Posted on 09/09/2013 8:56:22 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. (1) Thomas Jefferson
For more than a century, members of Washington DCs political ruling class have treated the American peoplethe true sovereigns of this nationlike subjects, useful only on Election Day and for the payment of unsustainable obligations. These self-anointed patricians have abused the authority of their office and of the Constitution while dramatically expanding the size of a government whose powers the Founders had sought to define, enumerate and constrain.
Unfortunately, our elected representatives discovered that as the power of government grows...
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How comes it to be that you never make comments?
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What seems to cause you to excerpt material from but a single source?
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The "Coach Is Right" website may not have all the answers, but they're big enough to be questionable.
The Founders fully expected the American people to rise up against any tyrant who would threaten their liberty. We have betrayed their faith and our posterity.
Will enough Americans one day remember who they truly are and what their Constitution guarantees? Will they undertake the necessary struggles to once again become the nations sovereigns?
No, they will not. So what do you propose now?
Criminals + government = oxymoron.
ANY government eventually becomes totally corrupted and totalitarian, without exception. The US was an experiment to see how long it could prevent the total corruption, and it took roughly 175~200 years. The founding fathers weren’t stupid, and I believe they KNEW it wouldn’t last. The big question is what comes next?
As far as I’m concerned, it’s all bets are off, anything goes, the most ruthless survive.
>The Founders fully expected the American people to rise up against any tyrant who would threaten their liberty.<
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Not to make any excuses for the Founders’ state of mind, but in their day and age it was rifle against rifle, sword against sword, and not semi-automatic rifle against motorized armor, helicopter and air power.
Seen any country lately whose citizenry has overturned a tyrannical government unless the military stepped in as was the case in Spain and Chile?
“Ah”, you say, “but what about the Arab Spring, where civilians threw out their tyrannical leaders?”
Who stepped in? Who else but Uncle Stupid and Uncle Nato.
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