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Iceland - Example for a new American Revolution
Washington Times ^
| 12/15/13
| Daniel Martin Gray
Posted on 12/19/2013 3:48:28 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
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posted on
12/19/2013 5:31:40 PM PST
by
Hostage
(Be Breitbart!)
To: 353FMG
All we need is to implement the process in article 5. Period.
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posted on
12/19/2013 5:33:04 PM PST
by
bigtoona
To: SoConPubbie
“But it was definitely an ordered process.”
Not so sure the brits at the time would agree. Nor even the Americans. It was quite a nasty revolution at times and the losers were summarily ejected.
History is written by the victors.
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posted on
12/19/2013 5:34:17 PM PST
by
RKBA Democrat
(Getting some small say in who will get to hold the whip doesn't make you any less a slave.)
To: ifinnegan
Unfortunately there is more than a little truth to what they’re saying. Neither big government nor crony corporatism is your friend. One hand iwashes the other.
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posted on
12/19/2013 5:38:36 PM PST
by
RKBA Democrat
(Getting some small say in who will get to hold the whip doesn't make you any less a slave.)
To: FreeReign
Never mind the fact that it's the federal government who has given itself power to control the banks and just about everything else in this formerly great country. You don't get how it works. Regulation benefits the big players, the guys who show up at treasury bond auctions having already obtained a list of concessions.
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posted on
12/19/2013 5:46:58 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
To: Libloather
We don’t need to rewrite our constitution though. We need to follow it.
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posted on
12/19/2013 5:56:18 PM PST
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: MeganC
Wow, “new history”, kind of like “new math”.
Anyone can play this game.
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posted on
12/19/2013 5:58:46 PM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: Farmer Dean
Good point and well said!
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:01:20 PM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: Farmer Dean
“At some point,real Americans will have to start dealing with the country’s internal domestic enemies in the same way we would deal with an invading army.That’s the cold truth,like it or not. “
There aren’t enough real Americans left. It’s as good as it’s going to get right now.
The public is hypnotized by 900 channels, politics has been reduced to a spectator sport of “My Team vs Your Team” and the burning issue today was about a reality TV show.
The general public drank the Kool Aid years ago. Now we’re just squabbling about how to arrange the deck chairs as the boat sinks.
To: Sequoyah101
A republic is an organized overthrow of the government every four years, within a set of guidelines.
Democracy by mob rule is more likely to yield Occupy Wall Street politics and lynch mobs.
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:19:21 PM PST
by
tbw2
To: SoConPubbie
Give me the process the founders followed.
If it is driven by mob rule, you will not like the outcome.
&&&
I second that.
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posted on
12/19/2013 6:26:51 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.--Is 40)
To: Libloather
Iceland is essentially a remote village where everyone is related. It is a homogeneous culture with little permanent immigration. The Iceland example simply could not be replicated in the US.
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:15:15 PM PST
by
oblomov
To: Libloather
What if they arrested, prosecuted and jailed the bankers whose actions caused the crisis, instead of rewarding them with fat paydays? What if their actions, entirely peaceful, restored liberty and fiscal sanity to their country? What did those evil bankers in Iceland do to cause the crisis? What laws did they break? How much time did they get?
Anyone have any specifics?
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:15:55 PM PST
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: Libloather
I think it was Iceland that when they couldn’t pay back the loans they let the banks who lent it at risk enjoy their risk rather than rob their population.
To: FreeReign
Never mind the fact that it's the federal government who has given itself power to control the banksAre you sure about who controls who?
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posted on
12/19/2013 7:50:06 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
To: Carry_Okie
You don't get how it works. Regulation benefits the big players, the guys who show up at treasury bond auctions having already obtained a list of concessions. Sure. John D Rockefeller was happier than a camel on Wednesday when Teddy Roosevelt and his cohorts in Congress showed up a hundred plus years ago.
To: FreeReign
John D Rockefeller was happier than a camel on Wednesday when Teddy Roosevelt and his cohorts in Congress showed up a hundred plus years ago. His thing was the income tax. Teddy was a creature of JP Morgan.
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posted on
12/19/2013 8:39:38 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
To: Libloather
“What if they arrested, prosecuted and jailed the bankers whose actions caused the crisis, instead of rewarding them with fat paydays? What if their actions, entirely peaceful, “
Arrest isn’t peaceful. Arrest is: submit to disablement (shackling, jailing) and subjugation, or we WILL perform escalating atrocities upon your person until you relent. Arrest is demand for total abject obedience in lieu of anything but “peace”.
If the bankers’ actions were lawful, then there are no grounds for prosecution. Ex post facto laws are abhorrent to the core of Western jurisprudence.
In light of the lead suggestion, and the nature of the possible outcomes, it might behoove the wealthy to arrange rescue services in advance should the rampaging horde get to the “jail” stage.
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posted on
12/19/2013 8:57:03 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: Libloather
Damn. I wanted fireworks, carnage, politicians hunted and hung in the town square. Oh well maybe next time.
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posted on
12/19/2013 9:33:03 PM PST
by
samadams2000
(Someone important make......The Call!)
To: MeganC
If the Founders were alive today they'd face 'extraordinary rendition' and they'd be sent to some CIA prison in Tajikistan where they'd never be heard from again. Their approach would not work so well these days.
Oh, I sincerely doubt that.
They faced off against the most powerful nation in the world with a rag-tag group of patriots and came up with the most intelligent political system this world has seen and fought a war and won against that self-same most powerful nation in the world.
I'd be willing to bet a full years salary that they were smart enough, wise enough, and actually led by our Lord enough to figure out a way to win in our current situation.
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posted on
12/20/2013 11:29:50 AM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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