[Angelique]

This article was originally sent to me by CHIEF Negotiator. Taxman and I were discussing it today, and I think it is timely with all the recent discussion of taxes in Washington.

[Angelique]

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[Angelique]

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[Angelique]

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[Fish out of Water]

I think this view of Jefferson is a little pessimistic. He would marvel that America is now the Worlds lone super power. He would look at the life styles of the Average American and how they had improved. He would be amazed that not only are Blacks no longer slaves, a proposition he would approve of; but they have essentially blended into society, something he could never imagine.

Jefferson would be proud that our system of Government was still operating and the people mostly in charge. He would take a look at the Internet and the free exchange of ideas and know that Americans are essentially free.

Sure we have problems and our Government has over reached in many areas, but the success of America would prove that the system works.

Since he was willing to exceed what he recognized as his constitutional authority in order to make the Louisiana Purchase; he would understand how the original intent could be adapted.

Before anybody takes me wrong, let me say that I am a libertarian and know our country could be better with a lot less Government. I am also an optimist and a pragmatist. Jefferson would see both the good and the bad. Things are better than they might have been but not as good as they could be.

[quietolong]

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[wcbtinman]

The only thing that comes to my mind is the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

"When in the Course of human Events..."

[Taxman]

Thank you Angelique. This is always a good read, and instructive to those who would carefully read it.

"Real Americans would never have given up their rights without a fight."

Well, they did. And now, we are paying the price! Those who would destroy all that the Founding Fathers accomplished by daring to establish a new nation based on the magnificient prose in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution have very nearly succeeded.

There are a few of us who recognize what has happened and is happening to the wonderful Republic the Founders established. Our assignment, class, is simply stated, to restore the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.

Are we up to the task?

Lord! I hope so. If we fail, we fail not only ourselves, but we fail each and every American who gave of his or her all to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"

And, we fail our children, our grandchildren and all future generations to come!

Wake up America!

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]

Click here to help us scrap the Code, scrap the IRS and abolish the VLWC!

We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.

[Doctor Doom]

We-have-become-willing-slaves BUMP

[mafree]

...In a sad voice, Jefferson says, "When we wrote the Constitution, all of us knew history. We knew that great civilizations began to decline when they introduced direct taxation..

I love the article, but can anyone tell me of a successful society that doesn't utilize direct taxation?

[Jefferson Adams]

Jefferson could see it. If you really look, you can see it too.

Yep. And it becomes more painfully obvious every day.

[NC_Libertarian]

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[Alabama_Wild_Man]

Would Jefferson think that we were Free ????

In a word....

HA !!

[Jay W]

WOULD THOMAS JEFFERSON THINK WE ARE FREE?

No.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Jefferson would think we are nuts!

[Aurelius]

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"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."
--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787

Jefferson would understand why things are the way they are and why we are the way we are.

Then he'd vedge out on the sofa in front of the TV. As hard as it was to get him here, it'll be even harder to get him to leave.

Tell him his Black descendants are coming over -- that may do the trick.

[B. A. Conservative]

And the Democrats who have stolen our freedoms would try and trace their roots to Jefferson. Jefferson would be severely angered by FDR or LBJ, both of which may have only three initials but really four letter words.

When are the members of FreeRepublic going to recognize that the only way to recover our freedoms is through secession?