Alan Jessup PEACE Regular member Location: Jonesboro, AR Last login: 02/15/10 RSS feed
'...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. 1775
"Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures. But the constitution of England is so exceedingly complex, that the nation may suffer for years together without being able to discover in which part the fault lies; some will say in one and some in another, and every political physician will advise a different medicine." Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
If you will check my blog entry titled "Response from Congressman Marion Berry" you will see that after I recieved a response from him, about my opposition to the original TARP bailout, I sent him another e-mail with a link to the "I.O.U.S.A" 30 minute youtube version.
I am proud to say that, as of February 14, 2009, on his own website http://www.house.gov/berry the video that I sent him was included with the title "WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT OUR FEDERAL DEFICIT". I know it isn't much, and I haven't gotten to speak with him about co-sponsoring HR 1207, or HR 1866 YET, but I am encouraged to think that I may have helped open his eyes. We still have a long way to go, but kudos to Congressman Marion Berry for allowing such an important link to be displayed on his congressional website.
While we sit and read about the idiocy that is going on in Washington D.C. and try to decide the best way to produce action toward saving our republic, our soldiers are fighting overseas, and losing their lives there. Somehow the economic issues facing our nation have taken precedence over the very lives of our own people, and I am ashamed of myself...
The biggest issues right now are too numerous to keep track of. But I challenge anyone to disagree that the most important thing we stand to lose (through this cascading crash of our liberty, economy, rights, freedoms, and ultimately our lifestyles) are the lives of our most valiant people, the ones willing to kill and die fighting overseas, due to the deceptions of our corrupt system.
I remember when I felt like I had rights and I realize the difference between then and now, it's that I have now allowed "them" to convince me that "they" had some sort of magical power to take away my inalienable rights. Did my ability to think for myself disappear with a few strokes from their mighty pens? NO
So, I'm sick of all the nonsense regarding legalization of medical marijuana for so many reasons. When all the arguments against decriminalizing are said and done, none of them even have any merit. Because none of these people can take away our fundamental right to decide for ourselves (and would you really want to leave it up to the medical community anyway?).
The "Gateway drug" issue (HAHAHA) Coffee is a gateway drug, as well as chocolate. And how about Alcohol or Tobacco?
Health Detrement argument (HAHAHA) You would have to be high on some really hard drugs to believe that "THEY" give a damn about your health, physical or mental.
Economic issue (HAHAHA) Taxing crops and farming is not a new concept, even though I believe that it is wrong, "they" already have the system in place.
Why did the republicans choose to run John McCain? Why didn't John Kerry actually try to win?
Well, it doesn't matter of course which one of the major candidates is elected. The job will be tough for anyone at this point. But with the trade deficit about to double in the next year, the value of the dollar taking a nose dive, and many other snowballs that the current government is rolling down the mountain already, the next administration is stepping into the worst set-up any has ever faced. As things get worse and worse for America, We The People will find it easy to look at the new president and play the blame game. This will only help continue the current cascade. So instead, let's educate our next Pres. about liberty and the solutions that are already on the table as well as come up with even better plans to save our own country. And share them with everyone we can from our neighbors on up to the oval office. Obama supporters are bound to be disappointed shortly and will need us to help them learn about the real issues and ways to work with what we have to make changes that matter. I believe that any president will be made a tool, let's make the next one ours. And don't let him take the fall for everything that's been working against us for 100 years.
Merriam Webster Dictionary
pat·sy
Pronunciation:
ˈpat-sē
Function:
noun
Etymology:
perhap s from Italian pazzo fool
Date: 1903: a person who is easily manipulated or victimized : pushover
This more aptly applies to the current president, who has shown the public face for the corrupt and powerful, and even these past few days placed all of the blame on Hamas and none on Israel, while they are clearly both responsible for the continuing violence between Palestine and Israel.
The president still denies invading Iraq was a mistake.
Is it his fiercely independent and unwavering commitment to ideals? So sorry, that would be seriously naive......
Since my most recent 'Awakening', I've started thinking about what role the government has played in my life personally. And it will take a bit of my history to explain their actions and the affects of such. My parents divorced when I was 5 years old, very common story and I understand now why they did. This was during the eighties however and there was almost no chance of a father getting custody of a 5 year old, in Texas at least. So I lived with Mom. Times were tough and the only real help I remember us recieving from the government was from food stamps. A good program I believed in until recently. Mom worked and I was a latch-key kid at 8 who was awakened for school by the telephone, got myself ready and made it to the bus stop alone. Most days I came home to an empty house as well, many different houses over a few years. Mom recieved help from the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program after she became pregnant with my younger brother also. And while all this was going on my mother was becoming a drug addict (or already was?). Meanwhile my father was working as well, however he still lived in a house that my grand-father built on our small farm in Rock Island, TX. next door to my grandmother (my hero) on land that was owned by my great-grandparents before them. But the courts in their infinite wisdom didn't think that stability was the main issue for children at the time. and were it not for the "help" of the food stamp program we could not have continued eating, though we barely did at times, and my mother would have been forced to ask my Dad to take me. So rather than allow me to spend priceless time with my grandmother as well as possiblly attend the same school for more than 6 months at a time, the government enabled my mother to keep me. My parents were great though and for a while I did live with my dad on grandma's (our's still today) farm . I attended school for a couple of years 4th - 5th grade at Columbus Elementary because mom had a place in Columbus and Rock Island is in the same school district. Then we were off to Austin again and when I got back to school I found that the 6th grade materials were the very same books and tests that I had been using and taking in the 4th grade. Hmm so they had taken from me; a chance at a more stable home, a better education, and years of the knowledge only grandparents can teach.
That being said at 12 when I found mom's drugs and a school counselor explained what I had found, I chose to stay with my father after a christmas break. Mom moved away from Texas and quit the drugs found a great husband and...anyway they possibly prolonged her habit with government "assistance".
What do you think I owe them for this? They think I should pay taxes so others can recieve food stamps and benefit like I did...
Peace, thanks for sharing such a personal story. I'm happy for you that you're able to look back with so much reasoning on a time that must have been very emotional and difficult.
Your story exemplifies the truth that government intervention - even with the best of intentions - is always going to have unintended consequences that will very likely cause that intervention to do more harm than good.
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