It’s What He Lives For
By Robert Ringer
Lindsey is at it again. Some people enjoy golfing. Others find their greatest pleasure in reading. And, of course, millions of people are content just to anesthetize themselves with junk TV. To each his own — so long as a person doesn’t violate anyone’s rights in doing his thing.
Unfortunately for Americans, Lindsey Graham’s thing is to reach across the aisle to his progressive friends and promote legislation that violates the rights of his employers (i.e., you and me). To parody Ursula the witch in the Disney classic The Little Mermaid, it’s what he lives for.
So, what kind of mischief is Left-Leaning Lindsey up to this time? No biggie. He and pal Chucky Schumer just want to make law-abiding citizens carry a national ID card. Of course, the government always has a seemingly legitimate excuse for every act of aggression it commits against its citizens. In this case, the purported purpose is to make it harder for employers to hire illegal aliens.
I’ll tell you what, Lindsey. If you really want to stop illegal immigration, just fine employers $25,000 for every illegal alien they knowingly hire. With such a policy in place, illegal-alien jobs would dry up, say … oh … in a couple of weeks — and it wouldn’t violate our rights.
Graham argues that we already have Social Security cards and that the new ID card would be the same thing, only better, because it would be tamperproof. Glad you mentioned that, Lindsey, because it’s an old left-wing trick that should be exposed: “We’ve already got this or that law in place, so there’s no reason not to take it a step further.”
This kind of progressive persuasion is precisely how the ball keeps getting moved to the left, regardless of which party is in power. I have a better idea: Let’s do away with Social Security cards instead — and phase out Social Security (over about 40 years, to keep the pain on older folks to a minimum) along with it.
It’s a scary day when Robert Ringer agrees with the ACLU, but the liberal lawyers are right on this one. A national ID card is a good idea only for a government that is intent on increasing its power over its civilian herd. But for the herd, it’s a blatant invasion of privacy.
It’s somewhat analogous to “gun control.” It’s a phony argument to use criminals as an excuse to take guns away from non-criminals. Ditto with government-run health care. If you must use force to get X millions of people covered who don’t have health insurance, then steal enough money from us just to cover them. But, for crying out loud, don’t touch our health insurance.
As a public service, I will continue to warn weak-kneed Republicans: If free elections are held in 2010, you will probably regain the House and Senate. And if you still don’t understand what the tea-party movement is all about — if you continue to vote for more government intrusion and more government spending — you will cease to exist as a party by 2012. Which will allow Chairman Obama to finish the job he started without opposition.
A couple of tea-party-sounding candidates had better come to the fore in the Republican Party very soon, because right now the presidential choices don’t look much better than Mush McCain. Only a few Republicans seem to fit the tea-party mold – e.g., Ron Paul and Jim DeMint, and neither of them have confirmed that they’re going to run.
The litmus test for would-be candidates remains the same: Do you promise to vote to repeal all unconstitutional legislation that is now on the books, starting with health care and cap and trade, should those two monstrosities become law? If not, look for a Tea Party (upper case T and P) to come into existence as America’s last hope.
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Tea Party Update:
The Tea Party movement has been filleted, deboned, and co-opted past the point of death. The Tea Parties were first started by supporters of Ron Paul. Shortly after their inception, Alex Jones—-who is an ardent supporter of Ron Paul— and his supporters got behind Tea Parties in a big way. By the time Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin got involved with the movement the real Tea Party was over.
Supporters of Ron Paul and Alex Jones have now started a Coffee Party. As much as I respect Ron Paul, Alex Jones, and others who support such movements, I have to except reality as I see it. The way I see it is that the republican party is going to continue to commandeer these grassroots movements until the moment of truth arrives. What is the moment of truth?
The moment of truth, theoretically, as I see it, is an historic period of time which Mr. Ringer has been warning about as far back as the Jimmy Carter era. The moment of truth arrives when the system as we now know it sufferers a monumental collapse that surpasses the Great Depression; Consequently, this event causes the uninformed and bewildered masses to completely abandon liberty and free-market capitalism; this, in turn, results in a classic power grab by a kleptocrat, oligarch, plutocrat, or some other dictatorial hybrid. What follows is debatable: The final outcome is not written in stone. In my opinion, there will be a revolution.
If you’re a believer in and a joiner of grassroots movements, then here is the main thrust of the new Coffee Party Movement as written by its founders:
1) Defend and secure the borders of the United States of America. Prevent the illegal creation of “sanctuary cities” and enforce immigration laws.
2) Uphold the second amendment and repeal unconstitutional gun laws.
3) End the Federal Reserve’s stranglehold over the American economy.
4) Reject and repeal all international treaties that supersede the U.S. Constitution and violate national sovereignty.
5) Uphold medical privacy and completely outlaw forcible injections.
6) End all invasive, unprovoked and unconstitutional foreign wars.
7) Peacefully take back control of the states from increasing federal encroachment via the 9th and 10th amendments.
8} End the federalization and militarization of law enforcement.
9) End unconstitutional land grabs, neo-feudalism and outlaw carbon taxes fraudulently promoted in the name of climate change.
10) End the unconstitutional use of the Patriot Act against U.S. citizens.
Ed: Please substitute my first submission with this replacement. Thanks.
Tea Party Update:
The Tea Party movement has been filleted, deboned, and co-opted past the point of death. The Tea Parties were first started by supporters of Ron Paul. Shortly after their inception, Alex Jones—-who is an ardent supporter of Ron Paul— and his supporters got behind Tea Parties in a big way. By the time Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin got involved with the movement the real Tea Party was over.
Supporters of Ron Paul and Alex Jones have now started a Coffee Party. As much as I respect Ron Paul, Alex Jones, and others who support such movements, I have to accept reality as I see it. The way I see it is that the republican party is going to continue to commandeer these grassroots movements until the moment of truth arrives. What is the moment of truth?
The moment of truth, theoretically, as I see it, is an historic period of time which Mr. Ringer has been warning about as far back as the Jimmy Carter era. The moment of truth arrives when the system as we now know it sufferers a monumental collapse that surpasses the Great Depression; Consequently, this event causes the uninformed and bewildered masses to completely abandon liberty and free-market capitalism; this, in turn, results in a classic power grab by a kleptocrat, oligarch, plutocrat, or some other dictatorial hybrid. What follows is debatable: The final outcome is not written in stone. In my opinion, there will be a revolution.
If you’re a believer in and a joiner of grassroots movements, then here is the main thrust of the new Coffee Party Movement as written by its founders:
1) Defend and secure the borders of the United States of America. Prevent the illegal creation of “sanctuary cities” and enforce immigration laws.
2) Uphold the second amendment and repeal unconstitutional gun laws.
3) End the Federal Reserve’s stranglehold over the American economy.
4) Reject and repeal all international treaties that supersede the U.S. Constitution and violate national sovereignty.
5) Uphold medical privacy and completely outlaw forcible injections.
6) End all invasive, unprovoked and unconstitutional foreign wars.
7) Peacefully take back control of the states from increasing federal encroachment via the 9th and 10th amendments.
8} End the federalization and militarization of law enforcement.
9) End unconstitutional land grabs, neo-feudalism and outlaw carbon taxes fraudulently promoted in the name of climate change.
10) End the unconstitutional use of the Patriot Act against U.S. citizens.
And politicians like Disney Graham get re-elected why?
Because they bring home the federal pork taken from the general taxation pool loot to pay off the voters in his home state to keep voting for him. That’s why.
Americans have overall forfeited and lost their sense of foundational moral values that kept our nation prosperous and strong from generation to generation.
Integrity is gone.
Self reliance is gone.
Honesty is gone.
“Stealing” is no longer defined as stealing.
And absolute self interest in the short term, as opposed to rational mature long term self interest, overrules and commands most American’s priorities and systems of value. Therefore the politicians they elect to represent them are nothing more than a reflection of themselves…fallen and imperfect..but not defined by their constituents as such due to the fact that pointing a finger at these low politicians would mean having to reflect back on the voters who keep electing them.
It has been said that “People get the government they deserve”, and right now we deserve the crooked, scandal ridden, demagogues presently in office.
Not all of us deserve them, but in a country where majority rules, as in elections, when the populace has lost their foundational moral compass, it only stands to reason that the people elected to represent that populace, are going to be as flawed and fault ridden, as the majority who voted for them.
Have you given up on Wayne Root?