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Originally posted by seeker1963
reply to post by HopSkipJump
Are you mistakenly comparing a blind sheep to a patriot??? WOW!!!! Just WOW!!!
Sounds like you need to actually read the Constitution......edit on 19-1-2013 by seeker1963 because: (no reason given)
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription:When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security
By saying you are a patriot, you are saying that you support and defend your country. Your country is defined by the land area contained within it and the government that regulates it.
They set up the government we now have.
Perhaps given the circumstances, they should take the entire debt for the Iraq war, the tax cuts for the rich and any other bush incentive with them since they only want to leave because there's a black democrat president.
Originally posted by LifeIsPeculiar
reply to post by HopSkipJump
They set up the government we now have.
This is also not true. Our government has ignored the Constitution many times, and is currently infracted in numerous ways.
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by LifeIsPeculiar
reply to post by HopSkipJump
They set up the government we now have.
This is also not true. Our government has ignored the Constitution many times, and is currently infracted in numerous ways.
So...this happened on your watch?
was there ever a successful, Marxist, Socialist or Communist state/country/region that exceeded more than 1/4 billion ppl ??
Denmark, as with all “social-democratic welfare states” of Northern Europe is heralded as some sort of ideal society to be mimicked by the world. As with all socialist societies, what you are actually witnessing is a sort of Potemkin Village on a national scale.
As Per Henrik Hansen points out:
"We can conclude from this that of the people in the working age of 18 to 66, more than one quarter live passively on government transfers (full time). For every 100 persons employed full time in 1999, there were 33 working-age people receiving support. Adding pensioners, the total number was 61 people on full time transfer income for each 100 full time employed persons. (The pensioners are financed by a pay-as-you-go pension scheme). And out of those who are employed, 31.5 percent work for the government."
From taxing their citizens into poverty to forcing them to endure the highest electricity rates in the world due to the cult like obsession with lowering carbon emissions (god forbid it actually warms up a bit in Denmark!), the Danish State takes top marks for keeping the prisoners down.
The government owned tv/radio station, DR (Danmarks Radio), demands payment whether you care to catch it’s propaganda or not. Even if you subscribe to a private cable or satellite service, if you own any device that can display a TV signal or pickup a radio signal (It can be a cellphone with a radio feature, car stereo, TV, computer monitor etc.) then by law, you have to pay a “DR License” every month. In order to enforce this law the government has specially equipped vans with huge antennas to detect TV’s and devices (see photo below) that drives around all day looking for "criminals" that have the capability to pickup the propaganda but are not paying the license.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
Just for the record, Socialism is very statist and Totalitarian. Why on earth would you want to sacrifice what's left of free enterprise for that? And trhen you paste pics of the Constitution Party. You cannot be Socialist and Constitutionalist at the same time.
Barack Obama stated in his first Presidential Campaign that he wanted to "remake America", and "Fundamentally transform America." And that certainly would be as the new Marxist Utopia he and is friends desire. This is why he has no trouble running over the Constitution over and over again and signing EO's to run around Congress. He doesn't care for any Americans. He serves his NWO masters, the Illuminati and the Bilderbergs.edit on 21-1-2013 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by frazzle
Originally posted by Kashai
And there is also this
Any thoughts?
As far as Iaccoca goes, I would imagine he considered himself a great patriot and businessman and even if he wasn't a prince of a guy behind closed doors, at the very least he provided tens of thousands of Americans with good paying jobs. The Pinto was an unmitigated disaster, no argument about that, but out of over 350,000 of them sold at less than $2,000 apiece, there were only 27 deaths recorded due to those stupid gas tanks.
So all in all, many people look back on that era as "the good old days" ~ maybe even the LAST of the good old days when there was still a sense of stability in the economy and patriotism toward government was the default position.
On that other link, I can't see how a piece of murderous Russian slime figures into this conversation at all.
No Congressional Approval Needed
There are two ways that presidents can enact initiatives without congressional approval. Presidents may issue a proclamation, often ceremonial in nature, such as naming a day in honor of someone or something that has contributed to American society. A president may also issue an executive order, which has the full effect of law and is directed to federal agencies that are charged with carrying out the order. Examples include Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order for the internment of Japanese-Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Harry Truman's integration of the armed forces and Dwight Eisenhower's order to integrate the nation's schools.
Congress cannot directly vote to override an executive order in the way they can a veto. Instead, Congress must pass a bill canceling or changing the order in a manner they see fit. The president will typically veto that bill, and then Congress can try to override the veto of that second bill. The Supreme Court can also declare an executive order to be unconstitutional. Congressional cancellation of an order is extremely rare.
That is a the genetic fallacy of falsely associating two separate and unrelated concepts.
Originally posted by Kashai
reply to post by JuniorBeauchamp
Members of Congress supported a Right Wing Agenda, that includes presenting that Real Rape cannot result in a Pregnancy
Absolutely Pathetic.....
Any thoughts?
edit on 20-1-2013 by Kashai because: modified content
Originally posted by WaterBottle
reply to post by Observor
Yes it does......
Unregulated capitalism turns into an oligarchy. The wealthiest will rule the peasants and influence the state in their interests alone. There is no such thing as free market capitalism. It never will and never can exist.
Just sit and think about it for a second.
The whole "real capitalism" argument is a whole bunch of fail.
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Originally posted by WaterBottle
reply to post by Observor
The whole "real capitalism" argument is a whole bunch of fail.
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Originally posted by JuniorBeauchamp
Originally posted by WaterBottle
reply to post by Observor
The whole "real capitalism" argument is a whole bunch of fail.
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"Real capitalism" works just fine.
But we do not have "real capitalism", and haven't since Teddy Roosevelt, who was a progressive(socialist lite).
What we have is a facist economy, with Big Brother government favoring corporatism, working hand in hand to regulate and protect big banks and big corporate interests.
The small entrepreneur is squeezed out by protectionist regulations and licensing costs they cannot afford, but big corporations and big banks can.
You don't get it Mr. Iaccoca sat down one day with his friends. It was made clear to him that, by doing this the cause of death was really not the accident. Essentially a part that is very important to every vehicle was removed. He made a decision to do something he was told, with certainty would in fact kill people.
He belongs in Prison
Had it been a family member of your's how would you respond
Originally posted by HopSkipJump
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
you secede when you try and try and try and try then try and then try some more and oh yah you try allot more to make things better and THEY want to hold you back from making things better, THEY turn brother against brother, THEY poison you with their GMO foods and medicines that hurt more then help, THEY take and take and take until you have nothing left to give and then put you in jail so they can take some more.
If a violent rebellion rose up against them I would join it but I will not start it. I would prefer to hurt them by leaving them to drown in the wake they have created, when they fall we can rise up and fix what has been so badly broken.
To support someone who is doing wrong makes you no better then them, I do not support the corrupt US government, I do not support the FED and the banksters, I do not support wall street and the greed and corruption that we have to suffer so that they can all live like gods while we suffer.
I will not support them ever, that is why I am a patriot, and I am a texan and I would gladly vote to secede for the corruption and green of the US.
If you would rise up against your form of government and go against the US Constitution, which you would have to do if you rose up against the form of government, you are NOT a patriot, you are a treasonous coward.
The things you have listed are not "the government", they are entities that work within the government. The government is the set of laws and offices laid forth by the Constitution, not the capitalistic groups that try to twist and warp the Constitution. Banks are not government officials, Wall Street is not a government official, GMO foods is not a government official. If you want those things changed, you work within the framework that is set forth, you don't just throw the framework out the window because there are some extremist right wing groups that are trying to control people while working within the framework. You take away their loopholes, you stop them from warping our government, you don't just leave the government behind because you don't agree with some non-government entities may be doing.
You may not like it, but that's the way it is.