Posted on 02/12/2015 8:33:40 AM PST by Kaslin
You make the same argument that GW’s uncle made to me last week. When I told him that there were plenty of us who knew that, under the hands of a democrat president and an out of control bureaucracy, the laws would be used against American citizens. The look on his face said they either didn’t think of that or they don’t care. It was all about building a gov’t bureaucracy that will “watch over” is and keep us under their thumb.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court even can do much to help it." - Judge Learned Hand
"If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man." - Sen. Zacharias Montgomery
After Thomas Jefferson, in his First Inaugural, had enumerated the principles which would guide his Administration in his First Inaugural, he added:
"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
So-called "progressives" of the 20th and 21st Centuries, in their arrogance, have removed (censored) the Founders' ideas of liberty from America's textbooks, and, as researchers discovered decades ago, early volumes of their writings were relegated to dusty stacks in remote areas of libraries.
Technology, however, has outstripped their efforts. Every American school child and adult now has potential access to almost every word the Founders spoke and wrote, and their ideas are being rediscovered and circulated in a manner prior to computers and the internet, as if by the hand of Divine Providence.
Enduring principles, according to the Founders were just that--enduring and "self-evident."
The sacred Rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power>" - Alexander Hamilton
"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness, as you confess those invaded by the Stamp Act to be. We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us, exist with us, and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives. In short, they are founded on the immutable maxims of reason and justice." - John Dickinson (Signer of the Constitution of the U. S., as quoted in "Our Ageless Constitution, p. 286)
excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."
The word "democracy" is nowhere in the Constitution.
I have come to see GW as Ceaser to Obama’s Octavian.
Obama Administration considering expanding refugee status for children globally. This summer they did it to central America, like Honduras. Such status gives access to the welfare system immediately, housing vouchers, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.
I bet Cloward-Piven never imagined their plan implemented on such a scale!!!
It will be up to the youth in this country to do the hard lifting to fix the foundation. I just don’t see them making the sacrifices.
Don’t you mean Caesar?
Yeah. He didn’t really stop.
The Judge is not on the bench, but on TV......just sayin’
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What does his “not being on the bench” have to do with what he said ..??
He wrote an article and made the statement, “we are a democracy”.
WE’RE NOT ..!!!!!!
What is your real beef ..??????
“We have given you a REPUBLIC .. if you can keep it.”
The Founders’ statement.
Wow, that decision would make the US a hole in the ocean. On a more localized basis, Obama is also going to bring in 70,000, reportedly, Muslim refugees from Syria. That too will probably be a larger number and include extended family along with some number of dangerous Islamists.
I felt save when President Bush was in office. I don't anymore especially since he has cut our military down tow to pre WWII strenght
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Another great post
Just because Bill Clinton was a wimp and George W. Bush a reckless moron by comparison does not mean W was NOT a RINO.
Lets see: Expansion of Medicare in 2003, anyone? No Child Left Behind Act, more Federal government. Patriot Act expansion.
True, Obama is FAR worse than W or Bill Clinton, but that’s mean W wasn’t a RINO.
Ah! But there's your mistake: these are in complete synchronicity with the rest of the Republican party. (Just look at their inaction on any government agency, or their complicity in TARP, or their complicity in the airline bailouts; McCain, Romney, GWB, Boehner, etc are the true republican party.)
God is good; it may be that he is hearing our prayers.
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