By OneVike
In the times we live, I am often reminded of the men who gave all, so that I can enjoy the freedom I do. I guess that is why I get so angry when I see what the current rulers of this country have in store for me, you, and our descendants. Men, greater than I could ever hope to be, offered everything they had in this world, because they wanted freedom for their descendants, us. Freedom that Obama and his socialist friends desire to take away from us all. Well, I have only one question to ask, "Where Are Today's Patriots Who Are Willing To Sacrifice Everything"?
What follows is a what many only read around July 4, but today is a good time to read it again. It is about the sacrifice 56 men offered so that we could be free. As you read what happened to them, consider how afraid we are to even talk about what we must do.
Of the fifty six patriots who signed and pledged their lives, fortunes, and their sacred honor, nine of the fifty six fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. Five men were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died, two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured, while another twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
What kind of men were these patriots?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. Thomas Nelson quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. His own home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
[Author uknown w/liberties taken]
Each one of us may be able to tell stories our families have handed down from generation to generation. Fathers, grandfathers, great grandfather, uncles, mothers, and grandmothers who sacrificed everything for a generation of people they would never meet. A generation of people who would one day spit upon their sacrifice, and give back to the king that which they sacrificed all for. God help us, because we don't seem to want to help ourselves like our ancestors did time and time again.
These patriots gave you and me a free and independent America. However, something that the history books never tell you, is that these men were not just fighting against the British Crown and King George. These men "WERE BRITISH SUBJECTS", fighting and willing to die rather than accept what the "ONE" of their day wanted done. Today, many of us have taken our freedom and liberties for granted while traitors like Obama, Kennedy, Ried, Pelosi, and others are prepared to take away the last vestige of freedom we will ever know.
And nowadays you can't find 56 guys who will even agree on what needs to be done!!!
"Where Are Today's Patriots Who Are Willing To Sacrifice Everything"?
They are here -- they just aren't yet ready take the bloody step to get done that which needs doing.
It won't be pretty, but it will be done.
Reminds me of this letter sent to Glenn Beck back in June.
AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NATION’S LEADERSHIP [by Janet Contreras]:
I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. ....
This is from Patrick Henry's speach when he used the famous words, "Give Me Liberty ot Give Me Death"
We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.
Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.
If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. 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 - March 23, 1775
Every man has his own personal boiling point. As I look across the vast landscape of America, I see many reaching theirs. This I believe is by design, the traitors to the Constitution needs for their opposition to do something radical.
Clinton receive his gift in the guise of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Bush received his in the terrorist attacks on 911.
(I put Bush here because he never vetoed campaign finance reform thus he abdicated his responsibility to the constitution and allowed these thugs to gain power)
Now Obama is sitting back with his violin and waiting for the fire he started to get out of control. When it does he will be able, with the help of his minions in the media, to blame it on his enemies.
It my opinion that this Health Care bill is more than what many believe it to be. Read the contents, I have read many portions, it is a Socialist Constitution. It will strip every form of freedom we have left. I can understand why normally calm individuals are ready to take their pitch forks and storm the castle.
This is man who worships Nancy speaking.
Since we moved from Mexifornia to Texas, we have been inundated with patriots who are ready to go at a moments notice. I am speaking of white, Hispanic, and Black patriots. Do not believe the MSM that is is only crazy old white men who are angry. There is a generation gap in the anger, but there always will be when those who are uneducated do not realize what freedom really means.
Let state unequivocally that I love this country, I love the constitution and the rule of law based on it...but what we are seeing is not that, instead we are on the fast road to tyranny.
Now that ACORN’s budget has been upped from $254 million to $8.5 BILLION does anyone expect the next election will be free and fair?
If there is to be any chance to reestablish a Constitutional rule of law, it will have to be very soon. The last 2 generations have been educated in government institutions by NEA Marxist wannabees....trained to despise and ridicule Constitutional law and the individual freedoms protected therein. They have lived without most of the Constitutionally protected freedoms and liberty for their entire adult lives. So they will not see the need for change and will fight only to keep all the neat things the government doles out to them.
2010 is the point-of-no-return.....from the unrelenting headlong plunge into the dark tyranny that Reagan prophesied in 1964. We can thank ourselves for allowing those in power now to raise our children on the ideas that capitalism and democracy are institutions of the past, and socialism is the only way to move forward.
As for the question, "Where Are Today's Patriots Who Are Willing To Sacrifice Everything"
I'll be there when the time is right, and that time is getting real close. Until then, I'll keep my powder dry and my wits about me.
Nancy D's husband
I’m constantly asking this question, mostly getting cowardly replies about not wanting any trouble. “What would my family do if I went to jail?” And I don’t ask them to “fight,” just whether they’d consider ceasing to subsidize the tax addicts in Washington, who cannot tyrannize anyone, waste anyone’s money, or get into any other mischief, without the tax money that the sheeple meekly and faithfully send them.
People get the govt they deserve...and support.
Instead of hiding behind innuendo and dogwhistles, are any of you "patriots" brave enough to actually admit, in no uncertain terms, that you are contemplating armed revolution (treason) against your government? Because that's what I'm hearing here, yet if you guys were half as willing to do this as you imply, you would just come right and say it without fear.
At this point, I am against armed conflict, if that is what you are referring to. We would be slaughtered without having made any gains. Those folks sacrificed with their lives so we shouldn’t need to.
Its simple. Politics have been hijacked by morality. Our country has two parties.. pro aborts n homosexuals and pro-life traditional marriage. It is time to say enough of this polarization. Right now, I believe those babies are in God’s hands and we need to get ourselves out of this prison in which we have confined ourselves. Having said that, I am a strong Southern Baptist, who believes our spiritual laziness is like Moral welfare. I need to get off my duff and get out there, it’s the model we were given.
Both parties need to go and we need a purely constitutional govt and we can leave the rest to the states and individuals.
Hey, I am not afraid to tell my government and those that are running it, that I want to overthrow it. I think it is high time we stop hiding behind anonymous personalities because we are afraid of the CIA infiltrating blogs and finding out who we are. I am not afraid and I want to thank you K for bringing it to my attention about how afraid we are of our government.
By the way, now that we are all being open and honest about our identities and true feelings, what is your real name? I mean you are the one who wants us to [just come right and say it without fear]
So you first K.
WHO ARE YOU?
Because inquiring minds want to know.
Ok K or whoever you are. Obviously you are afraid of whomever it is that might take offense to the crap that spews from your pie-hole.
I for one am not afraid to say what needs to be said, and as you can see I always use my real name. As I've said before on this and other blogs, I hope I am wrong but I'm afraid we're most likely on the verge of civil war. When you consider that these clowns and Chicago goons, who are pushing their poisonous snake oil, do not know how to handle the notion of the vast majority of Americans voicing objections to their ideas, I think we better start digging in our bunkers and keep our powders on the ready here.
I am letting everyone all Know now, that it will be a cold day in HELL before Mrs Hawks big little boy rolls over and accepts the crap they are trying to force upon me.
Now, that being said. Allow me to state that, I agree with Mr. Nancy D that “I love this country, I love the constitution and the rule of law based on it...but what we are seeing is not that, instead we are on the fast road to tyranny.” I also do not in any way shape or form endorse armed conflict as a way to deal with problems we face, before all other options have been tried.
However, it's quite obvious there are many very loyal Obamaites, who are acting like poor sports when it comes to people speaking out against the social and political agenda of their messiah and his administration, especially his health care agenda. These Marxists consider any and all such vocal opposition a threat to public safety. Where was this concern when Hillary was demanding the right to disagree with anyone who would dare to shut her up?
For this administration and the government run media to put so much effort into trying to shut us up when there are far more important things to worry about than what people are saying about his social and political agenda. So much so, that he needed an ex president to procure the release of Al Gores reporters from N Korea.
If what “We the People” have to say about Obama or Obamacare or any other part of his social and political agenda then maybe what he needs to do is go pack up his bags and fly off somewhere to a place like Cuba or China where they'd be much more happier to have his kinds of ideas implemented.
Mr President, Just because you or your party win an election doesn't give you a license to go and ram stuff down people's throats. If you don't get it now, you will when the people vote you out of a job in 2012.
But if you find that your are about to be elected out of office in 2012, but then decide you want to use the tactics of the Daily Machine and Acorn with their new $8.5 billion payout to push people around like they did on election day in Philadelphia, to stay in office. Then Mr President, be prepared sir for the hammer to be brought down and, as OV might say, the σκύβαλον to hit the fan. No Fear here K
Regards.......Tom Hawks.
124 Baird Cr. Lewisville,Texas
There, I saved all you government snitches the trouble and gave Obama my address myself. Beware though, ever since I got back from Bandit Island, I have had conflict problems. It seems my therapist is still working on that little glitch in my mental makeup.
Ask OneVike what σκύβαλον means, I am sure he will oblige you in a quick ancient Hebrew lesson.
At this point I'm with Dr. Beckner. We haven't been able to mount the necessary effort to elect good representatives, what makes us think we could "enroll" the number of patriots necessary to effect the kind of revolution we desire?
Our founders gave us all we need. We are not subjects, we are citizens! We have the right to express ourselves freely and the right to assemble. We can and should educate, inform, and enroll our fellow citizens in the election process. We should remember that we rarely get an ideal candidate so we must always think in terms of moving the country in the desired direction. to often we "patriots" get stuck on a single issue or setback and end up electing those who will do great damage instead.
Our next opportunity is 2010 but the fight is happening now, every day. Elections are only a small skirmishes in a much broader effort. This revolution requires continuous communication, education and petition of our fellow citizens. This is first and foremost a war of the mind and heart. The challenge before us is daunting. Instead of an unacheivable goal of a bloody revolution, we should be preparing ourselves for a longer, more arduous fight...the fight for Americans acting like Americans with hearts, souls and minds dedicated to the ideas of freedom, personal responsibility and excellence.
It took the left many decades to bring us to this low divisive, collectivist, entitlement point in our history. Let us resolve to make it a blip in the long history of our nation. It might takes several decades to bring our nation back to it's intended state. This won't be accomplished with bad attitudes or spiteful anger; it will take dedication, with everyone doing what they can within their own spheres of influence and using whatever talents and abilities they have.
We need to pass the legacy of the founders to future generations. We need to renew the patriot spirit by taking risks and sharing with our co-workers and friends. Teachers need to work in their classrooms, parents around the kitchen table. There are many opportunities every day to teach and inspire.
I get your passion guys...and I love it! Now, let's put that passion and dedication to work in a way that will have lasting value. The failure has been that we took freedom for granted. We failed to pass our heritage to our progeny. We must take responsibility and correct this error. In fact I believe we are at least a third of the way home...maybe a little more. This is no time to go off half cocked. I think what you all really need are some leaders...when you are focused and ready they will be there. The questions are...will you give your all to the greater cause even if they are not ideal leaders? Will you have the courage to trust the process even if the effort experiences minor defeat or setback? Are you prepared to accept even failure and soldier on? Do you have what it takes to persevere until we recreate the America you envision?
Taking up arms would be a piece of cake compared to this greater challenge. I think our founders asked declared (warned)..."a republic if you can keep it."
I believe it was George Patton who said,
""No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.""
Then there was this quote by one of the greatest men ever to live,
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
(Ok, but you must admit, Braveheart really made you want to fight for freedom. Right?)
Are we really talking about living a long lustrous life of plenty with no problems, or are we talking about being a part of history that will change the world forever? I mean, we have within our power to be the kind of men history books are written about, women cry over, and children grow up admiring.
Some look at the world as it is and they think it's a beautiful day for a picnic, I look around and see the world as it is and I can only think if one thing to say,
"Cool, tis a good day to die!"
Proud retired member of the 205th Aviation Company, also called the Geronimos. Joined when they were first formed in Vietnam, then retired as a member after they were redesignated in Europe, with many different stops in between the two.
Dr Beckner and Tina, thank you for (albeit, way too softly) denouncing the calls for violence that some commenters have made.
I also agree with Dr. Beckner that the emphasis on what people are doing with their own bodies is killing the American political system.
Anonymous and Tom Hawks, I have not asked anyone to reveal their identity over the internet, nor will I be doing so myself, because it's a dumbass thing to do. What I asked was for you to come right out and say what you meant--that you are openly calling for terrorism because you don't like the government insuring people. Thanks for admitting it. You're insane, by the way.
I'd also like to know who this "vast majority" is that Tom Hawks is referring to that he believes are against Obama. They must exist inside his head, because Obama won the election fair and square and continues to enjoy approval ratings that, while not stellar, are not nearly as low as his predecessor's were. Yet you didn't hear 70% of the American public calling for armed revolution against Bush, because we aren't ignorant, violent, paranoid survivalists.
K
With all due respect, Obama's ratings are below what Jimmy Carters were at the same point in his first term, so don't give me Obama is having some enormous approval ratings. As for his ideas, they continually lack even a mere majority of the peoples approval.
As for Bush's approval, I think even Christ would be crucified again if he had the media coverage Bush had for the last eight years. I am not surprised that you would make such statements. After all, you are exactly the same kind of person who thought Hitler was great because 99% of the media loved him. Those who did not did not last long. Looking at the sycophantic media that refuses to even question anything Obama says, he should be at 99% approval. I would worry if I were him. Listen to these town hall meetings, they are democrats, not Republicans, and not conservatives.
Now about your claim that I and others are fomenting hate that would lead to terrorist acts? Do I really need to bring up the numerous events of the last eight years when the left was openly calling for Bush and other conservatives to be assassinated? Hell they even wrote a friggin book about it that the NY times promoted.
It is my constitutional right to threaten the government with revolution if they go too far. I will go so far as to say that the man who made that statement did overthrow a government, and for for much Less of a reason. K, go ahead and report me to the authorities, after all that is what Obama wants people like you to do. Just as they did in Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Block Communist Countries. Go ahead K, make my day. You can also give them my address, because unlike you I am not afraid of who knows I am the one saying what it is you dislike.
Now go back and read what I wrote, because I also stated that I am not in favor of armed conflict, but I am not stupid, I realize that things are getting real close to that point. Leftists like you read something but see only what it is you want to see, and totally ignore anything that you refuse to see.
After reading OV's article on Isaiah I decided to go back and read the book of Isaiah. You remind me of what he wrote,
They do not know nor understand; For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, And their hearts, so that they cannot understand. Isa 44:18
You K, must be one of those he spoke of because you are blind to the facts right in front of you.
Tom please, do not use name calling here and just keep it clean. We like to debate and we encourage opposing points of view. By all means say what you want, just respect our few limited rules. Thanks, the Editor..
"I for one am not afraid to say what needs to be said, ..."
But you have NOT said. None of you have explicitly said of just what "freedoms" you have been robbed. Only Mr. Nancy comes close, in his angsting over the activities of ACORN ... an organization pledged to mobilize poor people to the polls.
This is, no question, a serious threat to the status quo. Poor people in this country never have voted in sizeable numbers. This has always flumoxed me. Whyever not? The obvious explanation is not kind. It is that poor people tend also to be stupid ... and unable to comprehend the value of the vote.
And it is just possible that it's not really a very good idea to have sizeable quantities of stupid people voting. Look at Iran. The founders, for all the high-flown language in the Constitution, permitted only fellas ... white fellas ... with either inherited wealth or the intellectual wherewithal to acquire wealth, to vote.
Is this what you hanker after? Well, then, stand up and say so. You might possibly persuade us. (Or be tromped ... for the cowards you are.)
Libby, OneVike has already said he regrets women getting the vote, so your accusation--for once--is not hyperbole.
I need to adjust one of my earlier statements. I said taking up arms would be a cake walk. Taking up arms is serious business and should never be compared to a cake walk. I was thinking at the time of disorganized bands of angry dudes, something K or Libby would imagine, not the kind of men so aptly characterized by Broken Feather, OV, Nick, John, Jack and others on this blog over the years. The task I speak of is, however, tough in it's own way and requires constant vigilence and dedication.
K: "...that you are openly calling for terrorism because you don't like the government insuring people."
Please DO NOT misuse the word terrorism...listen up!
You just don't get it. The Declaration of Independence states talks about the right to take up arms against the government should it become tyrannical:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design 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.
It is their right, K, it is their duty!
OV is asking each of us to consider, has our government become too tyrannical? Had he been thinking in broader terms, beyond this administration and the current debates about health care, cap and trade, and the economy, he would have mentioned that the grievances didn’t begin with this administration.
"Yet you didn't hear 70% of the American public calling for armed revolution against Bush, because we aren't ignorant, violent, paranoid survivalists."
70%? If you say so. i won't argue your assessment of the left's intelligence but i will say you akso show no loyalty, appreciation or knowledge of the founding principles and freedoms that have given you so much space to construct BIG government social programs. I can't see how that is better.
And K, we were all around for eight years of liberal backlash and hate in the Bush years and we witnessed the witch-hunts during the Reagan years, so please don't try to feign innocence of your party.
Progressives don’t talk of taking up arms because they pretend to be peaceful. Since the sixties they have thought themselves to be above violence. They are free to think whatever they like but they are not above reproach. We have seen the activities of some of the far left kooks. Here's a sampling from the main stream:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/30/more_liberal_hate_speech/
“More liberal hate speech,” by Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist
AS IT DOES every year, the empty folder I labeled "Liberal Hate Speech" in January had grown to a thick sheaf of clippings by December. 2004 wasn't even a week old when two videos explicitly comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler appeared on the website of the liberal group MoveOn. ** Once again, too many on the left -- not crackpots from the fringe, but mainstream players and pundits -- chose to demonize conservatives as monsters rather than debate their ideas on the merits. ** Newsday columnist Hugh Pearson likened the Republican National Convention to the "Nazi rallies held in Germany during the reign of Adolf Hitler." Linda Ronstadt said that the Republican victory on Election Day meant "we've got a new bunch of Hitlers." Chuck Turner, a Boston city councilor, smeared National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as "a tool of white leaders," like "a Jewish person working for Hitler." ** Cameron Diaz declared that rape might be legalized if women didn't turn out to vote for John Kerry. ** Walter Cronkite told Larry King that the videotape of Osama bin Laden that surfaced just before the election was "probably set up" by Karl Rove. ** Alfred A. Knopf published Nicholson Baker's "Checkpoint," a novel in which two Bush-haters talk about assassinating the president. "I'm going to kill that b**tard," one character rages. ** The St. Petersburg, Fla., Democratic Club took out an ad calling for the death of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. - "Then there's Rumsfeld who said of Iraq, `We have our good days and our bad days,' " the ad read. "We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say, `This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger." Fantasies of murder likewise animated British pundit Charlie Brooker, who ended his Oct. 24 column in the Guardian with a plea for Bush's death: "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?" Brooker later assured readers that he "deplores violence of any kind" and had meant his call for an assassin only as "an ironic joke."
http://vdare.com/malkin/060912_bush.htm
In her new book, " Peace Mom," Cindy Sheehan confesses on page 29 that she has imagined going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush in order to prevent the Iraq War. It's the moonbat version of pre-emption. Sheehan admits she has entertained this infanticidal fantasy "often." ** Meanwhile, our friends in Canada celebrated the screening of a new kill-Bush fictional documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival. "Death of a President," a British mockudrama, is set in the fall of 2007 and looks back at the impact on America after President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago. The 90-minute feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly accused of the crime. ** The movie director, Gabriel Range, produced a similar tinfoil hat retrospective fake documentary about a terrorist strike that turns out to be an inside job wrongly blamed on a Saudi trader. ** Range stalked the president to gather footage for the movie, according to the Los Angeles Times, and gained access to film Bush's arrival in Chicago earlier this year for a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago. He also filmed anti-war rallies, faked others and staged a 14-car presidential motorcade sequence with hundreds of extras posing as protesters, shouting anti-war slogans. The film crew hid behind the acronym "DOAP," Range explained. "We called the film 'DOAP' and very few people ever asked us what it stood for. To those who did ask, we said it stood for 'Death of a President' and it was a fictional film, the small distinction being that the president wasn't exactly fictional." ** Green Party candidate for the New York governorship and brother of author Frank McCourt -- earned "Hardball" loon Chris Matthews' praise for voicing his anti-Bush assassination fascination on national TV (thanks to NewsBusters.org for the tip-off): Matthews: "Look, let me ask you this. Where are you on capital punishment?" * Malachy McCourt: "Capital punishment? I think that if, if I've got to find that guy in Spain who indicted Pinochet and get him for war crimes, and I get him to do the same thing for Bush. And in that case, I would be for capital punishment. Otherwise, I am against it . . . " Matthews, at the close of the interview, guffawed: "Well, I had to tell you, I hereby make my stand, I like you already. Malachy McCourt, Green Party candidate." ** Bloody Bush Derangement Syndrome isn't new. But September 11 and the campaign season do seem to have exacerbated the symptoms. And the commercial success and social acceptability of "Kill Bush" literature, talk radio rhetoric and art on the Left is on the rise. From Sarah Vowell's best-selling murder travelogue of assassinated Republican presidents, "Assassination Vacation," to Nicholson Baker's " Checkpoint," a novella conversation between two people about the advisability of assassinating Bush, to mock stamp art exhibits depicting Bush with a gun to his head, to anti-war placards featuring a decapitated Bush with blood dripping from his neck, acute BDS underscores the complete intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Left in America and around the globe. ** Jihadists are gunning for Bush, our troops and innocent civilians at home and abroad. But when it comes to how they would combat the true menaces to the West, all the kill-Bush crowd can shoot are blanks.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/26226_Nobel_Peace_Prize_Winner-_I_Could_Kill_George_Bush
Here’s some absolutely classic “progressive” cognitive dissonance mixed with cringing dhimmitude, with a creamy topping of unselfconscious hypocrisy, from Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams—who told the International Women’s Peace Conference in Dallas that she wanted to “kill George Bush.” : Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached. * In a keynote speech at the International Women’s Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally. * “Right now, I could kill George Bush,” she said at the Adam’s Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. “No, I don’t mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.” * About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush’s removal from power.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/20/hip-hop-website-features-video-child-threatening-kill-president-bush
The DVD and music-sharing website World Star Hip Hop is currently featuring a video of what appears to be an elementary school student threatening to kill President George W. Bush. ** I have absolutely no interest in embedding this video, and strongly caution readers about excessive vulgarity, as well as almost unthinkably offensive content; although curiosity will likely get the best of you, please think twice before clicking on that link above. ** As Ed Morrissey reported at Hot Air moments ago: It’s more than a little disturbing, not so much because it amounts to a real threat, but because it shows just how poisonous Bush-hatred has become. After all, an eight-year-old doesn’t come up with this kind of lunacy all on his own. This is an apple that fell from a psychotic tree.
The idea that restoring the American ideals of liberty and individual civic and personal responsibility may one day require revolution, especially as a topic for discussion rather than as a plotting or planning scheme, amounts to honest, frustrated and yes, at times, angry men (and women) expressing their concerns and dedication to their country. The above garbage is pure anger and hate passed off as clever political discourse or humor. You have nothing to brag about IMHO.
To all who would claim terrorism is what is suggested in this guys article. May I suggest a little time spent reading what the founding fathers of this once great country had to say to the very individuals like you back in their day.
Various quotes from Samuel Adams. Allow me to begin with my all time favorite;
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
***** And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.
***** Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?
***** A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.
***** How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
***** The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
***** Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
***** It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
And Finally *****
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Ever Vigilant, Ever the Ready!
"Libby: The founders, for all the high-flown language in the Constitution, permitted only fellas ... white fellas ... with either inherited wealth or the intellectual wherewithal to acquire wealth, to vote. **
Is this what you hanker after?"
High flown? It is only the language that set the stage for women to make their case. They could have put some good old boy language in the docs instead...BUT THEY DIDN'T.
Apparently the current president doesn't share the ideals of the founders. It's OK for him to organize to win the highest office in the land but it isn't OK for ordinary citizens to organize in opposition to his designs to take control over the health care industry. He's even asking for his orgganized minions to turn the names of people in if they are speaking against the health care bills. Good grief!
Tom please, do not use name calling here and just keep it clean. We like to debate and we encourage opposing points of view. By all means say what you want, just respect our few limited rules. Thanks, the Editor.
Sorry, but I find it interesting how you are very selective in your attempt to keep the language down to a respectful level. I have read many posts where you the editors have used worse language than I have in the way you responded to certain individuals.
There are times when name calling is appropriate, and I for one cannot guarantee that I will not use various adjectives to describe some of the people who comment here. After all, how else am I supposed to point out that certain individuals in my opinion prove, if evolution is a fact, that it can and does go in reverse.
I mean honestly, what is wrong with stating that K has a leak in his/her skylight? Or that Libby is a few pecans short of a fruitcake? Let's be honest here, we are talking about people who in my humble and polite opinion do not know whether they should scratch their watch or wind their butt. Come on people, as far as I can tell their logs may be ablaze but their chimneys are clogged. Why else would they be attempting to blow you know what up my rear with their illogical, emotionally, retarded comments?
Sorry, I had to have some fun, but just as I pointed out earlier, my insults are fairly tame compared to what I have read you editors using. And don't even get me started on the insults Libby interjects into her comments. All she does is insult people here, go back and read her comments if you think I am wrong.
However if you want that I should be a little nicer with the lefties, then I will be. Now I know why California is so screwed up, you people do not know that you need to fight fire with fire. Until you learn that lesson, those communist bastards on the left coast will continue to have you people for lunch.
Tom, you make a good case! And nobody can appreciate your honesty and sincere emotion more than a brother/sister conservative. We here at PS are good conservatives, but we have to respect the rules. Sometimes our passions push us across that line too and when they do feel free to remind us! We're just humans, we make mistakes and when we do we need to be self-policing, to make this a fun place where all can exchange ideas.
WOW...thanks Rocker. Love them all but this one, given the organizers desparaging remarks about good citizens speaking out, stands out today for me:
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
It may seem to be dead, but I think Obama will resurrect conservatism (and has in many ways) by demonstrating his leftist, fascist, communist, tendencies with Health Care, CO2 tax, and a general inability to turn a sour economy around with: you guessed it, higher taxes.
If I were gay (and I'm not, thank you) I'd be so pissed I'd vote for a conservative- that way I still couldn't get 'married', but at least I'd have a job.
Maybe this sort of defection can occur on a larger scale than we may predict, but one things for certain- the path we're on won't get us where we should be as the richest state in the Union.
In fact, the path we've been taking all these 'liberal state government' years will very soon come crashing down on a lot of people for lack of 'vision' and 'principle'.
Momma said there'd be days like this.
But Rocker, you still do not tell us in what manner you are deprived, infringed or anything else. Has somebody confiscated your papers, tooken your gun, maligned your virtue?
If you're going to moan some more about your taxes, I'm telling you that I am sick and tired of this insistence on services coupled with an infantile denial of the costs.
You don't want to pay to house the inmates? You got your wish. Now shut up. I'm having a high old time imagining them scaling Jack's gate.
Both parties need to go and we need a purely constitutional govt and we can leave the rest to the states and individuals.
That sir is the key to the whole process. If we can get things back to the state level as defined by the tenth amendment, then we can really eliminate most of what divides the right and thus defeat the left consistently.
However, the left knows that also, so they cannot afford to allow for the states to enforce their tenth amendment rights. That is why you never see them teach about it in schools. When was the last time you heard of a younger person mention the tenth? They don't because they have not been taught the truth about the constitution and the facts about the amendments.
The party is not dead, but it is on life support, and if we do not do something quick......Well, let me just say we may need more than a Doctor to resuscitate it.
Back off people, step back and think strategically, think historically.
There is more power in presence, we have just been quiet and lazy. If this tactic fails, then there is a plan B in Our Constitution. We would be hypocrites to attempt anything other than using the rule of law.
This is the USA, not Venezuela.
We have a responsibility to ourselves and our neighbors to use our Constitutionally given rights. I cannot believe the rabid response, folks we are just getting started. Time to clean up our house, take back our country with our Presence, our Vote, Our Constitution.
You know, I must admit that the kind of passion I sense from you men is what has always kept me from going lezbo....LOL
I love real men who are not afraid to admit their displeasure at any given situation. But that is why God made it so women have children. He needed us to tame you wild boys. Hot Dam!
We live in a CORPORATE OLIGARCHY where individual self-interest reigns supreme. True patriotism died from a bullet wound to the head at Ford's Theater, 145 years ago.
God Help Us!