The Gun To Our Heads….
Posted on | November 9, 2008 |
The Monster is no longer angry; The Monster is resolved.
After 8 years of President Bush’s crazed leadership, the country has now elected another loser, and upgraded the type of firearm being held to the country’s proverbial head. If every other American wants to close their eyes, put their hands in the air and believe that every gas tank is going to be full and every mortgage is going to be magically paid; go right ahead, this American born to immigrants, and a student of American History, is not going to be following the masses off that cliff.
I may be the voice in the wilderness, but I will not congratulate the President Elect on winning the election and the White House because I still believe in the American philosophy of “It is not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game”, and I believe that the corrupt Democratic Party has FINALLY beaten the corrupt Republican Party at it’s own “Rovian Game”, and taken the buying of an American Presidency to new levels. I refuse to be gracious under these circumstances, and I would be a hypocrite if I did so.
I admit I am a hard sell. In 1999, during the WTO Conference, I was working close to the hotel that the convention participants were staying at. I was questioned by a co-worker when I was not fawning over the idea of having President Clinton so close by. I was asked “Who would impress you?” My reply? “I would be impressed if Jesus Christ, Thomas Jefferson, or Ghandi walked through the door”. I liked President Clinton, and I feel he was a good president, but fawn over someone that has to put his pants on one leg at a time just like everybody else? Nope. Look at each of our presidents and there is usually some type of scandal associated with their presidencies. It is human nature to abuse power. Our presidents are riding a breakneck, bucking, wild stallion and just trying to hold on for dear life, usually against an opposing Congress. They are not creating anything like the above mentioned persons.
Once again, I will state what I have said numerous times:
America is a democratic, capitalist country and the barometer for its strength is not the size of it’s military, it is the condition of it’s economy; like it or not.
Our President is the most important CEO in the world, and looking back, I have yet to see one since the Founding Fathers who really understood that statement. President Clinton came closest, but he gave us NAFTA, and look what that has done to our economy and job growth…
As for the President Elect, I will not be blackmailed into helping this Chicago politician in hopes he and the Dean/Pelosi/Dodd/Reid/Frank gang do not screw up our country anymore than it already is. I will continue to support anyone that blocks his/their lunatic ideas to turn this country into a socialist one. I am taking that gun away from my head and I suggest you do so as well. I will not be blackmailed into supporting the “Progressive Socialist Party” that has taken control of the White House and the Congress.
If you are as resolved as I am and want to get involved, go here.
A few more tidbits to think about from one of the people who brought you the United States,
Thomas Jefferson:
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. (I Hope Dodd and Frank read this one.)
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If you have not already done so, it is time to start converting your savings into gold and silver bullion folks! The Fed and The Banks will not say where our money is going, and the our Deficit is becoming unmanageable...more to come on that story...




I still say that if everybody received a real stimulus check with money we don't have (like $250,000) the economy would be just fine!!

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November 9th, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
The fight for Democracy and Liberty no longer involves the federal government, or anyone in it. The social contract has been violated. There is only one test remaining: what the Supreme Court will do if Pampers fails to respond to the Writ of Certioari issued by Justice Suiter’s clerk. He has until 1 December to submit his real birth certificate after which Philip Berg will respond. If Pampers fails to submit the proper documentation the Supreme Court must move to decertify the presidential election. If they don’t then as far as I am concerned the federal government will have invalidated itself completely. I wonder if groups like WAM are ready to take that stand. If not, then nothing is going to change.
November 9th, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
I’d be a lot happier if he were some sort of socialist but I think he’ll only use socialist/progresslve/liberal doctrines and ideas to line his own pockets and screw everyone else. He is NOT other oriented.
November 9th, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Aloha, Diamond Tiger. This, my friend, was a very fine post indeed. You hit all the right notes. To save our democracy, we cannot become complacent. The fight goes on.
November 9th, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
We’re with you over at Insight….the three dames are still in there….
November 9th, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
I’m off to find a countdown clock for 1/20/2013.
November 14th, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
Please look here.
I have been accused of being too rough recently upon bloggers who are incapable of actually doing any real research into the veracity of a quote before they mis-attribute it to Jefferson, so I’ll hold my tongue…
November 14th, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
Okay A Knight - now go find out who did - and I will reprint it properly. Thanks!
November 15th, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
From what I’ve been able to discern, it was first attributed to Jefferson in a book supposedly written by John Galt, published in 1986. That was enough to leave me rolling in the aisles laughing, but then, I haven’t been a fan of Ayn Rand’s since I was 17 years old. As to whether there is an author whose REAL name is John Galt, I haven’t a clue, nor do I care to look further.
This mis-attributed quote caught my attention, because I am a big fan of Jefferson’s, have read a great deal of his works, and it did not seem like his authorship, so I dug around a bit. It is enough for me to know it is false.