The Silent Majority ^ | 04-05-11 | J.D. Longstreet
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:00:28 AM by Lexluthor69
"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles." … Hilaire Belloc
How many times have you heard someone say that when liberals are out of power their antics are funny … but when they are in power they are dangerous? My guess is you have heard it many times. Most of us are quite familiar with it, in fact.
Today America is living the nightmare … disguised by the Left as the American dream.
"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again." — Edward Gibbon
Mr. Gibbon could easily have been describing modern day America rather than ancient Athens. America's coffers are empty largely to provide Americans a comfortable life. And, just lie the Athenians, we are losing everything, our security, our comfort, and most important, our FREEDOM.
We have a government ruled by those barbarians America used to laugh at. And they are solidifying and tightening their grasp on the throat of America's freedom squeezing it out of existence. Viewing the constitution as nothing more than a speed bump, they are determined to drag America from the pinnacle to the cesspool —
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"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. "
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we has met the barbarians and they is us...-pogo
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