The Cost of Freedom…and of LIFE itself!
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.
Three Rights…stated to be “unalienable“, but now under assault.
…”the pursuit of Happiness” Although the Left has been chipping away at this clause for some time (oppressive taxation, demonization of business success, etc), Obama put it square in the cross-hairs when he told Joe the Plumber he was going “spread the wealth around“. Re-distribution of wealth is the Left’s “antidote” to the “pursuit of Happiness”…the theory being that NO ONE can pursue happiness, because to do so leaves someone ELSE unhappy!
…”Liberty“. The assault of Liberty has, sadly, been underway for decades. But the Obama regime has accelerated this assault with their intent to limit Free Speech (“Hate Speech” legislation, “Fairness Doctrine”, etc), and with the wildly oppressive “Cap & Tax” scheme. The goal is to put Government in charge, directly or indirectly, of virtually every aspect of your life. The list of assaults on Liberty currently underway would run for pages…but certainly includes the demonization of those DARING to protest ObamaCare!
Which brings me to: “LIFE“. The third of the “unalienable Rights” spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, but the first one listed! The American people largely just want to live their lives (i.e., they’re NOT “Community Organizers”), and have mostly sat by while the first two Rights I mentioned (“the pursuit of Happiness” and “Liberty“) have been chipped away at. Many, like those here, have been fighting back for some time…but the vast percentage of Americans have just tried to go with the flow.
But now our RIGHT TO LIFE is being called into question. And no matter how Obama and the Dems try to spin it, people are waking up to the FACT that that is exactly what is at stake! Americans are understanding that they won’t be able to “go with the flow”…if they’re dead, or over-medicated in lieu of treatment or surgery.
Almost in mockery of Patrick Henry the Democrats now cry “Peace! Peace!”. They want CALM and QUIET at the TownHalls. They want carefully staged Kabuki Theater that gives the IMPRESSION of “listening to their constituents”…and that is ALL they want. But, as Patrick Henry replied: “there is no peace. The war is actually begun!”
Patrick Henry went on to say: “Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? In our case it is WE who are “already in the field”. The Cost of Freedom, and of our very LIVES is clear: roust your neighbors, friends, co-workers and family. We need THEM at the TownHalls…we need THEM calling and emailing Congress…we need THEM “in the field” with us. For the harassment of those daring to speak out against Obama is gaining momentum, and will only getting stronger and uglier. Benjamin Franklin stated it perfectly: “We must all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
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Ok that gave me goosebumps.
I love this site!!!
Too bad you all don’t live in NH!
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thx, Havok…and welcome aboard!
great name…should allow for some interesting gravatars! 🙂
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Yeah LOL if only I could figure out how to change my icon. …
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Justmary will wake up sooner or later, and she is the BJG Czar of Gravatars! (Czarina?). I’m self-described as “Gravatar Challenged”…i.e. she had to walk me thru setting mine up! 🙂
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One of Obama’s Gravatar Czar’s eh?
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Havok, you can go to http://en.gravatar.com/ and sign up.
You can use something from the web or your own photo. They have a upload and crop feature to use.
You can do several gravatars and pick the one you want to show up. It may take a while to show up–Mary said as long as hour. I think the first time I had to clear my cache twice. I may not have done that correctly.
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Excellent post, Justrand.
The comparisons between today and the early days of our Republic are quite apt. These are historic times. A commenter at Hot Air the other day said that this time is both dark and thrilling. I have to agree. There are citizens who are waking up and looking back again to the Founders and the principles upon which the U.S. was built.
At one Tea Party I was at I saw two people talking over an open copy of one of those small books that contains the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I think the other day Katy Abram at Specter’s town hall told him she had been studying the Constitution and wanted to know when Congress was going to go back to the principles of the Founders.
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Our rights have been slowly eroding since the 1930s. Obama just shifted it into high gear.
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I was looking for a transcript of Katy’s words, but found this instead from yesterday:
Katy is paying the Cost of Freedom simply for speaking out as a citizen at a town hall meeting.
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“Too bad you all don’t live in NH!”
But then I would have to leave Detroit.
Can someone who is more computer literate than me (that’s all of you) please help Havok come up with a real cool icon?
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Well, Havok’s name makes me think of:
Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war.
A fierce canine or battle scene would do.
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perhaps Julius Ceasar for Marc Antony is “channeling” him in Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’ when he says:
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter’d with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
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INC you are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of me!! 🙂
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Only by three minutes!
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Yeah, when you sign your email address up for gravatar, it can take a while to show up. Once saved though, it will follow you anywhere on the web you go. If other sites have gravatars enabled, it will show up there as well (provided you use the same email address). If you find a cool photo, rather than link it there, save it to your computer and upload it to gravatar.com, this way, should the picture ever disappear from the site you found it at, it won’t get erased from your avatar.
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Gateway Pundit links to HotAirPundit who has this up:
Video: ACORN Buses Leaving Arlen Specter Town Hall To Shouts Of “Don’t Come Back”
He has several videos from a Kittanning town hall in western PA. He has a comment a woman who was there made at Gretawire:
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OMG, Sarah used Obama’s own words against him in her FB piece. It is racist to use facts against somebody who is a) not a Republican and b) see a.
Also, I’ve been thinking about Sarah’s death panel remark and I’m reminded of the term used by pro-abortionists and youknowwho: “Keep your hands off my uterus.” Remember, only a small percentage of wymen would ever even consider having an abortion, but the “abortion crowd” thinks they speak for the entire nation.
So, what’s to keep the pro-death panel crowd from also thinking they speak for all of us? Just like the pro-abortion crowd, they also have some catchy slogans lined up: “Keep your hands off my broken pace maker” “Do not resuscitate-unless I’m voting” “Property of Kevorkian” “Bleeding-heart Liberal–No, don’t touch it, let it bleed”
Anyway, first we had the audacity to upset the pro-abortion crowd by being (gasp) against killing babies, and now it looks like we are ready to stoke the flames by being (horrors) against killing grandma.
This will not sit well with youknowwho.
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JM, JR
Is tonight poetry night? I would suggest ‘death panel’ as the theme, but that can easily get way out of hand.
Not all of us are as good as Coulter. Only she can get away with “death paneling” somebody on a national news program and get away with it.
BTW, I believe I coined a new phrase: “death paneling” 😀
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Poetry night is fine with me if we have a crowd for it! I’ll be here. 🙂
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conservativetony…a SPELNDID idea!!
I’m on board for a “Death Panel” poetry night!! other folks??
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Damn, now I have to come up with some poetry.
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yup…which means I’ve gotta fire up the ole rhyme schemes, and lay in a bottle of wine for the evening! 🙂
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A bottle of wine, as in only one? Is that all you’ll need?
I’m going to have to take a run to the the state-run liquor store before we start.
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conservativetony: “I’m going to have to take a run to the the state-run liquor store before we start.”
on a serious note…State-run liquor stores (ABC stores) will be a thorny issue in States that have them vis-a-vis ObamaCare. In those States it will be all too easy to track alcohol consumption per person, and thus “adjust” healthcare to people accordingly.
One “freedom” we do enjoy here in Kalifornia: we can wander barefoot and shirtless into a 7/11 at 3:00 a.m. and buy a bottle of cheap wine with a fake ID and no one asks any questions! Freeeeeeeeeeeedom!
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We all showed up at 11-noon and beat them to the punch. BTW the acorn buses pulled into the lot precisely at 1pm.
Libturd: That’s not fair, you got organized. I’m going to tell my mommy on you. Bwaaaaaaa, bwaaaaaaa.
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Not all of us are as good as Coulter. Only she can get away with “death paneling” somebody on a national news program and get away with it.
Coulter used to rub me the wrong way, but her style seems much more palatable to me now. I realize that she hasn’t changed, but I have.
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They’re calling her on her cell phone and accusing her of being a racist, as if that has anything to do with opposing health care. They’re sending her hate e-mails. These scurrilous cowards are even calling her father at his office and harrassing him there.
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em all around
Hey, where’s Lyricman? Didn’t make it out of PoliPundit? Too bad if not.
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MP, Coulter has a certain in-your-face style that’s been missing from the right for far too long. It is shameful the women of our party have bigger. . .
JR, why are they called ABC stores?
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It is shameful the women of our party have bigger. . .
Well, let’s just say she has more finesse… She wields her words like a stiletto knife. The cut in so quickly and smoothly that a minute later you are going, “Wait, did she just say what I think she said?”
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Another good “Cost of Freedom” thread, Justrand. It pushes on the mind to go deeper in thought about what freedom really means, past, present and future.
We are on the north coast, above San Francisco, for a week. It’s simply beautiful up here, with gulps of blue ocean, redwood/fir trees everywhere, lots of natural open space — it gives you a sense of physical freedom. But, even with the remoteness of the area the government is pressing in on the people, trying to squeeze money out of them while exerting more power over them.
Bed tax, for instance, which used to be collected on a quarterly basis, is now done so monthly!
The govt. is also doing satellite surveillance around here, denoting the size and number of structures on people’s acreage. If people have built structures without permits they are being told to “turn themselves in,” and they will be treated less harshly. Otherwise, if the govt. “sees” structural outcroppings or additions that have gone up “illegally,” they will come in and throw the book at you. This kind of bureaucratic punishment is being done in areas with towns and unincorporated areas having populations of 485 and less. Just think how stringent govt will become in the cities, if they are hammering the rural communities so hard!
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Video: ACORN Buses Leaving Arlen Specter Town Hall To Shouts Of “Don’t Come Back”
How about the woman in the video yelling and holding a signe saying Yelling is Counter Productive!
Also, how do they get away with using Public School buses to bus ACORN in?
JR, why are they called ABC stores?
Alcoholic Beverage Control
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Justrand, are you going to the Tea Party today in SF? I’m going to check out the sights and sounds and take pictures. SF literally is the “belly of the liberal beast” so I’m not sure what to expect. Hopefully a good contingent of counter-protesters show up to make things interesting.
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Alcoholic Beverage Control~~~
Got them here in Virginia. Used to work for the local store about 10 years ago. Let me tell you…if every state run entity ran like the ABC stores here, there’d be no snafu’s and well, the regular mess you find in state governments. They know where every bottle has gone, where it came from, yada yada yada. You’d think this stuff came from the mint or something, with all the sign offs, with all the protection…even down to the locks on the freight trucks tied like evidence at a crime scene, to make sure no one has opened the truck from departure to arrival.
We can sell wine and beer anywhere in Virginia. It’s liquor that gets sold at the abc stores.
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mpt, I won’t be able to “escape” work soon enough…plus it’s “Poetry Night”, and thus my driving would be, um, impaired!
I’m really looking forward to the August 23 TownHall out here though. Maybe Mrs. Justrand and I can meet you for a beer before the meeting…though she’s not inclined to go (she’s not much on “confrontation”). I explained we’re all gonna be good polite little citizens…but somehow she doubts me! 🙂
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but, mpt, please post pictures, & Vid if you can, as soon as you can! 🙂
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He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
Doesn’t listen to an opposing point of view
Control Freak man, ruling all he thinks is his purview
Control Freak Man, he had better listen
He don’t know with what he’s messin’
Knows already just what he wants to do
Doesn’t he seem a lot like Hitler and Mussolini to you?
He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
He’s as blinded by his lust for power as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
He’s got such a God complex point of call
Control Freak Man can you even see America at all?
Knows already just what he wants to do
Doesn’t he seem a lot like Hitler and Mussolini to you?
He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
About Control Freak Man we should all worry
To destroy all America built he is in a hurry
If he controls everything his fascist way
It will be a forlorn day
Hes going to leave it all a mess
Anyone of sound mind must confess
He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
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Concur with INC, my best shot is here – http://media.photobucket.com/image/star%20trek%20general%20chang/Heydecke/230px-General_Chang.jpg
General Chang in the ST Undiscovered Country movie.
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drdog…concur! His shouting of “Cry Havok and let slip the dogs of war!” at the end of the movie is pretty cool!
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apologies is this has been covered.
INC,
I looked at the two vids over at Gateway. Did you notice something? Those were School Buses! Now I don’t know the business arrangement, they could be leased and contracted vehicles in which case its reasonable. But if that was school assets, what are they doing busing ACORN people to an event? Regardless of whether they are reimbursed or not.
Hmmmmm?
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JR, why are they called ABC stores?
When I lived around the Philly area that meant — Anything But Cheap.
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Justrand, that’s a reminder for me to block out the afternoon of the 23rd. I’m not much into confrontation myself. I’m much more content to ask a zinger of a question that puts them on the spot.
I’m on iPhone the rest of the day which makes posting a challenge, but I’ll post a message if anything interesting happens in SF today. I’ll also post any pictures I take. Unfortunately I’ve no video capabilities. I’ll have to remedy that if I’m going to these events more often.
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Dr. Dog, you’re right about the buses. I do not know where they’re from or who authorized them.
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NRO’s Critical Condition linked to what I consider commentary on the narcissist-in-chief:
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A Twilight Zone episode…scary and troubling…and CURRENT!
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No one gets in your face like people from Brooklyn:
Via InstaPundit, from JWF on a town hall:
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Congressman, you are obsolete!
A very prophetic choice JR.
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JustMary,
Thanks for the help. It works!
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Havok…looks most excellent! 🙂
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You’re welcome, looks good!
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Hey, Havok, I like the Minuteman!
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Actually, I believe that minuteman is the picture on the cover of “Boston’s Gun Bible”.
The ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ just seems to fit perfectly.
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If I could turn back time 15 years I would get rid of the Wolverine tattoo that I have and replace it with what is now my icon here.
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You know they say the Sons of Liberty started this way — http://www.redstate.com/jrichardson/2009/08/13/voters-schedule-town-hall-in-representatives-absence
Well maybe without the empty chair….
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I hear clips of 0bama at his “town halls” and all he does is deny the claims the opposition make without any detail.
Many of the opposition quote portions of the bill and explain what they interpret it as meaning and why they oppose it.
Instead of 0bama quoting the same portions of the bill and explaining why the opposition is wrong and what it really means, he just says isn’t true.
He might as well stay home. He’s supposed to show up here in Phoenix. He makes me want to puke.
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Instead of 0bama quoting the same portions of the bill and explaining why the opposition is wrong and what it really means, he just says isn’t true.
You need to figure out a way of getting that specific question before him. Why he simply says opposition is wrong without explaining why. He’s a slippery one, but there must be a way of nailing him on this without the teleprompter on.
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You need to figure out a way of getting that specific question before him.
I refuse to join ACORN or the Union so I think my chances of accomplishing that are not good.
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amen, BCL!