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What Are Our Options When the Constitution No Longer Protects Us?
June 30, 2003 | sweetliberty

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)



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: sweetliberty
It could be argued that we are indeed headed for true Civil War as opposed to a secession.

It's ironic that while we are perhaps at our zenith worldwise, that we are disintegrating from within.

There are somewhat similar parallels, Gibbons anyone?
261 posted on 07/01/2003 2:08:25 PM PDT by wardaddy (DIVERSITY IS BEST SERVED EARNED)
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To: wardaddy
"There are somewhat similar parallels"

You've noticed that too huh?

262 posted on 07/01/2003 2:10:21 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: Cultural Jihad; jammer; Xenalyte
I've come up with a great new name for a rock band - Cultural Jihad and the Disruptors.
263 posted on 07/01/2003 2:15:56 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (so you want to be a rock and roll star....)
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To: jammer; Cultural Jihad; Chancellor Palpatine
Honestly, I've dealt with them both enough to think that, despite my political differences with them, they really are genuine in what they post. If you catch either of them on a non-political thread, they're really not that bad of guys at all.
264 posted on 07/01/2003 2:19:10 PM PDT by jmc813 (If you're interested in joining a FR list to discuss Big Brother 4 on CBS, please FReepmail me)
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To: DAnconia55
The biggest threat to our country is 1 Billion Muslims.

You people are absolute lunatics.

Nonsense!

The biggest threat to this nation are the nine (in this case five) people in black robes who ignore the very document they swore to uphold.

These people are ruling by fiat!

265 posted on 07/01/2003 2:19:53 PM PDT by Budge (God Bless FReepers!)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
Or Chancellor and the Statists. :)
266 posted on 07/01/2003 2:22:08 PM PDT by Roscoe
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To: jmc813
Tanx! ;)
267 posted on 07/01/2003 2:24:01 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (so you want to be a rock and roll star....)
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To: Roscoe
Doesn't have qute the same ring as anything with "the Disruptors" in it.
268 posted on 07/01/2003 2:24:52 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (so you want to be a rock and roll star....)
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To: Roscoe; MrLeRoy
Or Leroy's Loserdopians.
269 posted on 07/01/2003 2:27:12 PM PDT by jmc813 (If you're interested in joining a FR list to discuss Big Brother 4 on CBS, please FReepmail me)
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To: jmc813
Still not there. Its missing a real hook.
270 posted on 07/01/2003 2:28:45 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (so you want to be a rock and roll star....)
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To: sweetliberty
Strong nations can afford cultural indulgence easier than weak or particularly...threatened ones.

If we are faced with a war for true survival as in WWII and face serious casualties daily then we might snap out of living this "what if" fantasy and get back to reality.
271 posted on 07/01/2003 2:28:55 PM PDT by wardaddy (DIVERSITY IS BEST SERVED EARNED)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine; jmc813
The Leroydopians?
272 posted on 07/01/2003 2:31:38 PM PDT by MrLeRoy (The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
I've always said that if I ever am a member of a band (which seems less an less likely as time goes on), I'd name one of our songs "ZOT", and refuse to explain the meaning.
273 posted on 07/01/2003 2:34:54 PM PDT by jmc813 (If you're interested in joining a FR list to discuss Big Brother 4 on CBS, please FReepmail me)
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To: jmc813; dighton
I've always said that if I ever am a member of a band (which seems less an less likely as time goes on), I'd name one of our songs "ZOT", and refuse to explain the meaning.

You'd have to include a couple of bars of "The Immigrant Song" in the middle of a bridge, too.

274 posted on 07/01/2003 2:37:30 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (so you want to be a rock and roll star....)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
I've come up with a great new name for a rock band - Cultural Jihad and the Disruptors.

That is definitely going on the list!
275 posted on 07/01/2003 2:43:46 PM PDT by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Those two steps should buy us another generation

So, in other words, let's push this off on our kids.

276 posted on 07/01/2003 2:48:33 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: Xenalyte
What list?
277 posted on 07/01/2003 2:49:36 PM PDT by jmc813 (If you're interested in joining a FR list to discuss Big Brother 4 on CBS, please FReepmail me)
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To: jmc813
The list of what would make a great name for a band.
278 posted on 07/01/2003 2:52:21 PM PDT by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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To: jammer
I believe that I have good evidence, as you do, that he/she is not honorable, is a disruptor.

Total BS.

279 posted on 07/01/2003 2:53:59 PM PDT by Howlin (I hope you don't have daughters.)
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To: sweetliberty
re: your question, i'm looking into it (not being facetious) - I have faith that there are enough intelligent, right-thinking individuals (not just here on FreeP, but across the land) that we can come up with an effective and protracted response.

Juan
280 posted on 07/01/2003 3:00:46 PM PDT by CGVet58 (I still miss my ex-wife... but my aim is improving!)
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