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Worlds Are Colliding

During a school trip to Washington a group of students were ordered by a park service security guard standing watch over the Lincoln Memorial to stop singing the national anthem.

And word came late last night that Republicans have a serious shot at something once thought impossible — taking back the United States Senate.

It took the GOP 40 years to take back Congress and 12 years to lose it again. The Democrats look on course to lose the whole thing after only 4 years thanks to Barack Obama.

What do singing the national anthem and the GOP taking back Congress have to do with each other?

Voters are so hacked off they are of a revolutionary frame of mind — throwing the bums out through violence at the polls. That is far better than the alternative.

COMMENTS

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    Should have been the lead story on June 25th when it happened.

    I’d have ordered the US Park Police to arrest me.

    In fact, I’d have committed such a ‘content neutral’ violation, they may have had to shoot me in plain view of the public, all of whom would undoubtedly had their cell phone cameras running.

  • RedBeard

    And Howard Beale was right.

  • rickdavismd

    Every American is now faced with a simple choice – Freedom or Tyranny. Our government is now clearly controlled by deeply embedded interests adverse to the will of the people. Bureaucratic decisions everywhere demonstrate this unmistakable fact. All of us who cherish the dream that American represents (or at least at one time represented) must stand up now and look the Devil in the eye and simply say “No, I will not comply, I will not agree, I will not back down, I will not be complicit, I will not be corrupted.”

    If we do not take this stand now, we are doomed to labor under a tyranny unlike anything the world has ever seen.

    On my part, I am saying ?NO?! I am part of an organization that is growing rapidly – comprised of like-mined patriots of every political, economic, social, ethnic and other persuasion who are simply saying ?No. Enough is enough.? We are going after the root cause of the problem ? the unlawful, fraudulent and unconstitutional operations of the Federal Reserve.

    I have two simple questions to ask each of you. 1. Why does Congress continue to allow the Fed and the six large commercial banks to enjoy the privilege of setting interest rates, creating the national currency and controlling the ?money? (i.e. credit) supply as profit-making loans, which puts us all into unpayable, perpetual and insoluble debt that destroys our economy – while making a small group of elite men wealthy beyond imagination? 2. Why does our government borrow its own money at interest at the expense of our economy?

    It?s very simple. Congress wants it that way.

    Well, it?s time to put a stop to this nonsense.

    For those of you who don?t know what I?m talking about, it?s critically important for you and your family’s future that you read everything that you can about the Federal Reserve. If you do, you will learn:
    a) Who they are (a private for-profit, foreign-controlled banking company);
    b) What they do (make unimaginable profits by putting us all into an endless cycle of re-borrowing and un-payable debt);
    c) Where money comes from (banks invent money from nothing; they put nothing at risk);
    d) How they have substituted our money for debt and made trillions in the process.
    e) How they get away with it (in the opinion of our counsel: fraud and Congressional intimidation).

    Once you understand these things, you will know why we are suing the Fed. Then 3 things will happen automatically.
    1. Like us, you will get angry – very angry. You will want justice!

    2. Like us, you will want to stop them. Some, just to get their money back; others to heal our economy and our nation, and still others because it?s simply the right thing to do!

    3. Like us, you will want to educate and encourage all of your friends to join the movement as well. Standing together we are unstoppable; it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of victory.

    But we can only win if all of us stand united against them.

    Come. Join us. Actually do something that will profoundly change our nation?s trajectory and change history at the same time. We can stop this madness. Simply go to www.SUEtheFED.com and see what YOU can do. We can bring this corruption to its knees once and for all.

    www.SUEtheFED.com

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    The Federal Reserve is not the problem. The White House is the problem.

    I’m not angry at the Fed.

    Maybe you people; would rather have the Democrats directly in control of the value of the dollar. Say hello, mass devaluations, Mexico style!

  • oblio

    the treatment would have been the same.

    Yeah.

    Right.

  • merada1776

    We want our country back! We want to be able to sing our national anthem whenever and wherever we want. We want to be able to pray in public. We want our children protected from pornography that is pushed on them in the name of ‘free speech’. We want to be able to work anywhere we can find a job without having to join a union. Since we call ouselves the land of the free and the home of the brave, maybe it’s time be stand up bravely and take back our land so we can be free again!

  • toadold

    Due to different state rules and special elections, I wonder how many possible Republican senators could be seated in November instead of 2011?? Would there be enough to spoke lame duck moves?

  • rabidcaveman

    This is the only “violence” I hope to see in the coming months. Yes, Erick, this is much better than the alternative.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    There may be others.

  • Scope

    I picture an even bigger presence of Black Panthers at the doors of polling places, batons and all. Since Holder said it was OK, it will happen.

  • bk

    once all the Reid/Dem paperwork and other roadblocks have been crossed.

    Byrd’s replacement was named on a Friday and sworn in on Tuesday.

    Paul Kirk was worn in the day after he was appointed.

    Brown’s swearing in came more than two weeks after he won the election to replace Kirk.

  • bk

    “I was just standing there not bothering anybody when this crazy old white dude came up and head-butted my fist.

  • twdavis

    So, these were college students? Students that might have a handle on the difference between doing something patriotic and doing something because they are told to? Like the students who were made to sing the Obama song? Really, what’s the story? You had a Park Ranger who was a traitor to his country? Probably not. Are you trying to take a page from the Huffington Post or Salon and blow some minor event into something grossly out of proportion to reality? Really, if all you are doing is pandering to the narrow minded viewpoints of rabid Obama haters, well, okay. But if you want to use your powers and position, this global soapbox, to convert liberals and bring the patriot out in the swing voters, you should practice a little journalistic integrity. You know, be not so much like a NY Times reporter. Be more real and down to Earth than Chris Matthews. Why do you suppose it took 40 years to get back, before? It’s because Republicans are lying, thieving, corrupt politicians just like Democrats! Okay, not all of them. But not all Democrats, either. Ideology is important, but so is integrity. Try using some and promoting that!

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    Defund ObamaCare immediately and begin sweeping investigations of the Obama Administration

    By 2012, people will lie about who they voted for “back in 08″ and will wince at the very mention of the name “Obama”

    And the GOP could take 40+ states running Gilbert Gottfried, lol

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    How are you not banned yet?

    Whatever, you are now.

  • throwback59

    a lot of people feel- that we woke up one day and found ourselves on Planet of the Apes. The remark was attacked as racist, but it was nothing of the sort. It described the idea that we are in some Bizzarro World where up is down, right is wrong. Principles we grew up with are not only challegened but discarded.
    November 2nd may be our last chance to wake upo from this nightmare.

  • throwback59

    a lot of people feel- that we woke up one day and found ourselves on Planet of the Apes. The remark was attacked as racist, but it was nothing of the sort. It described the idea that we are in some Bizzarro World where up is down, right is wrong. Principles we grew up with are not only challegened but discarded.
    November 2nd may be our last chance to wake upo from this nightmare.

  • mbecker908

    lying, thieving, corrupt politicians. They ALL also suborn murder of the innocents in the name convenience and the ALL support a takeover of every aspect of your daily life by the federal government.

    All of ‘em.

  • glorybee

    I accompanied my daughter’s senior class trip May ’09. Exactly the same thing happened as the kids spontaneously began to sing the National Anthem on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The security guards asked them (politely, sorta) to stop, (they did) explaining that the echoes disturb the atmosphere of quiet contemplation in the enclosed areas around the statue. In fairness, the echoes are very loud there. But it was very discouraging to the kids and I believe that an exception should be made to for the National Anthem.

  • audax

    …more groups of students/adults/patriots/veterens/etc are singing the National Anthem at the Lincoln Memorial…hope they take their video cameras! LOL

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon
  • edinnola

    This is more of a catharsis than any attempt to convert sycophants to reality. That unfortunately is a lost cause. If there was any intelligence there to speak to, they would have figured it out a long time ago.

    The Democrat Party has been wholly taken over by “the Shadow Party”, or the Progressives, otherwise known as Socialists or Communists. If you are still supporting the Democrat Party, as a Democrat, you are only kidding yourself. You might as well be a card carrying member of CPUSA.

    There have been some Rupublicans who have fallen into the ethics trap, yes – call them RINOs. Generally the violators are members of the Democrat Party – Communists recognize no such thing as ethics. Remember “The end justifies the means.” Lie – Lie – Lie. The press will never catch you, because, at least in the mainstream, they essentially belong to the same party

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    If GOP wins House+Senate, I say we all sing natioanl anthem day after election.

    We won’t stop Obama and the hard left and their roots have set in pretty deep already into the USA on “fundamental change” but if that happened, I would at least say the America of the founding fathers, our parents and grandparents is still here and wants to stay.

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    If GOP wins House+Senate, I say we all sing natioanl anthem day after election.

    We won’t stop Obama and the hard left and their roots have set in pretty deep already into the USA on “fundamental change” but if that happened, I would at least say the America of the founding fathers, our parents and grandparents is still here and wants to stay.

  • alamo294
  • scubadiver49er

    Early on as “president”, Barry Soetoro said that this country needed an internal police force just as strong as the external one (i.e. our military branches) that we have. I am wondering if this “internal police force” is the one he wants to have, to defend what he is doing to this country, against the “alternative” referenced above???

  • scubadiver49er

    in the upcoming 2010 Senate elections as well, to undo the damage done by the GOP Sisters in Maine, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, and our new “rogue” in Mass., Scott Brown. Can’t count on them to get the things that need to be changed, changed, when they vote the way that they do.

  • scubadiver49er

    when Glenn Beck and his entourage blankets the Lincoln Memorial with humanity on the 28th? Will they arrest everone when they make too much noise and are told to be quiet?? This could be “very interesting” – Arte Johnson, circa???

  • miroco

    A conservatives natural instinct to be fair is what has been setting us back. SOOO I don’t really care what the evidence is, Obama was born somewhere ELSE. He and Michelle tithe to the communist party. He was so dumb he couldn’t even make it as a crack dealer. The affirmative action candidate hired people to get him through college.
    He is wrecking my country, oops, I have proof of that statement.

  • kb3mkd

    Yes there is plenty of blame to go around, and the FED is a significant part of it.
    The white house, congress, the court system, and plenty of other organizations share in it as well.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Why don’t you let us know you really don’t think Obama was born in a foreign country?

  • ralatredstate

    women are from Venus, Obama is from Hell.

  • mntnrmark

    Is the Red State organized national gathering to have hundreds of thousands simultaneously sing the national anthem at the Lincoln Memorial, Eric? Be sure to print the words for the lamestream media – they won’t know the words and won’t be able to follow along otherwise.

  • awunsch

    how these things are showing up lately. Don’t know how long any of these rules,laws? etc have been in place or who put them there. This article talks of college students singing the National Anthem. Several weeks ago, high school students were told to move and stop praying – another rule. None of these rules necessarily seem to make sense nor do they represent traditional American values. So why and where are these strange, non democratic rules or laws coming from? This would never happen in America – whoops it did! Hmmmmm. Is this country developing into a thought/word police state?

  • oxowhitney

    Perhaps a good segue would have been “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

  • oxowhitney

    JUST DO IT!

    “We want to be able to sing our national anthem whenever and wherever we want. We want to be able to pray in public.”

  • oxowhitney

    is study Germany from say, 1935 to 1939. Tell me BO isn’t running the same plays.

    Brown Shirts, anyone?

  • oxowhitney

    “1984″, “Brave New World”, “Animal Farm”, with maybe a touch of “The Grapes of Wrath”.