Posted on 06/29/2012 1:19:16 PM PDT by mojito
The Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling on Thursday cuts right to the very fabric of the relationship between a once-limited government and a once-free citizen, but the eternal struggle between liberty and tyranny endures. It is a beginning, not an end.
As enormously important as the high court’s Obamacare ruling is - and it’s huge - it’s not the final word. The legal and political dust has not yet settled, and it will take some time for the unpredictable ripples to form the powerful waves of history. Yet, history waits for no man, so we begin by asking: What now? First, we mourn. We mourn that a nation built on the principle of limited government has grown the largest government in the history of humankind. We mourn that our Supreme Court rewrote Obamacare into Obamatax to allow for the individual mandate. We mourn that once again we read the lips of a president who promised he would not raise our taxes but did so anyway. We mourn that Washington no longer rules with the consent of the governed.
But this mourning, as appropriate as it is, must be short-lived. This struggle for our liberty, this struggle to abide by the principles of our founding begins anew. We can no longer trust that Washington will save the great experiment of self-governance that is the United States of America. Just as it has always been, the fate of our republic rests in the hands of the voters.
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I used to think that the government was part of my country. Now I know that that government is an alien criminal enterprise bent on destroying my country.
Thank you for clarifying that for me, CJ Roberts. Thank you very much. And may you go straight to h@ll.
Don’t count on American voters fixing this. The entertainment addled, bread-and-circuses voters gave us Obama in the first place. They used to be a minority, but now a majority can be convinced that voting for socialism is a good thing.
May it be said, democrats, muslims, and communists, are not our countrymen, may their chains rest lightly upon them as they crouch at the feet of the master who feeds.
Nope.
This country does NOT have a political problem; but a spiritual one.
Politics will NOT 'fix' what's wrong with America.
If my people....
Then I will heal their land.
Since the government is lawless, there is no reason to believe elections will not also be lawless.
We shall see.
It is up to us.
The time is now.
The voters are how we got into this mess. I don’t trust them because there are too many idiots out there that want everything for free.
Goodbye you scum bag socialist!....November move a little faster!
We can begin to turn this around on November 6th.
Or else not.
It is up to us.
What do you propose instead?
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Yes. CJ Arnold did us a favor and this should be taken for what it is: a win. We finally have the SCOTUS confirm what so many of us have feared, the game is completely rigged. It’s an elaborate game of three card monte. If we want to win we’ll need to either change the rules or pick up our marbles and leave. Or both.
From a Bicentennial of the Constitution volume comes the following excerpt:
"It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
"The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?" Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant."
"Herein lies the answer to the question, "Will the Experiment Succeed?"
"It can and will succeed IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people" is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based." - (End of excerpt)
Romney and the Republican had better get on board quickly with providing voters a sharp and distinct set of IDEAS of LIBERTY, and how those ideas contrast with Obama and the Dem's COUNTERFEIT ideas of SLAVERY TO GOVERNMENT AND LOSS OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
The "jobs" argument is the one the Dems want, because it keeps attention off the underlying cause of job loss, which is loss of individual freedom under a cadre of power-hungry political hacks.
Very well said, Mojito. I’m about at the point where I might surrender my law license, because I can really no longer see any point in representing what passes for “law” now.
You've got it. This is the bedrock of Hitler's dominion. He first got his legislators to make law, got the highest courts to validate the law, then he could issue orders upholding the law which he wanted made.
An example (that applies here, inescapably): Untermenschen (subhumans) -- fit to be eliminated so as not to taint the Aryan gene pool.
Defined by law, judged by law, and terminated by law.
Philosophically, the Air Force sees Christianity a sublevel that taints pure intellect. Not allowed on base.
Charles Evans Hughes: The law is what we say it is. Same for Roberts. A sellout to power, not purity.
Finally a positive spin on John Roberts I can get behind. Thanks Mojito
BRAVO!!!! I love your post so much I’m going to copy it again here - it bears repeating!!!!! http://www.face.net/
Teach your children, your grandchildren, your neighbors, what liberty means and the spiritual foundation for liberty!!
Thanks. Dr. Wolf has said it well. A quick and decisive movement must result from yesterday to “enlighten the People,” as the Founders intended purpose for education was meant to do. Millions already understand that the freedom and light of liberty their ancestors left for the entire world are being destroyed, and yesterday provides both impetus and an opportunity for rectifying that wrong.
From a Bicentennial of the Constitution volume comes the following excerpt:
“It was John Adams who said: “The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people.” Clearly, the Founders’ passion was liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
“The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, “How long will the American republic endure?” Lowell replied: “As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant.”
“Herein lies the answer to the question, “Will the Experiment Succeed?”
“It can and will succeed IF the motivating “principle or passion in the minds of the people” is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based.” - (End of excerpt)
Romney and the Republican had better get on board quickly with providing voters a sharp and distinct set of IDEAS of LIBERTY, and how those ideas contrast with Obama and the Dem’s COUNTERFEIT ideas of SLAVERY TO GOVERNMENT AND LOSS OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
The “jobs” argument is the one the Dems want, because it keeps attention off the underlying cause of job loss, which is loss of individual freedom under a cadre of power-hungry political hacks.
The constitution is dead so there is no Republic anymore. The constitution is the agreement that brought the States together to make the USA. Both parties and all three branches of the government killed it. They have no more authority under the constitution.
So, we have no country anymore. We don’t have any legitimate National athorities which were established by the costitution. Anything we do in obedience to the illegimate government in DC is out of fear not out of moral authority or patriotism.
Everyone who swears an oath to the constitution is lying. There is no constitutional government to swear to. There is no Bill of Rights to protect. Swear an oath to the Congressional Black Caucus, porn stars, an oak tree or a Black dog or whatever you consider yourself in service to. It doesn’t matter, just don’t lie that you are serving our constitutional Republic.
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