I don’t believe it is. And in a free country, free men must be able to discuss potential unbridled abuse of power without fear of government reprisals.
The Internet is a large-scale version of the “Committees of Correspondence” that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington’s failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.
People are asking, “Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?”
Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.
I think Christian and Robbins make a good case.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.– Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. July 2010 at 10:03 am
We just watched the HBO series ‘John Adams’… [except for the 7th and final episode - I didn't like the way they were going to portray Adams as President -and yes, I'm psychic that way.]
It was electrifying, passionate, patriotic and a very emotional view for me; found myself crying every episode at the bravery of the first Americans.
And it got me thinking, of course, about our imperialist government of today. How far are we from taking up arms – really? Obanga really is ‘diminishing America from within’ but can we stop the tide before we’re flooded?
31. July 2010 at 6:28 pm
Unfortunately I think we are too far from taking up arms to stem the tide. I have grave doubts that this experiment will last beyond another generation, if that.
31. July 2010 at 10:51 pm
I have given the courts one last chance to right the situation and it does not look good. That judge saying that Arizona cannot enforce the law, an exact copy of Federal law by the way, and those idiots at the Ninth Circuit refusing to take Arizona’s appeal makes it more likely that Americans will give up on the law. The Supreme Court is the last hope.
This is not the first time Americans have had to take the law into their own hands. Sorry, that sentence is wrong. It will not be the first time Americans had to take the law into our own hands. Yes, that’s better.
There was that county in, I think, Tennessee (maybe Kentucky, someplace around there) where returning veterans of WW2 had to fight the Sheriff and local PDs, as well as the courts. They won.
There was San Francisco in the pre-Civil War days and there was Sheriff Plummer in the northwest. There are more cases.
Americans are slow to act in this fashion. We know that innocents are invariably hurt and killed, we also know that those who have seized power illegally always react violently. They have always lost, though, not without losses on both sides.
Obama cannot win unless he firms up command of the Armed Forces. There are simply not enough police, they would lose just by people saying “no”. Again, there just are not enough. If, he decided to arm the Nation of Islam and New Black Panhters they would be slaughtered in the first ring of suburbs, leaving us country folks frustrated for lack of targets.
No, he’d need the Armed Forces and that crowd is making some awfully stupid errors on that count. The laughably named “Justice” Department refusing to see that military votes are counted?
I believe Obama would like to become a dictator. He, and the crowd he has surrounded himself with are too stupid, though. To be a dictator one must have a crowd of supporters willing to enforce his will. Obama has Journolist and those punkass New Black Panthers.
The only way Obama will be a dictator is to shovel a mess of mashed potatoes into the front of his jockey shorts.
1. August 2010 at 10:16 am
I agree, thankfully. Doesn’t mean he won’t cock up as much of the works as he can while he’s in power.
1. August 2010 at 8:47 am
The state of this nation depresses the hell out of me.
1. August 2010 at 10:16 am
Me too.