Posted on 07/04/2019 4:57:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
On this our Constitutional Republic’s 243rd Birthday, let us consider what our Founding Fathers said about where the destructive and misguided progressives are leading us over the abyss of allowing our nation to fail.
George Washington, the successful General-in-Chief who lead our Army to eventual but not pre-ordained victory over Britain, and our twice unanimously elected president said this about our freedom of speech that is being abused by the left:
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
If the progressives have their way, and they are gaining momentum on this issue, the Republic is doomed. Of our liberal infested universities, not only denying freedom of speech, but actively conspiring to limit the teaching of history and civics, the very basis of an informed voting electorate. I fought for four years in combat for our nation to facilitate and instill the rule of law in two nations, Iraq and Afghanistan. But back home, our “institutions of higher learning” actively work to create robots who support the destruction of our rule of law. Just look at what Hillary, the DNC, Obama and the cabal in Obama’s law enforcement and intelligence communities did in 2016.
This lawlessness is a crisis. Blue states ignore our immigration laws, with state governors, mayors and city councils actively violating federal law regarding criminal illegal aliens. Then they add salt to the wound by legislating millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to provide medical care for criminals while homeless veterans and law-abiding Americans do without care. Of this, the brilliant Thomas Paine wrote:
“But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Of our ever-growing reliance on ever-increasing and more costly federal and state governments, Paine wrote:
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote our Declaration of Independence, added this warning:
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced along general bodies of magistracy, as that on one could transcend their legal limits without being effectively checked and restrained by others.” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
The Founders strongly believed that American citizens’ right to keep and bear arms, “…shall not be infringed.” They would have been aghast at how the Second Amendment has been repeated and continuously violated. Look at where I live, California, where I must now get a background check to buy ammunition. Do criminals? Of course not. This undercuts our Founder’s vision of a free people:
“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” – George Washington
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms…What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.” – George Mason, Virginia Convention to Ratify the U.S. Constitution, 1788
Benjamin Franklin, that sage so instrumental in our Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution, said it best:
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." –Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
The future of our Republic is in grave danger from the deranged ideas and initiatives, of the left. Too much of their insanity has found its way into our governance…just ask a New Yorker or Californian. On this great day, we should again consider the waring of Ben Franklin. As he left the final session of the Constitutional Convention in the fall of 1887, he was stopped and asked by a group of Philadelphia citizens: “Dr. Franklin, what form of government have you given us?” Franklin smiled and said: “A Republic...if you can keep it!”
Happy Fourth of July.
Major Andre was a British officer. he was hanged as a spy after being captured out of uniform after communicating with Arnold.
Tom Jefferson would be mad that we only had ONE Civil war. We are long overdue..
They would have hanged him, but he slipped away. Arnold switched sides, fought for the British, and fled to England after the war.
His life in England was a series of miserable failures, until he croaked in 1795.
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Correct. Major Andre got the shaft on that one. And not one British officer wanted to mingle with Arnold because he was a traitor. If he did this to his own mother country, why would they trust him?
Also: “Where ARE all the men, anyhow? All we see are a bunch of pussies!”
Let us remember than in the Revolutionary War one in three American colonials was pro-British. In America there have always been near-sighted opponents of the good and the Godly.
Where are all the men? you ask. They are running like hell to keep their distance from a generation of American harpies.
They would encourage us to continue fighting.
Overall, I think they would be pleased that the Republic has endured for 243 years.
They would say, “We tried to warn you.”
Folks, we have to get back to church, and root out those who do not want to be a part of this nation.
I’d gift them $250k a piece to renounce their citizenship and right to ever come back.
Just LEAVE...
James Madison was vehemently against any kind of term limits. I suppose if he were around these days he would reconsider it.
“all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
“Why aren’t you men shooting yet?”
Good question!
thats why he hated John Adams for being a wuss..
They would be saddened by our banishment of Almighty God from our national life.
Because:
“For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?”
― Benjamin Franklin
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