About Me:
Born in 1951; married in 1976; 3 adult kids (2 adopted at birth and 1 the old fashioned way); 2 grandkids.
I am a student of history in general and particularly of my family history.
My roots (as well as my wife's) trace back to the days of Oglethorpe in Colonial Georgia.
Prior to that my ancestry is Scotch/Irish.
Several of my ancestors fought in the Revolution and several fought for the Confederacy.
My political views are several steps to the right of Barry Goldwater.
I am a student of religion and have belonged to several.
I have read and studied the bible, the koran, the teachings of buddha, the book of morman, and others.
All of those works are deliberately not capitalized.
I do believe in GOD but I do not currently participate in any organized religion.
I've been working since I was 16 years old.
I currently work for a company that is owned by one of those "Evil Koch Brothers", and I couldn't be happier about that.
If I am still alive on January 1, 2018, I will be able to retire and sit around and drink beer and smoke cigars all day.
1st Battalion 121st Infantry - "Faciendum Est" - It Shall Be Done 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, was established in 1860 as the "Independent Volunteer Battalion" of Macon, Georgia.
After many transformations throughout the years, it exists today as a unit of the Georgia National Guard.
Several of my ancestors were members back in the 1860's - and I was a member from 1971-1977.
The Declaration of Independence (1776):
'When in the Course of human events..."
"Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes..."
"Mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable..."
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing...to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for their future security."
"That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be
Free and Independent States,
that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,
and that all political connection between them is and ought to be totally dissolved;
and that as
Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances,
establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which
Independent States may of right do."
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The Articles of the Confederation (1777):
Article I.
The Style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America."
Article II.
Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right,
which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.
Article III.
The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other,
for their common defense, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare,
binding themselves to assist each other,
against all force offered to,
or attacks made upon them,
on account of religion, sovereignty, trade,
or any other pretense whatever.
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The Constitution of the United States (1787):
Article III - Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist
only in levying war against them...
Article IV - Section 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,
and shall
protect each of them against invasion...
Amendment IX.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed
to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X.
The
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Contacts:
U.S. Representative Rob Woodall:
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U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson: Click Here
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal: Click Here
Georgia Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle: Click Here
Georgia State Senate District 45 Senator Renee Unterman email: renee.unterman@senate.ga.gov
Georgia State House of Representatives District 101 Representative Buzz Brockway email: buzz.brockway@house.ga.gov
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“The budget should be balanced.
The treasury should be refilled.
Public debt should be reduced.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled.
Assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
Instead of living on public assistance, people must learn to work.”
~Cicero in 55 BC (source is questionable)
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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,
it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
~Patrick Henry
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“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want
is also big enough to take away everything you have.”
~Gerald Ford in 1974
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
~Edmumd Burke
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“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice;
and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
~Barry Goldwater
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night
only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
~George Orwell
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“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly;
then you may come to the moment when you will have to fight
when all the odds are against you
and there is only a precarious chance of survival.
But there may be even a worse case.
You may have to fight even when there is no hope of victory,
because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
~Winston Churchill
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
~John Stuart Mill
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“If ye love wealth greater than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom,
go home from us in peace.
We seek not your counsel, nor your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
~Samuel Adams
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“The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people...
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments,
and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”
~John Adams in 1818
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“Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace - but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!
The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!
Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?
What is it that gentlemen 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!”
~Patrick Henry in 1775
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“...the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon.
Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.”
~John Adams
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“We, 'The People', are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
~Abraham Lincoln
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years
telling our children and our children's children
what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
~Ronald Reagan
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“A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve,
is someone who, at one point in his life,
wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America
for an amount of "up to and including my life.”
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“If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia to plant my flag on the Blue Ridge,
and rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty
amongst a people who will never submit to tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger.”
~George Washington at Valley Forge
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“Rest easy, sleep well my brothers, know the line has held, your job is done.
Rest easy, sleep well, others have taken up where you fell, the line has held.
Peace, peace, and farewell.”
~Christmas poem at Arlington National Cemetery
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“Do your duty in all things,
You can not do more,
You should never wish to do less.”
~Robert Edward Lee
