Posted on 04/04/2002 11:51:20 AM PST by AuntB
So I am glad they did it, but know what the real motivation behind it was.
Here along in late April or early May, I'll get over there with just Jared, my son Jeff and the wife, and pay my respects to that hallowed ground and give my private thanks to God. I'll look up Mike, Joey, Jim, Gaylord, Barron and some others and pass on your best.
Best regards.
The feeling is 110% mutual my friend. God's best to you and yours. May neither of us ever let one another down, or our nation, or our Creator and the principles He established for liberty.
Tell your wonderful wife hello for me and I hope the two of you are over in this part of the country sometime so I can make good on that dinner debt!
Please do. Take care.
Bump.
But then we've spent over half a century watching that scenario play out time after time, so we are not surprised, are we?
The only hope we have is to keep every detail of their shenanigans in the public eye, and subject to constant scrutiny, and nobody on Earth has done more to keep that happening than you! - Thanks for spending so much of your most precious personal time keeping freedom alive.
Thanks for the great tribute AuntB.
Kewl. Thanks, darlin'. What an inspiration you and your bumper sticker art work were. You da man, too!
I pray for the time when I and a large majority of our fellow citizens will do so. I know from my own ecperience that if we will, we shake the gates of hell for a thousand year and put an end to the liberal/socialist/marxist/elitist/globalist/etc. (you fill in the blank) agendas that are destroying our liberty and our Republic.
In this instance, what was so galling in the end was that the very people who implemented the liberal Judge's ruling are the ones taking credit for putting a stop to it.
I know there are people who tell me that they had to do it that way. That it was a political necessity that some group of people suffer to bring this to a fulcrum point.
I say (and pardon my french),
TO HELL WITH SUCH NOTIONS AND PLANS AND POLOTICS!
That's so easy to say and easy to do when it is not their water that is shut off. When it is not their livlihood and way of life at stake.
If those politicians cared about America and the people, they would have forced a constitionla crisis over such a blatant issue. I promise you, if they had spread the word of this through the media and through their positions, the nation and the people would have supported putting an immediate stop to it. Instead, they feared for their political lives and played politics with the welfare, livelihood, way if life and the very lives of a large group of honset hard-working American families. I can never condone, cotton our countenance such behavior and call myself free.
The best that can be said for those people is that they feared so much for their political careers that they did not force the tyranical decision to a conflict or to a point of open fighting. And make no mistake, it could easily have gone there. The prior administration probably would have and I thank God it did not necessitate that. But none of us knew that going over there that first evening.
Most of all, I am grateful to God in Heaven for His answers to very real and heartfelt prayers of people all over this nation. That and the willingness of a few to place themselves in the breech is what made this happen, and I for one will never forget it.
Sorry for the rant ... but this is somewhat of a stickler for me and one I believe we can not afford to lose site of lest we believe all is well and forget and go down the same path.
Thank you for the kind words. Best regards.
It is to them I dedicate the honor.
I truly did just try and help some friends and then use my cell phone and FreeRepublic to get the word out.
BTW, I have a second excerpt out for book two. I will BUMP it to you.
Jeff. Hey Jeff. Congratulations bud. I know you spent a lot of time and effort trying to help the people in Klamath. My hat's off to you. Way to go!
Jeff.....there is no one more deserving of this than you. In my mind...you are the perfect example of 'practicing what you preach'. You have a quiet determination about you that shines.
AuntB....wonderful post. Hopefully will be seeing you and Art this summer....and this time I'll bring the wife and kids.
redrock
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