Posted on 06/28/2012 9:31:44 AM PDT by Boiling point
It should be safe to say that it is perfectly acceptable to cancel the fourth of July as a paid holiday. Particularly if you are a Freeper business owner. Many of the grievances stated as the reason for the original declaration has been far surpassed. At the Boiling point house hold it will no longer be celebrated but mourned. Old glory will forever be relegated to a historic relic of a once great nation. It no longer represents the uplifting patriotic, proud feeling it once did, nor does it represent a country currently worth fighting for. RIPUSA.
I think “July 4th” should still be celebrated to the FULL, to the MAX. But, it should be moved to May 1.
Why, the Constitution is dead? Every aspect of our independence is dead! We are Taxed now simply for being alive because a hostility and lawless majority & government deems us its slaves.
I know not what-else to say to you except that I believe in liberty or Death. We have not our Independence and therefore only reason to morn the freedom that was loss.
It seems quite evident now that if we are to recover our rights & liberties this “court” and its Government must be overturned. Replaced or abandoned under theses despots we cannot live!
July 4th will still be celebrated, but just not as Independence Day.
I think it would be appropriate to hold a funeral for the nation on the Fourth of July.
In lieu of flowers, an “F-YOU Buddy!” card should be sent to (in)justice roberts.
I will be flying the Gadsden flag from now on.
After the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi fell on July 4th, 1863, it never again celebrated the 4th of July until 1945.
Do you feel that it is worth fighting to take it BACK?
"I have not yet begun to fight!" ~ John Paul Jones
I absolutely agree that it is worth fighting to take back. Unfortunately, it is past the point of bumper stickers, flag waving and large peaceful gatherings.
Celebrate Revolution!
I am amazed at the negativity and “take my ball and go home” attitude displayed all over the conservative media today.
We have options.
Nullification.
Repeal.
Civil disobedience (go to jail)
The ruling limits the use of the Commerce Clause. That is a good thing. The Court said it wasn’t up to them to remedy the electorate’s mistakes in voting for progressives. That is correct.
Anyone planning on sitting this election out has nothing to gripe about.
What are you blind? This is no mere electoral mistake. This “court” has deemed its employees to have the power to force you to do anything they want you to do by way of punitive taxes.
You either do what they want or get taxes into jail!
There IS NO MORE FREEDOM!!! There is no more limited government!
What are you blind? This is no mere electoral mistake. This “court” has deemed its employers to have the power to force you to do anything they want you to do by way of punitive taxes.
You either do what they want or get taxes into jail!
There IS NO MORE FREEDOM!!! There is no more limited government!
I get the impression the black robed moron have never read the Federalist Papers (owners manual for the Constitution) and continue to inject their bias and we all pay the penalty.
How can anyone with a functioning brain possibly believe the founders wanted a federal government this big and into so many aspects of our lives. I am so ashamed to be an American today.
All those highfalutin words about limited government, Of the People by the People have been relegated to crap.
We have been sold a bill of goods and the goods are communist crap. The filth in the White House has contaminated to the point where 100,000 gallons of industrial janitor in a drum could not clean it up.
I sure hope the founders are not watching us. If they are, all I can say is, I am profoundly sorry we threw away that which your risked your lives and fortunes.
2nded
“July 4th will still be celebrated, but just not as Independence Day.”
Come on somebody has to have the address.
I was just reading about that.
Amos 8
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
In order to battle this beast, America needs to figure out exactly who she is and to whom she owes her allegiance.
Obadiah
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
I completely understand; at this point it is just a day off (though for fewer and fewer people each year). We are being worked to death as Red Chinese peasants, unless you work for the government (the party).
I’m not surprised that a supreme court that allows the murder of children would allow this; I’m only surprised that there was no actual defense for doing so.
Yes, that is their goal.
They may not get to implement it. The first person arrested/fined for not having health insurance and not paying the penalty will have standing to sue.
Congress can repeal this. We vote on those representatives in November.
The House can refuse to fund the IRS. We vote for those representatives in November.
The States can refuse to participate, since the ruling states they cannot be subject to punitive withholding of other funds.
None of this even goes into effect until 2014. Maybe people need to experience it for 9 months before the November 2014 midterm elections in order to figure it out.
The 4th of July celebrates a successful revolution. That is what I celebrate. Freedom and liberty are never certain and we deal with that uncertainty daily. They already have a million ways to force me to do anything they wish. I try to take everything one day a time. I don’t have the energy to both live my life and be in a constant uproar. If you do, good for you.
The entire law and the people who instituted it and the present POTUS were electoral mistakes. WE are responsible for rectifying those, not the SCOTUS.
On July 5th, tell us just how your refusal to celebrate the successful outcome of the first American Revolution impacts the present situation.
My opinion on the celebration is now mixed for the same reasons you put it. It was a celebration of our declaration of Independence from such despotism as we now face today from Washington. Not a celebration of Washington itself.
Perhaps we should simply withhold the federal rag?
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