Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
2008: The Year of the Tyrant? The 2008 elections will finally demonstrate the true character of America. They will reveal whether the United States has already become an unabashed tyranny without even a pretense of constitutional rule - or whether the country actually deserves to be called the "land of the free"by Alex Wallenwein
(Conservative)
Monday, May 12, 2008
No longer will members of the two major parties have the luxury of pointing their fingers across the political aisle to blame the other party for whatever is wrong with the country. Neither will third party voters be able to blame the strictures and iniquities of the two-party system for why the country has devolved into a full-fledged police state.
The only place any voter's finger can point in an attempt to place blame will be at his or her own face, in the bathroom mirror, during the early morning hours of Wednesday, November 5, 2008.
In other words, if you are a voter, you will have to finally accept full and unconditional responsibility for what just happened the night before.
But we are not talking about he presidential election, here.
Your vote for the next US president will not make one bit of a difference because the candidates have already been carefully selected to present you with no real choice whatsoever. In the already rigged election for president, you will only be able to choose between "black" or "white", "woman" or "man", and "Republican" or "Democrat".
In other words, the choices you are given are completely irrelevant to the real issue your freedom.
You will be allowed to choose between meaningless and superficial labels but not between policies. On the policy level, your vote for any of the candidates whose names will likely deface your voting ballot will be a wasted vote. In either case, it will be a vote for total, all-out world war. It will be a mandate for an unprovoked nuclear attack on Iran - unless the current president makes his move even before the election.
All three "major" candidates have made it clear that they will attack Iran if elected.
McCain has delivered his plan in ditty-format when he sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb-bomb Iran" to the popular Beach Boys tune last year. Hillary said only a week ago on ABC News that she will attack Iran if elected, and Obama vowed unequivocal support for "General Betrayus" George Bush's hand-groomed, boot-licking Pentagon-sycophant who was selected to replace the recently ousted, more independent minded Admiral Fallon as the head of CENTCOM, for that very reason.
No, on that early November morning, you will have to account to yourself - not for whoever you voted into the White House, but for whomever you gave your nod as the next congressman in your very own congressional district. It is there, in your district's congressional race, where your vote counts the most.
This is the best-kept secret in American politics.
It is there where the ultimate placement of your finger on the touch screen of your voting machine (or your choice of which ballot-card hole to punch), will determine your fate, the fate of this country, and the fate of the world as a whole.
This is no idle exaggeration. Congress is where the real action is in the American political system. Congress is where the founders have placed the vast majority of federal political power because it is Congress where the People (yes, that includes you) have the most direct influence over decisions of elected representatives.
Congress makes the laws that violate the Constitution and that oppress us in the exercise of the essential freedom that is our birthright.
Congress passed the current president's version of the USA PATRIOT Act without debating or even reading it.
Congress passed the Military Commissions Act that gives any president the sole discretion to label you an "enemy combatant" and ship you off to Guantanamo Bay without trial or even the right to see a lawyer.
Congress has allowed an entire century's worth of presidents to make executive orders that strip you of every single piece f property you may own and every single right you may have at the mere mention of the word "national emergency." Congress has the absolute power to nullify any such executive order. It just doesn't use it.
Congress has allowed every president since World War II to attack other countries with military force without exercising or guarding its exclusive constitutional power to declare war.
Congress continues to spend more money than it receives in taxes and other revenues, saddling present and future generations with currently nine trillion dollars in debt, creating massive price-inflation and causing the ongoing destruction of the US dollar in the process.
It is Congress that abdicated another one of its exclusive constitutional powers when it improperly delegated the power to coin money to a private banking conglomerate by passing the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
It is also Congress that allows the Internal Revenue Service to breathe down you r neck every month, withdrawing money you earned from your paycheck before you ever see it in order to fund all of the other unconstitutional things it does and al this before your very eyes, while you feel powerless to stop it.
Here is another secret:
You absolutely have the power to stop it. All of it and it won't cost you another cent of your money, nor a second more of your time than you already spend each election year.
All it will cost you is a decision.
Congress will never change unless the people who work there change and those people will never change unless you vote out your current representative.
You determine who goes to Congress to represent you next year; no one else.
If you believe your vote is meaningless and it doesn't count, here is a suggestion: vote anyway and vote for whoever runs against your incumbent. Since your vote doesn't matter, it won't make any difference so why not?
If you do believe your vote matters, but you are afraid that voting for the challenger in a general election will give "the other party" too much power, try voting for the same candidate while expecting a different result. Good luck.
If you actually like what Congress is doing and what it has been doing, please stop reading right here.
If you don't like what Congress is doing and you believe that your current representative is okay because he is the "lesser of two evils", keep him in there and expect something significant to change. Good luck, again.
Here is a third secret:
Your representative constantly votes to pass unconstitutional laws that rob you of your birthright because he knows that, once you have elected him, he has an 85 to 99 percent chance of getting reelected. That's the historical incumbency rate for the US Congress.
He knows you won't look over his shoulder and vote him out next time around. If he thought you might, he would at least hesitate, but he will never believe that you will actually do this - until you really do boot him out.
By then, it will be too late for him to change, of course, but his replacement will know why he was able to beat him, especially when he sees that 99 percent of his new colleagues are freshmen like he is.
He will know that you have spoken!
That is all it takes from you. Just vote for the other guy, whoever he is, regardless of his party affiliation and regardless of what he promises you compared to your incumbent.
Why? Because your incumbent has already proven to you that his promise is worthless.
How so?
If he has voted for an unconstitutional law (like the Patriot Act and others that have obliterated rights the Constitution guarantees to you) he has already broken his oath of office.
What makes you think he will fulfill a mere campaign promise when he has already violated his solemn oath to you and the country?
If you don't vote because you are disgusted with politics, here is your way to "get back" at this corrupt system: Just go and register to vote, and then vote for the strongest challenger of your incumbent.
By not voting at all, your "protest" is a wash; it is ineffective. Worse, it perpetuates the corrupt system.
By voting for anyone other than your incumbent, you at least have some effect. By voting for the strongest challenger, you multiply your effect. The reason is that because then, not only do you take a vote away from your incumbent, but you also add a vote to his fiercest competitor. That means, you have literally cost him twice.
If you are a party-hack who believes your party's staying in power is more important than freedom, you are a traitor to the Constitution. In that case, do yourself a favor and stop reading this right now.
Finally, if you just don't care, either way why have you read this far?
See? You care more than you think!
The bottom line is this: Nothing will change the country more than when American voters completely change their attitude about voting and replace at least 99 percent of Congress - this year, in 2008.
Nothing will change the liberty-destroying results of decades, even centuries, of 85 percent-plus congressional incumbency rates than simply reducing that rate all the way down to single digits.
You are the only person whose vote you can really change.
If you don't start with you, nothing happens.
If you won't start with replacing your own incumbent, who else will start with theirs?
If you don't change the way you vote this year, nothing will change. Everything will still be the same - only worse. You, and only you, have the power to determine whether 2008 will be the year of the tyrant or the year of real change (but, please, don't wait for Obama to bring you "change". He'll take your change, instead, and then some!)
You have to change - or nothing will. There is only one person in the world who can change you - and that is you. That is why your vote for your next congressman or woman will be the vote that determines your future as a free American. You have the choice.
Will 2008 be the Year of the Tyrant or the year when Freedom returned to America and settled in, for good?
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An amusing attempt to absolve conservatism for its rightful share of responsibility, scorn, and blame, for the travesty of the Bush Administration. Blaming Congress as a whole for the Military Commissions Act is an arrogant denial of the facts. The Military Commissions Act was passed by an overwhelming majority of Republican and minority of Democratic Congresssional members in both Houses.
Senate Roll Call Vote 259, September 28, 2006 On Passage of the Bill (S. 3930 As Amended )- A bill to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes.
The vote tally was 65 - 34 - 1 The vote tally by party: Yea: R-53 D-12 Nay: R-1 D-32 I-1
Additionally, many attempts to restore habeas corpus rights to the detainees in both houses has been blocked by the Republicans. In the Senate, it has been blocked by use of the same fillibuster technique that when used by Democrats to block the most radical of Bush Federal Court appointees was attacked by the Republicans as being anti-democratic. The Republican Party seems quite at ease when it comes to using anti-democratic methods to perpetrate their theft of Natural Liberty.
I am not claiming the Democratic Party is good. They are evil too, but it is proper that the evil of Democrats and Republicans be properly quantified. Clearly, the Democrats are presently, The Lamer Of Evils.
Posted By: Alex Wallenwein
Date: 2008-05-13 00:26:02
The policy of "regime change" in Iraq was not designed by the Bush administration but by Bill Clinton - in 1998.
Regardless, this is not the issue. Defending neither Repbublicans nor Democrats, "conservatives" nor "progressives" - nor any other politician or group of politicians. The only point is to preserve our FREEDOM by firing those who constantly try to "limit" it - and both parties are plenty good at that.
Stop defending one party over the other, or you will remain as trapped as those you are trying to blame. Fire them all and keep turning them over - unless they respect your rights and your freedom.
In regards to the PATRIOT Act reauthorization; you assertion that it passed without debate is incorrect. H.R.3199 passed through the Senate on unanimous consent, but in the House it was passed in Roll Call vote 414 on July 21, 2005, and a very large majority of Democrats opposed the bill.
A search using Library of Congress' Thomas shows many references to it in the Congressional Daily Record, including 19 Amendments, and several deabate sessions. Thomas also identifies the following as related bills: H.RES.369, H.RES.595, H.R.314, H.R.3889, S.103, S.1266, S.1389, S.1389, S.1389. There will be relevant Congressional Daily Records regarding the Reauthorization of The PATRIOT Act in these also.
Additionally, H.R.3199 was not completely approved until both houses had voted apporval of The H.R. 3199 Conference Reports. The relevant Senate vote was Roll Call vote 29 on March 2, 2006, and the tally was 89-10-1. All 10 Nays were cast by Democrats. In the House of Representatives, it was Roll Call vote 627 on December 14, 2005, and the vote tally was 251-174-9. The Republican's vote tally was 207-18-6. The Democrat's vote tally was 44-155-3.
Clearly, there is a significant difference between the Republicans and Democrats when properly assessing blame for the PATRITOT Act's reauthorization.
Well, a knight, that suggests a reasonable modification of Mr. Wallenwein's strategy: vote for the incument iff (s)he voted against the PATRIOT and Military Commissions Acts (and a select list of other bills); otherwise vote for the challenger. (Of course, the larger that list, the more possibility that the incumbent voted inconsistently; but if an incumbent is strongly inconsistent, then it's better to default to the original plan and support the challenger.)
You make assertions about me that are incorrect. I'm definitely in the camp of voting to challengers, as a general rule. In fact I believe that ALL politicians should be limited to two terms: One in office, One in prison. This does not change the facts about which party is most responsible for the Bush Tyranny, and this is what I was pointing out. It just will not do for conservatives to cut-n-run one more time from the hell they have wrought.
I totally agree with this article. You couldn't be more right about our duty as American citizens. We just need to wake the sheeple up. I haven't ever been much for one on politics but something recently in me caused me to wake up. Whats amazing is that this type of thing has been on going ever since the birth of America. The whole centralized banking scheme has been a constant threat to America since the 1700's. It wasn't until 1913 did it ever come about. It's truely our responsibility to keep this stuff in check. We have been so distracted by misinformation and other things to keep us all entertained that we have let these people get by with robbing us of our personal liberties and freedoms a little at a time. It's time to stand up and be accounted. Let's roll...
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