Thank you Dave, for putting that all together so elegantly. I'd wager that a large portion of the public, especially those that get their "knowledge" from the drive-by news media such as NBC, et al, would have little clue as to what you are talking about. (After all, isn't Palin and Michael Jackson more important to talk about than the our potential for economic collapse or loss of freedoms?
) But hopefully enough of them will care to look a little deeper, not only into the current administration's philosophies as you have them laid out, but to the facts of what Obama has done and what he (says he) wants to do...and actually realize the implications of those things.
His request for the huge militia is absolutely as scary as his and Bush's unbridled and historically disastrous growth of government and spending. All these other issues, such as his hiring self-avowed communists, socialists, and radicals, are also easily documented, but not easily refuted by his supporters (who usually resort to name-calling in defense). But I worry about the number of people who believe the Constitution is out of date and irrelevant. Those are the folks that are to be feared for their ignorance...thinking America became great because...we were what?...transformed by magical pixie-dust, or were born with better genes? I worry that they don't realize that it is/was our 'system' that made this the greatest nation on earth, and now have bought into the "fundamental change" kabuki dance.
This is truly an historic (and critical) time. I guess we'll soon see which way the scale tips.
I have a problem with those who voted for a candidate because "This is an historic election". That's so far from being the right reason to vote for someone I can't believe they even saw it as a valid reason. Oh, it will prove to be an historical election, that's for sure and it won't be for the reasons they were told.
Obama and Congress are making decisions for us without our input, the consent of the majority and without authority. I took a lot of heat before and just after the election for saying that I think Obama is a threat because he taught Constitutional Law for more thna 10 years and because of that, he has thought of ways to circumvent it's controls over government.
Taken from Wiki, ..."the famous preamble, includes the ideas and ideals that were principles of the Declaration. It is also an assertion of what is known as the "right of revolution": that is, people have certain rights, and when a government violates these rights, the people have the right to "alter or abolish" that government.[71]
From the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
By taking from some and giving it to others, they are taking away the right to pursue happiness. People don't expect to work their whole lives and have it taken from them by any government. Maybe in some other countries, but not here.
