I Pledge Allegiance to the CONSTITUTION of the United States And to the Republic Which It Created; One Nation, Under God, Divisible If Need Be, With Liberty And Justice For All
That's how Francis Bellamy, the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, would have phrased it if he hadn't been a socialist but a true patriot. It would have served our school children and public officials every day far better by reminding them what their true allegiance must go to. Substance over symbol!
The way things stand, a public official's oath of office is a one-time shot in the dark, as soon forgotten (to most) as it is made. If every public occasion started out with this pledge instead of the one to the flag, we may live in a better, freer country today.
Rick Perry proudly hijacked Texas State Rep Brandon Creighton's 10th Amendment Sovereignty Resolution yesterday and displayed it all on the press page of his official website.
Did Perry have a sudden change of heart?
Looks more like a change of tune. He has learned to whistle this new tune by joining his sovereignty-destroying neocon brethren, formerly in power across the US but now relegated to Obama snipers, in hitching a ride on the Ron Paul wagon.
One does not have to go far to see the real Rick Perry in action. All it took was a Google News search of his name in quotation marks, and this article popped up: "TexGovPerry'sCampTrying to Hide Source of Last-Minute $1M Donation". Apparently, Perry's real MO is decrying something supposedly shady his political opponent is doing and then doing the same thing himself.
Ever the consummate politician, Perry has now joined the Ron Paul revolution, it would seem, from his mouthing off how much "we talk about the Texas Constitution here in Austin, but now it's time to talk about the US Constitution, too." Yeah, right. I've never heard Perry utter the word "Constitution" in public. Have you?
I'm afraid if Rick Perry was forced to walk his talk, he would be torn into pieces as his mouth would be going one way while his legs would try take him the other way. How comforting for Perry that such is not (yet) a requirement for a political career in America. If Americans (and particularly Texan-Americans) were smart, however, they would make it so.
One way of accomplishing that would be to elect Debra Medina as Texas governor. She already fulfills that requirement. Always has.
GLENN BECK, HOST: OK. There is California. Let's try this one. Mexico is the 12th largest economy and second largest trading partner with the U.S. And I don't know if you have noticed this. Grab a fire extinguisher. It's on fire. Close to 6,000 people were killed by rival drug gangs which is twice as many as in 2007. Texas is terrified that the violence is going to spill over the border.
In a minute, I will explain how the whole world is going to change if Mexico collapses. The number one place for kidnappings is Mexico City. Who do you think number two is for kidnapping? You know, I was thinking Bogota, Columbia. Maybe some place in Somalia.
Well, close. It is Phoenix, Arizona where there were almost 400 reported kidnappings last year and many more went unreported.
Excuse me? John McCain was on the campaign trail for how many months, and we never heard about this and it's happening in his backyard? No one is talking about it, because it's not in anybody's best interest, you know, except yours and mine.
SEN. DAN PATRICK (R), TEXAS STATE SENATOR: Hi, Glenn. Thank you for your passion on everything. It comes through.
BECK: I have been, and I know you have been, too - talking about the border, not because ...
PATRICK: Yes.
BECK: ... much to many people's chagrin here in America that I don't hate Mexicans. I don't hate people who are different than me. Almost everybody on the planet is different than me. I mean, look at me.
PATRICK: Right.
BECK: The problem is this is a dangerous situation. People feel disenfranchised. Mexico is on the verge of collapse. You've got massive murder problems and drug problems. What are you are guys worried about? And how are you preparing in Texas for a possible push into America from people just fleeing a drug state?
PATRICK: Well, Glenn, we had hearings a couple of weeks ago. And I asked our Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw of Texas if he feared the collapse of Mexico and did we have a plan. And he didn't deny the fact that it is a concern.
And since that subcommittee meeting we had a few weeks ago, he has been working with Gov. Perry and I'm meeting with him in a few days, as a matter of fact, to see their progress on developing a plan.
You will love this term, Glenn. The United States has a plan called "mass migration" as opposed to the collapse of Mexico. And we need a plan here in Texas because there are two scenarios, Glenn. One is a slow collapse, an economic collapse of Mexico in which hundreds of thousands would come here over a period of time.
The second is what I call a Colombian collapse of Mexico, an assassination of the president, the drug cartels taking over the country, civil war breaking out on the streets, people fleeing for their lives, not for a job.
We have to be prepared in the United States for both and Texas must be prepared.
BECK: What do you think -
PATRICK: We're already seeing violence on the border, on our side.
BECK: What are you going to do? Violence on the border - nobody even understands this. If I said, America - 20 people were beheaded last year on our border.
PATRICK: Right.
BECK: Would you be amazed? How about if I tell you 20 people were beheaded on our border last month? And nobody knows about it. What are you going to do for these bodies?
PATRICK: Yes, we found 1,000 bodies on the border in our last reporting year, by the way, Glenn. And what we're going to do is - what we need to do is we need the Federal Government to do their job and enforce the border, number one.
BECK: Dan, Dan -
PATRICK: We have 19 border crossings with Mexico. Number two, Texas - we should be calling out our national guard. We should be calling out Texas guard. We should be beefing up our sheriffs on the border. We should be beefing up our Department of Public Safety on the border.
BECK: It would be nice if candy bars came out of my butt, too.
PATRICK: We need to do all of those things and we need to do them now.
BECK: And I can eat all day. But they're not going to come out of my butt. So why are we talking about that? The government is not going to do it.
PATRICK: Glenn - Glenn, it will be done if we have leadership, if we have leadership here in this state and if we have leadership in the country.
BECK: Hang on -
PATRICK: And at some point, leaders will emerge, Glenn.
BECK: Oh, my god. It's a candy bar. It's not going to happen, Dan.
PATRICK: Leaders will emerge, Glenn.
BECK: You know what? I'm going to do this -
PATRICK: It will happen.
BECK: I'm going to do this - I'm going to eat chocolate for the next week, in hopes that I can make candy bars come into my pants. You keep trying to find a leader that is actually going to clean up the border. I bet I make candy bars in my shorts faster than you can find a leader.
PATRICK: And you know what, Glenn? I share your passion on these issues, and it is up to each of us. I have to lead from where I am. I'm not the president and I'm not the governor.
But I'm a state senator who has had enough of this. And I'm going to continue to push this issue by going to the border, by talking to our homeland security director, by talking to our governor and doing everything I can to push the issue.
BECK: Dan -
PATRICK: We all have to do everything we can ...
BECK: I know -
PATRICK: ... whether you're a sheriff on the border or a senator in Austin. And I'm not going to quit, Glenn. It's not an option.
BECK: Dan, look. I'm not taking it out on you.
PATRICK: I'm not going to quit talking about it.
BECK: I know, but there is - you know and I know there is something spoiled down on our border and we are part of it. Our government is part of it. I don't know what it is. You go and try to rat it out. You let me know. I'm going to be here trying to make candy bars in my pants.
PATRICK: I work on it every day, and the answer is not to do nothing. The answer is to continue to talk about it, bring forth a plan and execute that plan ...
BECK: I know.
PATRICK: ... and make America stand up and notice like you have and I have.
BECK: OK. Thanks a lot, Dan.
PATRICK: Thanks, Glenn.
BECK: We'll talk again.
Only a constitutionalGovernor will protect our border!
Debra Medina has just decided to run for Texas governor n 2010.
Many of you will know her as a staunch, committed advocate for the rule of law, the Constitution, and fairness in the deliberative process that makes our country what it is.
She is a long-time GOP county chairman from Wharton County, but she stood up to the entire state party leadership last year at the State Convention in Houston when she was forced to sue them in a court of law because they refused to follow their own rules and state election law.
She was the running mate of Paul Perry at that convention in his bid to gain the state party chairmanship. When she spoke, the leadership cut her microphone off! That's how threatened they felt by her insistence that they should follow their own rules -among other basic considerations of simple fairness. Still, Paul and Debra gained in excess of 30% of the vote.
She has been long time rule-of-law advocate in a world where politicians forget their oath to uphold the Constitution even while they are swearing it. She is what Texas needs in the governor's mansion in order to show our legislators how it's really done in a Constitutional Republic.
To increase the one, you have to limit the other. There's no two ways about it.
If confronted with that choice, which one will you increase??
Naturally, there is only one sane answer. Yet, good, well-meaning, but horribly deceived and misled Americans are constantly choosing government over freedom and prosperity by their daily actions, behaviors - and voting patterns.
Why?
The reason is that nobody is being told that this is what the choice boils down to. The big - and going - lie from the government/corporate establishment is: "Hey, vote for us, and we'll get you freedom and prosperity, too ... uhh, ... eventually, at least ... I think!"
It's the siren song of modern politics, and we are taking it all in as if it was a beautiful symphony. We smoked the establishment's crack and believe we can fly as we jump out of a twntieth-floor window.
All that needs to happen for Americans to find their way again is to make it very clear to them that these two are incompatible. If you increase one, you MUST and WILL limit the other.
Proof:
Freedom has never suffered more than during times when government power increased the most. Bush's legacy is that he literally gutted Lady Liberty, more than any other president in US history, (short of maybe Lincoln, FDR, and Nixon), to the point at which she almost expired.
Her last hope is not Obama, it's YOU.
Obama will absolutely not give up the power Bush has stolen and bequeathed to him; he will only wear a nicer smile as he cuts her heart out as well.
What will you do?
Will you finally take the shackles off of Lady Liberty and put them on your government, or will you stand by as she finally bleeds to death while she lies handcuffed on the floor, holding her spilling bowels in her hands?
The really good news is that you absolutely CAN do it. It WILL work.
The (sort of) bad news is that, in order for it to work, you have to actually DO it.
Talking about it isn't going to work.
Holding meetings about it isn't going to work.
Only DOING it will work - and only YOU can make it work.
And that's how we come full circle. The "bad" news becomes good news because this means that it is absolutely and undeniably within your power to do it and to succeed.
So, do you really want to be free - or are you just playing?
As I said in the last post - yes, we the people really ARE out to lunch.
We give Congress a popular approval rating of 8 percent - and then proceed to re-elect 97 percent of them! Now, they pay us back for our stupidity by raising their own pay - for superior performance, I suppose.
It's like giving a guy off the street your car keys, paying him to take you home - and then giving him a pay raise when he takes you where he wants to go, instead. Then, give him the keys to your house as well and pay him rent to live in your own house. If you do that, you have just become the quintessential American voter.
Just read this:
"A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it."(Read more ...)
That's the problem with "watchdog groups" - they watch too much and do too little.
Our politicians are laughing at us - and rightly so. As long as we continue to vote the way we do, we deserve to be laughed at and ignored.
The bottom line: You can either continue as you did before, whatever that was - or join the Lunch Mob Revolution.
