Posted on 05/14/2017 1:05:55 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, the media have been in an uproar with conspiratorial claims that the Russia investigation was the cause. On CNN Sunday morning, serial plagiarist Fareed Zakaria kicked off his show by declaring that there was only one group that could defend America from Trump: The Media. “Donald Trump in much of his rhetoric and many of his actions poses a danger to American democracy,” he announced. “Our task is, quite simply, to keep alive the spirit of American democracy.”
He started off his opening monologue by claiming that “As regular viewers know, I have tried to evaluate Donald Trump's presidency fairly.” He complemented Trump on selected some capable people for “high office,” but followed that up with a dire warning. “But there has always been another aspect to this presidency lurking beneath the surface, sometimes erupting into full view as it did this week,” he added. “Donald Trump in much of his rhetoric and many of his actions poses a danger to American democracy.”
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The only enemy of the Republic I see here is CNN!
/eyeroll. Fareed? Seriosly.
The seditious media are a sworn enemy of the American Republic.
This is the Claude Taylor (”White House Director of Volunteers 1993-96”) and Louise Mensch (Crazy “conservative” who worked for Hillary/Podesta and wrote “ImWITHHER” campaign slogan) line EVERY TIME THEY POST TO TWITTER...
Which is approximately every 30 minutes....
Don’t we have a representative republic, not a democracy?
Oh, well, they wouldn’t understand......
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The bottom line is - he was wrong before the election when he said that Trump would lose and destroy the Republican Party. He's angry because his establishment, liberal agenda doesn't jive with Trump's agenda.
This rhetoric is dangerous - like it could lead to someone trying to harm Trump dangerous.
I honestly think the media wouldn't care. Remember when CNN got mad when Trump went out without them? Their rationale is that he might get shot and they would miss it.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The bottom line is - he was wrong before the election when he said that Trump would lose and destroy the Republican Party. He's angry because his establishment, liberal agenda doesn't jive with Trump's agenda.
This rhetoric is dangerous - like it could lead to someone trying to harm Trump dangerous.
I honestly think the media wouldn't care. Remember when CNN got mad when Trump went out without them? Their rationale is that he might get shot and they would miss it.
How is he a danger to Town Hall meetings?
And there it is. At the end of the day, boil it all away and you have the same stuff they have been lobbing at Trump since day one. They, the elites and our betters in the elite, do not think Trump is worthy of their world. When all the other Russian bs falls away, that is what is left as the only meat on the bones of the media’s argument.
My God, the media, a bunch idiots and fools that they are, really think they rule by right of having the loudest forum.
When civil war breaks out, one that they have advanced,
I hope that they are the first ones killed.
America has often been referred to as a “democracy”, but in reality it is a representative republic. But the ignorant sleeping masses don’t know that. So when this phrase is uttered by a JOURNALIST telling those masses that their President is actively engaging in treason against their government, that is dangerous. Because he is in fact not.
They are asking for violence. They are asking for civil war. They are asking for assassinations. They are asking for impeachments. They are asking for craziness.
All on unfounded lies pushed by the same journalists that utter these dangerous phrases.
I believe the left is going to do some crazy crazy violent things soon. Very soon. I don’t think it’s wise to underestimate them, or laugh at them when they post videos training with weapons, or talk about getting in shape to fight Trump. They’re preparing for civil war. Is the right? The average conservative in a sea of liberals? Are they ready for a rabid communist mob to come knocking? People need to be forming groups in their communities. Just in case the crazy goes down. Plans in case the left tries a pogrom.
These journalists are just crazy. They want this. They understand the power of their words. Blood in the streets is what they want. It won’t be north vs south. It will be neighbor vs neighbor. “That guy bob down the street that minds his own business is a right wing extremist! get him.”
This is what they are asking for.
Dude, it’s not dangerous. It’s absolutely irresponsible. It’s asking for violence against Trump and Trump supporters. It’s just short of asking for armed revolt, it is if you read between the lines. The worst part is that this guy has their ears and eyes. They cannot hear, they cannot see. They’ll follow people like this to murder.
I hear people all around me talking about how they hate Trump and conservatives, etc. It’s always an absolute. Never any evidence. I keep my mouth shut in a sea of liberals. Trust me when I say they want blood. I listen to them. I cannot defend or I would lose my job. So I listen quietly seething with anger.
Are there plenty of light poles where they are located? I have a bunch of extra rope in my shop.
I am currently stuck in a business hotel in Europe. There is CNN but no FOX on the TV. I caught a predictably anti-Trump tirade from David Frum (whoever he is).
Ugh.
From time to time , the question arises as to whether this Constitution structured a “democracy” or a “republic.” Freepers generally understand the difference, but on this Constitution Day, we might explore that question again—especially for the benefit of our youth.
What if we had an answer on the “democracy/republic” question from an original source who actually lived through the Revolutionary Period? What if that source also provided the Framers’ rationale for the underlying principle and the reason for Benjamin Franklin’s purported response to the question?
John Adams’ son, John Quincy, was 9 when the Declaration of Independence was written, 20 when the Constitution was framed, and from his teen years, served in various capacities in both the Legislative and Executive branches of the government, including as President. His words on this subject should be instructive on the subject at hand.
In 1839, JQA was invited by the New York Historical Society to deliver the “Jubilee” Address (www.lonang.com) honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Washington. He delivered that lengthy discourse which should be read by all who love liberty, for it traced the history of the development of the ideas underlying and the actions leading to the establishment of the Constitution which structured the United States government. His 50th-year summation seems to be a better source for understanding the kind of government the Founders formed than those of recent historians and politicians. He addresses the ideas of “democracy” and “republic” throughout, but here are some of his concluding remarks:
“Every change of a President of the United States, has exhibited some variety of policy from that of his predecessor. In more than one case, the change has extended to political and even to moral principle; but the policy of the country has been fashioned far more by the influences of public opinion, and the prevailing humors in the two Houses of Congress, than by the judgment, the will, or the principles of the President of the United States. The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor; or either House of Congress will effectually control his power. It is thus, and in no other sense that the Constitution of the United States is democratic - for the government of our country, instead of a Democracy the most simple, is the most complicated government on the face of the globe. From the immense extent of our territory, the difference of manners, habits, opinions, and above all, the clashing interests of the North, South, East, and West, public opinion formed by the combination of numerous aggregates, becomes itself a problem of compound arithmetic, which nothing but the result of the popular elections can solve.
“It has been my purpose, Fellow-Citizens, in this discourse to show:-
“1. That this Union was formed by a spontaneous movement of the people of thirteen English Colonies; all subjects of the King of Great Britain - bound to him in allegiance, and to the British empire as their country. That the first object of this Union,was united resistance against oppression, and to obtain from the government of their country redress of their wrongs.
“2. That failing in this object, their petitions having been spurned, and the oppressions of which they complained, aggravated beyond endurance, their Delegates in Congress, in their name and by their authority, issued the Declaration of Independence - proclaiming them to the world as one people, absolving them from their ties and oaths of allegiance to their king and country - renouncing that country; declared the UNITED Colonies, Independent States, and announcing that this ONE PEOPLE of thirteen united independent states, by that act, assumed among the powers of the earth, that separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitled them.
“3. That in justification of themselves for this act of transcendent power, they proclaimed the principles upon which they held all lawful government upon earth to be founded - which principles were, the natural, unalienable, imprescriptible rights of man, specifying among them, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - that the institution of government is to secure to men in society the possession of those rights: that the institution, dissolution, and reinstitution of government, belong exclusively to THE PEOPLE under a moral responsibility to the Supreme Ruler of the universe; and that all the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed.
“4. That under this proclamation of principles, the dissolution of allegiance to the British king, and the compatriot connection with the people of the British empire, were accomplished; and the one people of the United States of America, became one separate sovereign independent power, assuming an equal station among the nations of the earth.
“5. That this one people did not immediately institute a government for themselves. But instead of it, their delegates in Congress, by authority from their separate state legislatures, without voice or consultation of the people, instituted a mere confederacy.
“6. That this confederacy totally departed from the principles of the Declaration of independence, and substituted instead of the constituent power of the people, an assumed sovereignty of each separate state, as the source of all its authority.
“7. That as a primitive source of power, this separate state sovereignty,was not only a departure from the principles of the Declaration of Independence, but directly contrary to, and utterly incompatible with them.
“8. That the tree was made known by its fruits. That after five years wasted in its preparation, the confederation dragged out a miserable existence of eight years more, and expired like a candle in the socket, having brought the union itself to the verge of dissolution.
“9. That the Constitution of the United States was a return to the principles of the Declaration of independence, and the exclusive constituent power of the people. That it was the work of the ONE PEOPLE of the United States; and that those United States, though doubled in numbers, still constitute as a nation, but ONE PEOPLE.
“10. That this Constitution, making due allowance for the imperfections and errors incident to all human affairs, has under all the vicissitudes and changes of war and peace, been administered upon those same principles, during a career of fifty years.
“11. That its fruits have been, still making allowance for human imperfection, a more perfect union, established justice, domestic tranquility, provision for the common defence, promotion of the general welfare, and the enjoyment of the blessings of liberty by the constituent people, and their posterity to the present day.
“And now the future is all before us, and Providence our guide.”
In an earlier paragraph, he had stated:
“But this institution was republican, and even democratic. And here not to be misunderstood, I mean by democratic, a government, the administration of which must always be rendered comfortable to that predominating public opinion . . . and by republican I mean a government reposing, not upon the virtues or the powers of any one man - not upon that honor, which Montesquieu lays down as the fundamental principle of monarchy - far less upon that fear which he pronounces the basis of despotism; but upon that virtue which he, a noble of aristocratic peerage, and the subject of an absolute monarch, boldly proclaims as a fundamental principle of republican government. The Constitution of the United States was republican and democratic - but the experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived; and it was obvious that if virtue - the virtue of the people, was the foundation of republican government, the stability and duration of the government must depend upon the stability and duration of the virtue by which it is sustained.”
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And, finally, an Excerpt from the “Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon” (1886) (of Declaration of Independence) by a Black Ohio Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop Benjamin W. Arnett on “The Greatness of America” - Note that this Sermon is delivered only a few years after the end of the Civil War by this outstanding scholar/legislator/Bishop.
“Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our ‘several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.’ Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something.” - Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 “Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon” - Library of Congress - African-American Section
Note: The words, “Constitution Day,” should have been omitted from the above post, a post which had originally appeared on September 17.
Their three viewers were probably asleep.
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