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Snakes in Washington

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Someone at work asked me yesterday whether the march on Washington DC will matter to the politicians. I told her that I honestly doubt it because most of the politicians in Washington are so arrogant and so corrupt that they really don’t pay attention to America any more. But the march did make a difference to people like you and me, regular, ordinary, folks who did not realize that there truly are so many Americans who agree with us. Knowing this will empower us as Americans to more effectively stand up against the evils being pushed upon us, including the constant attempts to take away our freedom in favor of bigger government and more power and money for the bureaucrats. It will empower us to find candidates whose values agree with ours or to run ourselves (though the $4,300 “filing fee” for someone to run for US Senate is a bit prohibitive for the common person to run, don’t you think?), so that we have people who actually represent us, our values and our beliefs in Washington.

This is why I have such a problem with both parties. The parties push their agendas on those who represent us. They no longer represent us. Our “representatives” represent themselves, their parties, and their own personal power. I never have and never will blindly support one party. However, I do believe that one or both major parties can transform itself to being one that listens to We the People. Unfortunately, there is no evidence at the present to believe it possible. All the evidence we have is to the contrary, that most everyone in Washington is corrupt.

Look no further than the Cass Sunstein confirmation vote from late last week. Sunstein believes animals should be able to sue you! Can you imagine the outrageous lawsuits and outrageous sums of money that would be collected by lawyers for this “service”? Sunstein wrote:

I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

Yet look who voted for his confirmation. Most of the Democrats show no conscience, following their party and the President (had a Republican been in the White House I would have expected the same outcome) and six Republicans vote for Sunstein’s confirmation. That is the same Republican Party that so many conservatives still defend as the voice of conservatism. I suppose you could say that, considering Snowe, Voinovich, Lugar, and Collins voting to confirm are not all that surprising. But what shocks me is that Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch also supported Sunstein. How can Utah continue to elect these buffoons? How were they bribed to place this vote? Or in Washington-speak, what earmark were they promised for Utah-especially Bennett who is up for reelection in 2010?

Anyone that in good conscience voted to confirm Cass Sunstein should be voted out, especially the supposedly conservative Republicans Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett who are clearly nothing but a couple of snakes who represent themselves and their continued reelections, not their constituents. Utah, if you want to be taken seriously, you cannot continue to elect such idiots.

We the People, including Utah, must show Washington that we will no longer stand for this behavior. 2010 must be a referendum for the people. Or all that we claim to stand for, all that we claim to fight for will be for naught.

Standing for our republic on 9.12.09

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Due to consistent questions on crowd size, I have updated this post with a still shot from a traffic camera and a time lapse video from the same camera at the bottom.

Saturday was an incredible day. I took my wife and three children, all under 10, to the 9.12.09 March on Washington. If you saw the guy in a white shirt with a patriotic tie pulling a red wagon with two of the cutest patriotically dressed girls you’ve ever seen walking next to a beautiful woman pushing a stroller with the most handsome 18 month old boy in America, you probably saw me. If you heard the guy reading the words of our founding fathers and selections from the Constitution just east of Freedom Plaza before the march began, you probably heard me. If you have blurry pictures of the crowd all around you taken by the guy standing on his children’s red wagon, you probably handed your camera to me. (Note all pictures enlarge when clicked.)

I met wonderful people from all over this nation including California (southern and northern!), New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Indiana, Alabama, Ohio, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Colorado, Nevada, and some Tennessee Volunteers. As we worked our way toward the group of our fellow Georgians, I met folks from all over our fine state, from cities I’ve visited and small towns I’ve only heard of. Hopefully, many of you found your way here to my blog. Perhaps the only disappointment was not running into fellow Georgian Robert Stacy McCain.

The Georgians and those I met from the Jacksonville Tea Party were especially kind. In fact, for a gathering of somewhere between hundreds of thousands and 1.2 million people, I was shocked and entirely impressed that we experienced no rudeness, only kindness and politeness. There was a just a bunch of good people. No angry mobs. No racists. No terrorists. And there certainly were no extremists. That is, unless you consider those whose views align with our God-inspired founders to be “extreme”.

Rather, there was love all around. We were there to express love for our country, for our future, and for our children. We were in Washington to show our love for the Republic which our founders created for us through their wisdom and inspiration of God himself.

I intend to continue in peacefully fighting to keep our Republic, as Benjamin Franklin challenged us to do.

I am proud that Scott’s Slant on Politics was one of the first blogs to join the blogger alliance of the 09.12.09 March on Washington movement. Together, if we, as Americans, continue to fight for our freedom, even through the darkest of nights, which are likely yet to come, I am certain by my faith in our creator that we will win.

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The “rights” of government

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I will march on Washington DC on 9-12 because I believe what a wise man once said:

“The government has no rights; it has duties only. It is ordained to serve the people.”

The government is our servants, not the other way around. It has no rights, only those that we the people grant unto it and we the people can, may, and will revoke any right we give the government at any time without notice.

The government’s duties are to provide for a common defense, regulate inter-state (meaning inter nation-state) trade, and to GET OUT OF OUR WAY!

I am marching on Washington DC to remind government that it is beholden to we the people. We are not their servants, they are ours. They answer to us.

Liberty: The perfect law

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True freedom and liberty are a result of our opportunity to choose. Forced choice is oppression, no matter how correct the forced choice may seem to be. The absence of choice results directly in bondage. In fact, James described liberty as “the perfect law” (1:25).

Liberty is the perfect law because it implies personal responsibility. We are responsible for all of the choices we make, including the acceptance of the consequences of our choices, be them good or bad.

However, without the opportunity to choose and experience the consequences of choice, we will never understand the positive from the negative. If the government is always throwing a safety net to save us from our poor choices, then why be prudent? If the government will bailout enormous companies that make poor business decisions, then why shouldn’t they take risks you or I would never take with our finances?

Persons stuck in the cycle of welfare bailing them out and companies fastened in government ownership are fully bound by the chains of restraint, preventing them from improving themselves. They know they are getting by, but have no concept of their potential, as their choice to innovate and improve has been removed by their reliance on a handout that rewards their existing mediocrity.

On the other hand, there is a reason the economy of the United States of America has grown at a faster rate over the past century than any other nation. There is a reason for the constant flow of innovation, improvement, and sustainability in this land. The reason is this land is a land of liberty, where the inhabitants are free to choose their course. Americans have traditionally been free to fail, so they can learn and improve after every successful failure.

The federal government continuing to grow by leaps and bounds, serving no one but itself and its members. We must stand against the expansion of the federal government and return it to its two fold role: 1. Provide for the common defense. 2. Regulate inter-state (meaning nation-state) trade. That is it.

I will be taking a stand on 9/12/2009 by joining the march on Washington to protest big government that serves itself and takes away our liberty because I believe that I should do as the verse inscribed on the Liberty Bell instructs:

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Will you support and uphold what remains of our liberty? Will you fight to have all of our liberties returned? Or will you continue to accept more of the same, as both the Republicans and Democrats attack our freedoms through the expansion of government?

We wouldn’t be any better off with a Republican-controlled government

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I still cannot support the GOP. They have lost their way. I don’t know that I can support a party, considering that the purpose of a part is to acquire power. I will support people whose values match mine.

Let us review the last eight years of Republican rule:

• They took freedoms from us with the Patriot Act.
• They increased government substantially. George Bush never vetoed a spending bill, the worst being the prescription entitlement.
• They are the ones who opened the door for the current administration with TARP and overnight auto industry bailouts.

You really think they are any better? The morons of both parties are all power-hungry cousins, desiring the people to be beholden to the almighty government.

Voting for the party that “is not as bad as the other guys” is not good enough for me. If you want to call it throwing away my vote by not voting for these clowns, so be it. I would rather stand for something than stand against something.

If you think standing behind the Republicans because they are marginally better than the democrats is the right thing to do, then you should only expect marginal improvement in our country. The Republicans started spending us into oblivion. The Democrats intend to finish it.

We need fiscally responsible true representatives, regardless of the letter by their name. Sure, I’ll vote for a Republican, or a Democrat, or anything else if their values match mine and I am confident they will vote according to their values and not the party line. Party line voting has nearly eliminated the Legislature’s equal power as part of our system of checks and balances.

And thus we find ourselves in the situation we are in today.

Tom Coburn, defender of the constitution

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I wish there were more Tom Coburns out there. You know, people without agendas, with common sense, and who understand and respect our God-inspired constitution.

HT The Other McCain via Bluegrass Pundit.

The troubling side of Van Jones’ resignation

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Today widespread stories on Van Jones’ resignation have circulated. CNN, FOX News, and many others have similar articles confirming that when asked on “Meet the Press” whether President Obama ordered Jones’ firing, Obama’s senior adviser David Axelrod said: “Absolutely not. This was Van Jones’ own decision.”

President Obama’s closest adviser has told us that even though it is widely known that Van Jones is a communist, a position Jones refuses to recant, President Obama did not desire to fire him! This seemingly unimportant detail shows us that the President condones radicals and communists when he had every opportunity through this situation to condemn these systems of belief! In fact, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that President Obama “thanks him for his service to the country”. Seriously, the President believes that a man whose goal is revolution resulting in communism by using the levers of race and green has actually served our country?

Communism is a great evil and our President refuses to disassociate himself from it. I cannot think of anything more troubling. We should all hit the floor with our knees immediately and pray for our country. Do not wait. We need the power and protection of God to defend our Republic.

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The people advising our President

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The words of self-avowed communist Van Jones, who is working as a “special adviser” to the President of the United States:

“The green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society . . . complete revolution was on the table for this country and I think this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages.”

See the video here.

This is nothing short of frightening. When President Obama said “We are only five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” he was most definitely being very clear in his choice of words.

Where are all the anti-war protesters?

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What happened to the anti-war protests we were deluged with on a daily basis? What happened to Obama, the anti-war candidate?

Now, under President Obama’s leadership, it appears we are losing in Afghanistan, per the Washington Post:

The Taliban has become a much more potent adversary in Afghanistan by improving its own tactics and finding gaps in the U.S. military playbook, according to senior American military officials who acknowledged that the enemy’s resurgence this year has taken them by surprise.

U.S. rules of engagement restricting the use of air power and aggressive action against civilians have also opened new space for the insurgents, officials said. Western development projects, such as new roads, schools and police stations, have provided fresh targets for Taliban roadside bombs and suicide attacks. The inability of rising numbers of American troops to protect Afghan citizens has increased resentment of the Western presence and the corrupt Afghan government that cooperates with it, the officials said.

As President Obama faces crucial decisions on his war strategy and declining public support at home, administration and defense officials are studying the reasons why the Taliban appears, for the moment at least, to be winning.

It seems that the anti-war protesters were only anti-war when it was politically convenient. Now there is nothing. I suppose the same could be said for the Tea Party protesters if a bunch of the usual big government Republicans are voted in during the next election cycle and Tea Party protesters disappear.

I for one, do not intend to go away. I will only support those who view the federal government as a necessary evil whose role is to provide a common defense and regulate interstate (meaning inter-nation) trade.

The destruction of freedom through legislation

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Our founders had a clear understanding through their study history of what made for good and bad government. So it is of little wonder that many of their writings seem prophetic in our day, being that our day is one in which forces from innumerable directions of are attempting take away all that makes us free. This has happened very slowly, as American Socialist Party Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas predicted. It did not start during the Obama administration. It has gone on for years. However, with non-representant representation in Washington such as John Conyers in the spotlight, the truth of what James Madison wrote is now becoming clear for all to see.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Our freedoms have been slowly and gradually chipped away through these laws that Congress has neither written nor read. Congress simply follows the marching orders of their party because they find power, strength, and funding within its circle.

Now the government exerts a certain amount of control over the financial sector. It has nationalized two of the big three automakers. Nearly half of all Americans during tax season are paid by the government more than they paid in taxes over the previous year. Most retired people receive money from the government monthly through Medicare and/or Social Security. Meanwhile, all of these historical “entitlements” have been enhanced over time, usually buried in a piece of “voluminous” legislation. Now on the horizon of the government’s reach is one-seventh of our economy in the form of healthcare, in the name of “fairness” to insure a small percentage of the entire population.

What is being built in America is the same system built in the United Kingdom. There the NHS has become the world’s third largest employer (UK total population: 61 million) behind only the Chinese Red Army (China total population: 1.34 billion) and the Indian Railroad (India total population: 1.17 billion). As in the UK, our government is building a voting block that will keep them in power, where their irrelevant “Republican” and “Democrat” squabbling will make many Americans feel like there is something important going on. When in reality these are nothing more than cousins having a family dispute. However, once the government controls over half the economy, it will be impossible to vote out those in power, as people will not vote for someone (or some party) they see as a threat to their livelihood, regardless of how moral or immoral they may be.

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The government can

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Ronald Reagan teaches the purpose of government healthcare

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In 1961 Ronald Reagan spoken out against a battle to take away Americans’ freedoms. It was the same battle we fight this very day. He begins by quoting the six-time Socialist Party Presidential Norman Thomas:

“The American people [will] never vote for Socialism. But under the name of ‘Liberalism’ the American people will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program.”

Here are more of former President Reagan’s words on socialized medicine:

Honest questions asked by Glenn Beck

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Last week Glenn Beck ran a special series of shows on the radio and FOX News asking honest questions. A summary of these shows is found here. Beck has also created a forum to comment on whether you agree with him or not here.

These are the questions:

Where will you be on 9-12-09?

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On 9-12-09 I will march on Washington DC with my wife and three small children because our freedom is worth fighting for!