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?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825427/posts
Here's the Sunday talk show thread. Not much live going on right now; I hope things settle down soon.
Thank you--the voice of reason. You are so right.
It is a shame, what's happened here. A tragedy, actually.
Jim, I have a problem with large numbers of people from one religion - or from a narrow interpretation of one religion - legislating based on the tenets of that narrow religious interpretation. I do not think this is an inconsistant view with conservatism, if we’re looking at conservatism as meaning “to conserve.” First and foremost I think it is important to conserve freedom. Conserving freedom becomes an issue when lawmakers start using a narrow interpretation of one religion as the basis for legislation.
I am a admirer of Jefferson and an admirer of the Age of Reason, which is the true basis for the foundation of this country.
I stand by what I said, and I’m not about to engage in a food fight with you.
Believe what you will.
Because man, there is NO reason......it's just Freepers pissing off Freepers.......kind of my not so subtle point.....it's done, we're just hurting ourselves now...... I don't hate you, you don't hate me.......so......perhaps time to be quiet...(STFU).....;)
You’re still deluded. I was referencing the founder’s failure to apply “all men” to blacks.
bookmark (again, Yikes!)
“It’s a great place!
All its denizens are united by their love of Rudy. They have passion for a man, not for this country.”
That’s just NOT TRUE.
As I’ve posted numerous times, my views on abortion, gun control and gay marriage couldn’t BE more opposed to Rudy’s. If we could come up with a conservative candidate who’s actually electable in lieu of him, I’m all for it.
Where I part ways with most of the people here is that, given the choice between Rudy and Hillary, I’d vote for Rudy in a heartbeat - because there ARE some things about the guy that I like, whereas having Hillary in office would be a complete disaster.
Nor, with this viewpoint, have I ever felt less than welcome at that other board.
Thank you—I’ve noticed a major dropoff in pings, and I was on a boatload of pinglists. I could never keep up.
I think a lot of people have just stopped posting here.
it used to be that we had four full years in which to forget all about Dixville Notch, but they keep squeezing it.
Yes. It seems to be once continuous election cycle now. All trying to gain oneupmanship on that little village.
I'll see you around the primaries. Take care.
Maybe there'll be peace on FR then.
DG, with all due respect, you are being disingenious here.
When freepers started flocking to Duncan Hunter, you said that, given the front-loaded primary schedule, that someone had to be a contender sooner rather than later.
Now you're saying that no one is even voting this year.
You can't have it both ways.
Religious freedom is not something we should conserve?
I looked at the mission statement of WA. Nowhere do I see that it's a anti-Freeper site.
Why do you say that it is?
Wideawakes is first and foremost a Rudy rally. Everything else is secondary.
I’ll take and order of borscht over an ice pick any day.
If WA was started before this thread, then why would you call it an anti-Freeper site?
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