The American People have taken a lot of guff over the years.

Some have said that the problems we are in now, are because of our seemingly, irreverent attitude, towards the political arena. I would like to say that this in part, is true. You could say that the people were preoccupied or even uninterested in what the government was doing. That was the way of our government for many years. The system was so good, that it really ran itself. Of course until they started to mess with it. They started giving things away. They started to steal from one to give to another. They started to tax every aspect of every activity. Etc etc etc.

I think they are awake now. I would almost say it is analogous to the Tom Clancy novel, where he referred to the KGB, as a sleeping giant and if it was to be awoken, there would be hell to pay.

Well there is hell to pay.

I do not care what party you are from, I do not care what paradigm side you are on. I do not care if you think the Constitution is toilet paper (actually I do, but I am in a flow).

If you think people are not awake now, you are living in a fantasy world.

The corruption is boiling over. The absolute disdain politicians feel for the average Joe is fueling the fire. The left thinks that if they can just get this health care through, everything will be great. The right thinks if they can just stop this health care everything will be great. The banks think if they can keep there heads out of the nooses everything will be great.

I am sorry folks. Everything will not be great. Our government has broken the faith. They have told the people, that normally do not pay attention, to shut up and sit down. These politicians and the people that are usually politically active do not know what to make of the TPM.

The repubs have tried to takeover, from what I see, they have had a slight success. The dems have tried to marginalize the movement and has only made it grow. Now the Obama made a really big mistake and has mocked the movement with a Coffee Movement of their own. Which by the way wants higher taxes, bigger government and more corruption of American Ideals.

Are you listening Washington? If you do not fall back to what the Constitution stands for, the people will make you.

Obama is a sock puppet. It does not matter what people think of him. It matters what the American People think of Washington in general.

The last numbers say that 60% of the country thinks government is broken.

Do you know what Americans do with things that are broken. They usually throw it away.



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I never considered myself much of a political type of girl. I found it boring and rather....well, pointless.

My attitude has changed greatly in the last couple of years. Perhaps its simply maturing, perhaps its my growing awareness of the cancer that is devouring our country.

When I was a teenager, I used to lament the loss of a "great cause" for my generation. I would think of the civil rights movement, women's suffrage, etc and long to be a part of fundamental change.

Guess what. Think I found something worthwhile.

Even my parents, who are staunch conservatives in EVERY facet of their lives are wakening up. My Dad sends me emails about corruption in government....trust me when I say this is a huge reversal of attitude.


Now if only this movement can coalesce, define itself, and get started....

S&F.

I would have to agree that I personally believe that Obama has repeatedly kicked the sleeping giant and has shocked him from his slumbering sleep and nothing is going to put the giant back to sleep until he has had his fill of those that provoked him from his slumber. The giant is hungry and must feed on the bones and blood of those that dared to wake him.

What I really find interesting about this thought is that most of the mass awakening of the sleeping giant was brought about by Obama himself.

This puzzles me because the one man who does not want us to wake up is responsible for more people waking up and is personally responsible for more guns and ammo being sold in the last 18 months than any threat that could have alarmed the citizens into going out and buying so many guns and ammo. This is indeed an anomaly that stuns me.

The sleeping giant is awake because of Obama and I for one would never have thought that the one man who needs us to remain asleep is the sole reason America is waking up. This is a strange fact that makes me ponder just how someone like Obama who is trying so hard to keep the sheep asleep, can awaken so many people from their hypnotic sleep and in such a short time by pursuing an Obama agenda that seems to snap people out of their slumber and sleep with great ease and with great speed.

Oh well, it is indeed a strangeness, but the giant has awakened an he is hungry for those that dared to wake him. Sooner or later, the giant is going to feed on those that dared him to awaken and when he does, I for one will not consider it a bad thing. In fact, if the giant should ask for some gravy, I would be more than gracious to offer him some gravy so he can enjoy his meal of traitors and corrupt criminals with some degree of culinary delight.

Don't forget to educate your children! Alot of parents want to keep their kids "shielded" from current events and want them to think life is sunny and happy and the world is great. It is important to converse with your children, this is in the only way that they can learn to think critically and independently. Remember that they are the next generation to hold the cards as our time is almost over. Teach your children to question authority, teach them compassion, teach them how to garden, cook, tie knots, fix things. Teach them the joy of reading, thinking, solving, teach them everything you can. It is the one most important things you can do for your child and the world.
Peace.

Every day, I feel more foolish for actually daring to feel optimistic that Obama would actually deliver the change that he promised. Oh, well, fool me once as they say. I am also growing more and more convinced that the so-called health care bill hubbub is just a smoke screen to get people riled up and distracted while the government gets their bunkers under the Denver New World Airport ready for 2012. Perhaps I should go gun shopping too.

The us government has been absolutely amazing since the start of 1900 century. Everything has gone after the plan,both war tactics,own government tactics. I am amazed. The government has NEVER been bigger.

Will it become a war..?? Yes..the war was planned in 1954,because it is needed. Does every large country know about it?Yes..everyone exept norway and austria. Do the public know anything? Are you nuts? that would be suicide

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[edit on 9-3-2010 by Archirvion]

Usa has been the most brilliant tactical war country since the first world war. At least what we have facts of.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

That is a quote from Samuel Langhorne Clemens... AKA Mark Twain in Advice to Youth (5/15/1882).

He had a lot to say on the subject of corrupt governments.

Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago was the last refuge of the scoundrel -- and I believe that he was right. I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country. (1907)

In another work... "Our Country, Right or Wrong!"
[Twain then predicted] But it was too late to save the Great Republic. ...She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest had long ago done its work; trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home; multitudes who had applauded the crushing of other people's liberties, lived to suffer for their mistake in their own persons.

People been beating that drum for over a hundred years and no one has ever successfully woken the sheep from the stupor

I love your threads.

The one thing that gets me is that we have the right to "alter or abolish" government if it is no longer working. We could very well abolish the Constitutional Amendments 11 through 22 and go back to the simple and elegant Bill of Rights...enumerated for all regardless of race, color, ethnicity, sex, etc.

Or we could even do away with the Constitution and revive the Articles of Confederation for 2010.

I'm with the Anti-Federalists on this one.

Bring back the Articles of Confederation, we can tweak them.