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Posted on 07/07/2013 4:15:52 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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The Constitution was created to stop that from happening. It represents a shield against tyranny, but all documents are in the end only words and paper. It is only people who can preserve and realize them. There is no magic in paper and parchment, nor in ink alone. It is living men and women who are the stewards of their heritage, living Constitutions and flags, blood not ink, skin not parchment, who give it potency, who can keep its ideals, so that it does not become only a symbol enshrined in a glass case. Because only a nation of living Constitutions can be free.
Or, as any gov educated twit is fond of saying, "blah, blah, blah...."
This is a call to revolution. It will be heeded or we will cease to exist as a free people in a free nation.
We are not uncomfortable enough. And by the time we are, it will be far too late.
“The greatest threat to tyranny is a people who refuse to give up their rights, or to let those in power rewrite the laws to suit themselves. The political and cultural elites will always attempt to do this, undermining the system as it is, in order to gain power, loot and pillage everything under the control of that system, and then preside over its decline.
The Constitution was created to stop that from happening. It represents a shield against tyranny, but all documents are in the end only words and paper. It is only people who can preserve and realize them. There is no magic in paper and parchment, nor in ink alone. It is living men and women who are the stewards of their heritage, living Constitutions and flags, blood not ink, skin not parchment, who give it potency, who can keep its ideals, so that it does not become only a symbol enshrined in a glass case. Because only a nation of living Constitutions can be free.”
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A ‘Patrick Henry Call’ for action.
It is a call to first use the peaceful means the Framers gave us to affect reform.
The first necessary reform is to make the national government federal once again. That means repeal of the 17th amendment, return the States to the Senate and restore vertical separation of powers.
It is a call to first use the peaceful means the Framers gave us to affect reform.
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It is how you choose to read his closing remarks. I agree with first attempting peaceful means, but Greenfield is asking for more.
“It is living men and women who are the stewards of their heritage, living Constitutions and flags, blood not ink, skin not parchment, who give it potency, who can keep its ideals, so that it does not become only a symbol enshrined in a glass case.”
> Rights only exist so long as those in authority are prevented from rewriting the laws to give themselves absolute power. But political and cultural elites habitually attempt to rewrite the laws, sometimes with the best of intentions, sometimes with the worst, but whatever their purpose, the new laws eventually promote centralization and eliminate rights.
Bingo. On the money and this is our current delimma...
Greenfield is sounding a bit like Thomas Paine in this article and thats a very good thing. Two thumbs up on this one...
If another man has first dibs on your labor, you are a slave to that man.
One cannot be free and slave simultaneously.
So much here.
Why aren’t more people really angry? What was the “final straw” that brought millions of people out into the streets of Egypt, and what is our “final straw” that will bring us out?
Tell me the structure of the new government you have in mind.
I'd wager that not five in a hundred Americans know what we've lost.
Depressing and inspiring at the same time, as so much of Greenfield’s writing is.
47% pay no income tax and many of those live a life of subsidized existence drawn from the 53% that do. What do they have to be angry about?
That dynamic is about to change, however. Obamacare and Amnesty will impact everyone across the income spectrum. Rebellion is brewing.
An actual adherence to what the Founders laid out for us.
Restore the original settings, if you will.
You got that right. Thou shalt not steal & Thou shalt not covet with a good dose of personal shame need to be restored to individual behavior if our Nation is to survive.
10s of millions of people took to the streets of Cairo because their lives are miserable and will get even worse if Barry Soetoro aka BHO & Morsi/Saudi Arabia/Muslime Brotherhood have their way.
I am so surprised that are not mass protests in the streets of America with all the travesties hitting all of us. Why is that? Bill & Bernadine, why aren’t you leading protests in America rather than Gaza? You really dig this, don’t you?
I for one don’t know what to do besides going Galt.
When the middle class and small businesses are destroyed and EBTs go to zero balance as a result, Obama will get his full up fundamental transformation.
Yup - and it’s happening a lot faster than anyone could have imagined - destruction of Productive America, that is.
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