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Charlie Daniels' Open Letter to Congress: 'You've Betrayed Your Country' (Just Wow!)
CNS ^ | August 25, 2015 | Charlie Daniels

Posted on 08/25/2015 7:04:42 PM PDT by xzins

I am a proud American who believes that America has held – and still holds – a very sensitive and special place in the affairs of mankind on Planet Earth. I believe that America has been divinely blessed and protected in our two centuries plus of existence.

I believe that America has been a counter balance that has cancelled out a lot of tyranny, evil and conquest, and admittedly, we have made a lot of mistakes. But on balance we have exerted a certain Pax Americana in the international affairs of mankind.

It took a lot of old fashioned guts for the Continental Congress to stand up to the world's mightiest military and tell them that we demanded our independence, even at the peril of going up against a far superior force on land and sea, and with only a ragtag army of untrained citizens, many of whom had to supply their own firearms.

It took courage above and beyond for Abraham Lincoln to push the country into a Civil War that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would divide this nation for decades.

It took guts to give the order for American troops to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, straight into the face of artillery and machine gunfire, wave after wave being cut to ribbons by German shore emplacements.

The history of this nation is written in the blood and courage of men who stood in the face of overwhelming odds – politicians, soldiers, statesmen and ordinary citizens who sought to do the right thing regardless of the cost or the consequences.

Well, ladies and gentlemen of the United States Congress, it seems that that particular pen has run out of ink. The courageous politicians that once championed this nation have been replaced, for the most part, by a breed of milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants who are supposed to be representing a constituency of citizens who have to live with the circumstances of their timid folly.

You don't even have the courage to face down an out of control president, even when he makes a deal with the devil. Don't you bunch of timid capons even care what kind of world you're leaving to your children and grandchildren, not to even mention the rest of us? Are you really party partisans before your parents and grandparents or even human beings?

Be honest with yourselves a minute. Go into the bathroom and look in the mirror and ask the person you see this question: "Do I really believe that Iran will not use the money we're releasing to them to finance terrorists to kill Americans, and, when, not if, but when, the Iranians develop their nuclear device, will they really use it against America and Israel?"

You can’t hide from the truthful answer to that question forever, an answer will be required of you one day.

You have allowed Obama to tilt the Supreme Court so far to the left that they're little more than a shameful extension of the Executive Branch.

You have talked for decades about the porous southern border but have done absolutely nothing about it.

You have allowed cities in this nation to declare themselves sanctuary cities where they protect the worst of the worst criminal aliens, and American citizens are paying an awful price for your silence.

You watch an impossible National Debt balloon completely out of control, knowing full well that a day of reckoning is coming that will seriously curtail the quality of life for coming generations.

You allow corrupt government agencies like the IRS to run over the very people you are sworn to protect and allow the entitlement society to expand exponentially. All the while, you are actually entertaining the idea of raising taxes on those who still work and shoulder the burden.

You compose a third of the constitutionally mandated ruling system,and you shirk your duty

and allow this nation to move a little closer to the edge every day.

Your ratings are in the single digits; your morals are in the gutter; your minds are on self-preservation; and somewhere along the way, you’ve traded your honor for political expediency.

You've violated your oaths; you've betrayed your country; you've feathered your nests; and you've sat on your hands while an imperial president has rubbed your noses in the dirt time after time.

You're no longer men. You're puppets, caricatures, jokes, a gaggle of fading prostitutes for sale to anybody who can do you a political favor.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is a legendary American singer, song writer, guitarist, and fiddler famous for his contributions to country and southern rock music. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; betrayal; congress; daniels; openletters; postedyesterday; searchworks
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To: ForYourChildren

The elite think flyover country is there to serve them. And we think we’re here to be free and the overseers of our own government.

We were bound to clash with those people eventually.

Glad the red necks are in flyover country. They fight like “hell’s a chasin’ and heaven’s a waitin’”


21 posted on 08/25/2015 7:27:31 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: wastoute

But they can be cast out.

“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” (Rev 12:9)


22 posted on 08/25/2015 7:29:57 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: xzins

Damn that’s good. He should put that in a song about the Rat King...


23 posted on 08/25/2015 7:32:42 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: xzins

I was always proud to call myself a republican. God, country and family. I feel I have no one representing me anymore. I belong to no party. I will no longer make any deals with the devil.


24 posted on 08/25/2015 7:35:03 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: jsanders2001

I was just thinking the same. Surely there’s a song in there somewhere.


25 posted on 08/25/2015 7:35:21 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: xzins

This is excellent!


26 posted on 08/25/2015 7:39:41 PM PDT by bigtoona (Donald Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Trump for president!)
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To: xzins

The elite think flyover country is there to serve them. And we think we’re here to be free and the overseers of our own government.

We were bound to clash with those people eventually.

Glad the red necks are in flyover country. They fight like “hell’s a chasin’ and heaven’s a waitin’”


Hmmm. I have never quite thought about it like that. You may very well be correct in your assessment.


27 posted on 08/25/2015 7:45:35 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: xzins

Reads like a second declaration of independence.


28 posted on 08/25/2015 7:46:30 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: xzins

Reads like a second declaration of independence.


29 posted on 08/25/2015 7:46:30 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: bigtoona

If I were a high school civics teacher, I’d make my class memorize it for their next test.

(I’d probably get in trouble :>)


30 posted on 08/25/2015 7:47:07 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: going hot

See #30


31 posted on 08/25/2015 7:48:00 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: xzins

Brilliant!


32 posted on 08/25/2015 7:49:39 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: xzins

Great post! Love it.


33 posted on 08/25/2015 7:50:46 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: PubliusMM

It just grabbed me at the beginning and carried me all the way through like on a wave.

It read very fast it was so on the money true.


34 posted on 08/25/2015 7:53:35 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: xzins

Bump again. It is a must read.


35 posted on 08/25/2015 7:56:47 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: xzins

I assume he copied this to the junior senator from my state...


36 posted on 08/25/2015 7:57:48 PM PDT by OKSooner (Chamberlain at least loved his country, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
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To: xzins

I just went to the link and posted to my Facebook, tagged my Senator and my Congressman. Not that it will do any good but I never pass up the chance to let them know how much I dislike them.


37 posted on 08/25/2015 8:01:02 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: xzins



God Bless & Keep Charlie Daniels

38 posted on 08/25/2015 8:10:56 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: Duchess47

We need a real day of reckoning for congress. Everyone, house and senate, needs to be primaried.


39 posted on 08/25/2015 8:11:16 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: xzins

Very well said Mr. Daniels.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

First off, Boehner and McConnell need to go.

CGato


40 posted on 08/25/2015 8:11:32 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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