LETTER: My freedom is not for sale at any price

[OntarioVanMan]

My freedom is not for sale at any price

The health care legislation passed by congress is outside the authority of the U.S. Constitution. Article 1, Section 8 lists the powers of the federal government; neither a health care system nor a wealth redistribution system are enumerated.

The Tenth Amendment makes it clear that anything not delegated to the federal government is reserved to the states and the people.

We can’t afford to sit on the sidelines and let someone else defend our freedom, as the Journal editorial staff recommends. The best way to lose precious freedom is to hope someone else will do the job that belongs to each of us.

Fortunately, the state of South Dakota and at least 14 others are taking a stand for the rights of the states and the people. We should be grateful that, unlike some who will break their oath to support the Constitution so easily, our attorney general takes his job seriously.

How much is my freedom and the freedom of my children worth? It is priceless. It can’t be bought, and I won’t sell it for any price — including the convenience of having government bureaucrats do my thinking and decision-making for me.

How much is your freedom worth?

Bob Ellis

Rapid City

 

[layoutshooter]

Great letter, can we get permission from that guy to use it?

 

[mjolnir131]

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[Poorboy]

My freedom is not for sale at any price

The health care legislation passed by congress is outside the authority of the U.S. Constitution. Article 1, Section 8 lists the powers of the federal government; neither a health care system nor a wealth redistribution system are enumerated.

The Tenth Amendment makes it clear that anything not delegated to the federal government is reserved to the states and the people.

We can’t afford to sit on the sidelines and let someone else defend our freedom, as the Journal editorial staff recommends. The best way to lose precious freedom is to hope someone else will do the job that belongs to each of us.

Fortunately, the state of South Dakota and at least 14 others are taking a stand for the rights of the states and the people. We should be grateful that, unlike some who will break their oath to support the Constitution so easily, our attorney general takes his job seriously.

How much is my freedom and the freedom of my children worth? It is priceless. It can’t be bought, and I won’t sell it for any price — including the convenience of having government bureaucrats do my thinking and decision-making for me.

How much is your freedom worth?

Bob Ellis

Rapid City

He doesn't have to worry about selling his Freedom because Obumma and His Little Band of Criminals are Stealing it, and Will Continue to Steal Everyone's Freedom Until The Pant Load in Chief Completes his Agenda

 

[greg334]

More thoughts to ponder

A basic condition for the necessary expansion of political agitation is the organisation of comprehensive political exposure. - V. I. Lenin

Every question “runs in a vicious circle” because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain. - V. I. Lenin


Once we accept the point of view that human knowledge develops from ignorance, we shall find millions of examples of it just as simple as the discovery of alizarin in coal tar, millions of observations not only in the history of science and technology but in the everyday life of each and every one of us that illustrate the transformation of “things-in-themselves” into “things-for-us.” - V. I. Lenin


The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive. - V. I. Lenin


We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary. - V. I. Lenin


A revolutionary class cannot but wish for the defeat of its government in a reactionary war. - V. I. Lenin


We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism, ” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism. - V. I. Lenin


A standing army and police are the chief instruments of state power. - V. I. Lenin


Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society. - V. I. Lenin


It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. - V. I. Lenin

 

[Pilgrim]

Consider also the following from Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals, the bible for Obama and his fellow liberals:

• Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
• Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
• Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
• Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
• Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
• Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
• Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
• Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
• Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
• Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
• Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

How many of these rules can we identify as having been used by Obama and his lackeys during his campaign and so far during his presidency? The GOP would do well to read this book and learn the above rules, possibly adapting some of them for their own purposes. The only disadvantage they have is that the mainstream media will continue to work against them, making implimentation difficult for some of the tactics.

 

[greg334]

Actually Pligrim, a long time ago, some russian dude mentioned that if the opposition read and used some of the rules the reds used during the revolution, the reds would have pretty much lost.

The republicans are just like the opposition of the reds, they are scattered, they just don't get it. Reading Alinsky's book is one step but they need to look at how other regimes used the media to actually get through but I think they are truly lost and dumbfounded on what they can do to win.