Posted on 06/30/2003 5:33:56 PM PDT by 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)
Oooooh! Now there's a gameplan I could get behind.
When was the Federal Department of Education founded, o bright one?
It wasn't too long ago that there even STATE funding didn't exist for schools.
There's no Constititional mandate for Federal Education, and there's absolutely NO reason that we can't abolish all public education, either.
Why? Are you going out to bugger someone now that it's legal? Do you really believe that the LAW prevents people from having sex?
I love your posts, and this one is good. But I must correct one of your assumptions. You will be made to be seen as "wacked out" when your time comes. The propaganda machine has been perfected. Take the Davidians' being "wacked out" with a grain of salt. They might have been just like you or I--except with more resolve to isolate themselves from a sinful world.
What a crock of crap.
If what you say were true this thread would be a love fest for the Supreme Court. I suggest that if what you said were true there would be no need for this thread. It would not be a subject of discussion.
Can you say thank goodness the surpreme court never overrules the clear meaning of the constitution? Can you say isn't it great that the supreme court never exceeds its constitutional power and if it did it would never get away with it? Isn't it great that the supreme court never takes over the power of the congress and makes up its own laws? Isn't it great the supreme court never says that words that are not in the constituion are in the constitution? Isn't it great that if the Supreme court ever tried to say the law is what ever they say it is,they would all be impeached and convicted?
You can't say any of those things and it be the truth.
"The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis." -Edmund Burke
That's a very big "IF".
As to your comment about about the churches becoming our last sanctuary of sanity (disputable in light of the caving of many to PC), it reminded me of something a former priest used to say (I am Episcopalian). "You will not find God in church unless you bring Him with you."
The 'most extreme of cases' have been breeding like rabbits.
Have at it, O Legion of Anarchist. Be sure to paint the Moon purple while you're at it, too.
Good quote. Who was Madame Roland?
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