Liberty and Integrity to Concepts... No Longer in America
by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny
The United States of America, a land built by pioneers, free and independent thinkers, men with vision and the understanding of what it means to be free.
The United States of America, a land where men of common principles and values, yet holding fiercely differing opinions as how to arrive at the "common good" found the integrity and strength to form a great nation.
The United States of America, a land whose founders understood that freedom is not free and that liberty, like a well kept\t garden must faithfully be attended to.
The United States of America, a land whose founders left a road map that would insure continued freedom and the individual liberties that brave men gave their lives for so that their own, as well as succeeding generations may be free.
The United States of America, a land whose people once understood the value of hard work and that expecting something for nothing was unethical, indeed immoral.
America, the once proud beacon of freedom, strength, integrity, ethical values, and tolerance for the divergent ideas of intelligent men whose purpose it was to further the greatness of a nation that was great because of the principles and values that were articulated during the Enlightenment. AKA, the Age of Classical Liberalism.
Today we have a nation whose populace sorely lacks in a basic understanding of the concepts of freedom and liberty.
The difference between the two parties in America today {democrat and republican) is but the difference between a blonde or a brown hair. Which is just another way of saying virtually none.
Today America is on the verge of foregoing its heritage and the legacy of its founding principles. The principles millions of young men have died for since the land we now occupy became the United States of America.
The United States of America will be going to the polls in November 2012. It is currently experiencing a painful period of circus watching as the republican party parades its field of candidates across the national stage.
A stage that will eventually pit the current President of these United States against the republican nominee for the same elective position.
For the individual with a sense of history, a understanding of what freedom and liberty mean, a active and free thinking mind, and a love of country and what American exceptionalism really means it is looking as though the choices will be bleak.
To spell it out... Red {republican} statism or blue {democratic} statism. Statism is statism. The only difference lies in the color {red or blue} and the flavor.
There is one candidate in the room who dares defy the statist mold of both the democrat and republican party. Rational Nation USA leaves it to each individual "free thinker" to grasp just who that might be.
Via: Memeorandum
Via: Statism
Via: Freedom and Liberty
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny
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The United States of America, a land built by pioneers, free and independent thinkers, men with vision and the understanding of what it means to be free.
The United States of America, a land where men of common principles and values, yet holding fiercely differing opinions as how to arrive at the "common good" found the integrity and strength to form a great nation.
The United States of America, a land whose founders understood that freedom is not free and that liberty, like a well kept\t garden must faithfully be attended to.
The United States of America, a land whose founders left a road map that would insure continued freedom and the individual liberties that brave men gave their lives for so that their own, as well as succeeding generations may be free.
The United States of America, a land whose people once understood the value of hard work and that expecting something for nothing was unethical, indeed immoral.
America, the once proud beacon of freedom, strength, integrity, ethical values, and tolerance for the divergent ideas of intelligent men whose purpose it was to further the greatness of a nation that was great because of the principles and values that were articulated during the Enlightenment. AKA, the Age of Classical Liberalism.
Today we have a nation whose populace sorely lacks in a basic understanding of the concepts of freedom and liberty.
The difference between the two parties in America today {democrat and republican) is but the difference between a blonde or a brown hair. Which is just another way of saying virtually none.
Today America is on the verge of foregoing its heritage and the legacy of its founding principles. The principles millions of young men have died for since the land we now occupy became the United States of America.
The United States of America will be going to the polls in November 2012. It is currently experiencing a painful period of circus watching as the republican party parades its field of candidates across the national stage.
A stage that will eventually pit the current President of these United States against the republican nominee for the same elective position.
For the individual with a sense of history, a understanding of what freedom and liberty mean, a active and free thinking mind, and a love of country and what American exceptionalism really means it is looking as though the choices will be bleak.
To spell it out... Red {republican} statism or blue {democratic} statism. Statism is statism. The only difference lies in the color {red or blue} and the flavor.
There is one candidate in the room who dares defy the statist mold of both the democrat and republican party. Rational Nation USA leaves it to each individual "free thinker" to grasp just who that might be.
Via: Memeorandum
Via: Statism
Via: Freedom and Liberty
Yikes! "a sense of history"? Somewhere Christopher Hitchens just heard a few million slaves and native americans wince as if their cries went unheard over the salute to the "common good"...
ReplyDeleteYikes is right Grunge. As usual your idiotic comment goes on the trash heap of statist history. Good day dude.
ReplyDeleteThough it's not popular to mention, once the land was stolen from the indians and the slaves were freed, many members of those two groups chose to benefit from the nation that formed here. Others chose not to. Some, admittedly, had little choice. Think, too, what the outcome of the two world wars might have been had this nation not existed.
ReplyDeleteReduce the amount of red tape. If the 2 parties could come together and simply accomplish that.......
ReplyDeleteLC3 your comment is a sad addendum to this ridiculous white-wash of North American histroy.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful langauage about how the pioneers, free and independent thinkers, with common principles founded a once proud beacon.
Just, ignore the real history of the early days of the nation, just ignore the plights the poor, the marginalized, the non-white land owners went through.
It's sad you would fall into a Bachmann-inspired historical revisionism of our land...
But, there it is!
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ReplyDeleteGrunge has no "sense of history". The genius of the founding fathers included a process whereby the slaves and Indians would be eventually liberated.
ReplyDeleteThe score?
History 2
Grunge 0.
You miss the point grunge man. I am fully aware of history, and this includes the unfortunate aspects as well. I am more concerned with the positive aspects of valid principles.
ReplyDeleteNow, go take your hate America speech elsewhere dude.
"I am fully aware of history"
ReplyDeleteNot according to your "rewriting" of History in your short self absorbed description.
Gene believes Manifest Destiny was unique to North America, a common mistake of the historically ignorant.
ReplyDeleteAnd Gene, Hitchens loved this country, so much that he became a citizen, so spare us the moral arguments based upon a man who had more brains in his fingernail that you do in your whole body. If you really understood Hitchens, you would not be the Obama fanboy that you are.
Very sad but true. Most do not have the ability to interpret and understand history, which is why we are where we are today.
ReplyDeleteGrunge, did the Indians own the land or did they inhabit the land that you say was stolen?
ReplyDeleteRegardless of that, the land they now occupy is freer than the land we occupy!
LCR, well said, which in my opinion is the purpose of the Dept of Education! (and BTW, DOE is an oxymoron)
Thanks for the auspicious writeup. It actually was once a amusement account it.
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