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.
We are now the longest-still-surviving government on earth...
We are now the wealthiest nation on earth...
We are now the most powerful nation ever...
We are now the 4th largest and 3rd most populous nation on earth...
We are by far the most inventive and innovative nation on earth...
We are by far the most generous and helpful nation in world history...
We are the world's first major power ever to have never conquered or colonized a neighbor after becoming the most powerful...
We are the beacon of hope and freedom and human rights for the planet, and have been for 200 years...
We have failed them in many ways, but their creation remains really amazing, and is (for the time being) surviving yet another great challenge to its existence... this one being internal again.
Arnold made a fatal mistake, all he wanted was some recognition. He was a true patriotic bulldog in the beginning, for a small man he took on quite a bit of almost unbelievable tasks to prove himself
He would have been stunned at even what his church (Methodist) has become.
The hero of Saratoga.
Canada. The Brits gave him land there.Big chunk of what is now Toronto . . .
They would realize what a big mistake slavery was and wished that the slaves had been freed and repatriated to Africa.
They’d probably like about half of us. The other half they’d be disgusted by.
What would they think....??
Well, there’d be a lot of corpses for sure...
What would our Founding Fathers think of America today ? Charlton Heston put it best...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuM3DjvYf0
Our Founding Fathers would be executing those guilty of the coup attempt on Our Donald. And, that would include the enablers in the MSM.
*Make English the official language of the USA.
*Assassinate John Wilkes Booth’s ancestors.
*Assassinate the Kennedy’s ancestors.
I could go on...
And yes, they’d be a lot of corpses.
Exterminate all of the Commies with extreme prejudice!! Make the streets run red!!
That’s it!!!!!!
Anyone else rooting for the Netherlands to win tomorrow?
I’m beyond sick of seeing or hearing that purple haired dykey lookkng Rapinoe thing.
I wouldn’t go that far but this nasty dyke “representing” our country makes it hard.
Yes those unpatriotic dykes sicken me. They can go to hell. They deserve a little bit of their own treatment. Let’s rub it in if they lose.
You Yankee!
The Netherlands can’t win by enough.
Amen, brother!!!
Not even North Korea could send a more anti-American “team” than this group of angry Stalinist bulldyke Sodomites.
Luck appears to be on their side. 0-0 at the half, US had several chances.
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