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What Would Our Founding Fathers Think Of The Country They Founded Today?

 
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With an overreaching and immensely powerful federal government, an unrestricted and brutal police force designed to trample citizens' rights to protect that corrupt government, and a benign and pacified citizenry who are indifferent to the corrupt police state they live in as long as their level of comfort is not interfered with, what would our founding fathers think of what has become of their grand experiment of liberty? Not only have we lost sight of the importance and necessity of personal and collective liberty, but we have also become willing slaves to the mechanism that has put us in shackles by bribing us with empty promises of security and comfort. This country needs a reset to return it to what it once was. This is why the concept of an armed citizenry is so uncomfortable to those in power, and if we continue along the apathetic and powerless road we have been traveling down, those in power will get exactly what they want. If liberty and freedom from an oppressive government is not our first priority, then we are doomed to remain slaves to that government.
 Quoting: Rising Son


Until the Obama Idiocracy, it was always the custom that an American NEVER BOWS BEFORE A KING.

Acknowledge, yes...
A slight bend of the head. YES...

But since the time we broke away from the Kingdom of Great Britain, no American Official has ever bowed before a King of another country.

UNTIL OBAMA...
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With an overreaching and immensely powerful federal government, an unrestricted and brutal police force designed to trample citizens' rights to protect that corrupt government, and a benign and pacified citizenry who are indifferent to the corrupt police state they live in as long as their level of comfort is not interfered with, what would our founding fathers think of what has become of their grand experiment of liberty? Not only have we lost sight of the importance and necessity of personal and collective liberty, but we have also become willing slaves to the mechanism that has put us in shackles by bribing us with empty promises of security and comfort. This country needs a reset to return it to what it once was. This is why the concept of an armed citizenry is so uncomfortable to those in power, and if we continue along the apathetic and powerless road we have been traveling down, those in power will get exactly what they want. If liberty and freedom from an oppressive government is not our first priority, then we are doomed to remain slaves to that government.
 Quoting: Rising Son


Until the Obama Idiocracy, it was always the custom that an American NEVER BOWS BEFORE A KING.

Acknowledge, yes...
A slight bend of the head. YES...

But since the time we broke away from the Kingdom of Great Britain, no American Official has ever bowed before a King of another country.

UNTIL OBAMA...
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Your right, only Emperors. Bush did that too.
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They'd be like "YOU'RE LETTING WOMEN VOTE?!"
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Honestly that was a big mistake.
 Quoting: Nerve03
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Black men got the right to vote in 1870

Women got the right to vote in 1920.


That tells you everything you need to know, especially how Liberals really feel about women.

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They'd be all hey you see the type of guns they have these days and Jefferson would say ya, you see what they got as president...
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There would have been a revolution a long, long, long, long, long time ago, with the blood of patriots, and tyrants. But instead the tree of liberty is almost completely dead, and will remain that way, until the US and its history, is wiped from memory, and will only be thought about with found memories, until all those that lived in it, are dead and gone, and so it will be then as well, never to be repeated as an experiment, for it is a failed one.
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History always repeats itself.popcorn
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They would say
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I'd like to think they would have started a revolution 60 or 70 years ago.
We were in the water when the heat was turned on so we'll probably be cooked before we realize it's too late.
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I tend to agree. I recall the Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Seems today we are ripe with tyrants and too few real patriots. I doubt any of our so called leaders even know the true meaning of patriotism.

Today's America is a sad shell of a reflection of what could have (and should have) been.
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Actually had a dream about George Washington. He was the General of an army, American continentals, he and they wore the old uniforms the whole thing. There was a war in the US, all around was modern warfare etc, and than there was the small battered continental army- suffice to say i think he would perceive the current US not the country he founded, and that the remains of what it was is quite under attack. The Americans that followed his command where quite loyal- even though they where not as well equipped to what was out there. This dream occurred in 2007 before I became aware of Ron Paul, found out RP after this dream!
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What Would Our Founding Fathers Think Of The Country They Founded Today?
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They'd be like "YOU'RE LETTING WOMEN VOTE?!"
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 52621665


Honestly that was a big mistake.
 Quoting: Nerve03
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Black men got the right to vote in 1870

Women got the right to vote in 1920.


That tells you everything you need to know, especially how Liberals really feel about women.

:SHR2:
 Quoting: Joe Camel


For the record -- it was the REPUBLICANS who got the vote for Blacks and Women.
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Actually had a dream about George Washington. He was the General of an army, American continentals, he and they wore the old uniforms the whole thing. There was a war in the US, all around was modern warfare etc, and than there was the small battered continental army- suffice to say i think he would perceive the current US not the country he founded, and that the remains of what it was is quite under attack. The Americans that followed his command where quite loyal- even though they where not as well equipped to what was out there. This dream occurred in 2007 before I became aware of Ron Paul, found out RP after this dream!
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You should read the prophecies of Washington re: a future invasion of the USA. Chuck Youngbrandt has similar visions.
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They would choke from the pollution in the air before they would have a chance to speak, and than someone would hand them a glass of Fluoride laced water to clear their throats while they are being strip searched for their I.D. at the D.U.I. Check Point. Oh and being filmed by members of GLP !

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Your founding fathers which have been all Freemasons pretty much, would think they did a great job in fooling you.
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Actually had a dream about George Washington. He was the General of an army, American continentals, he and they wore the old uniforms the whole thing. There was a war in the US, all around was modern warfare etc, and than there was the small battered continental army- suffice to say i think he would perceive the current US not the country he founded, and that the remains of what it was is quite under attack. The Americans that followed his command where quite loyal- even though they where not as well equipped to what was out there. This dream occurred in 2007 before I became aware of Ron Paul, found out RP after this dream!
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You should read the prophecies of Washington re: a future invasion of the USA. Chuck Youngbrandt has similar visions.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58981445


Funny you should mention that, because in 2010, I dreamed about him again, here is the link to the thread I posted;
Thread: Just a bad dream?


I am the OP of that thread, there he mentions that the U.S. is to be invaded, and the American empire will come to an end.
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they'd be like "Why in the fuck are all these dual citizens in charge of congress???!!!" "Don't you dumbfucks see they have allegiances elsewhere???!!!"
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With an overreaching and immensely powerful federal government, an unrestricted and brutal police force designed to trample citizens' rights to protect that corrupt government, and a benign and pacified citizenry who are indifferent to the corrupt police state they live in as long as their level of comfort is not interfered with, what would our founding fathers think of what has become of their grand experiment of liberty? Not only have we lost sight of the importance and necessity of personal and collective liberty, but we have also become willing slaves to the mechanism that has put us in shackles by bribing us with empty promises of security and comfort. This country needs a reset to return it to what it once was. This is why the concept of an armed citizenry is so uncomfortable to those in power, and if we continue along the apathetic and powerless road we have been traveling down, those in power will get exactly what they want. If liberty and freedom from an oppressive government is not our first priority, then we are doomed to remain slaves to that government.
 Quoting: Rising Son


They would marvel that the US is one of the best places to live; that it is still the land of opportunity; that people are literally dying to get in; that we have one of the best Justice system's in the world; the list goes on. You don't like here? Then GET OUT!
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They'd point and laugh, call us all pussies and vanish back into the ether. Why stay?
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Actually had a dream about George Washington. He was the General of an army, American continentals, he and they wore the old uniforms the whole thing. There was a war in the US, all around was modern warfare etc, and than there was the small battered continental army- suffice to say i think he would perceive the current US not the country he founded, and that the remains of what it was is quite under attack. The Americans that followed his command where quite loyal- even though they where not as well equipped to what was out there. This dream occurred in 2007 before I became aware of Ron Paul, found out RP after this dream!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56131215


You should read the prophecies of Washington re: a future invasion of the USA. Chuck Youngbrandt has similar visions.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58981445


Funny you should mention that, because in 2010, I dreamed about him again, here is the link to the thread I posted;
Thread: Just a bad dream?


I am the OP of that thread, there he mentions that the U.S. is to be invaded, and the American empire will come to an end.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56131215

Well, good riddance to the empire. Why should we waste our money and sacrifice our troops for a bunch of hostile, ungrateful foreigners?

But Washington, YOungbrandt, Sarah Hoffmann, and other visionaries agree on one thing: we WIN the Red Dawn war -- after a multi-year occupation, our guerillas defeat the invaders and restore American freedom. Which is all I really want on this earth....
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Most of the more masonic "fathers" would probably be please with the progress of the great plan.
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The solution to this mess is not an easy one, and it would have very little support from most Americans who don't want to part from their insulated, comfortable lives. Most people would not want to risk life and limb at the risk of sacrificing their Starbucks fed, comfy lives. They are content to give up their personal liberties as long as they can continue to live comfortably in their ignorance. The truth is that most people would not commit to this cause unless they were tangibly threatened, but for now they don't see that threat as real or legitimate, and the erosion of liberty that goes unchecked in this country is just a defeat of principle to them. It will have to get much, much worse before most Americans would be willing to commit, and by then - it will already be too late. I fear that what this country has become was always the inevitable outcome, that we have become the very thing our forefathers fought against. I can only hope that when the time comes for the American people to take back control of this country, that we have enough true patriots left to make that happen.
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Much like at the founding I think that ill mannered tyrants despoil the things of true integrity that they have not the vision, passion, nor perseverance to build.

I return now a stranger in a stranger land who can admit no more honest a response to my former country's ruination than woe fading into waking disinterest.

George
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BRAVO! BRAVO!

Well said! TY!
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On the political side, I think they'd be shocked at how limp-wristed and ineffectual Congress has become over the past generation; ceding more and more of its own powers to the Presidency. I also think they'd be sad to see how the individual states have weakened in comparison to the federal government.

We're pretty much left with the sort of distant, tyrannical, and out-of-control bureaucracy that they violently overthrew since we have neither a Congress or state governments to truly represent us and deal with it.
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You have to remember that the original voting rights were granted to land owners. Most people did not own the land they lived on. In that respect the elite set up the original government to best serve themselves. They just took nobility out of the picture.

The bill of rights came from the many abuses of the old British system. Of course the founding fathers didn't foresee the abuse, corruption and problems with the new system. Basically the setup of the government isn't that different than the United Kingdom. I don't think they expected the courts to update what applies.

Speedy trial is a thing of the past. Guilt in many cases is based on how much money you have. Cruel and unjust punishment has a completely different meaning than 200 years ago. People today aren't the least bit embarrassed by their behavior.

Today we have to legislate morality. Ethics means nothing so people get screwed all over until laws and regulations catch up. Corporate responsibility is held to the corporations and not to the directors.

The states used to have a lot of power. They even controlled the budget. The federal government was not intended to dictate everything state governments do. Today, government in many places is the largest employer. States depend on runaway taxes at their own level and at the federal level. States today are dependent on federal money to remain functional.

I doubt the founding fathers ever dreamed banks would run the entire economy. People used to save money but now that is a joke. Most people don't know how to save money. Banks pay almost nothing for deposits making most of their money from investments and credit card debt.

I doubt the founding fathers ever dreamed of slum cites. I doubt they dreamed of cities where people die every day in senseless murders. I doubt they dreamed of supporting those who don't want to work (I don't mean those unable).

Every government that forgot who they served has failed. If you don't care about the people they will eventually begin to fight back. Most people don't know the American revolution was about taxation without representation. It was about the House of Commons refusing to grant seats for the colonies while legislating unfair tax. We are living in a country today not much different than in old Europe where local governments would rob travelers for the right to entire their cities (called city wage tax now). We live in a country that is not bound by reasonable budgets and continue to borrow into extinction.
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seeing how most of them were free & accepted I would guess they would say:

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What would the Romans think of Italy?
Or the Spartans of Greece?
Persians Iran?
Babylonian Iraq?
Understand?
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What would the Romans think of Italy?
Or the Spartans of Greece?
Persians Iran?
Babylonian Iraq?
Understand?





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