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)

[viaveritasvita]

I trust in God's promise and hope of eternal life for those who believe in Jesus Christ, the Messiah. That said, I think it's too late to turn the ship of state around (or however you want to phrase it). We can debate ad infinitum and ad naseum how long and what form it'll take for America as it once was to be completely unrecognizable. Sedition, voting Republican, stockpiling, revolution. Do y'all really believe any of these ideas (and scores of others) are going to make the big difference? 911, leaking borders, rampant sexual immorality, socialism/communism, unconscionable violence, lies from our government and the media, broken homes and lives and dreams -- what more would it take for people to wake up?? I mean, come on! No, the battle lines are drawn; people are choosing sides; the stage is set for Armeggeden.

Prayer is just about all we've got left (not to minimize prayer!), otherwise what foolishness and arrogance to think we can figure a way out of this mess without supernatural intervention (altho it's always possible that America is like Nineveh and that a Jonah -- perhaps the homeschooled Christian kids -- can turn us around, but I don't think so).

I think we'll come to some sort of civil clash, which I hope is not in my lifetime, but the globalist vision will win. It's the infamous juggernaut. Most will learn to live with it; after all, look what we've learned to live with thus far.

Sometimes the endless debate here is interesting and distracting; other times it's downright boring and repetitious. Your thread is one of the more thoughtful and interesting I've seen in quite a while.

You might be interested in this article. Paul and I have become good e-friends....

http://www.toogoodreports.com/column/general/scates/20030702.htm

Godspeed, my friend.

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[sweetliberty]

Posting to cross reference.

To: sweetliberty; wirestripper; Budge; Howlin; Cultural Jihad; Chancellor Palpatine; Pan_Yans Wife

-sweetliberty, I read your rant:
“What Are Our Options When the Constitution No Longer Protects Us?”
And had a thought.

CB^)

2 posted on 07/03/2003 11:59 AM CDT by OnTheDress (His legacy is a stain on the dress.)
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[brewcrew]

I assure you, I as patriotic as an Old Order Amishman!

You are most definitely in the minority. The majority only cares when there's something in it for them. We've bred an entire nation (and by now you know I mean the majority, not everyone) based on a collective entitlement mentality.

Thanks, FDR.

[Memother]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33447

Joseph Farah "Impeach the Sodomy 6"

Has it begun?

[DefCon]

"...I have never heard anyone speak of Lincoln's assassination that way, before..."
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You don't get out much, do you?

[DefCon]

From: The Declaration of Independence
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"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
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Translation:
People shold not assail their government for trivial reasons.
People will will generally put up with a lot of crap.
People eventually have a breaking point.
When that time comes, it is their DUTY to correct it.
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As true now as it was then.

[sweetliberty]

Looks like the cartoon in the original post got toasted. I will post it again. That's what I get for moving things around on my graphics server.

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[.38sw]

The cartoon is too close to a possibility to be very funny.

bump.