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Warnings From the Grave

by Doug on August 27, 2009 · 1 comment

in Big Government,Freedom,Government,Hope for America,Liberty,Politics,Saving Our Country,Second Amendment,States' Rights

The men we have come to revere as our founding fathers were strong, opinionated, ordinary men. They didn’t think of themselves as heroes, yet they saw what needed to be done and did it regardless of the personal risk and sacrifice involved.

They must have wondered on many of those long lonely nights away from their lovers and their children if their sacrifices would ultimately be worth while. Surely in those lonely moments of doubt, they must have imagined the challenges, we, their posterity would face. Would we have the courage and the wisdom to face them and prevail? Would we be willing to pay the same price they did to preserve liberty for ourselves and our posterity?

They had charged ahead to the point of no return to the status quo. They had become criminals in the eyes of the lawful government of the land. They were condemned to lives as a fugitives and soldiers when they were really farmers and tradesmen.

I find their ability to imagine our future and plan for it in the constitution they adopted amazing. Clearly they saw our day and recorded warnings and encouragement for us to see at the times we would need it most.

Here then are some timely warnings from our firebrand forebearers, revolutionaries and trouble makers all. I will let them speak for themselves, warnings from the grave:

First and foremost these men feared the potential for evil that government holds. They mistrusted government in general and encouraged the same of us Government was to play a very narrow, controlled role in our nation:

George Washington:

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments

John Adams:

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

And finally, Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least.

They also generally mistrusted those who would step forth and seek to govern, understanding that by its nature the very power vested in government would attract the wrong kind of person.

George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

John Adams

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Thomas Jefferson:

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.

There was no mistake in the minds of these men the role that the second amendment was to play in keeping us free. The purpose of an armed citizenry is to protect itself from the tyranny of its own government!

George Washington

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.

John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.

Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

We must listen to these men and heed their warnings. The nature of men and governments is unchanging. Our founders experienced oppression, felt the chains and were determined that we never would!

Our precious liberty was fought for and purchased with the blood of men and women whose names we may never hear. And as Jefferson predicted, the tree of our liberty has been nourished with the blood of heroes and tyrants from time to time since then.

The soils of Europe, the sands of Africa the atolls of the pacific, the jungles of Asia, and now the rugged terrain and desserts of the middle east are all stained with the blood of brave Americans who stood with our founders and shouted “the liberty of my fellow countrymen and our posterity is more important than my very life!”

God help us to see clearly and honor their sacrifice. Help us to stand up to any would be tyrants that threaten our liberty and disdain our constitution. Help us to successfully crush any who would rob our children of the great legacy that has been bequeathed to them through the blood and sacrifice of patriots throughout the existence of our great land. Help us not to be the weak link that breaks this divine chain of liberty, the last great hope of the world.

What are you doing to protect your posterity and to save our country? Tell us here.

Time For Some Backbone

by Doug on June 4, 2009 · 7 comments

in Action,Boycott

Here’s a fact for you: Conservatives are the backbone of America. We say that because we conservatives constitute the majority of those who carry the weight in our country. We make good things happen. We are the majority (not the totality) of those who:

  • Still think for ourselves instead of relying on the irresponsible media to tell us what to think
  • Work for a living, build industry and commerce, pay our taxes
  • Truly love America and understand our heritage of liberty and its immense cost
  • Fill our places of worship, donate to charity and live by a moral code
  • Are devoted to our children and take care in their mental and spiritual development

If the above is true, which it is, why is our country in the mess it is in? Why are we standing helplessly on the sidelines watching as America falls from glory and our liberties are quickly devoured by those who trample our constitution in pursuit of their own power?

The answer is too complex to fully tackle here, but the reality is that this has been building up for decades. Conservatives enthusiastically believed the tide had turned with the advent of the Reagan administration, but in reality it was just a pause. When we lost President Reagan we quickly returned to our destructive course. We are like the proverbial frogs in the pot. It has happened around us so gradually that while we may have felt uneasy, we were not alarmed until Mr. Obama was elected president and the decline seemed to accelerate to warp speed.

The truth is, while conservatives are in the majority, we appear to be independent and self-directed with no clear leader. Like a laser with too diffuse a beam, we have not focused our passion or power. Nor have we acted together to maintain the America that was bequeathed us by our forefathers. Many conservatives have confined their civic duties to voting for those that most reflected their views. The political party that supposedly most represented conservative views, consciously “widened the tent” to accommodate a broad range of doctrines and values, thereby diluting its message, power and influence. The GOP simply homogenized itself out of relevancy. “RINOs” (Republican In Name Only) have dominated and given the party the appearance of the cowboy who jumped on his horse and galloped off in all directions.

While the GOP may, in time, redeem and re-brand itself, conservatives need a united voice now! We don’t have time to wait for 2010 and 2012 elections. We seriously doubt if the considerable work that must be done within the GOP can be completed by then, anyway. Where does this leave us, America’s conservatives?

While Republican office holders arrogantly gloated and behaved like tax and spend liberals, conspiring men and women stepped forth with a plan to seize and wield power effectively for their own purposes. These power hungry politicians recognized that an uninformed ballot cast by someone incapable of independent thought was equal in value to the vote cast after careful evaluation by a principled citizen. As an added bonus, since the Great Unthinking derive their deepest thoughts and opinions from television and celebrity gossip, they are easily manipulated. A brilliant plan was devised to exploit this weakness. The task was relatively simple: motivate these lightweight, star struck, uninformed, drooling zombies to go to the polls on just one day every couple of years! Accomplish this, and the conspirators could legally take over our country and have their way with her. Thus the rise of ACORN.

Unfortunately, though we are in the majority among responsible citizens, the Great Unthinking outnumber responsible citizens altogether. Look good in a bathing suit, master the art of the sound bite, have a functioning teleprompter and promise what the Great Unthinking want to hear, and the country falls into your hands like a ripe fruit.

How do we, the conservative majority, including Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Independents, retake our country and preserve our liberties? Benjamin Franklin’s remarks as patriots gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776 are just as applicable today as they were then: “We must hang together, or we will assuredly hang separately.”

We MUST unite, and focus our passions, our power and our efforts. We must start with an objective that is relatively simple around which to organize ourselves and make our connections. Then, building on initial successes, move on to greater issues. It is time for some backbone!

Are you surprised that we have a suggestion for an initial project? It is time to lawfully use our combined economic power and leverage to strike back at the large media players that seem determined to ruin our country. These treacherous titans have been the biggest single factor in the deterioration of our society to the terrible place we find ourselves occupying today. They have destroyed our culture and created the Great Unthinking masses that have become a tool for consolidation of power for those who ignore our constitution. And, they all have major weak spots where they are vulnerable to our united action!

There are so many potential targets for our righteous wrath, but none more deserving than the NBC media empire, NBC Universal. The latest example of their outrageous irresponsibility occurred recently when MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, with his most solemn sanctimonious face and using his most unctuous voice, announced he had “proof” that Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly had incited the murder of late-term abortion doctor Tiller. Dramatically, he stated that O’Reilly and Fox had Tiller’s blood on their hands. Olbermann used several out-of-context video clips from O’Reilly’s show. Although O’Reilly was clearly reporting the truth, when one is talking about “partial birth abortions”, the truth is very upsetting. Olbermann then went on to call for an “indirect Boycott” of Fox News, asking viewers to refuse to patronize establishments that displayed TV’s on premises tuned to Fox. The video of this atrocious broadcast is included for you to watch should you have the stomach for it.

We made ourselves watch it all and actually became physically ill. We advise you to take our word, but watch it if you must. Olbermann, by the way, characterized Tiller as a hero, never mentioning the 60,000 babies he murdered for $5,000 each – - – babies who could have lived outside the mother’s womb. You can see our feelings regarding Tiller’s murder posted as a comment under “The Trust of a Child” (short version: it was murder, set the pro-life cause back and saved not a single life. The clinic still exists and others will step forward and take Tiller’s place. Tiller will not be the last multi-millionaire to build his business on the bones of babies.)

The payback opportunity we see is this: The parent company of the NBC Universal media empire is GE. GE lives in a glass house when it comes to boycott vulnerability and should not allow its “children” to throw stones. We call upon all true conservatives to unite and boycott all things GE. Let’s use this as a warm-up round to build unity and discipline among conservatives. The patriots of the American Revolution gave up home and hearth and their very lives in order to wrest our liberty from the hands of tyrants.

Do we love America enough to give up “Heroes”, “30 Rock” or “Mad Money”? Enough to shop for alternatives to GE light bulbs and appliance brands?

If not, America is simply lost.

When we unite and wield our lawful power as one, the battle is all but over. We can legally and lawfully take our country back and banish all would be oppressors if we hang together.

Remember, that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. OK, let’s take that step but let’s do it quickly. Let’s start by stopping NBC from spawning zombies. Let’s tell “Mamma GE” she is responsible for the behavior of her children and she had better cause them to behave responsibly and cease destroying America!

Coincidentally, Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of NBC Universal parent GE, serves as a member of the Obama Regime’s new economic advisory board. This board played a big role in designing the “Obama Economic Recovery Plan”.

Remember Albert Einstein’s definition: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” We have voted over and over and depended on “our party” to be our voice. Let’s try something effective! Let’s employ the power of focused passion and unified action! Let our economic voices rise as one and throw the bastards out! Let’s Boycott all things NBC and GE!

Please join us in this first simple, lawful step and help us spread the word to Conservatives of all party labels. Whether you agree with us or not we would value knowing your opinion.

IT IS TIME FOR ACTION TO REPLACE TALK! Let’s pass our hard won liberty on to our descendants.

Its time for some backbone!

We need to act together. Please let us know if you have a better target. We WANT your feedback.

Below is information on the GE worldwide empire:

The General Electric Website outlines their diverse worldwide empire. Most GE products carry the GE brand but there are many others, especially in the entertainment industry.

NBC Universal Brands:

Tax Day

by Libertys Army on April 15, 2009

in Taxes

Today, hundreds of thousands of Americans are participating in tea parties in cities all across our nation. They are moms and dads, teachers and students, businessmen and women. They are Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents and they are all protesting the same thing – out of control government spending and taxes.

Complicated

Albert Einstein said, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” We can only imagine what he would say of the insanity that it has become today.

According to the Tax Foundation’s 2009 Survey of U.S. Attitudes on Taxes, Government Spending and Wealth Distribution, 85% of adults say the federal tax code is complex and 82% say that the tax system needs to be completely overhauled.

In 1913, Form 1040 and instructions were four (4) pages long. In 2008, Form 1040 Instructions alone (without the actual tax forms) are 161 pages long.

The U.S. Tax Code contains upwards of 70,000 pages. Every year it gets more complex. In fact, the burden of compliance has become a tax of its own. Compliance costs are estimated at $300 billion a year. An estimated 60% of Americans use paid tax preparation services.

According to the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service 2008 Report to Congress:

  • U.S. taxpayers and businesses spend about 7.6 billion hours a year complying with the filing requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.2 And that figure does not even include the millions of additional hours that taxpayers must spend when they are required to respond to an IRS notice or an audit.
  • If tax compliance were an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States.
    To consume 7.6 billion hours, the “tax industry” requires the equivalent of 3.8 million
    full-time workers.

    • It’s clear to everyone but our elected officials that the American Tax Code needs and enema.


    Alternatives

    Today, there are three alternatives to our current federal income tax. They are, in no particular order: the Fair Tax, the Flat Tax, and No Tax.

    You can find more information about each alternative at the following links:

    Fair Tax

    Flat Tax

    No Tax

    “The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers

    According to the Tax Foundation, Tax Freedom Day in 2009 is on April 13th.

    This is eight days earlier than in 2008, and a full two weeks earlier than in 2007, for two reasons: (1) the recession has reduced tax collections even faster than it has reduced income, and (2) the stimulus package includes large temporary tax cuts for 2009 and 2010. Nevertheless, Americans will pay more in taxes than they will spend on food, clothing and housing combined.

    Source: The Tax Foundation’s Tax Freedom Day Report

    Here is a chart that lists Tax Freedom Day by state.

    Other interesting tax facts and commentary:

    Glenn Beck Shorts 04-14-09 Tax Code Being Used as a Weapon

    Our Troubling Tax System