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To: Jacksonian Grouch

Good post. I agree. I believe it would take at least 5 million armed citizens to march on the Capital buildings meaning business and throw ALL of these creeps out. All of them. It wouldn’t be bad to be backed by your military too.

If the wait is too long, this devil will have built his own better funded and armed army of brown shirts and there will be no way to save America. Maybe nobody ever thought they would see the day but the day has arrived and the time to act is right now!! CO


6,234 posted on 08/04/2009 11:56:21 AM PDT by Canadian Outrage (Conservatism is to a country what an antibiotic is to an infection - Healing!!!!)
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To: Canadian Outrage
Much as I would love to say that a peaceful takeover would be possible, I must reluctantly agree with you, it may very well take citizens putting flesh'n'blood onto Jefferson's "Tree of Liberty" quote.

And Jefferson said so, so much more in that letter, notably labeled the "tree of liberty" letter. Here's more of what he wrote below. The common truncation is found towards the end of the quote:

"...Wonderful is the effect of impudent & persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers (my comment: Jefferson also had to contend with the "main stream media" lies of his day) to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.

Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness.

God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state.

What country before ever existed a century & a half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure.

Gazeteers, he called them in his day. MSM is what they are now. As for being labeled "in anarchy"... is that anywhere near as certain a dismissal as when Americans seeking proof of Constitutional eligibility are laughed off as "birthers" on one hand, then labeled "dangerous thugs ready for violence" on the other? Jefferson may have written these words two centuries ago... yet they speak to us today.

Jefferson's Tree Beckons...

JG

6,269 posted on 08/04/2009 12:44:06 PM PDT by Jacksonian Grouch (God has granted us Freedom; we owe Him our courage in return)
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To: Canadian Outrage

This time the Patriots and the Loyalists will be on the same side fighting together for our country...

:)


6,294 posted on 08/04/2009 1:50:52 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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