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Give Me Liberty
WAKE UP CALL, FROM COLONIAL VIRGINIA
Re: Quin Hillyer's Channeling the Young
Patrick Henry :
"What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our
sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull
them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as
a breast!"
-- Georges Bernanos
America was seeking change and Obama offered at least that. Many did not want to know if the change was real or phantasmagorical. Truth or lie, this was not the concern of the majority. Like infants, they wanted change that comforted them. And they wanted it now.
The One has a silver tongue. He is a rhetorician of the first order. He is one of the finest orators since the Great Communicator himself, but as where Reagan spoke truth to power, Obama has spoken to gain power with little regard for the truth.
Obama convinced the majority of Americans he is exactly what he is not. The New Messiah out flanked Billary on the left and quickly, almost seamlessly, tacked to the center (at least rhetorically). That the mass media moronic mentality did not allow detection of this deception is not surprising; reporting the news while salivating over The Chosen One is a heavy task indeed. Even with the malingering media’s pandering, the American public was (and is) still responsible for its choices and facing the consequence of those choices.
So, yes, the majority of the voting electorate has been hoodwinked, bamboozled, conned, duped and outright fooled. And they were taken in willingly. Most frighteningly, if Chef Obama turned up the heat slowly, most would have continue to smile as they were simmered into oblivion of a boiling soup. But the Titan of the Teleprompter shows his inexperience, impatience, arrogance, or ineptitude (or a combination of thereof) by turning up the heat immediately. The Master of the Mendacious, in his rush to consolidate his power, may have been caught in his own snare. Instead of moving with stealth and deliberateness, Obama has awakened America from its somnambulistic stumbling. From the Left to the Right, the rumblings of discontent are starting to be heard. Rebellion on these shores is not without precedent
Our true illustrious (as opposed to well back lighted) forefather Thomas Jefferson was clear that the government was to serve the people and never vice versa. He was equally clear that if the government became tyrannical, the people had both the right and responsibility to rebel. From the Declaration of Independence: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Mr. Hillyer has sounded a clarion call. If it is to be answered remains a mystery. What is plain to see is that if the GOP does not find its spine, the republic that all freedom loving American has come to know will be no more. The damage that is being done will become so irreparable that rebellion will be the only remedy.
Sometimes a leg must be broken so that it can be properly reset, but in the words of another paragon of freedom, also a Founding Father, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Be you, Conservative, Republican, Libertarian or even Democrat, let your voice be heard through your elected officials (‘nee public servants): Mr. President, we are no longer under your thrall. We have seen the European/Socialist republic that is the inevitable outcome of your actions; your words can beguile us no longer. Over eleven score years ago, our forefathers heartily rejected the governments of kings and tyranny. We refuse to return to those days of servitude.
We are in the winter of our discontent. Let no lie convince you
otherwise. If we wish to bask in the sun again, we must tear down
lies with truth. If speaking truth be treason, let’s make the
most of it.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
TIME TO LET GO
Re: Edward Blum's Gerrymandering on Trial:
The Voting Rights Act is another one of those laws that, much like the Fugitive Slave laws of the pre- Civil War era, and much like affirmative action programs, that good-minded people were willing to tolerate in the belief that someday they would be unnecessary.
Now matters seem to have passed beyond "unnecessary" and
straight into "harmful." Yet the laws are still on the
books and people suffer under them.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
TOUGH LOVE
Re: Paul Beston's Close the Door, Please:
I thought "jobs," like welfare, were the products of the big O's compassion. I didn't know that they, along with wealth, came from somewhere else like the private sector.
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Stuart Koehl| 3.17.09 @ 6:45AM
Obama a gifted rhetorician? That's a bit over the top. Perhaps better to say he is an excellent reader, with a great future recording Books on Tape once he returns to private life (may the day come soon!). Of course, the studio will need a teleprompter, but still, why let such talent go to waste?
Stuart Koehl| 3.17.09 @ 6:53AM
On Angelo Codevilla's assessment that Osama bin Laden is dead, and why the intelligence community refuses to admit it: I think the case remains unproven, but Codevilla is right--the U.S. government would rather have an outlaw individual as the focus of its animus than an outlaw state (or states). The pattern was established in the 1970s, when it was becoming obvious that a wide array of terrorist organizations--Marxist, Palestinian, Anarchist, Nihilist, Islamist--were all working together and showed a remarkable homogeneity of tactics, training, and equipment, at levels far higher than could be acquired given their organic resources.
Courageous journalists like the late Claire Sterling soon realized that they were all receiving financial, logistic, technical and intelligence support from the Soviet Union through the KGB and its satellite services in Eastern Europe. Yet the Intelligence Community refused to acknowledge this while the USSR still lived, and expended much effort to debunking Sterling and others who pointed to Soviet complicity in terrorism.
The reason was perfectly clear: If the Soviet Union was indeed directing international terrorism against the West, the West would have to do something about it. Admittedly, the thought of taking on the fully-armed USSR was a far more daunting prospect than taking on Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, but still, if Osama is really dead, Codevilla has pegged the reason we won't bury him.
frost| 3.17.09 @ 12:04PM
Oooooh, Mike sure ain't in Mimi's league! Ouch even....
And, on another topic, briefly, I sure can't argue about those stupid AIG bonuses. Sad judgment, to say the least. Now, if they'd been based on performance, merit and overall corporate PROFITS, that might be different.
But, and this is a biggy, I do NOT want the stupid Government Bureaucracy telling you (or ME!) what I can make - - that's a terrible precedent! Bad as some company decisions may be, I TRUST THE GOVERNMENT LESS. Period.
Here’s the whole crux of the AIG/Government problem, really: We can choose NOT to do business with AIG - - but we're Forced to "do business" with our lousy, corrupt government.
Just look at the gross stupidity/ineptitude of DMV, ICE, the God-forsaken EPA, INS, AmTrak (which was supposed to be “self-sustaining 40+ years ago), SBA, Global Warming clown Jim Hansen’s NASA; the horribly inept SEC, FTC, TSB, USPS, FCC, CIA, CDC, FDA, DOE, IRS, FFA, DOT; the idiots at FEMA etc… The inefficiency is appalling, nothing less! And now we find out that the horrible FannieMae/FreddieMac are supposed to “investigate THEMSELVES”?!? Thanks to a flock of rotten people in congress, we have a huge problem!! Remember this quotation: “We’re going to push through health care, regardless of the views of the American people." - Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). And, lest we forget, sanctimonious Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, augmented by Barney Frank, David Obey, Susan Collins, Fortney “Pete” Stark, Maxine Waters, Robert Wexler (who makes my skin crawl), Bernie Sanders, Arlen Spector, Barbara Lee, Chuck Schumer, Jim Clyburn, Dick Durban, Alcee Hastings (who was a convicted judge before being removed from office to become a congressman?!?), Maurice Hinchey, Barbara Boxer, Jerry Nadler, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Jim McDermott, Olympia Snowe, Joe Biden, Teddy Kennedy, Charlie Rangell, et al., and there are others who also chose to payoff their backers.
Alan Brooks| 3.18.09 @ 12:13AM
Stu, Obama is going to be re-elected. question is who will run in 2016, but that's seven years down the bumpy-- very bumpy-- road.
btw I'm starting to dislike Jindal more than anyone, he is a demagogue in the mold of Huey Long.
USA needs CHANGE to Believe in| 3.18.09 @ 10:17AM
Breaking news, the FED has been raided by the FBI and the CIA.
Evidence has emerged that they have had a huge counterfieting opperation going on for several years.
The FBI has announced Printing Fake money cannot save America from Global recession and it's an illegal opperation, all involved will be arrested, including Obama and the former President of America.
Go to Youtube: Printing Fake Money Saves America Not.
Change is coming to America. Long live America!
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