Public Servants??

In that I am a retired Vietnam veteran, the following quote is from the National Veterans Coalition website.

"Our country cannot make meaningful corrections to major national problems until we elect public servants who place their allegiance to the Constitution higher than to party politics or self."

Just imagine how much different things would be if We the People actually had Government Public Servants instead of Government Dictation!



“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from
defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”
John Adams, in a letter to
Thomas Jefferson, 1787

Government Bailouts??

Government Bailouts...
Good for America?

A poll conducted by Personal Liberty Digest.

Here are the results!

The Total Number of people who voted in this poll: 464193

1) Who is most to blame for America’s current economic crisis?
68% voted: Clinton Administration and the Democrats in Congress
12% voted: The Bush Administration
3% voted: Wall Street
14% voted: Banks and sub-prime lenders
2% voted: Real estate and mortgage professionals
0% voted: Investors
1% voted: Home buyers

2) Do you agree government bailouts are the answer to America’s financial crisis?
7% voted: Yes
88% voted: No
5% voted: Undecided

3) Do you believe the American taxpayers should have to foot the bill for our financial systems mistakes?
7% voted: Yes, we have to or we’ll end up in a prolonged recession or worse a depression.
22% voted: No, America is too far in debt already.
69% voted: Absolutely not, the American people should never be responsible for bailing out the private sector.
2% voted: Undecided

4) Do you believe the government bailouts will ultimately rescue our country's financial system?
8% voted: Yes
86% voted: No
6% voted: Undecided

5) Do you believe Barack Obama was the best choice to handle the country's future economic policy?
12% voted: Yes
85% voted: No
3% voted: Undecided

It is unlikely that the American people will see this information on the 6pm news!!!

Treason

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator

Common People

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. “
~ Hermann Goering at the Nuremburg trials.~

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the "leaders". That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being “attacked”, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

An “attack” did take place on American soil on September 11, 2001. This should allow for some skepticism of "our leaders”!!

Perpetual Debt

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.

This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson

Death of America

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning our 2008 Presidential election:

* Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
* Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
* Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
* Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase..

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million invaders called "illegals", and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Transparency

June 23, 2009


Transparency.

We are actually seeing a legitimate attempt at transparency taking place at the Federal level. Not from the administration that made transparency a reason to vote, but rather from a little old Congressman from Texas by the name of Ron Paul. Congressman Paul introduced transparency legislation to Congress on February 26, 2009 as HR1207 that asks for an Audit of the Federal Reserve. This legislation would allow the American public transparency to see what the Federal Reserve is doing with the money that is collected from the taxpayers in this country. In that each taxpayer is audited by the IRS on a yearly basis, a member of Congress has to search far and wide for a legitimate reason not to support legislation to audit the Federal Reserve.

This legislation is enjoying tremendous non-partisan support. It takes about 5 minutes to read the bill, it has no amendments, it is written in very simple language! As of June 22, 2009 this legislation now enjoys a majority in the House of Representatives with 237 co-sponsors and will likely continue to get more. All but three members of congress from Minnesota: Keith Ellison the 5th District, Betty McCollum the 4th District and James Oberstar the 8th District have not supported this legislation to date. It is expected that this legislation will proceed to the House floor and get voted on by the end of July. Once this legislation has passed in the House of Representatives, it moves onto the Senate and we can see how many Senators will endorse transparency.

We do have a system that will respond if we wake up enough people, but that’s the tough job, but they will respond when they hear from the people. Much credit needs to be directed to the grass roots effort to call, email and send letters to members of Congress to wake them up. We need to now focus on the Senate version S 604, and start waking up the Senators to the people's version of Transparency

Patrick Henry

State Sovereignty

Fellow Patriots,

Are you fed up with the out of control Federal Government spending and dictating to the states? In the version of the sovereignty bill being considered in Washington state, they appeal to the authority of James Madison who wrote:

“The powers delegated to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.”

It is time for real Americans to make themselves heard and support regaining our State Sovereignty!

Patrick Henry