Posted on 08/06/2010 11:25:18 AM PDT by Tribune7
The National Boy Scout Jamboree ended, Wednesday, and President Obama broke a quasi-tradition by declining to address the Scouts.
The quadrennial event has been held at Fort A.P. Hill near Washington D.C. since 1981. This year's event celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the organization.
In lieu of an appearance at the 10-day-long Jamboree, Obama appeared on the View, attended several Democrat fundraisers and visited Detroit.
He did send a short videotaped message which reportedly was shown in a mix of several other presentations. When the president appeared he was roundly booed by the 35,000 Scouts, one man who was there said.
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I just got the email today from Ruger announcing this 100 year anniversary model. A great little gun. I got five skunks from about fifty yards recently.
you got freep mail
Congratulations. My son turns 16 next spring and is a Life Scout. Next year he should earn his Eagle. I agree with you -- seems like just last week he was a Tiger Cub.
Thank you for your eye witness account.
I think the contrast between the response to the “0” remarks and what followed says it all.
When Neal Armstrong set foot on the moon we made the mountains RING!
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Is a Scout taught to discern what evil is and reject it? Or his he supposed to be blindly obedient to those who are the law givers no matter how evil they may be or the rules/laws/agenda they promote? As far as I am concerned these Boy Scouts did the right thing. That Impostor-In-Chief is nothing but criminal bent on destroying this company and you stand by and say that the Boy Scouts should respect that. That’s your opinion but I will respectfully disagree. That turd deserves tomatoes, rocks, and jail time. Put that idiot in a stocks and let the vegetable throwing begin.
Read the following and tell me what you think.
http://www.globalpolitician.com/22276-nigeria
This Leviathan, which is the government, has the ontological duty of protecting our interests, and guaranteeing our welfare. The consideration we paid individually and collectively is the surrender of our individual powers to self-protection, to this Leviathan. To that effect, we deserve the guarantee of our rights to life, property and pursuit of happiness, because we have paid for it. So no government has the right to renege on this contract, and expect to feed on a meal of our silence. This why as Thomas Jefferson once wrote: Disobedience to tyranny is obedience to God. Any society that wallows in timid silence, while the maid of liberty to be lulled to sleep by corrupt power, risks ratifying the embezzlement of its commonweal and posterity.
http://www.meetup.com/WeSurroundThemGathering/messages/boards/thread/8348251
Take a few moments and ponder on these historical words of Patrick Henry: “They tell us, Sir, that we are weak - unable to cope with such a formidable ADVERSARY. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week, or next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed ….Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying spinelessly on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? . . .Sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just GOD who presides over the destinies of nations . . . The battle, Sir, it’s not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave . . . There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! . . .Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! - But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! . . . Why stand we here Idle? What is it that Gentleman wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, ALMIGHTY GOD! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!”
Bishop R.A. Brown said, “Freedom can only be won . . . the warfare is continuous and each generation comes to the front to fight for it as though the battle had just been joined.”
Thomas Jefferson declared, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects something it cannot be . . . This country with its Constitution belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they grow weary of the existing form of government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it . . . The tree of liberty must be from time to time watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants . .
The men who fought the Revolutionary War for our freedom and independence were considered by the King of England to be violent revolutionaries. These revolutionaries took up arms solely on the authority of their own consciences. There was not one of them that would not have been hung or shot if they had been captured by the British Army. They pledged their life, fortunes and sacred honor for the freedom that they cherished. Many of them lost their families, homes, wealth and their lives in the fight for freedom that declared their independence from the tyranny of British Crown.
Trotsky proclaimed: “Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.”
President Teddy Roosevelt said, “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any public official, save exactly to the degree he himself stands by the country.”
You're a brave man, Jim! His vile statement just didn't set well with me :).
I suppose there are those who do feel this way but I'm not one of them, (as all conservatives I personally know) feel exactly the same way you do. Sometimes I truly have to bite my tongue to keep myself out of an argument with liberals!
Then there are those times when this ol'gal just can't help herself and the words just spew :)
Found at Reply #23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAWsy7VV8oE
Welcome to FR & thanks.
They commented about you as well as your tag line.
BTW. Thanks for the link.
I bought a new Rugar 10/22 last year at Dick’s
“Not only did the Democrats boo the Boy Scouts, they flat out AMBUSHED THEM. They only invited them to the convention so they could shame them as they carried the colors down the aisle.”
I always got the idea that the likes of liberal Democrats and Obama hate boyscouts, they feel it is outmoded, and dangerous. In fact, I got the idea Obama wanted to establish a Hitler Youth type organization. I am positive he would attend that jamboree.
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