“Unfortunately, as much as it pains me to admit it, the U.S. people want a nanny state. They want their every need and want satisfied and they want the federal government to do it. They want the government to tax the rich in order to give them luxuries that they can neither afford or care to work for.

The people spoke last November loud and clear and they knowingly or not, voted for a socialist nanny state to assume control over every aspect of their lives. The tyranny of the majority is alive an well and short of revolution, there is very little we can do about it. While our democratic process affords us with the opportunity to peacefully overthrow our government, it also allows for the slow decaying creep of socialism to entrench itself in the minds of those who are willing to give up liberty for comfort.”

Soldiers and police are trained to be on “hyperalert” and take “cues” from their surroundings in order to survive. The “cue” I’ve seen are women crying at town meetings, becoming more politically active, scared to death of what is to become of their country and the futures of their children. The women and more specifically the mothers are the red flags that we should watch. Polls, economic numbers, political and economic trends, MSM editorials, the musingsof Washington beltway thinkers, strategists, and those making a living from the current status quo should be irrelevent. The women, their mothers’ senses are telling them something is terribly wrong, is threatening their children, their “mother’s intuition” and their inate sense and instinct to protect their “cubs” and family has been alerted and we should not ignore it. In fact what we should do is exactly what we’re doing. I’m not ashamed to admit that my entire “being” is molded, shaped, and dedicated to protecting women, mothers, their children, and what they want or need me to do to help them. I could care less what others may think of that.

Frankly, I thought the Oathkeepers are suppose to respect the rights of people, but you are giving us the same BS as Bush and Obama. Go get a job. Besides, why are suddenly the Oathkeepers running for the office when we have good men with better intentions than yours and years of experience. Oathkeepers are for the Military and law enforcement to avoid orders from corrupt politicians. You are screaming corruption with that health care lobby talk. Do you think everyone in this country is as ignorant as you are? If you are such a patriot, why didn’t you ask the politician in Olympia Washington, what did he do for Washington’s daughter “Rachel Corrie”? Yes the one that Israeli’s bulldozed. The one that gave her life in the name of humanity. Did you ask the politician what did he do to bring justice to her murderers? Did you ask him why is he friendly to the same people that on June 8, 1967 attacked USS Liberty and killed 34 Americans and left 134 wounded? No, because you are serving the same lobbyist. You are serving Fox News and remember Fox is a foreign installment to derail Americans bey creating factions. A divided country is a weak and loosing nation. You are bad news.

The people spoke last November loud and clear and they knowingly or not, voted for a socialist nanny state to assume control over every aspect of their lives. The tyranny of the majority is alive an well and short of revolution, there is very little we can do about it. While our democratic process affords us with the opportunity to peacefully overthrow our government, it also allows for the slow decaying creep of socialism to entrench itself in the minds of those who are willing to give up liberty for comfort.

I agree with everything you say. I think my previous post to yours complements what you say. But I want to point out your statement “Little did they know that our politicians would literally tie everything to their power to control commerce.”

The reason they were able to tie everything to their power was the People themselves were weak. As Jesus said, the spirit is stong but the flesh is weak. So too our weakness to truly stand up and fight for what is right. So many stand on the side lines and are unwilling to act. We will sit at home and complain to our spouse or around a beer with our friends, but there is no real effort by most to make a change for the better. And so it gets worse. A little bit worse with each generation. And as we all know, the integrity of our government is like eating and drinking. You do not eat or drink once and expect to live forever. Similarly, the integrity of our government will not stand if we do remain vigilant. Constent vigilance. Year after year. Generation after generation. Even the small changes should have been fought tooth and nail with real threats to the legislators – in particular the ONE single largest threat of corporate elite lobbies paying off congressmen. And the second one – placement of congress people in high paying positions in these corporations after their terms. Both are payoffs for doing the ill will of the corporate elite. We ALL know that money corrupts. Christianity taught us that we need each other to keep each other honest. Certainly, some could point out that that is not true of our churches (certainly not true of many in our government who claim to be Christian) but clearly this keeping each other honest IS still the truth of MOST of our churches. Most churches are still ethical and moral. Today, the culture of Congress is largely one of a black church of satan where this accountability is no longer upheld. Many even use Christianity as a cover for their evil deeds. But actions speak louder than words. Or put another way, you will know them by their works (rather than their words). One either serves God or money/greed (mammon) and clearly the majority of our Congress is composed of the later (on both sides of the aisle). It is this Christian integrity that needs to be restored… or alternatively the states succeeding from the Union and forming a more perfect one based on the original intent of the Constitution. Therein we will find our next revolution in this country.

Ken Boettger
Ellensburg, WA

The constitution is written in very simple language that even a fourth grade school kid can read and understand. It was not written for just judges and attorney’s it was written for the people in language everyone could read and understand. Judges , lawyers and politicians are the ones who find a way to twist it’s meaning and misquote the language. Ask yourself how could four people who are smart enough to be on the US supreme court claim that the second amendment does not give American citizens the right to keep and bear arms. The town idiot could read the 2nd amendment and understand that it gives the people the right to keep and bear arms..

Our Fore Fathers gave us the Constitution. It also INTENTIONALLY gave us our GOVERNMENT. It was an integral part to work with the Constitution.

A sword can be used for good or evil. The government was meant to be a sword. Here there are proper thinking Congress people that the sword should be used to create a public health care option to give competition to the private health care industry – an industry of elites that most certainly has been screwing us all over.

Under proper leadership (proper leadership is the issue) government was meant as a tool to contain threats to the people… including our own corporations. This was seen in the early 1990’s when we first put controls on corporations. In the last decade we have seen a corrupt congress removing those controls via “deregulation” that has only resulted in larger and few companies – all of which implies an oligarchy in each sector that removes all competition. And thus the decline of our economy and nation. It was well understood by Jefferson, Adams and others that big business begets corruption if left unattended.

With that said, the beast of health care is upon us. The corporate elite are at the heart of this beast. How do you propose we contain that beast? We all know we are being abused by the corporate execs who earn 25 million or more a year only to deny coverage to ourselves and our children when they are dying of cancer. If not a governement plan, how do you propose we address the problem?

You like to stir up dissent, but realize that such is unethical and immoral unless you have a viable alternative to present.

Hendrick, it is apparent you are clueless of the real issues we face in this country. A government plan to bring competition IS THE ONLY OPTION to address the real problem of corporate elitism. If not for our US Post Office, how much do you think you would be paying Federal Express or the other private carriers to deliver you packages and mail. I can assure you, it would be a whole lot more than you are paying now. Government systems can work. But it takes the people to keep their government working ethically. If you have a suggestion of an alternative solution to a public health care option, I would love to hear it. But if it puts the solution in the hands of private industry, it is no solution at all. It has to come from something OTHER than private industry. And the only real entity of power that can fill that role is the People through their GOVERNMENT. And if the government is not working right, we have to make it work right. After all, as I stated at the start, our fore fathers gave us our Constitution AND OUR GOVERNMENT. They were to be taken together. The issue is that EACH generation was to remain vigilant to assure our government did not become corrupt. We have some real fault and work to do there… but the truth is, the governement and a public health care option is the sword necessary to fight the combat against an entirely corrupt and unehtical private health care industry.