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MAJ USA RET
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Intrusions Into Freedoms
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11/11/2009 9:19:17 AM
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The fourth estate is indeed the last bastion of freedom. The Indymedia is a liberal website. Though I vehemently disagree with that sort of activism, I would never shut them down. We ALL have first amendment rights.
The minute you hear “Shut up!” you know that you are hearing a superior, in authority, telling someone, whom he or she considers inferior, to reassume their submissive demeanor. Authority in government is allowed by the people… NO, that has not faded completely. The media is the path to rekindle the spirit of America.
There is no dearth of patriots, though we have been perhaps too reserved. The Constitution provides for Plan B in the Second Amendment (Article the fourth [Amendment II]). God help us if that becomes necessary.
Is the concept of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” less applicable or appropriate than in 1776? Is the brightness of biological existence dimmed in the intervening 233 years? Are the needs of the masses so great that the freedom, industry, and responsibility of the individual should be carved away? Is the striving spirit of the modern man so objectionable that it must be subdued?
No! We have been desensitized to behave as sheep. We are wool and meat and the government wants to decide the time to shear and the time to slaughter.
Is that so? Thus, written by very astute men in 1776: “…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 to 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…”
I am not calling for revolution. But, the current Executive and Legislative branches are building a case for it.
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