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Posts Tagged ‘Freedom of Speech’

This is a promise: I will go to jail before I’ll stop exercising my right to free political speech. If they come after me, I will bring to bear the full force of my mind to destroy them – and by them, i mean the US Govt. As long as they leave me to my free speech, I’ll place nice in the sandbox, but if they come at me, I will pull out all stops and say the things that are incendiary.

All I ask is, if I’m taken away, some of you step up to the plate and at least put up a little fight!

I really hope that never happens. BUT boy does this article today about the impending law changes regarding political blogs on Hotair.com flip me out.

Couldn’t have said it better.

The other day was an interesting story about Montana standing up for itself. Today it’s Oklahoma’s turn.

Key said HCR 1028, which, if passed, would be sent to Democratic President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress, would not jeopardize federal funds but would tell Congress to “get back into their proper constitutional role.” The resolution states the federal government should “cease and desist” mandates that are beyond the scope of its powers.

Key said many federal laws violate the 10th Amendment, which says powers not delegated to the U.S. government “are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” The Constitution lists about 20 duties required of the U.S. government, he said.

Congress should not be providing bailouts to financial institutions and automakers, he said.

I wish more states would discover that yes, they are sovereign and have their own rights, other than being the feds’ prostitutes.

I was reading two different articles this morning on this one site, and the more I put them together, the more I started to think they sum up my real thoughts about the direction of things.

The first article by Andrew Klavin said:

We can win back the presidency, the congress and the supreme court, but if we lose the culture, we ultimately lose the country.

The second article, by Don Devine,  concluded with:

President Obama certainly will be a transformational president. The only question is whether he and his assistants will leave anything still standing in the rest of America when his successor has to pick up the pieces.

It occured to me that first article’s assumption seems to be that the culture war is winnable, thus making the second articles’s question completely irrelevent. Right now, the bottom 50% of wage earners pay no taxes at all. They receive benefits and subsidies from the US Govt., and have a vested interest in not fixing things. Now, the Galt Effect will kick in now, most assuredly, and the really productive folks will go away, but still, whomever remains at the top, will have to pay for everyone else. That’s the ‘new system’ – and the system that will be even more encouraged by Obama’s latest budget shananigans.

I am just saying, I think we’re too far down the path and we’ll never be able to turn back the clock on self-reliance and individual rights, short of some sort of revolt. Too many of our children believe in ideas of fairness and equality that are antithetical to liberty.  Not even the children, young adults, into their thirties now. There aren’t even any teachers left that can understand the concepts of conservativism, never mind teach them.  It is all just ‘mean’ and ‘greedy’ and ‘selfish’ to them.

If there’s no one to teach the ideas and ideals, I don’t see how the culture war is even going on now. It’s over, this is just mop-up.

Bush set the socialism table for Obama, now Obama finishes the job. Maybe there’s some backlash in 2 years, but even still, there’s no political will to throw away tainted ideas like Social Security, Medicaire, and on and on. It seems like rearranging deck chairs to me.

I’m not really defeatest about it. I just think the best things I can hope for are:

a) a country to move to (Ireland maybe?)
b) slow enough progress that I’ll be dead before the tyranny kills anyone I love.
c) holding on to enough freedom to write and eek out a living

I am feeling that even that is under attack now. Why else would I start an anonymous site? I don’t want to lose my job or have my family threatened. Does that sound like freedom of speech to anyone?

This has to be the scariest story of the day to me, “U.S. bill seeks to rescue faltering newspapers.” This is of the sort of holy-crap story, that seems to get some attention but no where near the red-flag sort of terror alert it should

Anyone that has even an ounce of memory for what the U.S. was a few years ago, should realize how insanely dangerous this is, and what a break it is with our history of a FREE and INDEPENDENT press. In a sense, this is a backdoor takeover of the news outlets that a tyrant such as Obama has to love. He gets to look like a hero, rather than a tyrant, he’s saving them from themselves. Oh, sure, he won’t allow them to endorse anyone anymore, and they don’t really have freespeech, but they still get to collect ad money and pipe out his message to the idiot-masses.

Hot Air has it exactly right in their article about this, it is Orwellian — which I guess isn’t shocking as so much of the news these days is so topsy turvy.. . still, I’m freaked uot.