Are We, the People, the Enemy?

SierraTimes.com ^ | 7-13-2005 | Nancy Levant

[servingchrist]

What do you folks here think about this? Are We the People the enemy, are we still properly represented?

[Tench_Coxe]

"What do you folks here think about this? Are We the People the enemy, are we still properly represented?"

I am of the belief that we are nearing the end of that awkward period Clair Wolfe has written about. I don't like the thought of that, but there it is.

[Semper911]

Breaking news?

[SmithL]

Welcome to Free Republic. I think Nancy Levant has her tinfoil hat a little too tight.

[Revolting cat!]

[skimbell]

Bolton.

[dead]

I get responses that 1) don’t address any of the points I made in my letters, and 2) I am told in no uncertain terms why the Patriot Act, CAFTA, and other legislation will, in fact, be supported.

That's because, on most controversial issues, there's somebody writing letters to the congressmen expressing the complete opposite opinion of another letter writer.

It's impossible for a politician to do as every letter writer tells him to do. Obviously.

My Senators are Jon Corzine and the late Frank Lautenberg. How often do you think they've voted as I've told them I would like them to vote?

The trick is to try to get people who agree with you elected, which is sometimes successful. Or hand them shitloads of money, which is usually more effective.

[Revolting cat!]

[unixfox]

Breaking news?

It should be, EVERY SINGLE DAY until these so-called representatives start doing the will of the people instead of the will of themselves.

[dead]

Many bills are now written in preparation of what is clearly a coming Police State, which speaks volumes to the notion of pre-planned catastrophe and crisis.

The shit is really going to hit the fan on New Year's Eve 1999, when the computers get confused and chemical plants explode and the nukes are launched.

[GrandEagle]

We are not the enemy. We have failed to require that our representatives abide by their oath to protect and defend our Constitution.
We should have fired them anytime they stepped outside the Constitution - even if what they did we like.

The Republic of The United States of America is gone. We are so far from a Constitutionally functioning government that I don't think it is possible to recover. Most people have not even read the Constitution.
We presently live in a police state where for the time being the authorities allow us a large measure of freedom. That could change at the whim of any of our "elected" officials. As my parents grew up and for the most part when I grew up, we were free because "we the people" did not allow the government the power to prevent it.
It is much like living under a good king, we enjoy freedoms but we do so at the whim of the king.
The current crop of "leaders" have handed our enemies their victory on a silver platter. They simply need to attack every few years then sit back and watch us hemorrhage.
Like the writer, I too have written my representatives. They quit even responding about two years ago.
I fear that the only way to slow our demise is to simply swap them out. No matter who is in office vote them out - period, no exception.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

The shit is really going to hit the fan on New Year's Eve 1999, when the computers get confused and chemical plants explode and the nukes are launched.

You are sooooo funny!

I just checked your profile and found out that I've been a member here for four days longer than you. Look at what you've made of yourself here and look at me. You're an FR legend and I'm an FR nobody, lol.

[YOUGOTIT]

"What do you folks here think about this? Are We the People the enemy, are we still properly represented?"

We live in a representative Republic. Unlike what is taught in government schools that we live in a representative democracy. The people we elect take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, not to vote the way their constituents want them to. If we do not like the way they vote then we should not send them back to Washington. However, their primary oath and responsibility is to the country not to their constituents. I know of only one democracy and that was over 2,400 years ago in Athens. It did not work then and has never worked.

I agree that they have become wimps who do not support their oath of office (democrats want to establish a dicatatoprship for and destroy all who appose them) but there is no other government in this world that is as good. We enjoy freedoms that others only dream about. The people in the so called 1st world (EU and Canada) are really living in the 2nd and 3rd worlds and will never enjoy our standard of living or our freedoms.

If we want to change then elect people who will strictly enforce the Constitution. And they will appoint judges that enforce the Constitution and not make their own laws in direct violation of the supreme law the Constitution.

[dead]

I've been a member here for four days longer than you.

Us newbies rule.

Just write a lot of snide comments. That's why I do.

[diverteach]

NO! We are not represented. Greed has taken over Washington, and big business, special interest groups along with thier lobbyists are now the only people represented by our govt. We may still put them into office, or so it may seem. The MSM pulls most of the strings when it comes to getting the people in to power that they want and need to further thier agenda. Largely, in most part it's biased toward the liberals, and each one with thier own, sometimes seemingly insignificant contribution to furthering a socialist agenda which, in the end, includes a "New World Order".
I believe that while most people know that somethings just aren't right with the way our politicians run things, deep down, either they don't want to see and believe what is really going on or just can't admit to the truth that what should be impossible to do to our constitution and protection of our rights, is possible, and could very well be happening right under our noses and in your face.

[joesnuffy]

Tommy Thompson just joined the board of Digital Angel and got
himself 'chipped'...

The Future..It's all about people control now..

And social change through crisis management...War on Terror

Borders left open during a time of War on Terror..kind of a counter productive tactic...

Unless you need a crisis to mangage

imo

[sarasmom]

LOL!
It is still almost time for a degree of violence and bloodshed on CONUS that I ignorantly once thought we had averted with the destruction of the USSR as an enemy.
I am not looking forward to any of this crap at my age.
But only a fool does not see it coming, and sooner, rather than later.
You would think with current levels of human literacy rates, higher than ever before in all of human history, we could avoid repeating the past.
We are all doomed!
At least I know how to shoot, dress, and cook wild rabbits!

[GrandEagle]

Looked at your profile page.
Big mama wants in....I'm STILL laughing!
Thanks for the great cartoons!

FRegards,
GE

[digger48]

Are We, the People, the Enemy?

Hillary wouldn't be lying so much these days if SHE didn't think so.

[woofie]

I too am worried about 1999 but also about the population explosion which will hit the world in 1977