Stand and Defend Your Country
Now is the time for the citizen soldier to step up and be counted.
8.12.2009
With Strength Through Unity We Can Make History
“Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.” ~Richard G. Scott
From the Colonial Generation to the Greatest Generation to our current generation, the strength of America has been the willingness of citizen soldiers to make the ultimate sacrifice for freedom. Not only for Americans, but freedom for generations of mankind around the world who lived, and continues to live, under tyranny, terror, repression and genocide.
Watch This GRAY EAGLES Video To Understand The Citizen Soldier.
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America is the greatest country in the world, but will it be tomorrow if we continue to elect and empower representatives who feel compelled to be apologists about America’s history and values? Are we, as a nation, prepared to have America’s history be re-written in order to indoctrinate the next generation to believe in big government and spread the wealth ideology? Socialism under any name is still socialism.
The Imperial Congress
Our Congress is shameless in their imperial attitude and self-serving rule. Congress believes they know what’s best for America when in fact they are clueless to anything that does not increase their power and ultimately support their re-election.
George Washington, in his Farewell Address, said about Despotism, “The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position."
Since Washington’s Presidency, with one exception, no president has had the job for more than two full terms. Washington made it clear when asked to run for a third term that an orderly transition of power was needed to set the Constitution in stone. And so it was for almost 150 years. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the exception. Elected in 1932 and re-elected in 1936, history played a role in electing FDR for four terms - Hitler, Pearl Harbor and WWI.
While FDR's leadership was seen by many as a key reason that the U.S. came out of WWII victorious, Congress was determined, once the war ended, to ensure that Washington's self-imposed two-term limit become the law of the land. Specifically excepting Truman from its provisions, the 22nd Amendment passed Congress on March 21, 1947. After Truman won a second term in 1948, it was ratified on February 27, 1951 (1,439 days).
The 22nd Amendment was ratified 155 years after George Washington voiced his concern about despotism; a concern no doubt based more on his life experience as a subject of a ruling monarch than it was for a young democracy guided by a Continental Congress of citizen statesmen. In the ensuing 213 years, Congress has exceeded their Constitutional authority to the point that President Washington would undoubtedly recognize the despotism about which he warned America.
This begs the question:
Why have we allowed the power of the people to be hijacked by professional politicians?
America is at a Crossroad in History
"The States should be left to do whatever they can do as well as the federal government" ~ Thomas Jefferson
While Congress with ratification of the 22nd Amendment ensured that no individual could be president for more than 8-years, they see themselves in a different light. The State Ratification process for an amendment to the US Constitution has never been used, but the time is ripe for state ratification of a Constitutional amendment to Limit Terms for Congress.
Congress is today comprised of professional politicians who among many other things, are expanding government’s role beyond Constitutional authority, spending your tax dollars like drunken sailors, supporting nationalization of private industry, controlling citizens’ lives, and continually selling America out to special interests to get re-elected.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The Tenth Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights and also known as the States’ Rights Amendment, is one of the tenets of the Constitution and guarantees “Anything not expressly granted to the Federal government is reserved for the States or the People.”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Since the current Administration has come to power, more than 32 states legislatures have taken up the issue of affirming state sovereignty guaranteed under the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Congress is in violation of this Constitutional limitation on their authority, and the American citizens have allowed them to usurp this power. But so have the states!
The original 13 states recognized the importance of not losing their ability to make regional decisions nor to be subject to an overriding power from a distant national capital.
Today, 33 states have presented Tenth Amendment sovereignty bills to their legislatures. These state bills are demanding the federal government halt its practice of assuming powers and of imposing mandates upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States.
Step Up and be a Part of History
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.” ~ George Washington
Now is the time for YOU, the citizen to step up and become a citizen soldier in the war on Congress. America as we know it is at a crossroad in history. We either stand together as unified citizens take back from Congress the power and authority guaranteed to the States and the People by the Tenth Amendment, or we allow our nation to disintegrate and bow to an ever despotic imperial Congress.
It is time for state representatives and legislators to listen to their citizens and serve their interest by ratifying such an amendment.
The state ratification process requires a Constitutional Convention be called by two-thirds of the state legislatures (34 states) and for that Convention to propose the amendment. The amendment is then sent to the states to be approved by three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions.
Join with Distressed Patriots for America Mission to Stop Congress and return Government to the People and the States.
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