I am very confident that if George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Otis, Paul Revere, Sam Adams, and the rest of those great patriots of yesteryear were alive today, they would be treated by our own government the same way they were treated by old King George of England: as traitors and criminals.
Yet, the real traitors and criminals are the ones in Washington and other places who have worked (and are working) feverishly to dismantle and destroy the fundamental principles contained in our U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence.
If despising an overbearing, overreaching, Orwellian-style federal government complete with its "swarms of officers" intent on harassing and stealing my liberties makes me unpatriotic, then I will gladly wear the moniker.
Oh' Chuck was doing great until he has to start with this nonsense. Yes, we have a massive government that needs to be sorely down sized. Yes, there are traitors and criminals in D.C. not all of them.
Chuck, seems to forget the "we the people" put these people in government, nobody is forcing the citizens to elect sleazebags like the Clintons and Dassholes.
When enough of "we the people" have enought of big governement "we the people" will put an end to it.
He's far more right than you are. How is it nonsense? Please be specific.
Further, the FedGov leviathan has grown so huge that it may NOT be possible for we, the people, to take it back without being willing to see copious amounts of blood shed... Are you saying it's time for that?
There is only ONE public official in DC that I would be 100% confident is not either a crook, a socialist or a traitor. You know who that is... and it is NOT the current administration.
"When enough of "we the people" have enought of big governement "we the people" will put an end to it."
Yeah, sure we will. When do we have enough, when they come to take our guns because of a new law making them illegal?
When they take our private property and give it to illegal immigrants for compensation because they are poor?
True, we don't have to elect the Daschels and Gebhardts, but don't you find it strange that they somehow manage to get re-elected even though everyone we know seems to dispise their politics?
Unfortunately the traitors in Washington are very well placed to impose policy, and most of them aren't even elected by the people. They have government jobs by proxy. They screen the information available to Senators and Reps because of their limited time available to completely research the consequences of legislation. Instead using the "advisors" for policy based information. Little of our real dissent towards faulty government decisions ever reaches those who actually make the decisions.
Yeah, let us wait till we are good and tired of government tyranny. Just how much more are you willing to give up before you have had enough? Better start a rock collection to throw at the enemy when you get mad enough. You won't be alone. There are plenty of sheeple who think the same way. Someone will surely do the fighting for you.