Vote RON PAUL!!!
Good ol' Fox News. Some reporters try to save Fox some face. They have to now for obvious reasons or they come off 100% biased. How can they sell if people know that they are 100% one way?
Even now, Fox News still attempts to say Ron Paul "won't be president". They will keep saying it until the sheep start believing it or the pigs are too distracted to care. It is possible that Ron Paul won't be elected, but it is also possible that 17 out of 18 other candidates won't be elected president either. Ron Paul won't be president if people start believing that he won't be.
Your vote counts and you vote for what you believe in, not for what the media sells to you. Your vote says something and therefore it can not be wasted. Vote for what you think is right, just, and American and its very roots and it will not be wasted.
I had a discussion tonight with some friends and I concluded in my own mind after the subject changed and that one of the major if not the biggest problem in this country is that people would rather talk about something else rather than this fading Republic. On one hand I don't blame them for their lack of apathy because they have become part of the legion of people that think they have to vote for the "lesser of two evils" and they are sick of it so they don't care to vote at all. They would rather talk about the weather, but on the other hand you have people that believe that they have to vote for the "lesser of two evils". So then I ask, Why wouldn't either group think that nothing truly changes in this country while they conform to the system that eats them up!? One group of people perpetuate this illegitimate belief that we can't vote beyond the lesser of two evils, even while some other option is available that is wholeheartedly constitutional and American, while the other group is disgusted and can't vote at all because they don't want to vote for the "lesser of two evils". Where does that put us? It only gives us more of the same and every four years we find ourselves either deciding between the "lesser of two evils" or we don't vote at all. Nothing changes. Nothing changes. Nothing changes. Nothing changes. Hasn't anyone heard of the phrase, "Break out of the Box!"?
Break out of the mold! You obviously do not hold the cast that shaped you to conform to the fences that contain you. Don't stand in one of two lines just to conform to the stockade that loves to taunt you and drive you in.
Break the mold! I sincerely believe that the future Americans envisioned by the founders of this country weren't so easy to taunt and manipulate. Don't take offense. That is just my opinion. Here we are over 200 years after the constitution was drafted and yet, our vision has the eyesight of sheep driven to the slaughter house, or pigs that binge on the trough directly in front of them and kneel to the farmhand whose sole job is to provide us slop.
When will we learn that we the people OWN THE FARM. WE THE PEOPLE force the candidates to conform to OUR constitutional beliefs and not us to their views or the media manipulation or special interest endpoints, endgame, or profit margins?
We need to stop thinking that we have to choose the path of the sheep or the pig or nothing and start believing again that we OWN THE FARM.
I challenge everyone I email to read the Declaration of Independence. Even if you have read it before. Search google "Declaration of Independence" , Sit down and read it, Study why it was written and what drove men without a country to write a document that would raise up men to fight for what would become a republic. Then contemplate, what did they fight to become free and what were they subjected to versus what they gained by risking their own wealth and lives? Then contemplate the constitution that was written that concluded that we should live free to do what we please and enjoy our lives freely and peacefully with one another and without intrusion. It is a short and a rather simple document, but it was the document that established the greatest Republic to ever exist in the history of the world. Then contemplate how far we have back-pedaled against the grain of what they risked their lives for. The free people that wrote that document did not sit down to watch the news at night. They were the news. They did not answer to anyone, just themselves, they did not fight for anyone else's freedom but their own, which paved the way for generation upon generation upon generation to inherit and "keep" what they envisioned for each of us. The founders were brilliant, learned, well read, experience filled and articulate. Yet, our own vision is perceived through a box we sit down in front of night after night after night when all we need to do is refer to the constitution and our declaration to understand what course of action we need to take. The box in front of us with shiny flashing lights and colors is far from perfect. It is not absolute. The words spewing from biased news voices on "the tube" were not drawn from men who risked their lives, their families, their wealth, and their freedom. They are words of men who are a part of system governed by wealth with little risk. I suppose I shouldn't say "little risk". The one "little risk" they take is to stumble upon viewers who choose to turn them off, turn to the words of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and who start to wonder what founded this country. What tyranny and injustice did the founders of this country face that was to such an extent that cornered them to a belief that either they fought for freedom, justice, peace, and prosperity or they fought for nothing, because they may as well not have anything, because they in essence had nothing without freedom?!
It is boggling. It is absolutely mind numbing that we live in an age, when our country has become the very entity that our founders fought against; an empire. a greedy, militaristic, tax craving, war mongering, discriminating empire. I do not speak of the people of this country or even the soldiers that fight for what their country (numbingly) asks, but those farmhands in power who have driven us behind fences. Those farmhands that slop down a handout to keep us satisfied or who draw us into a state of security to only drive us through the stockade as sheep searching for comfort of boundaries and confines that grow ever so tighter until we are lamb chops.
So, I am tired of hearing people say that they don't vote because they refuse to vote for the "lesser of two evils". My simple answer to them is "great! don't vote for the lesser of two evils, simply vote for a person who reflects our constitution and who desires peace, prosperity and freedom for all while he can ARTICULATE to us how that is possible-through our constitution". I am also tired of the people who say, "I can't vote for him because the farmhand only gives me two choices, the slaughterhouse or the slop trough". My answer to them is to accept neither and take back the farm!
In my opinion, it isn't so complicated. Our founders made it easy for us. They wrote a universal and simple Declaration of Independence and then they wrote a simple and yet encompassing Bill of Rights (our original constitution) that is the essence to everything that has provided us freedom, prosperity, and peace (when it hasn't been hijacked from us). It is our willingness to accept the one of two lines or no line at all that has lead us to a road of lameness or bitter end or apathy and it is only our willingness to dust off our founding documents that will allow us to perhaps see that we do in fact own the farm. We own the Title! The Deed! The Estate! We are the overseers and it is the representatives and leaders that we elect that are the workhorses. It is their task to answer to us through our constitution, while we protect our freedom, prosperity, and peace, by living our days free, peaceful, while pursuing whatever makes us happy.
Our country's situation will only get worse if we don't make the right choice. Read the Declaration and Constitution. Things get simple that way and if we're lucky we can peer into the hearts and minds of the founders who were brave enough to defeat an empire that was greedy, militaristic, tax craving, war mongering, and discriminating.
History repeats itself. Will we be on the side of the falling empire, or the side of the people that rose up and fought for peace, freedom, and prosperity for all? (If we follow the examples of our founders we should understand that we do this within our own country and not within the borders of other countries)
Our country is a "baby" in the world. Just over 200 years old is less than a blink of an eye by the standards of written history. We are not infallable, nor do we know what is best for the world. It is obvious that we don't know what is best for ourselves when we are so willing to trade the farm in exchange for stockades and troughs. I have a bit of hope that things will change and the sooner they change, then perhaps we all will be able to brag to our grandchildren or great grandchildren that we were among the many who fought back and restored our republic. Perhaps we can look a grandchild or great grandchild in the eye one day and say that our founders weren't the only ones who had the courage to stand up for what they believed in. Perhaps we can restate in clear terms that "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance". Freedom isn't guaranteed. It is not an entitlement. It is fought for and then it is fought for eternally.
Will our children inherit a world where they believe that they have the choice of one of two lines or no lines at all? Will we leave them with the options of the trough or the slaughterhouse? Or will we pass on a truth that they inherit this country and all of its freedom, peace, and prosperity?
"Sheep, pig, or the rightful and right filled owner?" That will be my eternal question to those who tell me that they have to vote for the "lesser of two evils" or that they refuse to vote because they believe that can't vote beyond the "lesser of two evils". If they choose between these "options" then, nothing changes, nothing changes, nothing changes, and nothing changes. Glorious will be the day that Americans decide again to elect someone who is not of the cast. Someone who breaks from the mold and gives them hope that they can break from the mold too. Someone that can get the country moving toward a point where grandfathers and grandmothers can say, "I did something that the founders of this country would be proud of, I voted for the constitution of all things, I voted for peace, freedom, and prosperity, I voted for your future, and I voted for my country".
It has a nice ring to it, much better than the news box with flashing lights and colors that spews and sells and numbs us into submission.
Sincerely
JM
