Why Is The Tea Party On A Roll?

More than 6,000 men and women will be married today and each of their children will be saddled with a $30,000 share of the runaway national debt.

Some 300,000 illegal aliens will sneak across our borders, underscoring the human, arms and drug trafficking that is destroying the quality of life in Arizona, California and a growing number of other states.

At the same time, during the past two years, an ever-expanding federal government has taken over everything from General Motors to the health-care system. And the United States appears weaker on the international stage than at any time since we lost the Vietnam War. As I have said in this column before, our allies don't trust us and our enemies no longer fear us.

No wonder that a tea party movement motivated by patriotism and adherence to the Constitution, as well as opposition to record high tax-and-spend policies, sprang up to challenge incumbent candidates of both parties who are presiding over the decline of our country.

“The Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau penned a chilling warning coupled with a summation that amazingly describes America’s political landscape today:

“Finally, when the state, on the eve of ruin, maintains only a vain, illusory and formal existence, when in every heart the social bond is broken, and the meanest interest brazenly lays hold of the sacred name of ‘public good,’ the general will becomes mute: All men, guided by secret motives, no more give their views as citizens than if the state had never been; and iniquitous decrees directed solely to private interest get passed under the name of laws.”

“The Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau penned a chilling warning coupled with a summation that amazingly describes America’s political landscape today.”

In addition, the late Dr. Francis A. Shaeffer, a great intellectual, wrote A CHRISTIAN MANIFESTO (1981), which also could have been written yesterday because of his accurate predictions for where our nation was going as it became secularized. I have been rereading it and I am shocked at the accuracy of the predictions, especially where he foresaw an authoritative government run by an elite and an “Imperial” Supreme court which would not function according to the Constitution. If you read this book, buck up, because it is scary..However, we must frame our problems if we are to have a prayer of working to make things better.

Thanks for tip ...

I’ve just discovered Wordsworth Donisthorpe — Law in a Free State (1895).

From The Forum at the Online Library of Liberty.

“The Liberty and Property Defense League

“The latter third of the nineteenth century in England was a period of advancing government intervention. With growing alarm, Whigs and Tories observed the adoption of measures which served to circumscribe the rights of contract and property. Moreover, the extension of the franchise begun in 1867 slowly transferred effective control of the Parliament from aristocratic and commercial hands into those of the middle and working classes. The newly eclectic electorate could not be stimulated to express the kind of opposition to interventionist proposals which disposed of the Corn Laws in 1846.

“If liberalism was to survive in this altered electoral environment it must persuade the masses of its benefactions and refute the claims of its enemies. In 1882 the Liberty and Property Defense League was formed to do just that. In 1891 it published the collection of essays which was to become its manifesto under the title, A Plea for Liberty.”

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1471&Itemid=287

Interesting that last night these kinds of articles were the 1st presented by Google.
Tonight the first articles are about his activities in cinematography.

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