Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents.
One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They never intended God or religion to be written out of public life. They never intended government to be used to deny God's existence or for government to be used to force sexual perversions onto our society or into our children's education curriculum. They never intend for government to disarm the people. They never intended for government to set up sanctuary cities for illegals. They never intended government to “rule” over the people and or to take their earnings or private property or to deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech, free religion, private property, due process, etc. They never intended government to seize the private property of private citizens through draconian asset forfeiture laws or laws allowing government to take private property from lawful owners to give to developers. Or to seize wealth and redistribute it to others. Or to provide government forced health insurance or government forced retirement systems.
All of the above are examples of ever expanding socialism and tyranny brought to us by liberals/liberalism.
FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will. Now if liberalism infiltrates into the Republican party and Republicans start promoting all this socialist garbage, do you think that I or FR will suddenly stop fighting against it? Do you think I'm going to bow down and accept abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, global warming, illegal alien lawbreakers, gun control, asset forfeiture, socialism, tyranny, totalitarianism, etc, etc, etc, just so some fancy New York liberal lawyer can become president from the Republican party?
Do you really expect me to do that?
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.”
Yea!
That’s a very enlightening story. Thanks for sharing.
That takes my breath away...!!!
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
Thomas Jefferson
Sure. I’ve made several comments that when others make reference to the amazing powers of the “light” that attracts others, it cracks me up. People are coming to this thread, and as you mentioned, they should know what to expect. It’s is rather amazing.
BREAKING NEWS!
eeevil conservative is about to actually start dating.....
yes-— first date in over 10 years....
shhhhhhhhhhhhhh
LOL!
Another Patrick Henry quote:
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Me ,Take me off.I have no idea what is going on.I love Jim and Freerepublic but all this glee and drama and tearing down of some people.I vote me.This is too sad..
Yay! May it be a good thing, too!
How funny! I was just going to search on your name, stranger.
But, hey, I don’t see this Breaking News in the sidebar...Huh?
:)
Hey eeec...;0)
The man maketh me to swoon....!!
VERY GOOD THING!!!!
I feel like I am 14!!!
LOL!
LOL!!
yeah— it’s a secret! LOL!
Based on your list, I think James Garfield was the only sitting Congressman ever elected President. Of the others on your list:
James Madison - was Jefferson’s Secretary of State before becoming President
Andrew Jackson - was also a Senator from Tennessee until 1825, and not in elective office when elected in 1828
William Henry Harrison - was also a Senator from Ohio until 1828, and not in elective office when elected in 1840
John Tyler - was William Henry Harrison’s Vice President
James Polk - was governor from Tennessee immediately before the election
Millard Fillmore - was Zachary Taylor’s Vice President
Franklin Pierce - was Senator from New Hampshire until 1842 and a lawyer before his election in 1852.
James Buchanan - was a Senator and Secretary of State in the Polk administration, and a lawyer in private practice immediately before his election in 1856.
Abraham Lincoln - unsuccessful Senate candidate in 1858 and a lawyer before his election in 1860
Andrew Johnson - was Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President
Rutherford Hayes - was governor of Ohio
William McKinley - was governor of Ohio before running for election
John F. Kennedy - was a sitting Senator
Lyndon Johnson - was John Kennedy’s Vice President
Richard Nixon - was Dwight Eisenhower’s Vice President and in private legal practice before his election
Gerald Ford - was Richard Nixon’s Vice President
George Bush - was Ronald Reagan’s Vice President
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