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I REFUSE

I refuse.

I refuse to pay.  I will not be forced to pay for a product that I choose not to buy, whether it is mandated by the 111th Congress or not.  I exercise my Constitutional right to refuse to pay excise taxes of any kind.  Excise taxes are forbidden and their passage is meaningless under the Constitution.

I refuse to obey.  It is my Constitutional right and duty to actively disobey all bills not correctly passed into law.   I also refuse to obey Executive Orders meant to supersede passed legislation.

I refuse to contribute my talents, my assets and wealth to socialism.  I shall not entertain any programs with the slightest taint of socialism.  While taxation of income is explicitly adopted in the Constitution, punitive taxation is not.   I will stop eating in restaurants, I will stop drinking soft drinks the moment punitive taxation of sugar and fat and salt and cholesterol are imposed.   I will purchase nothing that is not legitimately taxed.  I will not generate taxable wealth, because there is no point in generating it if it is to be taken from me and given to strangers.   I’ll keep my accounts as close to zero as possible in case of a seizure.
 
I refuse on moral grounds to in any way aid in the termination of pregnancies.   Abortion in particular, while part of the law
of the land, is elective surgery, and shall forever remain so at a maximum.  I shall neither fund nor encourage others to fund abortions, federally or otherwise (and I’m not even strictly anti-abortion!). 

I refuse to remain silent.  I will raise a holy stink in private and in public with anyone who is stupid enough to embrace or admire an expansive centralized government.  I will call them socialists or statists or fascists, or communists as the definitions apply (I’m capable of that), I will call them traitors to a free America, and I will do it to their faces.  I will embarrass them before their friends, and mock them before their enemies.  There is nothing anyone can do about that.  True, accurate statements are the ultimate defense against libel and slander, after all.

I refuse to allow the medical profession to remain inactive.  I have friends that are in the medical profession, and I will convince them to retire early, because they will have no recourse but to retire.  I will dissuade young adults from entering a medical field, and the government will hereafter make it easy to do just that.

I refuse to let this new system’s fatal flaws go unexposed.  I have a lot of friends with a lot of elusive conditions, a lot of idiopathy, and a lot of sneaking suspicions.  They will be concerned for their immediate health and will show up, often, at emergency rooms, at clinics, at private practices, at hospitals.  It’s our “right”, after all, to receive medical treatment under any and all circumstances, correct?  We’ll be putting this overburdened system and a dwindling medical community under increasing strain in the most glorious Alinskyite fashion.  Millions upon millions can play at that game.

I refuse to stay put.  I will take my family to the first state that rewrites its Constitution to reclaim, once again, their Constitutional primacy of the 9th and 10th Amendment rights.  I’d love to see the Commerce clause taken from the toolbox of progressives for once and for good. 

I refuse to let anyone with a single fibril of socialism in their body come to power.  I will campaign, and if necessary, run, against any such person and I will doggedly pursue them until they admit their treachery.  Then I’ll see them beaten in public.   I will systematically burn their public career to the ground.   

I refuse to allow the institutions that put the state before individuals to stand.  I will work to deconstruct and permanently privatize all forms of welfare, social security, and mandated insurance.   In their place may go charities (religious and otherwise), personal savings accounts, retirement accounts and private insurance.  These things are not rights, they are services which may be regulated, but never controlled, or owned by the government.  They are instruments which one may purchase in various forms at various levels, depending on one’s individual need.  You can’t say that about any true rights, like life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. 

I refuse to allow people in power any further chances to strip Americans of their God-given rights.   I will organize against them.  I will make it my mission to destroy their ability to affect anyone in the public arena.  I refuse to ever give up on these final goals Amended directly into the Constitution by the methods laid out by the Amendment clause: 
To forbid all government ownership of money or assets, thereby criminalizing socialism, statism, communism (and yes,
crony-capitalism).  

Most importanty, I absolutely refuse to hand over the hearts and minds of my children to the State.  I will be God-damned and gone to Hell before that happens.

To ensure that any attempts by a public official to undermine the Constitution are regarded as a breaking of their oath, subject to immediate impeachment, which can result in removal or prison, not every two/four/six years, but every stinking day, and if it takes a fourth branch of government composed of state delegates of stellar reputation, elected by the People and their States to enforce that, then so be it. 
To limit the federal government to a specific fraction of GDP, calculated from the year before, incentivizing production of
real goods and assets, each and every fiscal year.  
To ensure that all civil officers at the federal level are recallable on the federal level, not just within their original
constituency, so that some corrupt local politician can’t escape the will of the entire populace they represent. 
To define democratic representation based solely on enumeration of native, naturalized and American citizens by
birthright for every child that has at least one native, natural-born, or naturalized parent.

There are others.  (Let me know if you like or dislike the ones you see here.)  You’ll notice that each concept you see above is a clear limitation set upon the federal government. 

THAT’S WHAT CONSTITUTIONS ARE FOR:  TO DEFINE THE ROLE, AND THEREBY NECESSARILY LIMIT THE ROLE OF, OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS WHICH, LEFT UNCHECKED, HAVE HISTORICALLY ALWAYS DEGENERATED INTO INCREASINGLY TYRANNICAL STATES.

I credit the Obama Administration, and the Progressive movement that has currently hijacked the Democratic Party, for giving us all a glimpse of what happens when violations of the Constitution are embraced, willfully and shamelessly among a largely unvigilant populace. 

Make the populace aware of what’s been done, and put these criminals down like the filth that they are, and never let them up or in again. 

COMMENTS

  • danasdaddy

    Sam,

    Thanks for this. HIGHLY RECCO’D! You wrote what we’re all thinking today.

    • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

      n/t

      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
        • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

          The response I got has given me time to work through a great sense of loss for my country, and consequently the loss of opportunity and future for my children. I hope I have reciprocated.

          I look very forward to persuading everyone I can to see what’s really going on before the November election.

          Sam

  • Menlo

    So long as I am stuck in this country, I will do likewise!

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    And although the language is slightly arcane, I’ll be framing copies of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and putting them on the wall in her bedroom. It’s a early start to an essential and proper education.

    Come September, I’ll have a big sign for the neighborhood on how to vote in the next election. Something my late uncle, a NJ Fire Chief did in Edison years ago when Jim Florio was governor. I may lose some friends, but on the other hand, we’re they ever really friends?

  • snowshooze

    Right on.
    Mark

  • archer52

    Imagine if this “revolution” occurred during the times before the MBS drama crashed the market? We’d have plenty of money (at least on paper) to pay for a number of these programs.

    Now they can say all they want, but the harsh reality of higher taxes will come quicker. The failure to fund, the loss of AAA ratings, the states literally revolting (Ah, music to the ears of Southerners who knew we were just taking a break from the first “Waawar of Northern Aggression”!)

    All kidding aside, your points are decent ones, but the implementation will be very, very hard. The left has spent a lot of time preparing this battle space. You are a six foot man who has realized only now the there is a leak in the boat because the water has reached your nose.

    Remember who these people are and how motivated their life experiences have made them.

    http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/03/23/why-the-leaders-in-congress-and-the-white-house-didnt-flinch-when-you-warned-them-understand-who-they-are/

    I’ve offered it before. I hope some of you are reading it. Here is the key passage. Pay attention. I hunted very bad men for long time and the key to getting most of them was to make the effort to UNDERSTAND how they thought.

    (Remember, not all of them fall in this category. Some are just useful idiots being manipulated- Cokie Roberts, Matthews, Whoopie, David Gregory, even James Cameron. Bart Stupak is also one that falls into the do-gooder useful idiot arena.)

    ———-

    “But that didn?t explain why the whole party including Obama didn?t waver at all in the face of calls, petitions and marches. I was a little confused until I realized who we were dealing with. They are from the radical sixties. They are experts in revolutionary methods. You have to remember they are the ones who bombed police stations. They are the ones who rioted, destroying property and attacking the police, staging sit ins, and tons of other very public, violent and dangerous behavior. Was it wrong? Sure, but it worked. This is their youth, their time, their legacy.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmvyNwmZuWo&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQK8fU99Sc&feature=related

    In the second video there is a reference to the Weather Underground, which is Bill Ayers? (Obama?s friend) old stomping ground. Do you think any of those men and women from back then are impressed with letter writing, petitions, peaceful assemblies, and phone calls?

    What did Sun Tzu say in his ?Art of War? about how key it was to knowing your enemy

    * It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

    Here is where most of you are making mistakes, including Beck and O?Reilly. The people pushing this agenda to socialize America (if not worse) are students and participants of this era. They cut their teeth on getting beaten and gassed by the police. They got laid after riots by free loving women and men. They believed in nothing but themselves and ?the revolution?. Now some grew up and grew out of their madness. Many did not. They just realized to change the machine they had to become part of the machine. They own companies and media corporations. They are in Wall Street and unions. They are in your universities and in government. They are an entire generation dead set on following their two primary goals, to benefit themselves and benefit the revolution.”
    ——
    How deadly will they turn out to be for us and our nation?

    Read the book- www.revoltthebook.com I saw this coming.

    • louisiana

      MUST THINK like them. It’s repugnant & foreign to conservatives to do so, but our survival depends on it.

    • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

      We have the almost limitless ability to produce real, substantial assets out of the materiel laying about, not because we own everything, or are rich, but because we choose to learn the lessons of those before us, and fought to be self-sustaining human beings.

      Socialists and the people they use to put them in power very quickly run out of options when other people’s cash stops flowing. They’ll demand more and more taxation and free lunches anyway. So we’ll simply stop the cash flowing this time before they squander it, rather than forking it over until we run out.

      Outside of the fact that a government can simply write into law that we have to fork an increasing about over to them, and those that vote them in, I don’t see any real effort in enforcing that, not yet.

      Of course they know what will happen when they begin forcing the issue, after all, as you say, the last generation experienced the violence themselves. They should expect an even bigger backlash from us.
      But the violence will be all on them, and we are at least as determined to survive for the sake of the next generation, our children.

      This time, it won’t be idealistic socialist university students desperate to avoid the draft, it won’t be the people that think people who have ever owned firearms are anachronistic, It won’t be the people that refuse to mow their own lawn because it’s beneath them, protesting in the streets.

      It will be property owners and people with children, and the people who know how to make things, and the people who feed and clothe us and supply fuel, and distribute. People who build and repair things. And people who studied something more substantial than liberal arts or communications.

      These people, who will be increasing emburdened with such a foul parasite, are ironically more patient, too. The first step in the ballot box. If, the people don’t get the electoral results they want this November, they’ll seek other means.

      Meantime, if socialists disguised as Democrats want to keep assaulting the good hardworking people of America, let them try. The backlash will intensify.

      And, by the way, if the real players in control of our universities and governments are battle-hardened leftists from the 1960′s and 1970′s like you say, that puts them at the sexegenarian-geriatric stage now. While it might explain a lot about how they’ve been fighting to have their medical bills paid for them, it also indicates to me how short-lived their efforts are going to be.

      Additionally, today’s little lefty proteges are far from those battle-hardened 60′s types, and today’s good Americans know better than to create a new batch. Socialism will all but be deconstructed (and with any luck Constitutionally forbidden) by the time Obama’s first (and last) term is over.

  • melissatx

    You want to bring them to their knees? Don’t pay taxes, don’t fill out your census, don’t keep money in the bank, take all the deductions you can if you work, if you can manage it, stop making a check and farm out your talents for cash only or barter, and do not put anything into retirement. Buy gold, buy silver, buy jewelry , buy gems, buy commodities people will need. Sell your home and rent; don’t be responsible for property or ISD taxation.let the illegals who will be getting everything for free pay for it. Let the welfare mom with 14 kids by 12 men pay for it. Let the guy driving a Lexus and paying for groceries with food stamps pay for it. Let the people who don’t live in your school district but send their kids there anyway, who BTW have 6 kids eating free meals twice a day, pay for it. MAKE them find the money to finance their pipe dreams through the people they choose to support.

    • http://www.thesubstratum.com GJ Merits

      This is how to win the fight. This is real stuff here. No lawyers, no politicians, but the real spirit of independence, liberty, and the willingness to place your future in your own hands. If millions acted like this, ObamaCare would be dead, and the federal government would bow to the people, not the other way around.

      And your John Adams quote is spot on. The window is closing and we rely on lawyers and politicians to get us out the mess they not only put us in to begin with but, in reality, have no real interest in getting us out of (at least the politicians). Good for you for standing up and shouting.

  • Common_Cents

    Whether that is taxing your income or whittling away your nest egg. They already floated an idea to converting private 401k’s to govt run annuities, that may be by force in the near future as they are starved for more money.

    A great way to end this developing nightmare is wealth protection. Their are legal ways to keep money offshore. Sovereignsociety is one site with info, anyone have other resources on the subject? I expect the rules for moving assets out to be very strict from maobama if they aren’t already. They’ll be quiet ones with no press keeping us locked in.

  • finallyhadenuff

    BTW, those of us down here in Ocean county might argue that we’re one of the Reddest counties in this ocean of blue we call NJ.

  • Gigi

    Great diary. Great comments. Thanks!

  • Flagstaff

    that conservatives will become complacent and satisfied that they’ve done all they can do and still lost.

    This diary is evidence to the contrary.

    It will be up to us, the people who vote for them (I hate that other affectation), to keep our political servants aware of what we want. And it will be up to them to do the things that will give people like “Chemical Sam” confidence that they won’t be wasting their votes when they vote Republican.

  • traversecityconservative

    What do you think about an immediate protest by going in to see our accountant at work tomorrow and changing our exemptions? Why do people wait for a year to get their own money back? Take it home now! I even went so far as OWING the feds $1000 every year. It’s OUR money. Why are people letting them have it interest free all year????

    • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

      I spoke to the wife about it; she’s the major breadwinner right now. I filed early in January this year, because I had a refund coming. I had gotten it back a few weeks before some states (not NJ, not yet, and I don’t think Christie would be so unwise) started announcing that they would be holding on to refunds this year until they were sure that their coffers wouldn’t drain completely. What’s to stop the Fed from proclaiming the same delay I wonder?

      I used to get a psychological boost from getting a refund every year. Now I am beginning to understand what happens when even my pittance is resting in federal hands over the entire year. They begin to think it’s theirs.

      So, we’ll be adjusting our deductions in a way that gets us as close to zero as possible. If we were in better shape financially, we’d max the thing out and starve ‘em good. We’ll save in the bank, or under a mattress if it comes to that. Either way they can come hat-in-hand next year for the remainder of the taxes we owe.

  • NC_Red_State

    This is A+

    • jdw4america

      I am an Hispanic – that’s right, not “Latina” woman born and raised in NYC. My mother is the yellowest yellow dog you’re ever gonna meet, and she raised her kids to think the republicans were the anti-christ.
      Poor thing, she still believes that. She prayed for this evil law to pass for MY children’s well being.
      I, on the other hand, for the sake of my children’s well being am doing the previously unthinkable. I am buying a gun. I am joining the NRA and I am declaring for all the world to hear that I will defend my country and my family from those who would destroy her. If we can do so with the ballot, thank God. But if the bullet is necessary, and my life the cost, my blood will be well spent.

      • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

        When you purchase that gun, you are absolutely responsible for it. There’s never going to be an excuse for its mishandling. The minute you don’t respect it, it kills you or someone innocent. As a boy, I had the advantage of having a father that was a gun control and small arms specialist. He personally taught me and my family how to handle both guns and knives responsibly.

        You probably don’t have that personal luxury today. So, go to a reputable firing range. Take lessons, learn its use and care inside and out. Get childproof locks and a good cleaning kit. Firearm safety, 100%!

        My mother took a hard left just before my father died, and so did my brother. They both watch MSNBC religiously now, so I spent a lot of time having to refute what they’ve heard. They perceive Obama as hated simply because he’s black. Never mind the fact that he’s half Caucasian. But they live near the Mississippi coast and still see many of the old racial divisions rear its ugly head. I was called a racist by my own brother when I said I didn’t like Obama. And when I tried to explain what about policies I didn’t like, he called me a racist again. It took me the better part of a year to speak with him again.

        Don’t let your decision tear you from your family. Just do the right thing for yourself, and be satisfied with that.

        I think my mother sees this health care bill passing as a good thing for herself as well as her grandchildren…I’m not sure, I haven’t asked her. She hasn’t dared to phone me since all this started health care business started coming down to the wire. She knows I’m pretty sore about the whole thing, and won’t mention it next time she calls, but I’m banking there’s going to be a big delay.

        I told my wife the minute she starts trying to instill political bias in my young chirdren she’s cut off, and the wife agrees. I haven’t had to warn my mother yet, but she gets one warning. Because I’m her son.

        Oddly enough, both of them have their firearms and still go to the range. This I find particularly ironic, because that’s the first thing that will be taken from them, their ability to defend themselves. Of course (and again, ironically), they all live in Mississippi now. My brother survived Katrina, and spent lots of time surrounded by fellow armed Mississippians. So, I figure, the government will come for them pretty much last.

        We’ll see how much it takes for my family to turn.

        In your case, you must realize just how rare a thing it is to accomplish the transformation you have made. Look what events it took, too. Here’s hoping a legion of people wake up to understand what a flatly unconstitutional administration we currently have in time.

        • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

          I kinda had that covered under wealth, I suppose, but your edition is much more incisive! RECCOMMENDED!

  • fpete13527

    Excellent post Chem Sam..excellent.

  • america1st

    But . . . now that the maggots have repudiated the social compact which has held us together for the past 200 plus years, we are no longer under any legal or moral obligation to continue the role of “Patsy the Punching Bag” and play by the rules they rejected, either.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon
  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    I will follow the Constitution, the agreement under which I was born, which explicitly recognizes my right to reject that which is not lawful, and which explicitly recognizes my privilege to pass that contract onto my children.

    I follow the Constitution and I will only follow laws that flow legitimately from it.

    Period.

  • nessa

    Great, every last one of them. I like the idea of 30 of us showing up at a local hospital demanding the satisfaction of our right to healthcare. Overload the system now, its coming soon enough, overload it now and force the Death Panels.

  • Doc Holliday

    that is what the left wants you to do. If we did that, the next tax would be on guns, would we stop purchasing them?

    I know your heart is in the right place, but I REFUSE! to be bullied into changing my lifestyle to fit the neo-eunuch man is God the earth is our mother trash cult the left has created.

    I want my SUV to produce extra carbon!

  • redpens

    Love the piece Chemical Sam. I refuse to bow down to tyranny. The only good Democrat is an out of office Democrat. There are no more friends across the aisle. They are the enemies of freedom and liberty. No retreat, no surrender, no compromise.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    that allowed Brockway to reco a diary 5 or 6 times come back. Nice job, Sam!

  • nessa

    I think its the same program they use on electronic ballot machines.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    I can’t even afford to go in to eat and pay for the surcharges right now, never mind the food.

    Soft drink companies (champing at the bit for free carbonation as a kind of carbon sequestration-yeah that’s right) would surely think twice about endorsing Cap and Trade.

    Trust me, I have other consumption habits, and they are constantly under attack by laypeople (they “hear stuff” on TV). As a chemist I shrug them off easily. By the way, I know how to make my own soda pop, and, by God, when it becomes worth my time, I will. Rugged individualism at its best!

    Firearms and other weapons of defense are a different matter entirely. I won’t reveal here how I plan to circumvent that problem, but I will say for every penny I’m taxed there, I’ll make two back.

    I interpret the 2nd Amendment as an understanding that the primacy of defense begins with the individual person, and that militias and armies are merely specialized arms of that defense system. I will add to what I have when I see fit, and not worry too much about a one-off tax.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    But the Hydra will spring two new heads for the big one destroyed. I hope someone can keep tabs on what springs up from that monster.

  • Doc Holliday

    I grow tobacco as a protest even though I don’t use it. If I wanted to use it, I would pay no excise tax. My point is whe need to defeat the statists at the ballot box, and if there is no other recourse, to circumvent their tyranny.

    But the statists are not interested in rugged individuals like you and me, they are interested in the masses. And when they move on from products they can demonize and divide with, they will go after the products the average jane uses. I say deny them their goal of social manipulation, deny them and laugh them off the stage as we do Al Gore.

    I am not worried about myself or you Sam, I am worried about the average guy. I actually want people to feel the taxes so they get angry. Damn the socialist statists and their engineering!

    Having said the above, I think we all should grow tobacco, create our own soda and brew our own beer. The socialist demagogues need to feel the brunt of our outrage, they need to see that those on the right are not sheeple, not mind numbed nothings that can be played with.

    In the end we can not create rugged individualists like those mentioned in this song

    but what we can do is fight the leftists ’til the last dog dies.

  • http://barbershopvalues.com daconia

    They will be millions of us resisting. The Democrats are going to be shocked at what is coming. I will resist. I will not be polite. I have decided to cancel my health insurance policy in protest. Such action by millions will send a powerful message.

  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    “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. 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 of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or 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….”

    “…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

    Signed by the Patriots on July 4, 1776

  • nessa

    They folded this hand but their not out of the game. They were already comprised of a couple hundred smaller organizations, they’ve basically gone underground and scattered but the hundreds of less well known seeds they planted are still there. We killed the big cockroach but its eggs are hatching and we’ll need to do more than stomp on one to get rid of them.

  • dajeeps

    To ensure that any attempts by a public official to undermine the Constitution are regarded as a breaking of their oath, subject to immediate impeachment, which can result in removal or prison, not every two/four/six years, but every stinking day, and if it takes a fourth branch of government composed of state delegates of stellar reputation, elected by the People and their States to enforce that, then so be it

    I kind of like the idea of an investgative branch to watch everyone in govt like a hawk.

  • http://theadmiralsbridge.blogspot.com/ Stephen Halsey

    I especially like the part about refusing to remain silent. My wife and I are at that point. We are openly advertising our conservative and Constitutional principles to anyone we come in contact with. We are flying the Gadsden flag outside of our house. I am openly challenging people on Facebook who are clueless Socialists and Statists.

    I am going to post a diary later tonight about an exhange I had with a stranger on Facebook over the past day. It is a perfect example of who the enemy is.

    And make no mistake. ANYONE who voted for Obama and ANYONE I know who is an open liberal is dead to me. Plain and simple.

    They are the enemy.

    They have chosen to wage war on this country, it’s founding documents and our principles. I did not choose this war but I will help end it.

  • azred

    I am seeing tons of this sentiment. With the smugness and the continued lies (Obama has the audacity to claim this is what the people want ? he?s just not identifying the people ? Big labor, far left, pharma, etc, etc????)

    The left will continue to vilify all who refuse the machinations of the march to socialism. It?s time to stop being worried about what anyone may think.

    With the states filing lawsuits this week, the battleground of the Constitution will be front and center. The next battleground is the elections. If we are content to live our lives quietly, then we accept whatever comes. This election is the most critical election we will ever see in our lifetime. Political bloodshed must be massive. Otherwise, the ruling class will see no reason to change.

    We need to show them what Hope and Change really looks like!

    Highly reco’d Chemical_Sam!!!!!!

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  • http://heirsinhope.blogspot.com/ drusilla

    and if it takes a fourth branch of government composed of state delegates of stellar reputation, elected by the People and their States to enforce that, then so be it.

    I would suggest a revolving citizens group modeled on the grand jury system, drawn from all over the US by lottery in some randomized fashion that would sit for one month periods and oversee the three branches of the govt. The idea is to keep Americans educated so that they know what it means to be American and also to prevent tampering.

    http://heirsinhope.blogspot.com

  • Born Again Capitalist

    Sic semper tyrannis! The filthy socialist dogs will be made to pay come election day. Let us never tire of fighting for our God-given rights, and let us never forget, nor fail to honour, the blood sacrifice of those who fought and died to defend them. To those defeatists who say they died in vain, I reply: over my dead body. There are those who seek to destroy God’s providential creation, America. “Forbid it, Almighty God!” The Republic will – no, must! – live on!

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    The CBO, the Parliamentarians, the people that are supposed to be woefully impartial, and do things that should be similarly quantifiable under any political climate, are being appointed by biased, sometimes highly biased, politicians.

    This is why the CBO could keep coming in under one trillion for the score on the Heath Care Bill. They should have had a popular mandate to take all the money flowing into and out of that bill into account. Similarly with the parliamentarians and rules committees. All they have to do to make things happen is simply side with the politicians who appointed them.

    It’s sickening. I’d like to see these and other functions more directly responsible and answerable to the States and the people, rather that their boss.

    As for the press, well, that’s supposed to be a private function altogether. They are not answerable to the public, nor do we elect or appoint them. Ideally, they merely live or die by their level of believability. Except for mere opinion, they should have to sway at all.

    A populace with an ever stronger background in critical thinking would work wonders against a lying, corrupt press, wouldn’t it?

    And yes, by the way, I see far fewer logical fallacies being uttered at Fox News, and the ones that are uttered are challenged far more often, so that is where I go to get news on TV, and online. That is why they are succeeding. If that state of existence ever changes, so will I.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    Needless to say I am awash in a sea of Blue here, even in Morris, arguably the reddest county in New Jersey.

    The neighbors haven’t been stupid enough to say anything to my face. Before the election, I actually had a couple of them tell me to my face that they felt sorry for me because I felt the way I did about Obama, and things like global warming.

    As a small businessman and a professional scientist, I found that particularly offensive.

    About a month into the new Administration, many of them stopped being openly enthused about their glorious new Lightworker. I think they mostly went underground. They know how I feel.

    But I’ll be ready to pounce, even if it mean losing the friendship of more neighbors.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    Long term, I think a proper education in functional individualism it’s the best defense against socialism.

    For those of us who had parents (or even just one parent or a caring adult) who insisted on teaching us how to use our own minds and our own hands, and gave us a desire to learn things for the sake of learning them, to accomplish on our own. Political lines today fall along the same lines as people who are capable, versus people who aren’t. Simple as that.

    It’s astounding to me. People my age marvel at me that I change the oil and brake pads on my car myself, or that I balance my own books, or reach for a pencil rather than a calculator when doing a simple math problem. They can’t build anything, they can’t repair anything. Worse still, for many it’s beneath them to do those things. They literallly expect other people to do it for pay. And the payees know what they’ve got, so the payors shell out big, because they got no choice. Where’s a big chunk of that money going except to create more payees?

    Similarly, I’m appalled that people trust politicians to tell them about the state of existence in the world, without so much as trying to dig around for themselves to check out the verity of those statements (they expect the press to do it for them, all too often). They depend on the government to keep prices low, rather than taking the trouble to shop around.

    So not only are people giving up their productive skills, they are giving up their logical skills as well. Reverse that, the trend and the Obama Administration suffers. That’s what really describes what the Left is worth.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    I and my family have all kinds of insurance: home, health, auto, small business, and life.

    Of course, I don’t have to drive or own a car, I don’t have to own my own home, and I don’t have to have a beneficiary if something happens to me before my time. I don’t even have to try to start and run my own business.

    We pay for it all, my family and I will keep it all, and happily so.

    I’m SERIOUSLY OFFENDED at having the government force me to buy something even if it is supposed to be good for me. In this case, it’s not even meant to protect me, it’s meant to improve the lives of a pool of short-sighted voters, temporarily, anyway. (That’s 30 million, they couldn’t get all 42 million, not until they provie amnesty, eh?)

    All insurance is optional, now, except for health!

    SO FAR, THE GOVERNMENT HAS ONLY DIPPED ITS MITTS INTO THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY. WHAT’S TO PREVENT THEM NOW FROM DOING THE SAME EXACT THINGS TO ALL OTHER FORMS OF INSURANCE, WHETHER YOU NEED IT OR NOT, I WONDER?

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    Should be: “Ideally, they merely live or die by their level of believability and logical self-consistency. (I mean, it statements have to jive with acutal reality, don’t they?) Except for mere opinion, they should have NOsway at all.

    I go to other news sources to see what they are currently missing. Whether or not omissions are deliberate is the perennial question.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    Even if it did mean adding a few more people, or another branch to the government itself. Imagine a tetracameral government, with twelve checks and balances (ideally) instead of six (ideally).

    Of course that would require a Constitutional Amendment, but then again, I’m in the mood for a Constitutional amendment or three.

  • gwalt

    I REFUSE to patronize ANY business, large or small that supports Obama and any Democrat.

    Although it’s very hard to bring down a corporation (Unless you’re Obama/Government), a small business can be hurt. If they can use Alinsky, Target, Polarize, freeze—it’s easier going after an individual than a corporation—then so be it. .

    Don’t get me wrong—–some people are innocent enough BUT we, as Conservatives have been targeted.

    The neighbor who has open disdain for his Conservative neighbors who happens to be a home remodeler—gave $500 to Obama?

    WON’T GET MY BUSINESS.

    The deli owner who constantly bashed George Bush in front of customers? Haven’t been back since (Aug 2007).

    I already looked up on Open Secrets the owners of my places I frequent. So far, so good.

    But ANY outright Obam cheerleading and bam!!—-my business is gone and so are my friends.

    We need to stick together—find Conservative owned businesses and help them thru the Obama Debacle known as his first, and ONLY term. .

    The less money they make, the less they have to give to Dems. That simple.

    My old company supports Obam? No newspaper from them (Cox).
    NBC? Don’t watch your local affiliate.

    Local dry cleaner you use have an Obam sticker or you looked him up? No more.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    Perfectly legal after all, and I don’t mind making sure they know why I cut them off, either. I kinda had that covered under wealth, I suppose, but your edition is much more incisive! RECCOMMENDED!

  • Wing Zero

    and took the oath of enlistment, and swore to protect the Constitution against all enemies “foreign and domestic,” my Dad asked me if that included democrats. At the time, I told him no.

    Today though… they are enemies of the Constitution and need to be removed from the mechanisms of Government. I’m itchin’ for November.

  • Doc Holliday

    ignorance is very expensive!