Freepers, UP!

60Gunner

[ecomcon]

Double Bump!

[anniegetyourgun]

amen

[ChowChowFace]

Bump

[MissEdie]

Sounds like a plan, count me in!!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

there is no hope of changing the federal government as it now exists.

There most certainly is, but you have to break some laws to starve it into submission.

Meanwhile, we should all be avoiding govt welfare programs, the foremost and most destructive being the public education system, and...

While we still can, we should research civil disobedience online. Anarchist techniques. Rebellion. Doesn't have to be violent. Passive aggression is often much more stimulating.

Most of all, count on doing something harder than keyboarding. Get out of your comfort zone. Don't wait for trouble to come right up to your front door.

[NoGrayZone]

BTTT with a great big AMEN!

[freeangel]

Good guys bump

[KoRn]

Awesome!

Very well said!!

[BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL]

bump

Not too busy to fight against enemies both foreign and domestic.

Very well said. I'll indulge you in this type of encouragement anytime.

[mouse1]

I agree! Time to take back our Country, if not for ourselves, for our children and grandchildren.

[DTogo]

With all due respect, the Founding Fathers did not

"Join the PTA. Run for local political office. And encourage other conservatives to do the same. Join with other conservatives and put pressure on local governments to do the right thing. Bang on desks. Call offices. Write emails. Do whatever it takes. And keep doing it until somebody listens and fixes the problem."

That "somebody" was them. THEY fixed the problem. THEY put it all on the line by leaving their day jobs, farms, homes, and families behind to take up arms against distant, elitist rulers who viewed them as "subjects" and not equals. (sound familiar?)

"We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Are any among us ready to do the same, to actually deserve the fruits of the Founding Fathers' blood and treasure?

[60Gunner]

You articulated that point far better than I did, and I thank you for that!

[Milhous]

Former Walmart Vice Chairman Don Soderquist offers some valuable insights that also apply to political organizations.

John Gardner ... says: "Values always decay over time. Societies that keep their values alive do so not by escaping the process of decay, but by the powerful processes of regeneration."

When I first read this statement, I didn't like the way it sounded. In fact, I took it personally. You mean that in Wal-Mart we can't keep our focus on what made us successful in the past? Wait a second-why do values have to decay? I don't understand that. I don't agree with that. But then it hit me. Look at our own culture in America. I think a serious decay of shared values has occurred over the past quarter of a century, a process that seems to have accelerated in the last ten to fifteen years. There no longer seems to be common ground on what is right and what is wrong. Absolutes have become blurred at best.

Why? Why would values decay over time? I think several things threaten a value system. In America, perhaps the single biggest issue is our own success. We are part of the most prosperous generation and society in history. Prosperity leads to materialism, which leads to a strong desire to get more for ourselves-selfishness. Our selfishness causes us get so wrapped up in our own needs, wants, and issues that we forget about others. Tragically, when we forget about others, we often drift away from our core values.

In the same sense, I think that in the corporate world, success can tempt us to think that we accomplished great things primarily on the basis of our own personal talent and brilliance. The value system that brought us to a point of success is no longer relevant or important. In recent years, we have seen too many corporations, which seemingly had a sound set of values in the past, somehow lose their way. Corporate prosperity has caused us to forget to renew our values. The temptation is to let prosperity erode both personal and corporate values, and this is why I agree wholeheartedly with the cliche: "The only thing more dangerous than failure is success." Too easily, we become self-satisfied, self-reliant, and arrogant.

Gardner also states, "Each generation must rediscover the living elements of its own tradition and adapt them to present realities. To assist in that process of rediscovery is one of the tasks of leadership." And many in executive offices and boardrooms have overlooked this task. We've got to help people rediscover sound values in our own organizations and in our society.

[DTogo]

You’re most welcome. You make good points and suggestions, it is just my humble opinion that the time for those has long expired.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

They actually did a whole lot of that type of stuff in the years leading up to the revolution...the 1760s and first half of the 1770s are full of a smaller handful of people getting very involved locally. Being in a position of influence in their communities, educating people so when the crisis hit, people were willing to follow them.

The Revolution didn’t happen in a vacuum - it wasn’t a case that one day, people woke up po’ed at the British government and decided to take the next step. If it hadn’t been for the local activists who did this sort of stuff, there wouldn’t have been the shot heard round the world....

[deks]

I appreciate your positive plan and your prayer...it is definitely more productive than anger and despair.

Although I always voted, I was not an activist when I came to Free Republic, but slowly started to get involved with actions that seemed to help.

Like giving to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that I heard about here at FR. I think they raised over $20 million from small donations like mine, and they made a real difference with their media presentations about John Kerry. And they persevered and adapted after their first press conferences were ignored by the mainstream media.

Now, there is a conservative who is running for Attorney General in my state. There must be something I can do to help him that would fit in my schedule.

Thank you for the encouragement. I really like this kind of positive posting.

[odin2008]

I agree with you. Teach your children how to handle a gun. Teach them to respect it. Teach them or have them enter martial arts classes, no more victim-hood.Children submit to bullying because they feel powerless. Teach them to respect themselves first,then others will follow. Make sure they know the power of a good education, In the book of war, it's quoted, The excellent warrior is an excellent scholar..