"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." -John Adams
Welcome to Patriot's Lament. We strive here to educate ourselves on Liberty. We will not worry ourselves so much with the daily antics of American politics, and drown ourselves in the murky waters of the political right or left. Instead, we will look to the Intellectuals and Champions of Liberty, and draw on their wisdom of what it is to be a truly free people. We will learn from where our Providential Liberties are derived, and put the proper perspective of a Free Individual and the State. Please join us!
In this episode THE ELECTIONS ARE FINALLY OVER!!! And of course there is
great weeping and gnashing of teeth that Obama has won yet again. But
we point out, nothing would have changed would Romney have won. Do you
think the national debt would have been fixed? We also ask, are you
better off now than 4 years ago? Aaron and I are, much better off, and
it has nothing to do with who is president of the U.S.
So people,
make your life better, it's YOUR responsibility, not the State. If you
rely on it, you will be no better off than the people in New York and
New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy. Be a MAN. Prepare for what is coming
and quit letting the State decide how your life will be. And all you
"Revolutionaries," you are no different, you just want your king to
rule. We want no kings.
Here is part of a discussion I am having. Well, aren't we all having this discussion in some fashion or another?
It is in response to this:
If
you are going to put your faith in government for anything, including
protecting your “rights” you will ultimately
be
disappointed and a lot poorer.
James
Madison, the so-called Father of the Constitution, said (from his reading of
John Locke, the father of “property Rights”) that good government's only
function is to protect property, and that was to be the end of good government.
That’s it. He called any other function of the State unjust. Even here we have
a problem, in that the State must first expropriate (Steal) a portion of that
same property to provide the protection. The individual has no choice whether
or not he wants or needs that protection.
Even
small government conservatives offer the same thing as the big government
liberals, the State.
Having
local control of tax money further obfuscates the real question, are taxes
moral, or are they just theft, whether a huge government forces you to pay
them, or a tiny local government? It still comes down to theft, a minority
stealing from one to spend the way they want for the “good of all.”
That’s
what I say is crap.
We
should not want state control of our public schools, we should abolish them.
Limited government is a fallacy.
Government
is force and violence that the individual would be locked up for if he tried
the same things government does.
Government
= Force/violence/theft
Limited
government = limited force/violence/theft?
So
that is the better option? Are we as individuals able to “opt out”? No matter
how close to home a local government is, it will still spend money in ways that
some find immoral. So who decides how the tax(theft) money is spent? A
majority? Who decides if that allocation of the theft is moral? The majority?
Then
you are back to square one, majority, mob rule, where the rights of the
minority are crushed.
"Rightful
liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn
around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of
the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it
violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
How
many “Constitutional conservatives” do you know actually believe that? Even
small government advocates have plenty of duties they think the government
needs to perform.
And
none of these things answers the first problem. If the Founders of this Country
said that government's only role in society was to protect property, (John Locke
said the only reason people come to form society is for the protection of
property) then how can we defend any other role the State has decided in its
wisdom to control?
The
State is not your friend, it is your enemy, whether large, small, limited or
otherwise. It should be abolished at every level.
This
idea is not un-American, as the government is not America.
In this episode we discuss freedom of conscience, and what is more of
a duty, to vote for an election of a president, or the vote of a juror
to nullify law? We talk about Patrick Henry and his "Liberty or Death"
speech. We also defend Occupy Fairbanks' Right to Protest the government,
and how Jefferson said he would rather see a little rebellion even when
wrong than a complacent people.
Under attack by Democrats for his budget cost-cutting plan that
proposes a major transformation in how Medicare works, Ryan has gone on
the offensive, charging that President Barack Obama would take billions
from Medicare to pay for his 2010 healthcare reform law.
With that, he has also begun to align himself with presidential
candidate Mitt Romney's approach to Medicare, one that would spend $716
billion more than either Obama's or Ryan's over the next 10 years.
Ryan personalized the issue at The Villages, the world's biggest
retirement community and a bastion of Republican support in a key swing
state.
"When I think of Medicare, it's not just a program, it's not just a
bunch of numbers, it's what my mom relies on, it's what my grandma had,"
Ryan, 42, said.
His mom relies on it. How come Ryan? You made $350,000 last year. Couldn't take care of your mom with that? Had to rely on stolen goods from people you don't know to take care of her? He has aligned himself with Romney's plan to ADD $716 billion more than Obama, who is the socialist? HAHAHA.
If you can't see how stupid this man is, and how he will SELL HIS SOUL OR ANYTHING HE HAS TO for power, then you deserve what is coming.
