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Originally posted by Dreine
reply to post by babybunnies
My personal definition of the word 'patriot' would simply be one who believes in and follows the Constitution of the United States of America as drafted by our Founding Fathers.
Anything beyond that is approaching propaganda.
Originally posted by Dreine
reply to post by babybunnies
My personal definition of the word 'patriot' would simply be one who believes in and follows the Constitution of the United States of America as drafted by our Founding Fathers.
Anything beyond that is approaching propaganda.
Originally posted by yadda333
Originally posted by Dreine
reply to post by babybunnies
My personal definition of the word 'patriot' would simply be one who believes in and follows the Constitution of the United States of America as drafted by our Founding Fathers.
Anything beyond that is approaching propaganda.
You're all starting to sound too religious/fundamentalist. Maybe you should be put on some sort of list.
* History shows that when government gains the power to monitor the actions of the people, it inevitably uses that power in harmful ways. * America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.
* This essential principle of our Constitutional Republic is being ridden roughshod over by imperial Washington, which bullies local governments into accepting its illegal and unConstitutional policies.
* When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy. * Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government. * Gun control historically serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. * Remember that one's relationship with the state is never voluntary. Every government edict, policy, regulation, court decision, and law ultimately is backed up by force, in the form of police, guns, and jails. That is why political power must be fiercely constrained by the American people.
That's why the PATRIOT act is so laughingly misnamed, this was sort of implied with my post. The PATRIOT act tramples on more Constitutionally guaranteed rights than any other law in the history of the United States.