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by ConcernedForFuture from Daytona Beach

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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
- Cicero, 42 B.C.

I don't think I need to say anything more, just think. Okay, here is a hint:

"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation."
- George W. Bush

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator"
- George W. Bush

"There ought to be limits to freedom"
- George W. Bush

"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within."
- President James Madison

"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people."
- Richard Perle

If you don't think there's anything you can do about it:

"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 to 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."
-Thomas Jefferson, American Declaration of Independence

We are the people, we do have power, we only have to exercise it:

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural

And if for SOME reason, you don't see the problems:

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Or if you think it would be unpatriotic:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
– Teddy Roosevelt

If you do nothing:

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The patriot act is an abomination. Keep giving up your freedoms for security:

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. "
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President and 5-Star General

Just remember, the ways we are manipulated are not new things, Hitler and Stalin both knew these methods long ago:

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
- Adolf Hitler

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened".
- Josef Stalin

Why do I just quote these larger than life people? The truths they say are truths,because they are the general principals this country was founded on. They are not perfect for sure, but their ideas are in the past, to warn us in the future.
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MacMarine read my blog
Apr 25, 2008 | 12:28 PM

Hey Concerned:

You REALLY "hit the nail on the head", my friend.

I've said since Viet Nam this country is going "Down Hill".

Seems that when it took 2 people in a household to maintain a "comfortable" SURVIVAL status, we went down FAST!

Example: No one to TEACH the kids YOUR Morals ( Child Care)

The "Do Gooders" demand you HAVE to give a "Time Out", not a lesson or punishment.

It's also pretty SAD when a FOREIGN Flag stands as HIGH as the AMERICAN Flag and NO ONE says or DOES anything!

OMG... Sing the National Anthem in Spanish!!!???

Change the Bill Of Rights, Constitution?

Look at the Flag patch the Warriors are wearing in Iraq NOW.

Blue field on the RIGHT.

They say.." That's to SHOW the ENEMY we DON'T Run" !!!

That is NOT the FLAG I know &
DEFENDED & Love!

WAKE UP people, MAKE time to write YOUR Politicians, Let people KNOW that WE are TIRED of the BS that THEY are "saying" WE Want!

Don't ACCEPT what THEY want for US.

It's SUPPOSE to be "By the People, For The People".

Here's a Candidate that can't even "Salute our flag" & a candidate that has NO regard for the military and WANTS to be "Commander and Chief".

Personally I say Lets take care of OUR People FIRST.

"A chicken in EVERY basket", a JOB for every one, Better Morals/Standards,.

Take care of the sick and elderly.

Make a BETTER, Cleaner AMERICA again.

God Bless AMERICA

ConcernedForFuture read my blog
Apr 25, 2008 | 12:45 PM

Yea... I blame the people... but to a degree, I don't... the two jobs thing, THAT is a huge part of it.. now even relationships have an economy. I think that we have placed a VALUE(money) on EVERYTHING, and that it has corrupted all of us.. it's no longer about living, its about what you have... and this is our fault..

What is LESS our fault, is that we are being distracted... the media wont talk about what matters to us, things that might accomplish something... they SHOULD represent us, since WE cant go to the president, or anyone else, and get something DONE.
And in the meantime... the media keeps adding things to fear. Is every other person a murderer, rapist, child molester, or a thief? If thats so, then we should find out WHY. If now, then why does the media spin these subjects so OFTEN, that people walk around in fear?

People are distracted by paranoid fears and fantasys, while they replace love with money, life with money... and our VALUES(not money this time) get further out of reach every day!

I saw a name with marine in it, and dreaded that I would get some horrible response saying I am anti-american.. thank you for your input, it is GOOD to see that someone who served this country DOES think for themselves!

GBA

ConcernedForFuture read my blog
Apr 25, 2008 | 12:46 PM

I didn't mean that last comment disrespectfully, I just always see the same response out of our service men..

MacMarine read my blog
Apr 26, 2008 | 3:55 AM

ConcernedForFuture

I didn't take ANYTHING as being "disrespectful" at all.

Man, I SURELY AGREE about the Media too !

I find it AMAZING today's "NEWS" & Strong

Opinions hit's the Airwaves/papers

and UNLESS someone makes a BIG Deal about it... Poof it's YESTERDAYS news and FORGOTTEN!

Case in point: We have OVER 29,000 WOUNDED/Maimed COMBAT Service people from Iraq. and other "conflicts",

Many NOT getting what is NEEDED from the V.A.

A QUICK "follow-up" on an individual then POOF.... Yesterdays NEWS!

However, mention a RACIAL issue ( Jenna 6), or a child "beating" and OMG It runs on for WEEKS!

I have wrtten to FOX News about the FLAG patch I described in the other "post".

NOT ONE "reporter" has got back to me!!

NO one picked up on this!

I guess it's NOT "News worthy" !!

Sorry to "ramble" on but This Marine and

more that I KNOW, has a PROBLEM with this "issue".

Anyway... SEMPER FI ( Always Faithful)

America

BTW, I am 100% disabled from Nam.

Wish I could post my e mail but hate to see what I'd get there.

mscsailor read my blog
Apr 26, 2008 | 4:34 AM

Welcome home brother.

Abunai read my blog view my photos
Apr 26, 2008 | 9:40 AM

I think for myself, therefore when I see ridiculous spin such as this I call it out too!

Its not that people MUST work two jobs to make ends meet! They have had past generations fail to teach them patients and values.

Your parents raise you in a home that was likely NOT their first one, and likely had vehicles that were not their first.

Now we have new generations leaving home, and without the disclipline of finance CHOOSE to own materials OUT OF THEIR MEANS instead of starting small and building towards goals.

We have leadership in Washington that have been there since the 60s!! You want change for real? Put term limits on the House and Senate!!

As for patriotism and our freedoms being challenged: The "chicken in every pot" and "Job fore everyone" Are SOCIALIST!!

Stop crying about 5% unemployment, rather applaude the 95% and intice the other 5% to be accepted!

Stop crying about 5% mortgage failures and salute the 95% living according to their promises!

MacMarine you should know! We won every battle in Vietnam, but the media only reported the "5%" and the ugly, and americans had no choice but to trust what they heard!

That why I jam the mainstream left wing biased media every chance I get! I'm not gonna let this country do what it did to your generation to mine!

MacMarine read my blog
Apr 27, 2008 | 4:22 AM

Thank you MSCSailor

I STILL find it "hard" to accept the "thank yous" I get.

Thanks to the "greetings" we got way back when.

Yes, I WAS "spit on", Called a "Baby killer" etc.

Maybe you can "see" why it's STILL hard to "accept" the Thank you.

I Don't "Buy" into the BS of

"I am Serving in Iraq to "protect" the people back home".

Abunai, No, we DIDN'T "win EVERY battle"

This Iraq WAR is soooo much LIKE Viet Nam it's PATHETIC!

Over 30,000 wounded/maimed and the VA isn't handling it well at all.

The media DOESN'T "Tell it" like it REALLY is.

My nephew just came back after his 2nd tour and tells me a whole DIFFERENT story than the NEWS!

I get into some VERY "Interesting conversations"
Very "Heated" ones at that too.

"Trust" the media? Hell NO!!!

Watch out... the "Marines have Landed"!!! 3rd Bn 3rd Marines 3rd MarDiv hooooaaaah

Abunai read my blog view my photos
Apr 28, 2008 | 4:40 PM

Hard to follow you there.. OK we didn't LITERALLY win every battle in Vietnam.. if you really want to argue semantics.

MY 4 tours in the Gulf with Navspecwar (SEAL/SBU/MCT) were ugly, sure. I too am in the middle of shoving the Veterans Admin a new hole myself!

I remember Clinton's female VA big wig that he told to stall claims and new claims as long as possible!

Took 3 military hospitals to figure out my wrist was broken... 10 YEARS to diagnose a staff infection that has left me scared, 1 knee and both shoulders destroyed, ... you know how it goes.

My fight is to get warriors back into the Pentagon by flushing out all the former Clinton anti-war, save the money and never speak to needing more careerist out!

The former Centcom Navy Adm was a PERFECT example! Look at retired Gen.Clark! Adm Boorda was so bad he killed himself!

We have social diversity quotas still in place!
Special Forces and Subs only ones not effected! Thats why Kerry calls for doubling the size of Special Forces! Because they are the ones holding it together and they won't take the quota system out of regular forces!

MacMarine read my blog
Apr 29, 2008 | 3:47 AM

Hey Abunai

What a Gung EDIT Man !

Dang, you COULD'VE been a MARINE!!! lol

Do you know of ANY WAY to enable an E Mail address for a contact?

I surely would like to converse with you more, IF of coarse, YOU wanted to.

It took me 5 yrs to become 100%.

Hope you have a GREAT day brother.

( I use that Sparingly too.)

Abunai read my blog view my photos
Apr 29, 2008 | 2:58 PM

Yea I could have been a Marine, but once I started using my second hand to count, they said I was over qualified! LOL!

Hoo Yah! Only Easy Day Was Yesterday!

Blown out shoulder.. Go to an Army Hospital to scope it out, which means scar tissue will start to consume it and I will need another scope in a year or two. and once you start, it really just gets worse... BUT THE ARMY JUST DUMPED MY DISABILITY 10% SAYING ITS FIXED!!

There isn't a medical doctor on the planet that doesn't understand build up of scar tissue and procedures becomming more frequent! But the military seems to think they did me a favor?

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ConcernedForFuture

I see the state of things anywhere I look, and every single part of things in our daily lives is deteriorating.. I see people concerned about specific, and mostly insignificant things, and wonder how they don't see the bigger picture. I am concerned about our future, and I think that most people feel impotent, unable to affect change. The problems are mostly here because we are only making minor changes to an obsolete system, one that never really worked. Our government,even the way our officials are elected, is more than fundamentally flawed.. they are failed. The people in charge are not being held accountable, and there is no working system that allows us to hold them accountable. I am concerned for our future.

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