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The verge of tyranny

Had a discussion the other day about what is happening to the country and how some of the commentary here appears to accept or condone a point at which the loyal opposition (us) may because of its rhetoric may be regarded as enemies of the state.

I do, and we are.

And, he sensibly asks... "which side is the United States and where does that put you?"

Good point. But here's the way I look at it... we, the people, are always the United States, and the government is merely the government. The Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution all stand on one simple platform.

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

In its entirety the Bill of Rights is government-limiting. "Congress shall make no law..... I through X.

And the catch-all:

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. (--emphasis mine)

So... "at some point" is not just "perhaps", it is when we determine that overthrowing the government is not only proper, that it is demanded of us.

In so doing the Founders concisely asserted what is known as the "right of revolution": that is, people have certain God-given rights, and when a government violates these rights, the people have the right to "alter or abolish" that government.

Simple as that. So the question and the answer my friend and I discussed was the "when".

Aye, there's the rub.

In my humble opinion, my writing constantly revolves around the theme of the "canary in the coal mine."

Sensible people pay attention to the early warning signs that threaten, if ignored, to leave The People no alternative but to "alter and/or abolish" that oppressive regime.

Sensibly, I cannot imagine a time in the near (20-year) future in which an armed rebellion would have even a 40-60 chance of success... the approximate odds the rebels faced in 1775. But I most certainly can imagine it if this regime continues in the path of destruction is has bludgeoned the nation with in just 100 days.

Unless.

Unless.... attentive to the canaries, we right our course by immediately asserting the limitless political "power of the people".  

Who, after all, is Obama.... who is the the president, or any politician? Nothing more than help from a temp agency. I am an American until I die, Obama is hopefully back organizing the ghetto in four years.

What loose feathers do we now see on the NY Times that lines the bottom of America's cage?

First of all, the Second Amendment hangs on a single, solitary vote in the highest court in the land... hardly a rousing reaffirmation of our right to protect ourselves from the government.

Americans who are very concerned about this are demonized by our domestic enemies as "right-wing terrorists", "militia", "nazis"... yet which side of this issue is backed by the Constitution?

Remember the lessons of Barack Obama's mentor, communist firebrand Saul Alinsky:

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Have Republican politicians, candidates and voters been targeted and polarized by organized thugs and leftists organizations?

All of them.... since Lyndon Johnson ran the infamous (but so effective it only aired once) "Daisy ad" in 1964.

Is Sara Palin ridiculed and preposterously accused of bearing the Downs Syndrome child that is actually her grandson?

Was George Bush's 30-year-old DWI targeted by leftist operatives while Obama's marijuana and cocaine use was and is ignored?

Were George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford cast by the national media and the democrat party thugs as "stupid and inept"?

Is Justice Clarence Thomas cast as unable to find his way to the men's room? Was he attacked with an unbelievably organized national effort to deny him confirmation? Need I say more than "Bork"?

Real Americans... none of this is coincidence; this is happening with long-organized intent. Our individual rights are being attacked on each and every front.

Our Judeo-Christian history, values and ethics are being attacked, voter fraud (Al Franken) is now routine in an on-going criminal effort by Obama's tax-payer funded thugs, ACORN; and a huge, tax-salaried force of national "volunteers" who will do the sole bidding of one party is being readily to spread throughout the country.

For the first time in our history, your city council or country commissioners can with the Supreme Court's blessing, confiscate your property and sell it to the highest bidder for private profit and government graft and corruption.... in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment.

And...

A home-schooled 16-year-old North Carolina teen has been jailed in South Bend’s Juvenile Justice Center as a "domestic terrorist" since February. 

The Patriot Act allows federal agents to more quickly go after people that they feel may be a threat to the public.

Ashton Lundeby was then taken to a juvenile facility in South Bend, Ind., charged with making a bomb threat in Indiana from his home computer. The FBI raided the family home and confiscated a number of documents and items.

.Annette Lundeby, the boy's mother, said “My thought is I home school my kids to protect them from the ills of society and I never thought for one minute in my worst nightmare-- that I would have to protect my son, my children, from our own government,” says.

Meanwhile, actual terrorists are routinely released from detention in Guantanamo Bay.

              "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

The loss of freedom is not some faraway possibility that happens overnight, Germany did not become Nazi Germany in the 1930s... that horror began in the aftermath of WWI. The Germans ignored the warning signs, as did the rest of the world.

Mister Jefferson warned us: The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

We have been at slumber for far too long.

de Tocqueville... prescient

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835).

Perhaps the first early political scientists, de Tocqueville was right then and now even moreso; though I'd imagine that he never would have predicted it this early in our history.

After traveling extensively in the new country, he accurately concluded that the roots of the fledgling nation could be readily found in the search for religious freedom... it was and still is as simple as that.

But at this time in history the domestic enemies of Real America have been successful in turning history and the Constitution upside down, and now proclaim the government has to be protected from religion--not visa versa.

A few of de Tocqueville's major points (which I think are most relevant right now):

• "Nowhere have the Americans established any central direction over their thinking, any more than they have established any central direction over affairs of state."-- near-total decentralized government; democracy at the grass roots, small and limited (by the Constitution) federal government.
•  "Americans are taught from birth that they must overcome life's woes and impediments on their own. This first becomes apparent in the schools, where children play by their own rules and punish infractions they define themselves." --that was then, this is now. That burgeoning sense of "fairness" and self-policing, if you will, by even those of tender years has been near-bred out of our youth by the socialist indoctrination of (increasingly federalized) government schools.

de Tocqueville continues:

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• "Here, the people do not look to the government for light, for instruction, but the government looks to the people. The people give the law to the government. To entrust, then, the government with the power of determining the education which our children shall receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master."  -- Has not this exact warning come to be?

 

• "The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd." Do not these two simple sentences accurately describe what has happened to this nation over the last 40-50 years?
• In "Democracy in America" he correctly saw America's Achilles' Heel... that if we stepped away from "that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times..." we "... would move quickly to despotism without tarrying for long in monarchy." It is what he called "soft despotism." 

"Yes we can." "Yes we can."

Closer to our birth and not so very long ago, de Tocqueville found evidence of the republic in every settlement, village and town... in the churches and schools.

If a school or town hall was needed, no one wrote a letter to Washington D.C. where it would have been proper ignored and tossed aside. The community pitched and built it.

"One riot, one Ranger" is a legendary quotation in Texas when talking about the Texas Rangers, but that only works in the recruiting posters.

When a significant problem arose on the frontier, the lone law enforcement officer, a constable or sheriff or marshal, called for a posse and the communities' men left their fields and cattle and stores, grabbed a Winchester or a shotgun and the law was summarily enforced, the community protected.

The local judge held the trial, and a jury of peers either acquitted or found guilty the defendant. Recognizing that "justice delayed is justice denied" for both the community and the defendant, the sentence was usually handed down the same day and the next found the perpetrator hanged or jailed.

Local government, the best government.

Need I summarize what happens now... now that we have lost virtually all control not only of the federal and state government but of our local government as well?

• Do parents and the school teachers collaborate on how and what your children are taught?
• Nowadays when you're the victim of a crime... really, practically, who has more "rights" -- you or the waste of skin who attacked, robbed or raped you?
• Can your 14-year-old daughter get birth control pills or an abortion without your knowledge?
• Do you give 30-50 percent of your wages to the various levels of government?

We used to be directly involved in our own self-determination and liberty, now we are but docile serfs, and the servant has most assuredly become the master.

One flu into the cuckoo's nest.....

One day I'll no longer rise to the bait, but until then, here's once more around the horn:

The horror that was swine flu is over.... it wasn't a epidemic, a pandemic, or even a case of minor indigestion.

In terms of mortality and morbidity rates for ways you can die, this latest hysteria generated by the news media, the US government, and by idiot liberals like your sister-in-law... was all about:

100% of all deaths in the world from this swine flu were Mexican nationals, even the poor child who was visiting the US at the time; at least that gave him a fighting chance. 

Mexico population--109 million

In Mexico there are 65 deaths per day during flu season...

Every year in the United States, on average:

• 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu;
• more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related complications; and
• about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes.

Yet, in case you missed it... the third biggest seller on eBay last week was--yep, surgical masks.

In the end this was the Joe Biden Pandemic; it's symptoms include: fear of enclosed spaces, coughing and demanding that folks in wheelchairs "stand up". 

Ebola, SARS, Avian flu, hetero-AIDS, Y2K... if you're the type of person to horde toilet paper or water in these trying times, then by all means, continue. The rest of need to get back to work... in fact we never stopped.

So... once more America, if you were distracted by this hoax in the least, you have to ask yourself... "why"--and then try not to embarrass your children again, let alone scare them for no damned reason.

SCOTUS crystal ball

The likely Obama replacements for Justice Souter (right, seen leaving town because of The Biden Flu) are the following, according the Fiery Filipina.

We shall see what we will see, come the fight the GOP puts up opposing any nomination The Messiah comes up with.

The only true conservative response the next 3.5 years is "no."

Sometimes pro football is more than a game 

We certainly join with many others in wishing the best for the young Dallas Cowboys scout whose spine was severed in the freak storm accident two days ago that collapsed the NFL teams training building, injuring a number of staff and reporters.

And in the same vein, Jack Kemp passed away two days ago from cancer which stilled the voice of perhaps one of the last true conservative, fiscally responsible, common sense politicians.

Perhaps the former NFL quarterback learned his economics after being shunned by the NFL, playing in the Canadian Football League and at one time being claimed by the Buffalo Bills for the princely sum of $100. 

He simply sucked it up and went on to be a household name in the early days of the AFL, passing for 21,218 yards in 10 seasons; he led Buffalo to AFL championships in 1964 and ’65, winning the league’s Most Valuable Player award in ’65.

Kemp founded the AFL Players Association in 1964 and was elected president of the union for five terms. He retired from football in ’69, having passed for, and he then won the support of blue-collar Buffalo in a successful run for Congress.

Kemp is perhaps most responsible for the success of the Reagan tax cuts, but it was really Kemp who fought for those cuts while in Congress. 

"Quinn Hillyer, a senior editorial writer at the Washington Times and senior editor of The American Spectator who has written extensively about Kemp and the conservative movement, has called him 'the single most influential House Member, without official leadership position, since James Madison.'

His was a clear and understandable voice in the wilderness; he is sorely missed in this time of go-along to get-along "big tent" GOP politics.

And lastly how would we survive without the breathless and late-breaking report that Barry and his wife, "The Predator" actually went for a walk! on the White House grounds; yes, once again the First Couple has broken new ground, demonstrating their superiority with the ability to put one foot in front of the other... this of course, includes walks over water. 

Speaking of walking... here's how Michelle was able to pull off the Herculean task: (while clad in "ugly-ass", $540 French designer tennis shoes which no self-respecting circus clown with wear."

LST size.... lovely: