The patriotic premises of liberals and the lies they tell

Did you know that children who attend American Independence Day celebrations are more likely to vote Republican (gasp!) when they grow up?

Don’t tell the Obama regime, otherwise they might concoct a scheme to ban the celebration altogether.

Oops! Too late: the media arm of the Obama regime has already posted the story.

It’s true. Well, almost… Not really. ABC News admits that even the study’s co-author, David Yanagizawa-Drott of Harvard University can’t match up the thesis with the facts. Not to worry folks; like the Christmas stories that proclaim Jesus wasn’t really born on Dec. 25th or that what he said and did can’t be authenticated, this is just another attempt by the anti-American media to belittle you for waving your American flags and celebrating the moral convictions of those who risked life and livelihoods to declare themselves and others free and independent from the tyranny of King George by signing the Declaration of Independence.

According to the story’s author:

One thing not addressed in the report is that nearly every kid in America attends Fourth of July celebrations, but the Republican Party is a minority party.

Minority party? So what’s the problem? If most kids grow up to be Democrats who cares?

Let’s apply a little Philosophy 101 here… If there are fewer registered Republicans in America then certainly the premise must be that there are more registered Democrats.

US voter registration in 2004.

The 2004 census statistics even bear this out. So, if nearly ever kid in America attends an Independence Day celebration in the United States as declared in the story, simply philosophy would suggest that celebrating Independence Day would make one more likely to be Democrat than Republican, even though ABC News declared the exact opposite?

Halfway through the story ABC News printed this joke: “Calls to Democratic officials were not returned because they had left their offices early to celebrate the Fourth of July.”

Really? How did the author of the story know they were out celebrating Independence Day? Come on now: George Stephanoloulos works for ABC News and is one of the Democrat Party’s biggest apologists around! Isn’t he one of the author’s colleagues? Even if he was reluctant to make up a quote I’m sure he could find someone out there to make up some lies about Republicans and Independence Day.

Of course that isn’t why they printed the paragraph. For Liberals, the time off for patriotic or religious holidays has nothing to do with celebrating the memory of the holiday. You don’t believe for a moment that Liberals actually go out and celebrate Independence Day, Christmas, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving or Easter for the rememberances that they are? That’s not the purpose of a holiday for these folks. The purpose of a national holiday for these people is just another paid vacation on the taxpayer’s dime.

As an aside, I thought that children weren’t affected by the things they watched, did or played? We’re always told that the violent video games kids play are perfectly harmless, that they don’t lead kids to violent tendencies, or that the music they listen to doesn’t encourage them to act out in ways that are counter to the morals of a good and just society.

So what’s the worry Mr. and Ms. Liberal? These kids at the Independence Day ceremonies will likely continue the practice of drinking the kool aid you serve up to their older brothers and sisters in college and continue to vote with the premise that government is good, politicians are the only people in America who have your best interests at heart and that freedom and liberty are the archaic, evil and racist outcomes of a bunch of hooligans who dared to break away from the theocratic and despotic regime of King George.

Declaration of Independence: Superbowl XLV Commercial

I was absolutely amazed that something like this was produced for television in America today. I am extremely pleased that it was produced on a day when millions of people around the globe were watching television. I can only hope that this was not censored anywhere it was broadcast.

Protecting liberty: America’s first defense against government

I’m glad I’m not the only one with such an opinion: The Second Amendment isn’t about hunting, or even protecting ourselves against street thugs, though firearm ownership does afford us those abilities. It’s much larger, and much more important than that.

Any government capable of disarming its citizens is not only capable of, but is also very likely preparing for the day when those in power plan to rule by despotism and inflict all sorts of evil on their subjects. History bears the proof in this from the smallest of insurrections in third-world countries to the larger and more historically notable regimes ruled by dictators who’s names are widely published in history books.

There are countless examples of such thoughts not only running through the mind of President Barack Hussein Obama. Given his public statements and rhetoric that we currently have at hand, it’s not a stretch to believe that reports are true of his wishes to amass his own police force and establish martial law sometime within his first term. Stories in the Washington Times and even in the European Union’s online newspaper The European Union Times bear witness to such reports.

I came across a YouTube video taken from what appears to be a US Senate committee or subcommittee meeting (Sen. Chuck Schumer is visible in this hearing) from the mid 1990’s. The gist of the video is of Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp sharing a personal story with some Senators about a gunman who killed her parents and a host of others in a massacre in Killeen, Texas in October 1991. One would guess that the discussion before this committee of the self-important was over the assault weapon’s ban.

The most poignant comment made in this video clip, as Sen. Schumer sat with his head in his hand, staring smugly at Dr. Hupp, was when she told the senators that “the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting… but it’s about our rights, all of our rights to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.”

Wow! Someone with the guts to say that to a bunch of self-righteous senators should be held up to high esteem and lauded for openly speaking such truth. I’d vote for her for President of the United States based on that belief and statement alone!

Consider the man who was President about the time Dr. Hupp made this statement to the senate committee. In 1994 President Bill Clinton said this on MTV:

“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly. …However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” (http://www.featherlessbiped.com/)

The Second Amendment is truly the linchpin to our inalienable right to self-government and our ability to, in the extreme, force a tyrannical government aside and start afresh. The Declaration of Independence bears this thought out in the second paragraph. To place some context to the phrase, I’ll include the sentences leading up to this point:

“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 abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

Did you catch that? “…that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government…” (emphasis added).

The Second Amendment is our trump card, so to speak, against government’s desire and ability to grow larger and assume powers not afforded them under the Constitution. Contrary to the opinion of President Barack Hussein Obama the Constitution constrains government; it does not constrain the governed.

Above all others, the Second Amendment holds in itself the ability to enforce the rest of the Constitution — but only if those willing participants stand up and assume the awesome responsibility that comes with liberty and freedom to challenge those who would oppose those rights through tyranny and oppression.

Amazing how little things really changed since 1948

Get off our backs!

These need to be viewed by every person and every school child in America. What a remarkable lesson in history and civics. Judge Andrew Napolitano does an excellent job in enunciating what the US Constitution says and does not say.

The US Constitution was, is and shall remain a guard against government intrusion, not a license for government to do ANYTHING beyond what is enumerated in the Preamble.

Below are Parts 1, 2, and 3 of 3 parts of an incredible speech by Judge Napolitano.

Keep more of your money… a tax protest worth starting

© 2000, Columbia Pictures, Inc.

I just came across an excellent idea that was not mine, but deserves to be shared.

Everyone tomorrow needs to change his or her tax withholding status to 9. This is apparently the maximum allowed. By doing so you will keep more of your hard-earned money in your paycheck each time you get paid.

The protest angle in this is it seriously slows the amount of income taxes being collected by the government until that time when taxes are due (typically April 15th, but with legal extensions, this can be postponed). The goal is to slow the amount of money going on a regular basis into the US Treasury. Oh, they’ll eventually get the money, but it won’t be before it is legally due.

This also prevents the government from borrowing YOUR money, tax and interest free.

Typically people have low withholding numbers on their tax forms so that at tax time they get a refund. I’m arguing that we need to turn this around and simply wait until the legal date to submit your taxes. You can’t stop paying them — at least legally — but you can seriously slow the flow until the last minute.

Then, write letters to your elected representatives, letters to the editor, and in blog posts sharing that you’re protesting the use of YOUR money by the government in ways that you do not support. Tell your congressman that you simply want government to live within the same means that you are forced to live within while your employer cuts your salary and eliminates your ability to make more money.

It’s not your employer’s fault (I’m speaking to those who work in the private sector); it’s government’s fault for not living within the means of the income that is created by the private sector.

While this will force most of us to pay money to the IRS on April 15th, the point is to put government on notice, without firing a shot, that we’re not going to take this anymore.

This is not the only thing we can do to try to take our country back from the brink of the destruction being foisted upon us by over-spending politicians and a White House that wants to destroy capitalism and America as we know it, but it’s certainly a start.

America’s parallel universe… a slippery slope

There was once a science fiction show on television called “Sliders.” The basic theme of this 1990’s show was the escapades of four scientists who had a device that would allow them to “slide” into parallel universes.
In one episode the sliders found themselves in a world where the Declaration of Independence was invalid and personal liberties and freedoms were non-existent. The episode ends with the sliders uploading a copy of the Declaration of Independence to computers via the Internet and citizens gathering around computers to be inspired by the Declaration of Independence.
It’s as if we’re living in an alternate universe of our own, and the nation that was borne through the ideas that sparked such a declaration, and later the US Constitution, has disappeared and a parallel universe without these constraints on government is morphing from a slippery slope of government regulations aimed at protecting us from ourselves.
It’s not difficult to see how we’ve got here and how such radical opinions can be propagated.
In a 2001 NPR interview that went basically unnoticed until the election last year of Barrack Hussein Obama as President of the United States, Obama, then an Illinois state senator, told NPR that the constitution is “a charter of negative liberties.” He went on to tell the interviewer that the US Constitution “says what the states can’t do to you; says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.”
California Senator Dianne Feinstein made a similar statement in a separate statement where she also used a similar phrase in the context of the US Constitution.
Obama has further stated, and arguably believes within the core of his being, that his role is to bring “major redistributive change” in terms of personal wealth in America because the courts are simply not radical enough to do this — in BHO’s opinion.
The question isn’t so much how we got into the parallel universe we’re in, where protecting and defending the Constitution is anathema to the views of our political leaders, but how are we going to reverse this slide before it’s too late and we have to take the extreme position of abolishing our government from power by force and starting over, much like our founders were forced to when they openly declared their independence from King George.

We must never forget

We are dangerously close to repeating the horrors of some of this world’s most famous periods of history.

Our holidays to mark the triumphs over tyranny have become too watered down; we’re too complacent about what the men and women who died for liberty’s cause did to preserve it. The very freedom and liberty that dwells within the souls of all human beings has become tarnished by a contentment that is both dangerous and evil.

We must never forget the sacrifices that countless Americans made for freedom around the globe. We must never forget the principles for which they stood when they carried the flag of freedom into enemy territory and liberated nations from tyranny. We must always carry their memories and what they stood for as the standard for future generations.

Silent No More

This video by Joe Dan Gorman is well worth the time to view. It’s a great primer for conversations, and should be a call to action by all those who fear the loss of their liberty and freedom in America.

A call to arms

Here’s a great video that asks a simple question of Americans today — a question that demands an answer and not mere complacency!