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I think there is much in what you say. Except for a few they are just a pack of wolves, feeding off the carcasses of the producers...
I just keep thinking of the words of Jefferson God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Like a congressman signing another law,
I got a pen, I got a pen
Tho I’m the best that anybody’s saw
I got a pen, I got a pen
And I carry it with me just in case I can
Make me a law, any law I choose
Signin’ executive orders
Signin’ executive orders
Signin’ them orders so laws don’t pass me by
Like a cold day coming here straight from hell
I run the show, I run the show
Like Napoleon’s troops and ol’ Lenin’s Yell
I run the show, I run the show
I make decisions, and I force them through
Do I have limits? None that I knew
Signin’ executive orders
Signin’ executive orders
Signin’ them orders so laws don’t pass me by
‘Cuz I can’t let freedom be…
Like the fool you are for believing me,
I live my dream, I live my dream
You can vote me out, but I just won’t leave,
I live my dream, I live my dream,
I’ll just burn the constitution, and you just won’t care
Right after I grow Obamacare
Signin’ executive orders
Signin’ executive orders
Signin’ them orders so laws don’t pass me by
Junior Possum Award!
Unfortunately I am only just passable at music.
My guitars & EQ sit gathering dust.
"The fishwife" would be an even larger compliment, that character was Rand's cameo in The Gulch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjLN71fww...
Remember, we have 2 generations now raised on the notion that the rules are subject to will.
Thank you tv and movies.
Most of the entitlement class will view this favorably, as a needful circumvention of an "obstructionist" Congress. And they won't think beyond that.
The representative form of government has failed. America was a melting pot; now it is a boiling pot and the scum has risen to the top. A small group of evil people are in control of most of our economy.
John Galt's machine would make it possible for an Off-Grid community to exist. Indeed, in the event of economic collapse, it will be necessary to be self sustaining. An independent source of energy will be needed.
I spent about 4 years as a young Mechanical Engineer (1973-1976) attempting to design machine like John Galt's. Of course such a machine defies the second law of thermodynamics which has never been disproven, although many men have tried.
Presently, nearly everyone receives their power from the Grid. And, almost the entirety of the renewable energy industry is devoted to designing energy systems that feed into the Grid.
I have designed a Combined Heat and Power Concentrating Photovoltaic Collector specifically for Off-Grid applications. Unlike John Galt's machine, it does not violate the laws of thermodynamics. It will economically provide all of the energy and water requirements for an Off-Grid Home or Community. Except for the cloak, I can help new "Galt's Gulches" with independent energy and water supplies..
Leave Wall Street to the liberals. Let us occupy the land.
The Sun distributes its energy already. Why concentrate it into a grid for subsequent redistribution.
Please visit my website, www.offgridtexan.net for more information or e-mail me at bradford.snipes@yahoo.com
Even if a Congress acts to cut funding for enacting executive orders, the President can veto such acts. This is headed toward a real constitutional crisis. Unless enough Democrats are willing to join Republicans to overrule Presidential veto, unconstitutional executive orders will have the resources to be carried out, and even if Federal courts rule such orders to be unconstitutional, those orders will be carried out while such rulings work their way through the judicial system.
In the end, soft tyranny may rest in the hands of any courage left in the hearts of unelected Federal bureaucrats. If enough of those officials are willing to resist an imperial President, and refuse to carry out what they feel are unlawful acts, the republic may be saved. If, however, those officials regard risking their careers of more concern than protecting the people they have sworn to protect, tyranny will hold sway.
Until this government soap opera plays itself out, any attempt to use force by a citizen militia will feed the paranoia that enables a would be dictator. Only if the Federal government, both elected and unelected, is seen to be ineffectual or at war with itself in stopping a lawless President, will the stage be set for a new revolution.
The difference between the U.S.A. and Egypt (or France, for that matter) is that we believe in the structure of the republic the Founders created as the model for how a nation can remain strong in support of its principles without violent change. The call for use of force to carry out change must first come from an out of control Executive (as in the case of HM George III) in order to validate justifiable force by the citizenry.
Not sure if the calls are from legit orgs or not.
If so, that would be a start.
Plus..they wouldn't care...or even get the implications. We're dealing with rocks for brains.
The problem is that those who are in power refuse to balance our checkbook and insist on writing checks we have no ability to cash. The Democrats are spending like there is no tomorrow because they know there is no tomorrow! The Republicans are too fractured as a party to object, led by leaders like Boehner and O'Connell who are too feckless to put together an organized resistance.
I agree that cutting off the TEA Party is a really bad idea. You get voted in by people who are passionate about ideals and you have to provide a contrast to your opponent. The past couple of Republican Presidential candidates (while ultimately preferable to the tyrant in office now) could not sufficiently differentiate themselves and so lost not only their core vote, but the independents as well.
I think one of the other things that amazes me is just how electorally feckless the Republicans are come election time. They seem to concentrate around inarticulate candidates or despised incumbents.
I would caution, however, against blaming everything on the media. Recent polls have shown that the majority of Americans are aware of the bias in the media and that as a result, viewership is down. Newspapers, especially are seeing subscriptions tank in droves as people flock to blogs. Yet despite this, Democrats continue to win elections. I think the bigger reason is more and more indentured servants, ie welfare recipients, with just enough voter fraud in key districts to tilt the outcomes (see the 2008 elections for examples).
Troll in the house!