Well, the fact that he can write this without being arrested and put in jail makes his claim of destroying the first amendment looks a bit like the rantings of a drama queen.

I see Erick’s point. I’m as anti-Obama as the next guy, but there are times when we need to show our class and character. As Conservatives, we spend a ton of time and energy complaining about the Left (most of which is justified). It’s time now to make a successful battle plan for our side. If this past election was “the most important of our lifetime,” then what will the next be called? Particularly after 4 more years of O’s policies and procedures….

Truly I tell you it’s not too soon to focus on 2016, We need a bold vision and a young leader who can carry our message. The GOP is not done – not by a long shot. Let’s be positive warriors in this battle.

So what? The constitution is a dead letter. there are whole parts of it that are not enforced and others that have been changed 180 degrees from their original meaning. The constitution is just window dressing and any part that is inconvenient is just wished away into the cornfield with a Supreme court that usually just lets the rest of the government do whatever they want. (and that was true even when there was a large majority of Republican appointees.)

Personally I no longer have any reverence for either the constitution or really for the country as a whole. It was a nice run but there is no future for it. And the problem is not the politicians, it is the people, we are no longer a good people, simple as that.

It’s not even about showing class and character anymore, it’s about showing we are not freaking insane and people like her make it very very difficult. It is sad to see how many people agree with her here.

Exactly. Thank goodness a couple of folks here get the message.

you don’t get it: senseless hyperbole isn’t effective in the defense of patriotism or freedom

“I submit” that crying wolf is not a great strategy … it’s ammunition for our enemies

She’s not a Republican. She’s a reactionary. What is this crap ” do you not understand that to allow Eric Holder and the Department of Justice to illegally prosecute innocent “white” citizens” and allow obviously guilty “black” citizens operate free of prosecution while at the same time announcing that no black people will be prosecuted for crimes against whites is not an act of treason?”

Surely you do not support this.

Why? This country was founded on the principles of the right and all the accusations in this letter are correct. I have no idea why Erick and his writers don’t push this further. It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s true and we all know it’s true.

The 2nd Amendment is actually stronger now than it was in the 1970s. The 1st Amendment is always under some amount of stress. I am pessimistic for the most part in that I don’t think entitlements go away unless society substantially collapses. However, over the top pronouncements don’t help our side. I remember folks “educating” me as to how Clinton would never leave the WH. Arming our enemies out of short sightedness is older than the country is. Histrionics do nothing but scare away those who could otherwise be persuaded. We would be better off if Georgeanne became a groupie for Justin Bieber.

In thinking about both the First and Second Amendments, I conclude that the rights underlying both amendments are actually in a stronger position now than on the day I was born in 1970. Gun control was on the march in the 1970s, and there was no SCt case clearly addressing the issue of the 2nd Amendment being an individual right. In terms of free speech, we have the Internet, bloggers, talk radio, etc.
If Georgeanne thinks it is bad now, she would have committed suicide in the late 70s. History does go in cycles, and I think we are in trouble—-but my grandparents lived in Poland 1939. Whatever we face now is nothing compared to what my grandparents faced.
Just need to paint a picture with some sense of perspective and context. That is the one thing crazies on the right share with crazies on the left—a lack of context. One of Obama’s executive orders was after all filling in the ATF leadership slot.

How about live, teach your kids, and keep the torch alive? Lots of bad things going on. We are not yet at a point where destruction of the country is a better alternative to what is happening. Warsaw 1939 is not a superior option to Red State America 2013. We live in circumstances that are far superior to those enjoyed by 99.999% of the people who ever walked the earth.

Where did CNN get stock aerial footage of a school less than 4 miles from Sandy Hook being assaulted by SWAT teams?

I mean wow!

Whoever is in charge of stock footage needs a raise man. That’s even more unlikely than a conspiracy, isn’t it?

You were never like me.

Yes, they kept them relatively secret, although for a lot of people they were “open secrets”.

My father worked on one such project. During the mid-late 1960s he was a Systems Engineer for IBM and worked at the MIT Lincoln Laboratories providing support for the people working on the Apollo Flight Computer and the Poseidon Missile Guidance System.

Poseidon’s development was a Top-Secret project, at least as far as the guidance system was concerned, because it was a state-of-the-art (for its time) inertial guidance system. He had a clearance, because he often needed to converse and meet with and interact with the people who were doing the engineering and writing programs to test their assumptions. You can’t provide systems support without being able to talk with the engineers whose questions you have to answer and problems you have to help solve.

So he had a clearance and a card, but at the time, he remembers even that level of security as being pretty laxadaiscal. He could walk into the building, flash his badge at the guy at the front desk, say: “I’m going up to see Dr. So and So, what office is he in?”

The desk officer would check the badge, write down his name, and then say: “Third floor, fourth door on the right out of the elevator.”

So you go there and knock on the door and there’s Dr. So-and-so, and there’s another unlocked door behind him. He left it accidentally ajar when he came out to the outer office. And sitting in plain sight on a big slab table in that room is a great big 100% complete engineering prototype of a large part of the kit comprising the Poseidon Missile Inertial Guidance system!

“So that’s the baby, huh?”
“Yes it is.”

Not even a locked door!

At the time there were also “estimates” published about the Poseidon’s CEP (circular error probable) accuracy when fired from a submarine at sea. My Dad asked one of the engineers: “OK, that’s the figure you’re citing but how accurate is it really?” and he was told: “If you give me 24 hours to really set it up and get a fix on the launch location (remember, no GPS in those days), in a stable environment, and with the right conditions, I can put this missle down any chimney in the Kremlin.”

Security has gotten a lot tighter since then, and yeah, I guess it freaks some people out. But if anything, my Dad recalls the security at MIT to be a little like Apple Computer’s security when one of its engineers leaves their new iPhone in a bar in San Francisco.

Take the black helicopter stuff somewhere else, please.

No. I’m not. I’ll let someone else wring their hands about that. I’m much more concerned about the things Barack Obama does and wants to do, right out in the open.

There is a lot of truth in what Georganne says, maybe a bit exaggerated but still on whole truthful. The point that needs to be made is we can argue the point that Obama might be or might not be a traitor until we are blue in the face, there is ABSOLUTELY nothing any one of us can do about it. We had our chance on Nov 6th and we lost. Obama is not going to be impeached no matter WHAT he does. Reid isn’t going to allow it period! And since Obama doesn’t need to worry about a re-election he is completely unchained now and it is only going to get worse.

The agenda going forward should be focused on why our party goes along with these things. They have to know what he is doing is very destructive and is splintering the country. We have a very weak opposition if we can even call it an opposition, they seem more inclined to agree with Obama just not as fast as Obama then to disagree with him. They roll over after trying to play smart which ALWAYS backfires, or so it seems to us. Maybe that is McConnell’s and Boehner’s agenda to look like they oppose but in reality they agree with him but are playing the fool the voters game. I see no end to this for a while coming. Next election isn’t really going to change things as long as the rules are the way they are right now in the Congress and we keep ending up with the same useless leaders.

While none of these things can be described as good ideas, treason is a very specific term with a specific meaning. I’m not sure what she means by some of this, exactly.. And I certainly share her frustration and disgust with most everything Obama has done over the past 4 years.. But it’s not “treason”