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    "Citizens" and government

    Like all of you, I am a citizen of this country. That is no little honor. Men have fought revolutions and died to be called "citizens". And, as a citizen, we carry we carry a burning responsibility. It means when we elect men to public office, we cannot do it as lightly as we flip a coin. It means that, after we've elected them, we can't sit back and say "Our job is done. What they do now does not concern us." That philosophy of indifference is what the enemies of decent government want. If we allow them to have their way to grow strong and vicious, then their heroic struggle, which welded thousands of lovely towns into a great nation, means nothing. Then, we are NOT citizens, we're traitors. The great liberties by which we live have been bought with blood.
    The kind of government we want, government of the People, by the People, and for the People, can mean any kind of government. It is our duty to make it mean only one kind, uncorrupted, free, united.

    ~ ~ speech by Frank Morgan, playing S.C. Justice John Josephus Grant in the 1943 movie "A Stranger in Town"
    An interesting speeh from an old movie. Comments?
    “I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American’s guarantee of freedom.” - - President Harry S. Truman, “Years of Trial and Hope”

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    Wouldn't that be nice, a government uncorrupted and united.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imanaknut View Post
    Wouldn't that be nice, a government uncorrupted and united.
    Be careful there a United government would be the most efficient to oppress us and turn us back into serfs

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    They don't teach Civics in school anymore so a growing number of people don't know what it is to be a citizen, unless it all the free stuff and rights you're supposed to get; the Right to healthcare, the Right to housing, the Right to other peoples money, the Right to burn shit down when you're pissed off, the Right to get out of jail free (and collect $200) and most important, the Right to take other peoples Rights away if they piss you off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NAPOTS View Post
    Be careful there a United government would be the most efficient to oppress us and turn us back into serfs
    And that plays to the first part of the second amendment. Being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Unfortunately we have let the government get too powerful, and once someone feels power it is hard to take it away from them.

    Still, I read united in making constitutional laws. If not, see the second amendment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imanaknut View Post
    And that plays to the first part of the second amendment. Being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Unfortunately we have let the government get too powerful, and once someone feels power it is hard to take it away from them.

    Still, I read united in making constitutional laws. If not, see the second amendment.
    Well put !
    “I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American’s guarantee of freedom.” - - President Harry S. Truman, “Years of Trial and Hope”

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