Posted on 08/24/2007 8:14:12 AM PDT by teddyballgame
Ted Nugent threatens Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton during a performance- with machine guns in hand!
I’m not sure I ever expected Ted to get the Brady Bill thrown out by himself...he’s just one loud voice....about a 6 compared to a 10 level loud voice on the other side like say Rudy or O’Butthead.
He is unabsahed and loud. I don’t have a problem with it, some here do.
That’s their business I guess.
Only problem I ever had with Ted was that he has been a bit too Bushbot for me at times and he did not walk the talk when he cheated on his wife.
You know guys....we could do with a bit more “in the streets” marching and loudness about a lot of things...illegals....guns...abortion...taxes...race quota type crap
I’m all for it and let me tell ya....it does work...we stopped the income tax here in Nashville with it and I sure protested hard on the street against the left here...and got pics on this forum for it during 2000 and 2004.
Now some Miss Manners types here (not u) don’t like all that.....like I said fine but that ain’t me
I got no problem being loud about something I believe in
Yep, we all need to push back when and where we can.
God bless you Ozzy!
my sentiments exactly...folks get all upset about harsh words
how are they gonna ever handle wet work should it come to that?
geez
Actually, I think it’s quite humorous. Why should Libs care - it’s freedom of expression. If Streisand can do it, so can Ted. Rock on.
Since I don't attend Nugent concerts, I don't much care what he does there - except when it reflects poorly on conservatives. I then exercise my free speech rights to say he was acting like a raving lunatic.
Gentlemen, it worked in June of 2007. I can tell you that the silent majority appreciated it. I was quietly thanked several times for getting out with Old Glory and speaking up.
I have only just begun to speak up for liberty and the rule of law, both of which have suffered greatly as of late. I think people do not realize how much of it they've lost in the past 20 years. Today, I find it most, and I do mean most appropriate to mention that the Bill of Rights has come under severe attack, to the point that we must remind each other that it is all that stands between us and abject tyranny of the majority or of dictatorship.
In the Federalist Papers #81, Alexander Hamilton writes:
It has been several times truly remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgements of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the prince. Such was MAGNA CHARTA, obtained by the barons, sword in hand, from King John. Such were the subsequent confirmations of that charter by succeeding princes. Such was the Petition of Right assented to by Charles I., in the beginning of his reign. Such, also, was the Declaration of Right presented by the Lords and Commons to the Prince of Orange in 1688, and afterwards thrown into the form of an act of parliament called the Bill of Rights. It is evident, therefore, that, according to their primitive signification, they have no application to constitutions professedly founded upon the power of the people, and executed by their immediate representatives and servants. Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing; and as they retain every thing they have no need of particular reservations. "WE, THE PEOPLE of the United States, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Here is a better recognition of popular rights, than volumes of those aphorisms which make the principal figure in several of our State bills of rights, and which would sound much better in a treatise of ethics than in a constitution of government.Gentlemen, I argue that we should not have surrendered anything. We dare not surrender more. Our liberty today pales in comparison to that which our Founding Fathers provided the first citizens of this country. Shall we be accused of transmitting less freedom to our children than we enjoyed? We dare not.
Wardaddy, it's not a matter of wanting to speak up. Now we have no choice.
do you ever use the word bigot?
Say what?
I’ve never been to a Nugent concert either or any concert in about twenty years. Personally I don’t elevate him to being a spokesman for conservatives. I’ll leave that to the MSM, the DNC and you. As for his stage act I fully support his sentiments.
""WE, THE PEOPLE of the United States, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Here is a better recognition of popular rights, than volumes of those aphorisms which make the principal figure in several of our State bills of rights, and which would sound much better in a treatise of ethics than in a constitution of government."
This should raise eyebrows among those of you who feel that our liberties have been trampled and torn asunder by all branches of government, especially of late.
Hamilton is so radical as to suggest that some powers might be misinterpreted as not belonging to the people, were there to be a Bill of Rights. Think about it: the Bill of Rights, in his view, is a dangerous document because it cedes too much authority to government.
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted.How can we tolerate any arguments that dare to suggest that this or that Bill of Rights is inapplicable to citizens when clearly the Founding Fathers were uncomfortable with the notion that the Bill of Rights went far enough in securing our freedoms?
I am thinking specifically of the right to be secure in our homes, the right to bear arms, the right to Habeas Corpus, and the right to practice religion and speak and write freely.
We have allowed our government far too much power to usurp these rights. We only have ourselves to blame. The question is how to return the balance of government to its rightful, duly limited position? This issue crosses branch boundaries of legislative, executive, judicial estates. Further, it crosses city, county, state, and federal lines. All across this land, the people are restrained to a greater and greater extent. Freedom is slipping away to the point that the young do not remember how free we once were.
I cannot speak more seriously than this. It is time to begin telling each other that we have been wrong to ask so much of government. It is time to begin telling each other that government has approached leviathan proportions beyond which there may be no return. These I offer as serious warnings. All I can say is pass on these 200+ year-old writings to anyone who will read them and ask them: are we doing what they hoped we would? We all know the answer.
And today, we hear our politicians saying that the Bill of Rights does not always apply to all Americans. With clear-headed thinking, we should know that these are indeed serious words not to be ignored.
Oh, I get what he's saying alright. He was quite right. What a sharp and prescient mind to see this before it all came into play.
I cannot speak more seriously than this. It is time to begin telling each other that we have been wrong to ask so much of government.
I'm trying but I am no Hamilton.
And today, we hear our politicians saying that the Bill of Rights does not always apply to all Americans. With clear-headed thinking, we should know that these are indeed serious words not to be ignored.
It's all I can do to stay clear-headed when I hear such crap. The impulse to Nuge 'em rides my hemoglobin like O2 and fires my synapses like wildfire in a popcorn field. But educating the masses is the best way to kill the left. If they want a shooting war (and I think they do) let them fire first. The right is right it won't be defeated with ideas.
I worry about the left, of course. That goes almost without saying. But claiming to be 'conservative' while building bigger and bigger government, ceding more and more of the people's power, is just feeding the Leviathan. Another poster had this quote up not long ago:
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers — normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free — Americans who have been lulled away into a false security. (Ezra Taft Benson)
I guess I would say a lot of Republicans today are in essence leftists. Everything that promotes dependence on government is leftist in my mind.
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