What Are Our Options When the Constitution No Longer Protects Us?

June 30, 2003 | sweetliberty

[sweetliberty]

It is heartbreaking to see what is happening to our country. We are plunging into decadence at an alarming rate and it seems that it may already be too late to turn back. Let's face it, we are fast becoming a country that our forefathers wouldn't recognize. Judges have, by and large, become activists for the socialist state. The president is dragged through the mud publicly at every opportunity by members of the opposing party, instead of being honored as our leader as he should be. Lying is as common as breathing no matter whose reputation or career might be damaged and more and more the media we once looked to for information reports only propagnada, half-truths and sometimes blatant lies. We no longer have any real security, neither as a sovreign nation with well-defined and protected borders, nor in our homes where the simple act of defending ourselves or our family can now cost us everything and even land us in prison. Our children are no longer our own to raise, but subjects of the state to be indoctrinated in the ways of "tolerance". The rights of criminals trump those of victims and of society as a whole. Marriage between a man and a woman is considered antiquated and to make a furthur mockery of a sacred institution, it is deemed desirable for the perverse practitioners of homosexuality. The evil doctrine of Islam and prayer to its false god is considered acceptable to impose upon school children, but the sacred scriptures are deemed offensive and prayer to the true God forbidden. The same people who will celebrate the slaughter of 85,000,000 innocents in the womb, will rally to spare the life of a serial murderer. We labor under an increasingly intolerable tax burden and we seem unable to do so much as get a handle on the fraud that keeps putting individuals in public office that work against the interests of the people.

When black has become white, murder is a right, lies are declared to be truth, the wrong word or even expression of belief can cost a job or even land you in jail, where do we turn? Do we continue to accept the increasing weight of the chains of political correctness and liberal tyranny? Do we keep going along with the status quo in hopes of a brighter tomorrow? Are we completely helpless to rise up and take charge of our country or are our chains already so well-forged that fighting them is futile and all we can do is moan under the weight of their burden? Is there any hope of restoring decency and common sense? Can our Republic be resurrected?

If the answer is yes, then how? It seems to matter little whether democrats or Republicans are in power, the wheels of a socialist state seem to have already been set in motion and are gaining momentum all the time. It seems that conservatives, patriots and Christians have only stayed the tide by putting a finger in the dike, but we can only hold back the flood for so long without reinforcements. Will they ever come? And if not, what then? Do we just give up, living the best we can till we die, clinging to what liberty we think we have? Or do we seek alternatives? How much do we value our liberty? Do we move away, find a deserted island somewhere? Do we secede even at the risk of another civil war? Do we challenge the government by passive resistance and noncompliance to force its collapse that we might start over? What is the answer?

I know many FReepers have given this a lot of thought and have ideas about how to cope if/when the current climate becomes unbearable. Desperate times call for desperate measures and it seems we are fast approaching desperation. The liberals would call this progress. I would call it a perilous plunge into the wells of decadence, with the glory of our past fast becoming nothing more than an echo in the ruins of a once great nation. < /rant >

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!..Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!"- (Isaiah 5-20-23)

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." - Abraham Lincoln (first inaugural address)

[tpaine]

For the record, neither of us were admonishing others to 'stock up' on military weaponry used to destroy passenger planes, helicopters, and vehicles. That dubious honor belongs to someone else. If you have any problem with extremist statements made by neanderthals and their provocateurs, then kindly raise them with the individuals who make them.
89 -CJ-

For the record, CJ, please post where I claimed either of you "were admonishing others to 'stock up' on military weaponry".

Simply put, you've went off the deep end once again. Thanks for making my point.

[Dan from Michigan]

What Are Our Options When the Constitution No Longer Protects Us?

I'll protect myself....

[ezo4]

I suppose listening to one too many liberals talk s**t and seeing these degenerate faggots parading around the streets of every city in America celebrating yet another victory over the Constitution; while most of our lawmakers care little what the majority of us believe and continue to pander to the lowest common denominator.

Whats the firepower of these gay bitch fags on the street?

Notta thing

[bluebunny]

I am very sorry for the RPG comment to everyone.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I guess we are supposed to avoid provoking the imbalanced.....

[OREALLY]

Hey things are getting so bad I can watch Red Dawn and cheer up !

[Cultural Jihad]

You bait people into making extremist type statements, than hound them till they get banned.

The poo' widdow extwemists have no fwee will choice in what they say. Boo-hoo-hoo!

[sweetliberty]

"From the short time I've been on here, they seem like jerks"

You learn fast. LOL! Oh well, everybody has to have a purpose. It must suck when your purpose is to be a flaming @**h*le.

Welcome to Free Republic.

[MissAmericanPie]

I saw him on an interview on TV, I was shocked to say the least. The guy is in California now, he's been transfered. I'll poke around and see if I can find him on google, or make a call to a friend.

Several of my friends also saw the interview and were shocked, we discussed it. Maybe one of them will remember his exact name.

[budwiesest]

ooh, bump for later.......

[wku man]

History is full of examples of how powerful, technologically advanced armies have been defeated or fought to a standstill by highly motivated partisans who were fighting for a cause they believed was just. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Warsaw ghettos, Texas, and the birth of our own nation are all examples of how poorly equipped, poorly trained, but highly motivated people can overcome superior forces. Yes, look to Jesus. But a lot of Jews died praying to God for salvation from the Nazis. Pray, but fight also. As Churchill said, never, never, never surrender! Anyone who is too cowardly to fight for their freedom doesn't deserve it.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[bluebunny]

Thank you for welcoming me. I really am very sorry about the RPG thing. I knew I should have not posted that as soon as I hit the post button.

[Cultural Jihad]

Welcome, too. FreeRepublic is a place for the hopeful, not the hopeless.

[firewalk]

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[sweetliberty]

"FreeRepublic is a place for the hopeful, not the hopeless."

You're still here.

[Cultural Jihad]

Those who subscribe to Che Guevara's awkward dictum that it is 'too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bastards' are the hopeless and helpless ones.

[tpaine]

My question is how many Americans see themselves as Montanans, Californians, Kansans, before they see themselves as Americans? Do people value their states' rights above their American rights? Is the identity at the state level greater than that at the national level?
91 -PYW-

I think most people support our US Constitution over their states version.
They should, as it is the 'supreme Law of the Land', a social contract that cannot be broken by a mere majority of our neighbors.

IE, CA has passed a prohibition on 'assault weapons' that violates our RKBA's.
I still live here, ignoring this outrageous 'law', confident that it will be overturned by the USSC.
The court is not stupid, and in the end they will strike down this 'silly' CA law, just as they struck down a silly Texas law last week. Bet on it.

[sweetliberty]

I appreciate all of your contributions. Most of you have something useful or intelligent to say to put things in perspective, irrelevant remarks of fly-by attack posters notwithstanding. I guess what it comes down to is doing the best we can where we are with what we have and trusting God for the rest.

[T. P. Pole]

bump

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Realizing that you have a system to work with, and doing your part, should help with the hopeless feeling.

Best wishes.