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Post by 2ncrca on Apr 7, 2011 11:45:57 GMT -5
Complete article at patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/04/07/the-most-perilous-national-security-crisis-since-1860/The raucous political rhetoric over the federal budget sounds much like the perennial hyperbole between Right and Left over the constitutional authority of the central government and its spending priorities. However, the outcome of the current debate is much more than a budget agreement for next year and the next decade: It will determine whether our nation will avert systemic economic collapse or collide with it head-on, plunging us into the most significant National Security Crisis since 1860, and condemning our posterity to the inevitable institution of socialism and the abject tyranny that accompanies it.
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Post by the1badger on Apr 7, 2011 11:55:35 GMT -5
Damn! That is a mouthfull.
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Post by 2ncrca on Apr 7, 2011 12:00:52 GMT -5
Reference to 1860. Whoaa! Not a very subtle allusion to that particular year.
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Post by brocktownsend on Apr 7, 2011 12:32:28 GMT -5
Reference to 1860. Whoaa! Not a very subtle allusion to that particular year. As President Jefferson Davis said as the War of Northern Aggression loomed www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3024"If this action is once tolerated, where will it end? Where is constitutional liberty? What strength is there in bills of rights-in limitation of power? What new hope for mankind is to be found in written constitutions, what remedy which did not exist under kings or emperors? If the doctrines thus announced by the government of the United States are conceded, then look through either end of the political telescope, and one sees only an empire, and the once famous Declaration of Independence trodden in the dust as a "glittering generality," and the compact of the union denounced as a "flaunting lie". I love the Union and the Constitution, but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it. Those who submit to such consequence without resistance are not worthy of the liberties and rights to which they were born, and deserve to be made slaves. Such must be the verdict of mankind."
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Post by 2ncrca on Apr 7, 2011 12:46:26 GMT -5
Words whose meaning are as true today as they were when first written.
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