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?
Now, c'mon, THINK. Sound it out. I am TAXI VADER.
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Ugh.
That was my impression as well.
My impression is that most of those people are Libertarian, which as you know is not the same thing as Conservative. They see themselves (I gather) as the "children of the Enlightenment"; many are very liberal on social issues (gay rights, abortion, infanticide, "death with dignity," etc., etc.).
And of course, a big part of the conventional Enlightenment schtick is the denigration of God and religious experience as illusionary. They prefer the model of a "clockwork universe" that has no need of God. When you suggest to these people that the federal Constitution has roots in Judeo-Christianity, they absolutely, vociferously deny it.
Still, I miss a whole lot of those people: They were great fun to argue with.
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LOL!!
He’s the Nigel Barley of the new century doing some anthropological fieldwork.
Cheers,
Another Twit.
M: ...An argument isn't just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn't.
M: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.
A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
M: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'
A: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't! ...
The Argument Sketch
Of course it takes a lot of patience (though I don't always have it but admire those who do), knowledge and persistence to win over such voters. Nastiness is not a winning strategy. That is a no brainer.
There are times however, when firmness, strength and the passion of one convictions, however, do work. Such tactics, appropriately used, yield clarity and a sense of purpose.
I have to laugh though, when people, particularly in debates opposing conservatives (and I do not mean you), get all self righteous and make the point you made and yet are as nasty as they accuse conservatives of being. At least the conservatives are honest in admitting their meanspiritedness is a tactic they use strategically.
Some of the meanest posters on this and other boards hate Ann Coulter because they believe she is mean, and gives conservatives a bad name, when daily, month after month, year after year, they post comments which are far nastier than anything Ann has ever said or done.
I don’t do so well with potted plants. But if I plant it in the yard, it grows. I transplanted a weed I found growing up the side of the house. It’s now a beautiful shade tree in the front yard. I don’t know what it is. I call it the lady bug tree, because they gather in its bark in late Fall. Sometimes they completely cover the trunk.
I only feed the wildlife during bad weather, when it’s difficult for them to find food. We have enough fruit and nuts to keep them happy the rest of the time. I don’t mind them eating the blackberries, plums, walnuts, blueberries, etc. That’s what I have them for. I can buy better ones for us from the farmer down the road. And I grow enough stuff, they usually leave some for us.
Thank you for the prayers. They’ve been very helpful.
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By now, Fifi has probably had her FR account suspended and has moved to the other side of the tracks.
What can I say. Some taglines just write themselves.
It seems there are a lot of us who share your experience with the harpies. This fresh air is wonderful, isn’t it?
Perhaps you should have been less eager at the start of the thread?
Can I be Darth Bayb, with bagels on my ears?
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