Quotes for July 4th

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government

.-Edward Abbey

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe

-John Adams

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

-John Quincy Adams

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.

-Samuel Adams

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression

-Alabama Declaration of Rights section 35

The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

-Winston Churchill

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free

-Charles S. Darrow

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

-Justice William O. Douglas

Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.

-Ben Franklin

Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

-Barry Goldwater

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

-Germaine Greer

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

-Andrew Johnson

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty

-John F. Kennedy

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls

-Wayne LaPierre

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

-Richard Henry Lee

The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

-Abraham Lincoln

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power

-Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

-James Madison

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree

-Thomas Paine

Man is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on them to do the same.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

-Ronald Regan

Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books

-Jimmy Stewart "Mr. Smith goes to Washington"

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

-Dorothy Thompson

...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men

-Voltaire

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

-George Washington

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.

-Daniel Webster

Obama doesn't like oppressed people

I always felt that one of America's best qualities was that it was that we spread the hope of liberty to all oppressed people. We showed that the common man could throw down the shackles of oppression to form a government of the people. We stood up to the most powerful nation(twice) and beat them. We are the first country in history that has not used our superior armies to conquer foreign nations. We have stood up to tyrants throughout history before they could conquer the world, and when we couldn't(or wouldn't) stand up we gave aid to our oppressed brothers and sisters. We started VOA(voice of America) to get our message of freedom and liberty to oppressed nations. Maybe this is a Frank Capra-ish view, but it is my view. The last 2 weeks however America has changed, thanks to the Obama administration.

First was the Iranian election. For those of you that don't know how Iran works, here's a brief rundown. The supreme leader(Khamenei) has the final say over all matters, he decides if the person elected is the one that is best for Iran's(and more importantly HIS) ideas. After the June elections Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. His opponent Mousavi and his followers cried "foul"! They took to the streets in the 100's of thousands. There were brutal crackdowns on these peaceful protests that included the now infamous killing of a young woman. After a week of protests, killings and beatings our President finally spoke to the people of Iran to give them hope by saying to the government of Iran "stop all the violent and unjust actions against their own people" Wow that's pretty harsh, what's more interesting is he made this weak statement after being pressured by his own staff to make a statement. Nothing saying America will stand with the oppressed, or anything else to give support to the Iranian people.

Now lets look at Honduras. The president (Manuel Zelaya) wanted to become a dictator by being allowed to be president longer than the constitution says. The supreme court and congress of Honduras said no to this, however he wasn't going to let his dreams of a dictatorship rest. The congress contacted the military to "get rid" of the president. Now here's the interesting thing. The military arrested the president and took him to the airport to go to Costa Rica. After doing this the military gives power BACK to the congress! They in turn vote in an interim president, who is from the same party as the ousted president! The interim president says the January elections will go on as planned and he WILL NOT run for president. This has to be the most peaceful and democratic coup of all times! When was the last time you heard of a coup that the military didn't want to control the country, and that congress put the same party back in power? Now here's how Obama reacts. He says that Zelaya is the democratic president and the coup was illegal! He does however have some people that back him on this, most notably Chavez, Ortega and the Castro bros. That's some good company for an American president to have. Take that Honduras how dare you oust a would be dictator!

What does this say to our neighbors? America will no longer stand with the just and right, and will stand with dictators and tyrants! Sorry world Obama doesn't care about your right to freedom and liberty.

Minnesota elects a comedian, and I'm not laughing!

Yesterday Norm Coleman conceded the election in Minnesota. After 8 months of recounts, and court room drama, Al Franken is now the junior senator of Minnesota! This means that King Obama now has complete control of both houses of Congress. With the cap and trade bill coming up in the Senate in a couple weeks, there is a better than good chance that the capitalist system we have all enjoyed all our lives will be gone overnight. We will be paying anywhere from 100-300% more in utilities. Not to mention prices for everything else will rise to help companies pay for the strangling yoke of cap and trade. Fraud will run rampant, as the government will decide who gets the "coupons". Fake businesses will pop up selling their "coupons" to other business that are in need of them or face fines from Uncle Sam. Other companies will realize its easier to just move outside the United States to escape restrictive government in the private sector. Smaller business that don't have this option will be forced to close. Either way millions will be out of jobs. All of this(and more) just for some pseudo-science that is global warming.

Pedophile Protection Act debated tomorrow (5/12/09)

Tomorrow the Senate will be discussing a new hate crime bill(H.R. 1913/S. 909).  This bill was originally intended to add homosexuality to the hate crime bill already enacted.  However, because of its broad definitions every fetish will be protected.  Rep. Louis Gohmert(R-TX)fought in committee and in the House to define "sexual orientation" but the democrats refused.  I guess they want to add to their base and shore up that all important necrophilia vote!  The same Democrats rejected an amendment to the bill that included the military who may be harassed for their service.  I guess they don't need that vote!  As Gohmert said on a recent radio talk show:

"You see someone spying on you changing clothes and you hit them, they've committed a misdemeanor, you've committed a federal felony under this bill. It is so wrong."

It will also ban hate speech towards these sexual orientation.  This will include churches, synagogues, and mosques(although they never mention mosques).  Therefore if a preacher/priest/rabbi/cleric(or what have you) is preaching about the sins of homosexuality and someone in that congregation ends up killing a homosexual the preacher could be prosecuted for 'conspiracy to commit a hate crime'!  Whole passages of the Bible/Torah/Quran will have to be blackened out for fear of prosecution.    

Liberals love to yell "separation of church and state", however they don't understand that goes both ways!  I urge everyone to write to your senators, and tell them that you don't want pedophiles to be protected by the federal government!   As Rep. Gohmert said: 

"If you guys put up a strong enough fight, that will give backbone enough to the 41 or 42 in the Senate to say we don't want to have our names on that."

I leave you with a video of  Rep. Alcee Hastings(D-FL) reading a list of fetishes protected.  At around the 2:40 mark he states:

 "This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these 'philias' and fetishes and 'ism's' that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule…"

Tea Party round up

By now you have probably heard that Obama's homeland security department sees you as a threat.  Basically if you vote republican, served your country, feel that illegal immigration is just that ILLEGAL, and have a moral opposition to abortion you will become a terrorist.  I know that may shock you.  Most of you probably don't think you have enough time to plan let alone execute an attack on the country you love!  So if you went to a tea party and wondered "who's that guy in the suit with sunglasses, and why is he talking into his cuff link?" don't worry....its just Homeland Security making sure you weren't buying a copy of the anarchist's cookbook.  

It's bad enough that the Obama administration thinks this, but now Janeane Garofalo is sounding off.  In case you don't know who she is she's a b-lister that is now on 24.  She was on MSNBC's "The Countdown with Keith Olbermann" in which she said:

"Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don't know their history at all. It's about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that."

Since Ms. Garofalo is a fan of history, here's a quick history of the word redneck.  The first time it was used in print was as an adjective during the Battle of Blair Mountain.  You see when the pro-union miners marched on the mine they wore red handkerchiefs around their neck.  That way their union brother's would realize who they were, and aim their guns elsewhere.  That's right rednecks were pro-union democrats.   Oh and p.s. Janeane a little more history...conservatives make a majority of the viewers of 24.  So if you want to give back your "dirty money" I'll understand.

Anyway as a person that was at a tea party I didn't notice the Klan, or Nazi's.  I didn't see anyone burn Obama in effigy, nobody was goose-stepping up the street.  What I saw was 2500 people that believe that bailing out companies and mortgages are wrong.  People that feel that our government is becoming a bloated monster that is getting involved in areas it should never be.  I also so people that feel that the constitution should be the law of the land, not any person or group of people.  I saw people that feel that our government is giving up this nation's sovereignty to the U.N.  I saw people that feel if the government would step back we can fix all our own problems.  I saw people that know that this stimulus package will put our children and grandchildren in the chains of debt. 

So if it makes liberals sleep better at night to label me a threat, or a racist...then go ahead.  I know who I am and what I believe.  If anyone gets a liberal in secret Santa, don't buy them a label maker, apparently they already have one!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/apr/17/liberal-actress-says-tea-parties-were-racist/

Tea Party 2009

Tomorrow is the nationwide tax day.  I'll be heading to Harrisburg, Pa(my capital) to join in the protest.  It will be a soggy day, but I hope that won't deter anyone from going out.  For those of you going to a "tea party" if I may give some advice.

1. Do not make this a Republicans against Obama rally.

   This is counterproductive.  The media wants to hear us scream about Obama, makes a good sound byte.  They are trying to tell people that this is because we're upset "our guy" didn't win.  This has to be because Washington isn't being a good steward to the money we let them use.  Replace the word "Democrats" with "Washington"

2. Do not identify yourself as a Republican!

Again this goes back to number 1.  They want the people watching at home to think this is all sour grapes after losing in November.  Instead identify yourself as a conservative. Be sure to mention you're upset at all parties for spending like drunken idiots. 

3. Stay on the message of taxes and bailouts!

This is not the time to spout off about how you think Obama is going to take away your guns, create a new world order or that he hasn't proved that he's a U.S. citizen.  This is not the purpose of the tea party.  There will be time to address these issues later.  For this to be a productive protest you need to win the minds and hearts of Joe Six pack watching at home.  As near as I can tell no one likes taxes!

4. Puff your numbers up! 

This is an old protesters trick.  For instance, if you only have 20 people and they ask how many are there say "We are proud to have close to 100 people out today, not to mention the 100's more stopping by in support of this".  I realize this may create a moral dilemma for some.  So in that case mention that you are only a small part of a movement that is over 6000 city strong.

5. Smile and be polite!

This is the most important thing.  If you are screaming, yelling, and looking ticked off you will come across as a wack-job!  Think about when you see some liberal protesting acting like this...what do you think of them?  If someone is trying to "get your goat" come back at them with kindness.  Don't be surprised if this happens.  ACORN  and Huffington Post have already said there will be counter protests and citizen journalists at the rallies.  

6. Follow up afterwards!

Write a letter to your local paper mentioning how much of a success this was.  Talk about how you sent a message to Washington that they have to be better stewards of our money.  Talk to your neighbors and colleagues about the rally.  Keep the buzz going about this.  Tell them about future protests if there are any in your area.

7. Check your spelling!

This is one of the most important things.  Nothing can ruin a protest like some idiot that can't spell.  This will be the one thing that the media zooms in on!  So when you make your signs, t-shirts, etc. check it and have someone else look as well.  Also take some time on your signs, don't make it look like a 3rd grader with a crayon did it!

Finally remember that protests and rallies are new things to conservatives.  Liberals have been doing the whole grassroots thing for over 40 years now, this is their bread and butter! 

Giving props

I just want to give Obama his props for having the courage to take care of the Somali pirates that were holding an American merchant captain hostage.  To be honest I really didn't think he'd give the red light to the Navy Seals.  I only hope he can use this new found chutzpah towards Kim Jon Il.  As we speak he has thrown out the U.N. nuclear monitors as it revamps its attempt to become a nuclear superpower.