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Happy New Year. Time to get my country back.
By Tom | January 1, 2008
Asked what form of government the Consitutional convention had produced, Benjamin Franklin is said to have answered: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
I don’t do resolutions at the start of a new year.
However, I am beginning this year with a decision and a promise to myself, to my family, to my friends, and to the universe: In the next 12 months, I will accept Dr. Franklin’s challenge. I will do everything in my power, even to the risking of life and limb, to reclaim my country from the vile hands who are trying to wrest it from our grasp. I will enlist and lead all who will join me in this effort and I will marry my efforts to those of the thousands who also engage in this essential undertaking.
“When patience has begotten false estimates of its motives, when wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.”
–Thomas Jefferson to M. deStael, 1807
I, and we as a nation, have been patient as the present administration and a servile Congress have step-by-step weakened and undermined our very system of government — and our protection against abuses by that government. In the days after a calamitous attack, patience was perhaps called for. But as Mr. Jefferson noted, that initial patience has been misconstrued as willing consent. Now abuse is heaped upon abuse, simply because those who wield state power believe they have our permission (or believe we will submit, in any case).
This will not stand.
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