What Happened to the Land of the Free?

Tenth Amendment Center ^ | unknown | Harry Browne

[ForGod'sSake]

America’s Founding Fathers established something unprecedented - the first government strictly limited by a written Constitution to a short list of activities. The federal government was authorized to do only what was specified in the Constitution. Anything else was to be done by state or local governments, by the people themselves acting outside government, or not at all.

The Constitution didn’t limit what citizens could do. Its only purpose was to spell out - enumerate - what was permissible for the federal government to do. And anything not authorized was forbidden to the federal government.

This ideal of limited government was sometimes violated – but violations were the exception rather than the rule. And many of the violations that did occur were reversed later, because it was understood that the Constitution limited the role of the federal government.

[Condor51]

*** Good catch. ***

Thanks. I think I found it back around June because it was still in the news about the White House paying $4 Million to 'redesign' the WH website.

Well, they 'redesigned it', alright.

*** If the parasites only realized what the host has in store for them just as soon as the gummint can silence conservatives... ***

Yep that's a fact of history that every Tyrant has used..

Lenin and Stalin are prime examples. First Lenin 'purged' fellow Bolsheviks who weren't 'Bolshevik enough'. Then Stalin killed anyone who looked cross-eyed at him, they were 'a threat to the revolution. Then he killed all his top Generals as they were a threat to him. And then most of the Ruskie POWS who were captured by the Germans.

Hitler just followed suit: First the Threats to the Reich, the Communists. Then the threat to the 'Party' and Hitler's power - the SA. Then the 'undesirables' like the mentally ill, then the Homos, then Jews and Gypsies, then Catholic Priests, and finally the Gestapo had a file on nearly everyone₍₁₎.

But today's Moonbats are History Illiterates. They don't know that if they got what they want, they'll be 'on a list'. And like all that preceded them, one day they'd 'be gone' too. Either their 'Leaders' will off them or the Terrorists who they want to surrender to will kill them.

(1) They were too good at collecting information. They needed computers and databases like the NSA has today. They were just a few decades ahead of the times.

[Myrddin]

I am trying to fight childhood obesity and the walks will do them good, don't cha think?

A truly unselfish solution. Dripping with altruistic intent. They can start with small 12 oz cans and work up to hauling the whole keg when they are ready.

[Puppage]

A truly unselfish solution.

It's just who I am. :-)

[ForGod'sSake]

Into the crapper circa 1906!

I might have picked 1913. What did I miss about 1906???

[ForGod'sSake]

But today's Moonbats are History Illiterates.

I'm afraid that's true for many of us, and at one time included yours truly, not just the Dimtards. Until just a few years ago I had only a vague concept of our Constitution; that it laid out a set of rules to govern by. I had no idea the PRIMARY purpose of our Constitution was to chain the feral government. I can't recall at any time during my education ever having it presented in that way. Fact is I was probably like most of my classsmates at the time who didn't see much relevance in a 200 year old document anyway. Little did I know how timeless it was and is. I've gotta confess, I wasn't much of a student of history -- until recently.

Odinga's Constitutional "scholarship" notwithstanding, there's a reason our Constitution is a charter of "negative rights". It's designed to tell the feral government what it CAN'T do. There's a lot to be said in favor of "Do Nothing" congresses, and administrations for that matter.

[Still Thinking]

Liberty frightens the wits out of some people.

So THAT's where all these people's wits went! I'd been trying to figure that out. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[YHAOS]

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[SuperLuminal]

The years 1904 - 1906 were the years that the very first progressive/marxist president (Teddy R.) began stealing power and property from the Nation in clear violation of the former Constitution.

IMHO, this period represents the beginning of the death of the former Constitutional Republic.

In 1904, I think (I'll have to search posts from a year or so ago and from 2000) the first public warning was published with a clear clarion call to the American people about the inevitable slide into endless tyranny.

It was repeated in 1939, 1949, and by Ronald Reagan three times over a 25-year period.

However, it went unheeded and there is no way out of the mess we are in except through specific actions duly noted in the Declaration.

[ForGod'sSake]

Well OK, I guess it's as much a matter of interpretation as anything else. There was a clarion call, apparently heeded, by Patrick Henry and others even before the Constitution was ratified that contributed to the addition of the BOR. I'm not as much of a history student as I should be, but I suspect if we look back, we'll find many clarion calls along the way. Some of which addressed issues more significant than others but in the end, and as the ignored calls accumulated, left us with a shell of our original Constitution.

We The People and many States are starting to get our acts together to fight feral tyranny. I'm just wondering if it's too late for a peaceful settlement. Or is a knock down drag out divorce the likely solution?