The "Keeping Time" Has Arrived- The Sunday Collage
Mrs. Elizabeth Powel asked Benjamin Franklin the question. What do we have, a republic or a monarchy? Franklin answered, "A republic if you can keep it." Probably historically true. In a republic, the power to govern is held by the people or their elected representatives. By consent. We have checks and balances for those representatives, and we have a rule of law. That theory was meant to keep an oppressive government at bay. To keep them from acquiring too much power In a democracy, the people directly make every decision. There are no representatives. Democracies often devolve into mob rule democracies. Like the one we have now. A republic is meant to protect the minority from the oppression of the majority. A rule of law is what keeps it civil. A minority member's interests are protected. Until the mob takes over. Now we can debate who, what, when, and how we have lost our republic. We can even debate whether we still have one or not. On paper, we might have a republ
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If this is not enough to make your blood boil. A while back, WWII veterans who are part of Honor Flight, requested permission to visit the Washington memorial in their honor. They were summarily rejected by the White House themselves.
In a moment of civil disobedience that eclipses the Occupy Wall Street goons, these veterans kicked down the hastily erected barricades that Barack Hussein Obama’s self-directed goons put in their way less than several hours after the start of the government shutdown.
After all, how can an open air memorial not operate without park rangers making sure that veterans aren’t shitting all over their own memorial?
The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office to have World War II veterans visit the World War II memorial in Washington, the Mississippi Congressman told The Daily Caller Tuesday.
Palazzo helped the veterans commit an act of civil disobedience against the Park Service Tuesday, when the heroes stormed through barricades around the closed memorial.
The veterans were visiting the memorial as part of Honor Flight, a non-profit that provides veterans free transport to the nation’s capital to visit the memorials to the wars they fought in.
This is not merely petty. It is a vindictive and spiteful premeditated attack on veterans. Had this been the Gay and Transgendered Protesters of Foreign Wars Memorial, Obama would have ordered a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient to stand guard over it in drag.
“We got the heads up that they will be barricaded and specifically asked for an exception for these heroes,” Palazzo told TheDC. “We were denied and told, ‘It’s a shutdown, what do you expect?’ when we contacted the liaison for the White House.”
This event and ones that are most certainly in the pipeline by him and his anti-American minions are going facilitate a Concord moment if it continues which is almost guaranteed. A revolution against this premeditated assault and unwarranted disrespect for the people who Obama sees as the enemy. This alien President gets his rocks off sticking his boney, fucking middle finger in the faces of the people who made this country great.
Who orders barricades put around war memorials mere hours after a continuing resolution isn’t passed? Who? I’ll tell you who. The same motherfucker who shut off White House visits for school kids – that’s who.
One day, possibly even soon, someone is going to show him the error of his ways. They can start by sending one of his goons to the hospital. Better yet, start sending loyal members of his stenography pool to the hospital. In the spirit of “think globally, act locally”, just find one of his supporters with a bumper sticker on their car and send them to the hospital. Would you tolerate someone driving around with a Nazi symbol on their car? They didn’t care for our WWII veterans that much either.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/07/truckers-for-the-constitution-plan-to-slow-dc-beltway-arrest-congressmen