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'A Long Train of Abuses'
American Thinker ^ | 7 Dec, 2022 | Paul E. Scates

Posted on 12/07/2022 4:37:40 AM PST by MtnClimber

We are now experiencing the inevitable results of giving power to men and women who don’t deserve it.

After over two centuries, the Declaration of Independence remains the most perfect instrument of human government ever devised by mankind. Its foundation (that our rights come from God, not men), its principles (that men only consent to be governed if their God-given rights and freedoms are protected by such government, and not diminished) are as applicable to our urban, post-modern technological society as they were in a rural, agrarian one.

But the Founders were prescient in their understanding of mankind. Ben Franklin’s warning to the woman who asked what kind of government had been created surmises their awareness of the tendencies of men: “A republic, madam… if you can keep it.” The Founders knew that government, not foreign powers, would be the biggest threat to the rights and freedoms of citizens.

So the Declaration states, “…whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these Ends, it the Right of the people to alter or abolish it.” They acknowledged man’s tendency to stick with the status quo, even in the face of assaults on their rights and freedoms: “…all Experience hath shown, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.” (Italics mine)

SNIP

We are now experiencing the inevitable results of giving power to men and women who don’t deserve it, who have never created anything, who have no character or principles except to further their own careers, and whose only “talents” reside in the ability to make speeches by which they attempt to mollify their constituents, while they wax increasingly bold in destroying the very things they were elected to protect.

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1 posted on 12/07/2022 4:37:40 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

How did we get this bunch of loons? It is like some contest to see who can say or do the craziest or the most disgusting things.


2 posted on 12/07/2022 4:37:52 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

We didn’t. They foisted themselves upon us through fraud and intimidation.


3 posted on 12/07/2022 4:44:55 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: MtnClimber

Thank the media that protects them and lies for them to the public. They are not on our side.

I’m old enough to remember Nixon and Watergate and my God, that was headline news seemingly forever, all the way until the early 1980s I remember still reading about it in the news.

Compare that to today, the FBI interfering in an election, Trump being spied on, the Russia collusion hoax and the attempted coup of Trump, virtually completely ignored.

What I am doing now is every time I read an article that defends an enemy of this country or an article that is complete BS, I hunt down the “journalist” on Facebook or Twitter - you would be amazed how many have accounts - and I confront them asking them to explain themselves. Most will not answer because they are cowards but some do and that usually devolves into name calling by them, but at least I’m keeping on the pressure.


4 posted on 12/07/2022 4:50:06 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: MtnClimber

Because GOD has given man over to a reprobate mind he, to do those things that are not convenient; (ROMANS 1:28, KJV). America is a fallen nation and the people elect people who tell them what they want to hear setting the stage for the NWO and the introduction of the Anti-Christ.


5 posted on 12/07/2022 4:50:18 AM PST by grcuster
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To: grcuster

And MAN has given government over to women, thinking he could escape the nagging…


6 posted on 12/07/2022 4:52:53 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

A bad and sad way of life is being planned and coming to America.

Too late to stop it because the damage is done. We are no longer are a sovereign country and America has become the leader of world wide tyranny and disruption.

The kids have been brainwashed and poorly educated. They will be willing slaves to just survive.

In America now, evil and lies win. The so called “leaders” make it so.

Sorry this sounds grim, but being in denial isn’t going to correct what has happened.


7 posted on 12/07/2022 5:00:25 AM PST by dforest (What are we sittin' around for? )
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To: MtnClimber

Mankind are more disposed than ever, to suffer. Prosperity and comfort are hard to set aside.

With apologies to Hamlet, convenience doth make cowards of us all.


8 posted on 12/07/2022 5:09:58 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Abuse of science. Whenever the left talks about science, they really are just pushing ideology. Science has become a tool of theirs.


9 posted on 12/07/2022 5:10:51 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: MtnClimber
<>"Americans must demand that the House of Representative and the Senate institute a new recall rule for malfeasance, dereliction of duty, betrayal of campaign promises, etc., so that the American people can rid itself, when need be, of these smug, lying, and traitorous “representatives” like Mitch McConnell and his ilk."<>

No one votes to reduce their power, We the People must do it.

How? Repeal the 17th Amendment so that the STATES control their own Senators reducing the value of out-of-state campaign donations.

While we are at would should put a tourniquet on the gushing wound of taxes by repealing the 16th Amendment (income tax).

Seriously, we tax people for going to work and call ourselves free, BS!

10 posted on 12/07/2022 5:16:46 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (When did my Color TV become Colored TV? And Gay?)
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<><>We are now experiencing the inevitable results of giving power to those who don’t deserve it,
<><>pols who have never created anything,
<><>pols who have no character or principles except to further their own careers,
<><>pols whose only “talents” reside in the ability to make speeches
<><>pols attempting to deceive and mollify their constituents,
<><>pols increasingly bold in destroying the very things they were elected to protect.


11 posted on 12/07/2022 5:23:22 AM PST by Liz (Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voice of the people is the voice of God)
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To: MtnClimber

And what exactly is the author proposing as a solution?? Did I miss that..??


12 posted on 12/07/2022 5:33:21 AM PST by oldguy1776
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To: dforest

Please remove your head from your rectum.

I believe it you will do a little homework you will find that

GOD WINS, satan looses!!!!

You can continue to believe as you do or you can summon up the courage to believe and have an unwavering belief that GOD wins and see what really happens in the end.


13 posted on 12/07/2022 5:40:17 AM PST by pcpa
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Now THAT is a very good idea...


14 posted on 12/07/2022 5:44:54 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: pcpa

Well gee, I know that. I didn’t mention that God wins in the end in this post. I know that he is our only hope but it can’t be associated as God saving America. Neither God or any politician will save us as a country, but God will save us as as a person if we trust in him.

Now please apologize because you responded exactly how I knew a few would. There is nothing in the Bible promising God will save America.


15 posted on 12/07/2022 5:58:28 AM PST by dforest (What are we sittin' around for? )
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To: MtnClimber

We got them a little bit at a time. What was extreme a generation ago is now accepted. It’s the frog in the pot of water.


16 posted on 12/07/2022 6:11:32 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: rarestia

This is what you get by voting for the lesser of two evils for 50 years.


17 posted on 12/07/2022 7:16:51 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Do share! It’s down to us versus the commies (them). Although I will not go on facebook or twitter, as a matter of principle!


18 posted on 12/07/2022 7:22:06 AM PST by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: pcpa

loses


19 posted on 12/07/2022 7:25:32 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules
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To: rarestia

We didn’t. They foisted themselves upon us through voter and election fraud for at least 20 years imho.

And Marxist infiltration of academia and civil service .


20 posted on 12/07/2022 8:01:00 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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