jcbraithwaite7
09-17-2007, 09:40 PM
I came across this in a another blog. Seems as though California for Thompson wants to believe that the Founding Fathers would support Thompson. I swear I have seen this before... kind of like the video made for Ron Paul then updated with Obama. It just makes me sick. Fred Thompson being endorsed by the Founding Fathers is a joke.
TO: The People
FROM: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Adams, and all signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the entire First Continental Congress.
In this 231st year of our independence, those of us you call the “Founding Fathers” have assembled in Continental Congress in heaven to assess the condition of the Republic we bequeathed to you.
We have observed that America has become the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth. Be wary, so was the British Empire in 1776.
We must confess that we are annoyed by your habit of misinterpreting our words. In the Declaration of Independence, we acknowledge that, “...inalienable rights that are endowed by our creator.”
Don’t you realize that absent a Creator there are no inalienable rights?
Take the First Amendment, where we said, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” you always neglect the other half of the injunction, “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
In the Second Amendment, we said the right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed. Remember, if private citizens hadn’t owned guns there would have been no Lexington or Concord. Why would we bother guaranteeing a collective right to arm state militias? If you ever wake up to what’s going on, your leaders will have cause to fear an armed citizenry.
You seem to view the rights in the first ten amendments as grants of power to the Federal government. We intended the Bill of Rights as a RESTRAINT on government, not as a restraint on the people.
We fought to the death to rid America of a Monarchy. Then, you established an elected aristocracy. We were farmers, merchants and professionals who resumed our careers after a brief term of service and so we never lost touch with our constituents. You have allowed it to become a career opportunity for your politicians.
You are now governed by an elite so different from yourselves that they almost constitute a separate species! You have allowed your elected “rulers” to hold office for 20 or 30 years, becoming detached from their roots, while rewarding themselves with lavish emoluments and pensions. WE revolted over taxation without representation. YOU condone serfdom.
WE revolted over a modest tax on tea. YOU have allowed your tax burden to become staggering. Despite the enormous expenditures of your prodigal politicians, even they can’t spend it all. And still, many resist returning the federal surplus to its rightful owners.
In our Declaration of Independence, we accuse King George III of, “sending hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,” and now you complacently tolerate a bureaucracy that resembles all Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. “Harass our people?” today you allow bureaucrats to tell you how to run your business, build on your property and raise your children. “Eat out their substance?” Today you allow the government to make decisions for you regarding your health and welfare.
We envisioned the Judiciary as a co-equal branch of government that interprets laws based on the clear meaning of the English language. You have allowed your courts to become a law unto itself – raising taxes, ordering private relationships and substituting their will for that of the people.
Ben Franklin said, “We gave you a Republic, if you can keep it.”
From our vantage point it doesn’t look promising.
If we were alive today, we’d raise another rebellion.
The only relief in sight is your candidate Fred Dalton Thompson, he understands what we meant when we framed the Constitution, and how we saw the majority of power distributed to the States themselves.
Stand by him and he will make this country great once again!
TO: The People
FROM: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Adams, and all signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the entire First Continental Congress.
In this 231st year of our independence, those of us you call the “Founding Fathers” have assembled in Continental Congress in heaven to assess the condition of the Republic we bequeathed to you.
We have observed that America has become the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth. Be wary, so was the British Empire in 1776.
We must confess that we are annoyed by your habit of misinterpreting our words. In the Declaration of Independence, we acknowledge that, “...inalienable rights that are endowed by our creator.”
Don’t you realize that absent a Creator there are no inalienable rights?
Take the First Amendment, where we said, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” you always neglect the other half of the injunction, “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
In the Second Amendment, we said the right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed. Remember, if private citizens hadn’t owned guns there would have been no Lexington or Concord. Why would we bother guaranteeing a collective right to arm state militias? If you ever wake up to what’s going on, your leaders will have cause to fear an armed citizenry.
You seem to view the rights in the first ten amendments as grants of power to the Federal government. We intended the Bill of Rights as a RESTRAINT on government, not as a restraint on the people.
We fought to the death to rid America of a Monarchy. Then, you established an elected aristocracy. We were farmers, merchants and professionals who resumed our careers after a brief term of service and so we never lost touch with our constituents. You have allowed it to become a career opportunity for your politicians.
You are now governed by an elite so different from yourselves that they almost constitute a separate species! You have allowed your elected “rulers” to hold office for 20 or 30 years, becoming detached from their roots, while rewarding themselves with lavish emoluments and pensions. WE revolted over taxation without representation. YOU condone serfdom.
WE revolted over a modest tax on tea. YOU have allowed your tax burden to become staggering. Despite the enormous expenditures of your prodigal politicians, even they can’t spend it all. And still, many resist returning the federal surplus to its rightful owners.
In our Declaration of Independence, we accuse King George III of, “sending hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,” and now you complacently tolerate a bureaucracy that resembles all Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. “Harass our people?” today you allow bureaucrats to tell you how to run your business, build on your property and raise your children. “Eat out their substance?” Today you allow the government to make decisions for you regarding your health and welfare.
We envisioned the Judiciary as a co-equal branch of government that interprets laws based on the clear meaning of the English language. You have allowed your courts to become a law unto itself – raising taxes, ordering private relationships and substituting their will for that of the people.
Ben Franklin said, “We gave you a Republic, if you can keep it.”
From our vantage point it doesn’t look promising.
If we were alive today, we’d raise another rebellion.
The only relief in sight is your candidate Fred Dalton Thompson, he understands what we meant when we framed the Constitution, and how we saw the majority of power distributed to the States themselves.
Stand by him and he will make this country great once again!