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Many are now expressing fear that we are being dragged into socialism and they see no way to stop the rush in that direction. I am not yet convinced that such is the case, and believe, as others on this thread have told you, that our hope is in educating ourselves; family; friends; co-workers; and everybody else we can reach.

In the end, if we cannot stop the slide into socialism, then there is, even in that, good news.

The good news about the direction our nation is now going is this well know fact: Socialism always fails. It will fail in America.

Our duty now is to stand in the gap–be the voice of opposition–until the failure becomes obvious. In the meantime we must prepare the next generation of voters to be capable of restoring free-market capitalism in the wake of socialism’s failure.

The Founders of our nation understood that the immoral and ignorant cannot be free. It is because of the immorality and ignorance of the current generation that they are willing to vote themselves into slavery. Therefore, we must preach and teach.

Preach morality–Thou Shall Not Steal and Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Goods.

Teach Freedom Economics.

The current government is trying to get us to rally against the bad economic times. While the government may ‘restor[e] a sense of honesty and accountability to our budget,’(President Obama) we must be willing to take a stand for what we believe is wrong with their plan. Redistribution of wealth can (and at this rate will) be achieved through a balanced budget that is made public. I personally read the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The portions I could understand appalled me. Most is the antithesis of a free market. One shining light was the mandatory use of American Steel in secondary education construction and rehabilitation projects. Must have been Ron Paul\’s doing.

Finally let us remember that everyone has different views as to how our money should be allocated and used. This is why a federal redistribution won\’t work, but it is what drives America. We have choices. I live in Maryland and believe that my tax money should not be used to promote agriculture in North Dakota when there are struggling farms 30 miles from my house (which I proudly buy from.) We should work towards a more localized governance (states and counties) thus ensuring that money gets spent on what matters most to individual citizens and communities, not our representatives next campaign. I added my representatives phone numbers to my phone tonight so I can keep them close to home! As a Washington Post reader aptly pointed out, we should not get caught up with INTAXICATION, or the euphoria of getting a tax refund, because it is our money to begin with!

Another web site I remember with some great ideas is http://www.DownsizeDC.com. The “One Subject at a Time” Act, the “Read the Bills” Act, and “Write the Laws” Act even look worthy to be made part of the Constitution.

And when Obama’s reign is at an end (“And not short enough it was!” to borrow a quote from Yoda), likely at the end of one term, the next president should subpoena his birth certificate and settle once and for all whether everything he has signed is signed by a legitimately qualified president (in which case we’re stuck with the results until they are legislatively undone), or not (in which case they can all be declared null and void, which would be a nice and easy solution).

There is an answer – http://www.wethepeoplecongress.org/

Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYWzUhkLutM

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.

Two advocacy groups suing the Executive Office of the President say that large amounts of White House e-mail documenting Bush’s eight years in office may still be missing, and that the government must undertake an extensive recovery effort. They expressed disappointment that Obama’s Justice Department is continuing the Bush administration’s bid to get the lawsuits dismissed.

During its first term, the Bush White House failed to install electronic record-keeping for e-mail when it switched to a new system, resulting in millions of messages that could not be found.

The Bush White House discovered the problem in 2005 and rejected a proposed solution.

Recently, the Bush White House said it had located 14 million e-mails that were misplaced and that the White House had restored hundreds of thousands of other e-mails from computer backup tapes.

The steps the White House took are inadequate, one of the two groups, the National Security Archive, told a federal judge in court papers filed Friday.

“We do not know how many more e-mails could be restored but have not been, because defendants have not looked,” the National Security Archive said in the court papers.

“The new administration seems no more eager than the last” to deal with the issue, said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the other group that sued the EOP.
The Executive Office of the President includes the president’s immediate staff and many White House offices and agencies.

Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, noted that President Barack Obama on his first full day in office called for greater transparency in government.

The Justice Department “apparently never got the message” from Obama, Blanton said.
The department defends the government when it is sued.

Special prosecutor Fitzgerald met twice with asset, covered up links to al Qaeda and corruption implicating immigration officials and NY Mayor Giuliani–all connected to documents linking Vice President Cheney to 9/11 plot in Philippines

By Tom Flocco (Also DEAD)http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/CiaAsset.htm

Who killed John-John?

“If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the Lord gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God in violation of his covenant….and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death. On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.” Deuteronomy 17: 2-7

Division 4 team names Clintons, Bush 41, 43 in JFK Jr. assassination

by Tom Flocco

Rockefeller Reveals 9/11 FRAUD to Aaron Russo (Also DEAD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD7dbkkBIA

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3254488777215293198

Barack Obama is also Cheneys cousin!

If THEY REALLY WANTED TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE & THE ECONOMY THEY COULD\’VE PAID OFF 97% OF ALL MORTGAGES WITH THE MONEY THEY HAVE ALREADY GIVEN AWAY. Now I\’m no ECONOMIST but wouldn\’t that have solved the problem? The BANKS would have been paid of had plenty of MONEY to lend would have NO TOXIC DEPT. & all the Companies would not be going BANKRUPT (I.E GM CHRYSLER & the rest.) But they don\’t want to redistribute the wealth they want to STEAL THE WEALTH & GIVE US ID CHIPS TO CONTROL OUR EVERY MOVE.

THE 911 COMMISSION INSULTS THE INELEGANCE OF A 10 YEAR OLD! There is no WAY THAT A BUILDING COULD FREE FALL WITH NO RESISTANCE AT A SPEED OF 10 FLOORS PER SECOND, THEY HAD PLANTED BOMBS SO IT COULD DO THAT PLUS HOW DID SILVERSTEIN KNOW THAT BUILDING SEVEN WAS RIGGED WITH EXPLOSIVES & SAID ON PBS THAT HE TOLD THEM \"PULL IT\"

I am no Engineer but WAKE UP AMERICA BUILDINGS DON\’T COLLAPSE LIKE THIS.

They have killed everyone who has gotten in their way. But they cant KILL all of US THE PEOPLE because they would end up killing themselves.

Watch & read the links & you just might see the light.

George Bushes younger brother was in charge of Security at the WORLD TRADE CENTER BUILDINGS up until September the 11th & REMOVED ALL BOMB SNIFFING DOGS 2 WEEKS BEFORE THE ATTACK. Dick Cheney took over NORAD The week before 9/11 (First time in HISTORY that it was being run by someone other then the Army) THEY ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS & MURDERERS. They are selling us BULLSHIT ALL DAY LONG.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=10226

WAKE UP AMERICA

I wonder how far I would get with that?

Anyhow DT, thanks for the web address http://www.forfreedomssake.com, I can\’t believe Haing Ngor\’s end, what a tragedy. But I\’m doing as you suggested, I\’m getting involved. I think one of the greatest obstacles I face is taking the time to get armed with the right information. There\’s a lot of weeding to do when everyone believes their view is the only correct view. But engaging with others, reading established and respected writers from FEE and the like, keeping my opinion undecided until I feel I know the issue will suffice.

Another thing all of you can do is to become as increasingly self-sufficient as you can as individuals. It is imperative for all of us to have ample emergency supplies and to begin growing at least small gardens, and to make up our minds right now that if–more like when–really hard times come just this once the hard-working ants are going to refuse to support the grasshoppers. We have not been able to stop the federal government from robbing us for the benefit of those who do not work, but we can decide that if we are to survive we cannot give constant handouts from our personal stores to those who made no preparations. America has spent 75 years giving away massive amounts of food and wealth, and the larder is nearly empty. Charity begins at home, spreads to family, and is carried out best by individuals and churches. In no way is it justified as a function of government. Yes, decent people are kind to those less fortunate, but our reward is knowing WHAT we have accomplished, and choosing for ourselves to do it, knowing that the recipients recognize their responsibilities to get back on their feet and help someone else in turn. We have leeches who are past eighth-generation welfare \"families.\" No one they know has EVER had a job or worked for a living, and their only responsibility is to vote for liberals.

The only real purpose of government that can be justified is to protect our borders. A sprawling bureaucracy has no business running the Post Office (FedEx and UPS did it faster, better, and cheaper until they were forced to raise their prices) or even building roads. Roads are not a \"right,\" but a commodity that some want and others do not. Toll roads would be built far less expensively and faster, and anyone who did not wish to pay could creep along as best they could…or build their own roads. Oddly enough, dirt roads work fine.

A common law court system works splendidly, the more so because judges cannot overrule the juries. About four commandments and a very simple \"If you broke it, you bought it,\" will protect all of us very well.

There is no justification whatsoever for food stamps, welfare, housing, \"free\" medical care, or any other of the \"entitlement\" programs. There is no justification for bloated school spending that fails to educate our children and indoctrinates them in Liberal hogwash. A much better system is free enterprise and people paying LOCALLY for what they want. If you and your neighbors like X middle school, fine. Raise the money to pay for it. If you want to home school, your kids will get a better education and there are multitudes of superior lesson plans and text books available for free or very little. Send your kids to private school, if you want to. Do anything you like, so long as you do not expect the rest of us to pay for it. At very low cost on-line schooling could combine many forms of this and throw out enough taxes to provide one of life\’s true luxuries, a stay at home mom.

The biggest thing that has to go is property taxes, because my land is not MINE so long as I hold at by paying Dane Geld to assorted government entities. We all know the Income Tax is illegal under the Constitution and that the so-called Amendment that \"authorized\" it is a sham. Or, if we don\’t, we should. Until the government and the people recognize that my land is MINE, and that the milk and meat my cows produce is MINE, and that what you have produced by your own labor is YOURS, we cannot fail to become more socialistic. No man or government entity has any right to any portion of what you have produced with your skills and labor. The 52% do not have the \"right\" to dictate to the 48%. Nobody has the right to take half of what we produce and frivol it away on the National Endowment for the Arts, AIDS programs in Africa, and importing a hundred thousand Palestinians we do not want and have no use for.

The South was right, you know. It had a perfect right to leave, and the battle wasn\’t over slavery, a dying institution that was more trouble than it was worth. That was the \"moral\" excuse. The issues were the same then as they are now: big government vs. small local government, and high vs. modest taxes and tariffs. The industrial North wanted high tariffs and quotas and duties; the South wanted to sell cotton at a profit sufficient to make being in business worth while, and to be left alone. Had we been allowed to have the equivalent of a modern \"no fault\" divorce, we would now be two very different nations. To a great extent, we are, and the difference in poverty and crime statistics is very telling. The modern \"damnyankees\" hold the northern states, the coasts, and the big cities. Rural areas are far more conservative, but we keep getting trounced by large population concentrations with better organization.

It is long past time for us to return to the ideas and ideals which made the USA great while we still have anything left to work with. The entitlement and Nanny State mentality is destroying us. When we take time to share our ideas, we are doing a little bit about the problem. When we stand up and protest against bail outs and pork, we are helping. Most of all, when we clarify our goals, our visions, and our dreams of the past, we have a chance to restore our nation.

For my part, I\’ll be perfectly happy if we can just get full recognition that Texas is not and never HAS been a state. Check it out! The bill to admit Texas was stalled in committee well over a hundred years ago and had a time clause in it. We STILL fly our flag at the same height as the US flag, because we ARE a nation, no matter that we are invaded and occupied. [Well, okay, so it is a false flag, and our real flag is a single gold star on a field of blue.] The rotunda of our capitol, built in 1939, states that we are the Republic of Texas, and as recently as five years ago a federal judge held that we ARE a separate nation and ordered the US to \"cease and desist hostilities against the land and people of Texas.\" Yes, everyone had a good laugh, but we\’re still working on it. Texas could become, again, the shining example of liberty, justice, and freedom that the USA stood for two hundred years ago.

What most people need is a crash course in Ayn Rand, von Mises, and even Louis L\’Amour. The average life of a Republic (which the USA has long since ceased to be) is 225 years, and we are past due. The question is whether we will slump into slavery, having allowed ourselves to be disarmed and taxed into poverty, or whether we are going to rally around old principlels.

I am still encouraged by the fact that 58 million voters did not vote for Obama, even with the weak choice we had on the other side. (BTW, when I wrote “government largest” I meant largess) Keeping that in mind it is alarming at how many folks brought the Obama package.

I believe that much damage could be done to our freedoms and liberty if this administration and congress goes un-checked, however we must never capitulate. More than that we must do our best to engage…as the folks at FEE and many others are doing.

Take a quick look at http://www.forfreedomssake.com if you get the chance. Also, read Dr. Haing Ngor’s story by Lawrence Reed on the Freeman (you can get there from the FEE site)site. This quote impacted me most of all:

“For Haing Ngor, rediscovering his freedom after experiencing hell on earth wasn’t enough. He couldn’t relax, breathe sighs of relief, or resume living a quiet or anonymous life. He felt compelled to tell his story so others would know what awful things total government can do. He forced us to ponder and appreciate life more fundamentally than ever before.”

Let us not sit back and watch our freedom’s usurped by our government.

Grace, DT

One thing, but do you think that the 66 million voters really want everything that Obama/Washington is selling, do you think they are really going to consume his policies? I hope not. Obama or McCain in the house, both would have created a stimulus package. And all states in the US are going to take ‘its’ portion of the package. I’ve read that my republican senators were against the package, but they know exactly where they want that money to go in our state.
I thank God for FEE, I read their articles and find Obama’s economic advisors doing the exact opposite!! Hank Hanigraff says that a lie will make it around the world before truth even has a chance to put its boots on. Sometimes it seems that at the pace we are going, we will be socialist before we win enough hearts and minds back to the basics that Sheldon and others are calling for. You know?
I hope I am wrong. But thanks Doug.

TeresaB, this is doing something, in answer to your questions, “What do we do?” Consider this for a moment, our politicians are not the biggest problem any more. In fact, they are doing what American’s want them to do. Don’t forget that 66 million votes went to Barak Obama (not mine BTW). We have a public that wants exactly what Washington is giving them. That is the biggest challenge we face today – 66 million consumers of government largest.

So we must first determine that the battle to reverse the trend to socialism is a long battle…one that each of us must personally engage in in a systematic way. We must begin by engaging in the battle of ideas in an effort to re-educate the public on the underlying ideas and principles of freedom (like our friends here at FEE). Folks are looking for creature comforts but don’t realize that they are throwing away their freedoms – and more fundamentally they are heading down a dead-end road that will not deliver those creature comforts anyway.

TeresaB we must all engage our neighbor, family member, our co-workers, our friends, those we got to church with and more importantly those who voted for Obama. Start your own blog (I did) and invite those whom you can influence to read it and engage with you in the arena of ideas. Do this For Freedom’s Sake.

DT

Talking isn\’t enough anymore. We need a \’National Convention\’ for citizens that are like-minded, where there can be one, LOUD unified movement of the people, b/c the gov\’t is no longer listening or working for the people, b/c the people are not unified enough. We need to demand changes before our nation becomes a socialist country.