neros and Commoduses, who would have quashed the whole process. I confess, then, I can neither see what Cicero, Cato and Brutus, united and uncontrolled could have devised to lead their people into good government, nor how this enigma can be solved." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:233
"An enlightened people, and an energetic public opinion... will control and enchain the aristocratic spirit of the government." --Thomas Jefferson to Chevalier de Ouis, 1814. ME 14:130
"An enlightened people, and an energetic public opinion... will control and enchain the aristocratic spirit of the government." --Thomas Jefferson to Chevalier de Ouis, 1814. ME 14:130
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
"Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights.", --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
From James Madison:
"Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant – they have been cheated; asleep – they have been surprised; divided – the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?... The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it."
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
Gandhi had the benefit of a British empire exhausted from two world wars.
IMHO, I don't think we're well into the fighting stage yet, but if enough apple carts get turned over, I would look for something staged with the tacit approval of the Fred Kinnans and Orren Boyles of the world.
I think the tea party folks (and others) are fighting something that has been going on for a long time in the US. Eisenhower called it the military industrial complex, but it is really the collusion between government and corporations (think GE, Goldman Sachs and the like). The analog is the relationships one sees in 'Atlas Shrugged', or that of the East India Tea company to the British Government.
These folks see their gravy train at the expense of the taxpayer about to be shunted off the tracks, and if it looks serious enough, the more unethical of them would be more than willing to see the muzzle of (someone else's) gun pointed at the head of the taxpayer.
I relish the fact Karl Rove has had no less than 3 sleepless nights.
...and the fact the Kristall, Kandrakula, SourKrauthammer and Tokyo Rove are spending their weekend conferencing on what to say next (that won’t be believed)
Their response will be to do what they think it takes to keep their phony baloney jobs and power. For the most part principles don’t exist in them. They are politicians people. They will say anything, do anything to stay in power. Without being politicians they have nothing and are nothing.
You can bet your sweet bippy that they are huddled figuring out a response to the Tea Party. Just look at the back peddling Rove and Cornyn have already done. The former misread the tea leaves and the latter never saw them.
O’Donnell isn’t the real deal either folks. She is a feminist shameless self promoter with a good line of gab. You talk about someone who has never held a real job or made a payroll. Yes, she has suffered financially and struggled but so have many others who don’t have any real world experience. It takes more than a pretty face, a passion and a nice smile to be a leader but if that is the best we can do for now...
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
The can hear a noise.
But they still aren’t ‘hearing us’.
They hear you every two years for two months. Then, come January, it’s back to the old ways of growing the government beast.
So what? Washington has the attention span of a hamster - and they think the public shares that trait.
>>>>Hmmm, and what will their response be?
Tokyo Karl is their response.
Preach it brother!
Whatever their response it will be even crazier than this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1cP0ez_S8&feature=related