Showing posts with label Patriots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patriots. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Saving America Isn't Going To Be Easy!


Saving America Isn’t Going To Be Easy
A commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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If you’re like me, you tired of feeling helpless as the price on foreign oil skyrockets and our national legislators sit on their … uh… hands, in Washing ton, (The per-barrel price on crude was at the highest level, so far this year, at this writing.) D.C. and DO NOTHING but dream up more rules and regulations to push oil prices even higher and gasoline prices at the pumps higher still. Even here in my home state legislators are trying desperately to find ways of pushing the state’s per gallon taxes on gasoline higher or just maintain the current level of state taxes per gallon on a commodity they KNOW we must have to move our goods and services and yes, even ourselves. Many, if not most of us depend on gasoline to get us to and from our jobs so that the economy, such as it is, will remain, at least viable.

Our economy is teetering on the brink of ruination as the result of indescribably DUMB “SAVE THE PLANET” laws, and regulations, which are strangling our small businesses and damaging our large corporations so badly it will take decades for THEM to recover.

Americans are losing jobs in a near landslide of unemployment as a result of the bungling of the Obama Regime. The prices of nearly every foodstuff available in America’s supermarkets have seen gigantic increase in prices because of these same rules and regs. We are looking at a possible worldwide famine because we are being forced, by the mentally challenged lawmakers in DC, to BURN our food (CORN) for fuel (Ethanol) and to water down our gasoline so as not to disturb the cussed caribou and polar bears in a part of the world to darned cold for humans to consider developing anyway. ANWR sits there, where hardly anybody on the face of the planet will ever visit, on the off chance that SOMEDAY, SOMEONE might stumble upon it and say: ”OOOH! Isn’t that pretty!” JEEEZ!

It’s time to raise a little hell, Americans! It’s time to grab our congresspersons by the lapels and read them the riot act… as we did with the Amnesty Bill a couple of summers ago. Unfortunately it seems the only way to get through that cloud of self-importance with which they have isolated themselves from their constituents.

If you think it’s bad now… just wait. You ain’t seen nothing yet!

Our current President has bought, wholesale, into the hoax of Global Warming, or as the PR people now refer to it: “Climate Change”. Americans can expect no relief from the Bovine Scatology about “saving the planet” with an administration run by Obama’s Politburo of his Central Committee. Congress is even worse, if that is possible! Having gone completely over to the “Dark Side,” the US Congress has adopted, and almost totally embraced, the socialist agenda while pushing out our democratic representative republic form of government. The single most important idea on Capital Hill these days is how to ensure the current crowd of old hippies and new socialists lock in their current positions of power over us and never have to worry about running for office as an incumbent and losing, ever again. Every day sees the socialist Congress digging in even deeper to secure their fat, cushy, jobs. If anything actually beneficial to the country happens to somehow squeak through, then, it is truly a wonder!

As I said… It’s time to raise a little Cain, my fellow Americans. Stack up the e-mails in their inboxes, choke their fax machines with messages, melt the switchboard with phone calls and if you have no other means, then write them a letter, but let them hear the anger and exasperation we are feeling with them and their asinine, infantile, and worst of all – their socialist way of legislating for the country. Of course the underlying truth is simple. If Americans want their government back, we will have to take it back at the polling places with the ballot. Currently we have a “run away” Congress unaccountable to the people who elected them. Socialism is the order of the day on Capital Hill. For all intents and purposes - the American people have NO real leadership in the Congress. In fact, it appears to those of us who chose up sides a very long time ago that the Congress has but one party, of which, the GOP is a part and no long a stand alone, viable, political party choosing, instead, to join the democrat/socialists in their campaign to savage America while turning her into the world’s newest socialist state.

America needs, at least, a two-party system and at this moment in our history, if we are totally honest with ourselves, we must admit that we have ONLY a one party system.

More Tea Parties are planned, all across the nation, for this July Fourth, Independence Day for America. These “parties” allow Americans the opportunity to speak out about the take over of the America government by democrat/socialist. Estimates put those attending the last round of American Tea Parties at one million, or more, Americans. You might want to ask about in your community to learn where the nearest American Tea Party is to be held this coming Fourth of July.

In the meantime, there are newly created TEA PARTY Flags available for you to purchase and use at the tea parties and later to fly from your doorposts or flagpoles of, and at, your home. Go to:
for information on how you can acquire one or more of these Tea Party Flags and for the address you need to order yours today. Do delay if you want to have the flags by July Fourth.

Let’s be about our mission as Americans who love their country and cannot stand to see if plummeting down farther into the depths of the hell that is socialism. We cannot afford to wait, America! We have our country to save!

J. D. Longstreet
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Today is Patriots' Day! ... by J. D. Longstreet


Today is Patriots’ Day!
By: J. D. Longstreet


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I’ll bet that you did not know that today is Patriots Day! Well, it IS! It is a real, live, CIVIC holiday set aside to honor, specifically, the minutemen who stood against the British at Lexington and Concord. These were the very first battles that kicked off the Revolutionary War in America, which led directly to our independence from Great Britain.

Here is a bit more from Wikipedia on Patriots’ Day:

Patriots' Day (sometimes incorrectly spelled Patriot's Day or Patriots Day) is a
civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. It is observed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts[1] and state of Maine[2] (once part of Massachusetts), and is a public school observance day in Wisconsin[3]. Observances and re-enactments of these first battles of the American Revolution occur annually at Lexington Green in Lexington, Massachusetts, (around 6am) and The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts (around 9am). In the morning, a mounted reenactor with State Police escort retraces Paul Revere's ride, calling out warnings the whole way.

You can learn more about Patriots’ Day
HERE.

So, now that you know today is Patriots’ Day, how will you celebrate it? Good question, huh? We suggest you display the US flag outside your home or business today. We certainly hope you attended worship services at your church of choice today and gave thanks to God for the men and women who wrenched our freedom from the bonds of a monarch and for all those since who have worn the uniform of our nation’s armed services and sacrificed themselves in order to preserve that freedom so preciously paid for in blood.

At a time in our nation’s history when we stand at the brink of losing that hard won freedom, closer than we have ever been, in my opinion, we need to step back a bit and take a closer look at what we are about to lose. It is good to remind ourselves, and our government, that America is unique in the entire world. Our government is founded on a constitution, the foundation of all the law(s) of the land. Unfortunately, it becomes necessary to remind those who would govern this land that it is not they who have the final say in government, it is the constitution.

Just this week crowds, estimated at one million strong, took to the streets and gathered at their county courthouses, all across the country, in what were referred to as “Tea Parties” to protest our current government’s attempts to take away the rights won for us by the patriots of this blessed land.

There is an organization, called the “Oath Keepers” we heard about just this week. “Oath Keepers” is an association of law enforcement and military personal so dedicated to the Constitution that they have published a list of ten orders they will NOT obey. They will reaffirm the
Oath to the Constitution today. (As a veteran, I swore the same oath.) Here is that oath:

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

We suggest you visit the website of the “Oath Keepers”. You will find them
HERE.

Here is the list of ten orders the Oath Keepers say they will NOT obey:

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.



2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people.



3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.



4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.



5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.



6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.



7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.



8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.”



9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.



10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.



(Read the full declaration

here)

The Oath Keepers, on their site, go on to say the following:



“Oath Keepers is an association of currently serving military, veterans, and peace officers who will fulfill the oath we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God.



Our oath is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and we will not obey unconstitutional (and thus illegal) and immoral orders, such as orders to disarm the American people or to place them under martial law and deprive them of their ancient right to jury trial.



We Oath Keepers have drawn a line in the sand. We will not “just follow orders."



Our motto is “Not on our watch!”



Our nation is split apart this Patriots’ Day, much as it was in the years, months, and even days leading up to the confrontation between that scraggly bunch of “fringe” extremists who met the British Army at Lexington and Concord. Historians tell us that roughly one-third of the colonist wanted independence, while one-third of the colonists did NOT want independence, and one-third of the colonists couldn’t have cared less… one way or the other. The big difference today is the percentage of those who couldn’t care less is much smaller. We are closer to a 50-50 split today over the preservation of the liberty and freedom those patriots won for us.



This very day in America we tread dangerous ground. When Americans feel it necessary to form organizations such as the “Oath-Keepers” it tells us there is a deep concern among the people of the country for American’s freedom. It tells us there is a perception among Americans that their country is in peril. And, say what you will about us crazy Americans, when our constitution, and/or our liberty is in harm’s way we get our hackles up. They’re up now.



When one million normally quiet, reserved, conservative Americans take to the streets to protest government actions, taxes, and the direction the current Congress and Presidential Administration are taking America, THAT is a signal that something is desperately wrong in America.

J. D. Longstreet

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