- With our Independence Day celebration of 2005 comes a
time to ponder the foundation principles of our nation and where we are
today vis-à-vis what the founding fathers established.
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- About the only visible foundation laid by our forefathers
that continues to exist today are the shells that house our three branches
of the federal government..the principles associated with government are
but faint memories.
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- Our moral compass is in a virtual spin; the political
process is controlled by big business, lobbies, political machine, graft,
greed; our pulpits are slinking behind tax free status; our Ten Commandments,
the bedrock of national development is reduced to an outdated symbol; we
are killing babies by the millions; kids are killing kids; men are marrying
men and women are marrying women; sexual deviants are roaming near uncontrolled;
heterosexual marriage is viewed as radical and intolerant; our schools
are focused on "relativism" without a stable, solid foundation;
the US Courts are making laws, the US Congress is without rudder and running
scared; the White House is owned by corporations, God is not welcome in
public; and in effect all control by "we the people" has been
lost.
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- The leadership in the White House, Congress and Supreme
Court are at best ineffective. President Bush is shielded with so many
layers of staff he doesn't know what is going on; has anyone heard from
the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, R-IL, in the last year? What
about Senator Frist, R-TN, majority leader in the Senate.flip flop jelly
sound is heard as he tries to appease the opposition, nearly every time
he speaks. In addition the leadership allows a significant number of Congressional
members to be AWOL but continue to draw the enormous salary.
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- Now the US Supreme Court (which has transformed from
legal to political) has ruled private property can be confiscated by government
and given to private developers if the politicians find benefit to the
tax base and citizens would have another place to shop, moor their boat,
or play golfif there was any courage in our Congress, there would be a
vote scheduled to take the necessary steps to over turn the black robed
tyrants decision, if not initiate impeachment action. Our current US Supreme
Court is destroying our Constitution and "we the people" stand
by as a flock of sheep waiting for the slaughter.
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- As a military man I particularly resent the destruction
of our Constitution and reflect on the millions of lives lost, disabled,
widows, prisoners, that have and still suffer personal and mental wounds
while trying to protect our Constitution. Our military most always takes
back seat to political "pork" and funding nearly every nation
on earth before Congress considers (if they do) the commitments and obligations
made to our warriors..the political machine has no problem sending our
sons and daughters into harms way, but forgets the cost associated and
slights our warriors regularly.
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- Worse yet, there is a political motive behind the treasonous
hue and cry to prematurely leave Iraq. Those in Congress and elsewhere
that refer to our warriors in derogatory terms appear to lack fox-hole
experience and seem to be totally ignorant that their rhetoric undermines
our troops morale and gives aid and comfort to the enemy,
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- While our warriors past and present fight to protect,
maintain, and secure our Constitution, the political mechanism, which includes
the courts, is systematically rendering our founding fathers efforts obsolete.
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- No, I have not died but America has gone to hell..only
through God's grace and mercy will we survive as a free nation.
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- http://www.presidentbushblog.com/
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- Comment
- Jim Mortellaro
- 7-4-5
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- Truth is sometimes hard to swallow. But the truth in
this post is easy. Slides down the gullet like fresh oysters on the half
shell. Only difference is, this truth is not very tastey.
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- Col., my personal congratulations for the self-evident
truths in your blog post. I am ashamed to call myself a Patriot, because
being a Patriot is no longer vogue. Being a man of faith is no longer vogue.
Being a man is no longer vogue.
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- In his landmark Sci-Fi, DUNE, Frank Herbert wrote that
truth can be unstable. Our values have been shaken to instability, our
so-called leaders in both houses have become self serving, self centered
adversaries. In lieu of doing our bidding, following the will of We The
People, they are following their own will. May God have mercy on this nation,
once much greater for It's sense of honor and of values, tradition, love
of God and love of country. No longer.
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- I am a 62 year old man, retired and very tired. I've
isolated myself on a mountaintop in the greater North East and remained
here, with only fauna and flora for neighbors. My wife of 37 years, my
dog, my generator and my faith keep us going. But sadly, we have seen the
decline of the most powerful and honorable nations this world has ever
seen. And worse, we are following fools.
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- With admiration,
- Jim Mortellaro
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