It's so confusing without it.
Unbeknownst to the liberals who think that they can figure this out, they will never figure out what the secret is because we get our inalienable rights from God.
Good point.
Wrong. This is only the recent manifestation of this part of our culture and society. Years ago I was one of many who mailed tea bags to Congressmen. The web was not a part then, but it happened none the less.
This is not to knock down Rick Santelli's input, but it existed before him. FACT.
Liberals LOVE the commie system of a “dear leader”. A distriduted network type model is an incomprehisible to them as the 3rd dimension to a flatlander.
Almost zero cost for a realtime communication network literally millions can partake of.
When Santelli spoke his famous Quote on CNBC I happened to be monitoring Twitter's Conservative hashtags (#TCOT and others)... you could literally see a digital tsunami building in those first few hours afterward.
The #TCOT monitoring page started lagging to the point it was almost an hour behind on updates and Twitter actually got overloaded not long after that.
But then once things settled down you could see the Conservative hashtag activity was up nearly triple and it was all about organizing Tea Parties all over America. And it stayed that way for months afterward...
“…the political establishment has found them so difficult to combat…”
Exactly what is the political establishment fighting? Uhmm, the citizenry voicing their opinions through no violent free speech without approval of the political class.
Such references imply that such a force stirs within individuals to bring about collective action. The idea underlying the America Declaration and Constitution was for self government, where the written Constitution would be in agreement with the unwritten constitution in the hearts and minds of the individuals in the society.
Inasmuch as the essential ideas of liberty are enduring ideas, appropriate for all individuals in all ages, as a means for attaining ordered liberty, could one imagine that Divine Providence still wishes the light of liberty to shine from America wherever there are hearts ready to rediscover and promote those ideas?
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it."
Justice Learned Hand
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
Abraham Lincoln
"We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
John Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
Patrick Henry
Good as far as it goes but doesn’t focus on the key point - the core common sense conservative principles that lie at the heart of all Tea Party members/groups. You don’t need to send an email or tweet to rally Tea Party members around an issue or candidate - as long as the principles - limited government, individual freedom, personal responsibility, lower taxes, and a strong national defense to name a few - are represented by a candidate or issue, Tea Party members will rally to support it.
The Dems and Libs are always about dividing into categories and then forming coalitions between groups that really don’t have anyting in common other than the misguided theory that government can solve their problem. Tea Party members on the other hand are one big coalition - of individuals who share the same core beliefs.
That’s why it exhibits emergent behavior...the Tea Party doesn’t need a list of talking points or loud caucuses to hash out what it believes in or what “nuance” to spin on any given issue. It just keeps collecting members and support from those who come to share the core beliefs.
It's so confusing without it.
A return to founding principles implies a quality the founders called "virtue" among the people, whereby the written constitution conformed to the unwritten constitution in the hearts of the citizens--individual faith, individual responsibility and accountability, individual hope, and individual charity. Such virtue did not allow for citizens, as groups, to band together to demand that their representatives in government do that which would be a crime, should they do it individually.
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Our Constitution embodied a UNIQUE IDEA. Nothing like it had ever been done before. The power of the idea was in the recognition that people's rights are granted directly by the Creator - not by the state - and that the people, then, and only then, grant rights to government. The concept is so simple, yet so very fundamental and far-reaching.
America's founders embraced a previously unheard-of political philosophy which held that people are "...endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights.." This was the statement of guiding principle for the new nation, and, as such, had to be translated into a concrete charter for government. The Constitution of The United States of America became that charter. Other forms of government, past and present, rely on the state as the grantor of human rights. America's founders, however, believed that a government made up of imperfect people exercising power over other people should possess limited powers. Through their Constitution, they wished to "secure the blessings of liberty" for themselves and for posterity by limiting the powers of government. Through it, they delegated to government only those rights they wanted it to have, holding to themselves all powers not delegated by the Constitution. They even provided the means for controlling those powers they had granted to government. This was the unique American idea. Many problems we face today result from a departure from this basic concept. Gradually, other "ideas" have influenced legislation which has reversed the roles and given government greater and greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of individual freedom and limited government and warned, over and over again, that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve that freedom for posterity. Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5 |
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This is an excellent article.
They cant attack this, because they cant personalize it and freeze it.
They are in an open field, and we are in the trees, shooting from all sides. Sort of like the ancient Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Only mostly without bloodshed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
Two great videos on this post - click here for the first one. Next WATCH THIS ONE ... it is short and on target
Click on the image of Obummer below or here.
“a copy of a printed Bible”
Ach so. Das is Gutenberg. Vieleich ist auch eine Gotterdamerung fur diesen Democratishe Manner.
Thanks for the ping/post; thread. Very good.
Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.