Posted on 06/17/2011 5:41:55 AM PDT by marktwain
But I'd become really comfortable with state Rep. Scott Perry, R-Dillsburg. He's not my legislator. I've never had a chance to vote for him. But he does represent fellow York countians, and I'd come to respect the way he thought.
I saw him as a hard worker. I saw him as a man with character. And I saw him as someone who had his priorities in order.
Oh, and one more thing -- I saw him as a solid patriot. He was a man who not only cared about Pennsylvania, but the United States, as well.
In case you have forgotten -- I haven't -- Perry served a one-year tour of duty in Iraq with the Pennsylvania National Guard a couple of years ago, while he was an elected legislator in the state General Assembly.
He continued to serve his constituents from Iraq, by computer and whatever other forms of communication he could manage, the best he could.
I admired that.
And I said so.
But now I'm wondering if some of the bricks in Perry's load haven't fallen off the wagon.
Because Perry said something a couple weeks ago that has brought me up short. I've spent two weeks pondering his comment, trying to figure out a way to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But the more I think about it, the more I hear or read Perry's explanation of what he really meant to say, the more second thoughts I'm having.
This is what Perry was reported as having said for a May 30 story in the Allentown Morning Call: "We must be able not only to hunt but to protect ourselves from an overbearing government that does not do the will of the people."
(Excerpt) Read more at yorkdispatch.com ...
Just because you don't think things are that bad yet does not mean that things aren't already far worse...
Dead Corpse: “Just because you don’t think things are that bad yet does not mean that things aren’t already far worse...”
Agreed, and just because you think things are that bad, doesn’t mean any significant number of Americans are ready to join you in armed revolt.
Midnight is 12 a.m. and noon is 12 p.m., unless you’re over the international date line in Asia somewhere. At least, that’s what my daughter told me when she was drinking in Asia somewhere.
Exactly and fruit mixing may commence at noon. Do you realize how many sober people there would be if everyone had to wait until midnight? For gentlemen such as myself that does not pose a problem because I refuse to mix ice with my CR.
Yes, I thought about that after posting – on the one hand he’s saying either we don’t have an oppressive government or don’t have to worry about it.
And on the other that he have no Hope against an oppressive government .. that doesn’t exist?
I think once that powder keg goes off, there won't be a shortage.
Don't worry though, you just sit back and keep thinking everything is just peachy.
Your right Mr. Hicks, not yet, just not yet. I defer to Ms. Wolfe. I'll ask her after November 9, 2012. And then Mr. Hicks, we might be voting from the roof tops...
5.56mm
And continue until noon the next day, if that's what it takes to cure one's ellipses. Some soda or ginger ale is useful, too: one doesn't wish to get dehydrated.
Ice in CR - unnngh.
I don’t plan on using my second amendment against an army anyway. I intend to use it against their journalist cheerleaders.
Sadly, I suppose I have to agree.
I agree - we are about 50 years too late.
Ike warned us.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these Ends (security of our unalienable rights), it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it. Check.
When a long train of abuses . . . evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty to throw off such Government. Check.
The History of the President, Barack Hussein Obama is a history of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. Check.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance . . . Check.
He has obstructed the administration of justice. Check.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. Check.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. (Officers of regulatory agencies pack heat. Just in case citizens gets uppity.) Check.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. (UN) Check.
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments; (State government subservient in all ways to national) Check.
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. (EPA, Dept of Education . . . )Check.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us. (Open door to illegals) Check.
The Declaration of Independence has become seditious literature to some.
My copy agrees with yours, sir. Irish coffee accompanied by cigars on the deck.
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