This applies today as it did when it was first posted. Something about giving up your principles, for as false sense of security.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
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First, do you know the Founding Principles of this nation? Why did the Framers believe we committed Treason to our God given Rights if we voted for someone whom we do not know? If you take your car to a mechanic to be repaired and upon returning you find out that it has more problems now than it did when it was originally dropped off, would you keep going back to the same guy?
Would you keep going to the same restaurant if you kept getting food poisoning?
What is the Definition of Insanity? Repeating the same thing, expecting a different outcome...Does it work? History has proven it does NOT... For those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to Repeat IT!
Let us explore what some of this Nations Founding Patriots had to say about the negligent Liberty Losing games we are ignorant and accustomed too:
"We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
~John Adams, Source: Oct. 11, 1798; Address to the military
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions.”
~John Adams, letter to Mercy Warren, April 16, 1776
I show historical proof to my www.ConstitutionalBootcamp.com students time and time again, our Constitution is NOT a political document...Parties came later and were HATED by our Founders, they WARNED us of this Faction/Dilution to our inherent God Given Natural rights by those seeking power for political or personal agenda..Have you ever even READ the party platform you belong too? Party platforms don't hardly even mention the Constitution and why do we need other platforms when we have the best LIBERTY platform in HISTORY, our DECLARATION/CONSTITUTION based on the trusted Foundation of God's Natural Law (Judeo-Christian Principles)?...If you follow the MONEY TRAIL (which is public record) you will find BOTH parties are owned by the SAME people that FUND them…Our Founders knew all too well the meaning of “Divide and Conquer”, exactly what the political party factions have done to this REPUBLIC!
OUR FOUNDERS HATED POLITICAL PARTIES:
On Saturday, June 2, 1787, Ben Franklin took the floor at the Constitutional Convention as a skeptic. Franklin feared that greed-driven competition for the presidency would divide the new American government into factions. He warned:
“There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money. ...Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall be at the same time a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places ...renders the British government so tempestuous...[and is the true source] of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the nation [and] distracting its councils”...
On Wednesday, June 6, 1787, James Madison weighed in by saying that if unregulated,
“All civilized societies would be divided into different sects, factions, and interests, ...of rich and poor, debtors and creditors, ... the inhabitants of this district or that district, the followers of this political leader or that political leader, the disciples of this religious sect or that religious sect. In all cases where a majority are united by a common interest or passion, the rights of the minority are in danger. “
(Madison is pointing out that “WE THE PEOPLE” are to be the checks and balances / regulators of such danger…)
“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism. If we go over the whole history of ancient and modern republics, we shall find their destruction to have generally resulted from those causes.”
~James Madison (Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
~George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796
We do not need more Politicians, WE NEED CONSTITUTIONAL STATESMEN! But the only way to know who supports the Constitution is for "The PEOPLE" to know it by being Godly Virtuous Constitutionalists themselves..."Thus you cannot Defend what you don't know, nor can you expect someone to uphold that which they do not know!"...Washington said "It is better to be alone than in bad company" and for good reason...Until the People can VERIFY they have a Godly Virtuous Statesmen, they should not just merely vote for the lesser of two evils (because of seemingly eloquent Lip Service), for is not the lesser of two evils still evil? (Is voting for Satan’s brother better than Satan?) For in the past 200 years of doing just this, common sense can dictate what the ailing Liberty outcome has been? The other more educated choice as provided by our Framers that everyone fails to acknowledge is that one can abstain from voting for evil until a Virtuous Statesman is found!
The easiest way to decipher the Constitutional stance of those seeking power is to ask some of the "101 Constitutional Questions" FACE TO FACE (Remember no answer is an answer as well)...
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If we would only open our minds and embody the Founding Principles of this nation we would surely overt the treachery we have allowed or even perpetrated on our selves due to our own ignorance of them…For our Founders predicted we would be at this Liberty ailing juncture!
"Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust. Whether our Constitution has hit on the exact degree of control necessary, is yet under experiment."
~Thomas Jefferson to M. van der Kemp, 1812. ME 13:136
“I have observed, that gentlemen suppose, that the general legislature will do every mischief they possibly can, and that they will omit to do every thing good which they are authorised to do. If this were a reasonable supposition, their objections would be good. I consider it reasonable to conclude, that they will as readily do their duty, as deviate from it: Nor do I go on the grounds mentioned by gentlemen on the other side--that we are to place unlimited confidence in them, and expect nothing but the most exalted integrity and sublime virtue. But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks--no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.”
~James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention 20 June 1788 Papers 11:163
PONDER JEFFERSON’S WARNING:
"The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecution, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war (Revolutionary War) we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.“
~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, p. 169 (last part of Query, XVII), Boston: Lilly and Wait, 1832
We are all guilty of living off of the “fruits of their labor”, handed to us on an albeit BLOOD SOAKED PLATER! I for one would rather put faith and trust in my ancestors and Founders who put us on the path to LIBERTY before I trust in the empty Lip Service of politicians that do the opposite of what they say...
What about you America?
"Those who are IGNORANT of the past are CONDEMNED to REPEAT IT!"...
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GOD BLESS & FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY,
Mr. Greene
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(Son of the American Revolution / Relative of Major General Nathanael Greene, Washingtons most Trusted Friend & Colonel Timothy Matlack, Final Penman of the Declaration of Independance)
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