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Compare the thoughts of our founding fathers with the thoughts of our recent presidents:
“I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.” -Thomas Jefferson “That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.” Thomas Jefferson “Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.” -Rudolph Giuliani, mayor of New York City, quoted in New York Newsday 1998-Apr-20 “If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.” -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993 “There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.” -George W. Bush, commenting on the website www.gwbush.com “If this were a dictatorship, things would be a lot simpler. As long as I was the dictator. Heh heh heh.” -George W. Bush, 2000-Dec-18, in Washington DC “the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people” -Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993 “The presidency - by which I mean the executive state - is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts. The presidency insists on complete devotion and humble submission to its dictates, even while its steals the products of our labor and drives us into economic ruin. It centralizes all power unto itself, and crowds out all competing centers of power in society, including the church, the family, the business, the charity, and the community.” -Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” -Dresden James “We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” -George Orwell “In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell From here: http://www.mega.nu/ampp/ Posted on 08/07/08, 12:08 am |
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“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Ben Franklin “Whenever we are attacked, people are willing to give up someone else's liberties for their own security.” -Andrew P. Napolitano, on FNC, 2004-Dec-18 “We must sacrifice our civil liberties.” -Brent Scowcroft, in the immediate aftermath of the 2001-Sep-11 terrorist campaign “It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.” -HL Mencken 
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" I have a dream" - M.L.K. He was an amazing man.
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He was. His legacy and spirit will live forever.
He said the three biggest flaws of the American system are: Racism. Militarism. Materialism. Obama is the incarnation of MLK's dream. There are some powerful people who cannot conceive of a world free of war, hatred and greed, and they want us to unthinkingly assist them in their efforts to demonize a good man. It's a temptation we would be wise to resist.
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"Obama is the incarnation of MLK's dream."
Got to disagree with you there. Obama was irrelevant on the national stage before a great speech at the democrat national convention. Since then the only similar thing to MLK he has offered are more words.
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What relevance is the time and place of Obama's coming to public attention?
If you recall, MLK came to public attention by giving inspiring speeches and organizing people for positive change. That's what made him a great man. It's Obama's spirit and ideas that identify him as the heir of MLK, not the mundane chronological details of his public appearances.
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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
Thomas Jefferson Jefferson was NOT into the redistribution of wealth, by the government. A socialist he was not.
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The key is this phrase: "his own industry".
He was objecting to the redistribution of wealth from the working people and yeoman farmers of America into the hands of the bankers, via taxation imposed by the British government. It's the same struggle we are dealing with today. You are just looking at the quote backwards. I doubt Jefferson would object to working people using the government to take back the fruits of their own labor from the corporations and bankers.
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MLKs DREAM.. was for a guy to come along, design his own logo, assume the trappings of an office he does not hold and demand blind obedience from his followers, as he sets out to CHANGE America and the WORLD for the future, gee, I can hardly wait until he starts passing out the arm bands. Maybe after he is elected, he'll go back to Germany and hold his next rally in Nurenburg.
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So, you're saying Obama is a Nazi?
When do you predict he will try to kill all the Jews, and selectively breed an Aryan master race?
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
-Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always. -Gandhi "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." -Shakespeare He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. -Albert Einstein (Had to post this for Shelly!) Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction….The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (a fave of mine) To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (For laughs) Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. - Drew Carey
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