A Sobering Thought and Hope for the Future

My Brother | October 3, 2001 | Brian Shul

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Thanks so much for the ping, Ed. What an extraordinary article. Just listed it as my first-ever bookmark. I'll repost it on a Dem site and send you a link. Very best regards, By.

[Dec31,1999]

Thanks for the ping. Here's a bump!

[E.G.C.]

Thanks for the bump and the article.

[Eustace]

I believe we need to put God back above man.

I believe we need to stand up as a Christian nation and not accept the paganism supported by this government.

Jesus gave us free will and it's up to us to use it, not up to Him to use it for us. We are going to be graded on this test.

What I'm saying is no easy task, it means being different. It means voting for change and not just so the other guy doesn't win.

There are many people running for offices that would support our Constitution. Our Constitution defines our God given Rights and provides protection for them. It is a timeless document and not outdated as our government would want You to believe.

Hold our politicians accountable for their actions, don't make excuses for them, they are supposed to be America's best. Expect that of them.

Then we need to get the government out of our schools and churches.

Incorporation goes back to before 400BC in Greece. Caesar made good use of incorporation, as did England and now America. Incorporating gives the federal government economic control over your church and school, holding the threat of losing your tax exempt status or federal funding. Churches are TAX FREE but foolishly accept tax exemption from the government putting man above God and silencing His Word.

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Our problems can be easily solved with common sense and education. We DO NOT need a world body to think for us.

Peace

[Eustace]

"None are so foolish as those who choose to remain blind."

[Eustace]

I said before the election that putting bush in the White House would be the same as putting satan there.

I still stand by what I said, so I Thank You.

Peace

[Fiddlstix]

captnorb: Great Post!
editor-surveyor: Thanks for the Ping

[GretchenEE]

You've probably had this answered by now but I haven't read through all the replies.

The "Bookmark Article" link appears right below the article and right before the first reply, just to the right of the "Report Abuse" link.

[GretchenEE]

Do you have access to a source link or other source info, and at what event he spoke, and to whom? This is such a wonderful speech that I would like to pass it around, but there are so many Internet legends these days that I always like to quote the source when I Email things (and by doing so I have trained my friends to expect it, so if I don't include a source, they write back and ask for it).

[GretchenEE]

I pity the person who thinks they are going to remove this flag from my lapel. This flag of ours is the symbol of all that is good about this country. America is an idea. It is an idea lived, and fought for, by a people. We are America, and this is our symbol. We are imperfect in many ways, but we continue to strive toward the ideal our forefathers laid down for us over 225 years ago.

I watched Freedom Now [Civil War Later] about the road to independence for India and Africa between 1947 and about 1975. It struck me how different those nations' struggles and successes were and are, after gaining independence, compared to the United States. The main reason, in my opinion, is that our country had a rather more common than not belief in Christ as Redeemer among so many colonists who fought and who helped strike out for freedom and form the new government. Also, the American Founders had studied government and worked at length to establish a sensible, non-royal self-government. India and Africa were largely unprepared to wield the power that comes at the top of a self-governing nation, and what we would call "the bad guys" rushed in to fill the vacuum.

I love our flag beyond words, and most of all, I love the red stripes, for to me they symbolize the blood of every human being who was injured or died fighting to make this country what it is, a bastion of freedom and a hope for the whole world.

[facedown]

Yeah, but it doesn't work - at least for me.

[gwmoore]

Thanks for the ping, Tonk, this one left a lump in my throat. It WILL be sent out today as emails to the media. This speech, if nothing else is heard from the media, should be heard by every man, woman and child in the US.

Keep the Faith for Freedom

MAY GOD BLESS AND PROTECT THIS HONORABLE REPUBLIC

Greg

[Landru]

Brian?
That's one hell of a brother you have there.
One hell of a patriot, & man, at that.

....you didn't need me to tell ya that much, either; but, I have anyway.

[Valin]

Morning bump

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If I were the regents or alumni of certain large universities in this country, I would be embarrassed to be producing students of such ignorance and naive notions. Like mindless sheep, they march with painted faces and trite sayings on signs, blissfully ignorant of the world they live in, and the system that protects them, hoping maybe to make the evening news. Perhaps if they had spent more time in class they would have learned that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. They might have learned that all it takes for evil to succeed in the world, is for good people to stand by and do nothing. If they had simply gone back in history as recently as the Viet Nam War, they would have learned that an enemy that knows it can never defeat us militarily, will persist as long as there is dissension and disruption in our land. Their ignorance can be understood, as their young empty minds have been filled with the rewritten history tripe that tenured leftist professors can spew out with no fear of removal. But the unwitting aid they provide the enemy, in disrupting the national resolve, is unforgivable.

Jane Fonda did not matter. The broadcasting of the images of Jane Fonda providing comfort to the enemy is what mattered. You will say that I advocate censorship of the news. I say that, if you don't have a broadcast license, everything that you want to broadcast is censored already. Nothing could be more obvious, than that any fear of censorship of broadcasting is a chimera--broadcasting is heavily regulated and the government is responsible for what is broadcast.

You may say, "but surely broadcasting the news is important to our democracy"--but I reply that our republic is specifically designed not to require it.

You may say, "but broadcast journalism tells us pretty much the same things that print journalism does, only faster. What's wrong with that?" I reply, that begging the question by journalists does not make journalism identically equal and coextensive with "the press" as the First Amendment uses the term. Freedom of the press unambiguously applies to book publishing, and most print journalists do not have broadcast licenses and are therefore censored out of that medium. "Freedom of the press" exists; "Freedom of the wireless transmitter" does not.

You may say, "but broadcasting as we know it would not exist if there were no government-mandated broadcast bands." And I say, "Exactly!" What does it mean, when the people prefer to learn current events not by reading between the lines of in-principle-distrusted printers but by purchasing government-standardized tuners and receiving government-sanctioned "truth" (including misleading information about the results of elections still actually in process)?

Can we seriously think that that is not a governmental evasion of the "Congress shall make no law" limitation on government control of communication? After all, "freedom of the press" does not mean "free attention from the public;" government-sanctioned oligopoly broadcasters have powerful publicity advantages over the unlicensed "great unwashed". That is a situation which the First Amendment aimed to, and did, preclude--until the advent of the FCC.

Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate.

[headsonpikes]

Rebump.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks! I have had several people inform me of John Robinson's bookmark capability!

I suffer from typical male syndrome. Why read directions when I have a wife and other women to do it for me!

[captnorb]

Hi. I will try to determine which rally he was speaking to. I'll post the name of the event

[GretchenEE]

Try bookmarking this URL, it's the FR Bookmark Link: http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/add-link