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stopped. RKS that time, incoming goods should have gone into Iraq and
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leaders were going about this.It which apparent that they more never
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act ion”. They more never had, nor DO they now, have A CLEARS concept
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countries. There is NO way on earth tons win that. What happens if one
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willing tons pray that incoming goods would emergency react. Our
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I would draw A LINE into the dirt.Politics, religion, anything
Controversial

The second Amendment is a short one, but it is absolutely essential.

Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Many legal scholars and politicians disagree, however, I see this paragraph as covering different things. The is the well regulated militia which is necessary to the security of a free state. It also says to me that the right of the people to keep and bear arms will not be infringed.
I divide that for these reasons. If you like history, like I do, and you read a lot about our forefathers and our country, you will realize that what they intended is exactly what they wrote. Back during their time, everyone was armed. They were armed for protection from criminals, and from the English, and for food.
They warn us time and again about the government and the dangers of big government. Their are so many of them saying that government must be controlled. One way, is to insure that the citizens are armed.
Why would they take the guns? The only two groups of people using guns are criminals who do not care about law, and legal citizens. It would solve nothing except leave the criminals with the guns and make the citizen defenselss from the criminals and government.
I am getting older. I am almost 58. I refuse to give up any rights. When I went to war, they told me that it was for freedom and democracy. I will not give up any rights now just because some senile old man named lieberman or that broad collins wants to increase their “control”.

I have been reading about S.1959, popularly known as the thought crime bill, but named by the submitters as the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007″. From what I can see from the bill, I do not like it, nor do I believe it is constitutional. I also believe it is completely unAmerican. Anyone signing this bill or even not apposing it cares nothing about the citizens of the U.S. All you people in the government structure took an oath to defend the Constitution. I fully expect you to do so. Please protect my country. Please do not let the radicalized politicians that just want more power and countrol destroy America. Furthermore, I do not believe that the politically correct way of looking for radical muslims will ever work. No one wants to admit that the philosophy of islam and our way of life is not compatible in any way. There are no moderates.
Why would I throw that in there about muslims? If you look up Sen Joe Lieberman and Sen M. Collins you will see why. This bill was submitted by Collins, then it was sent onto Homeland Security Committee for evaluation. By the way, Lieberman and Collins are the two running the homeland security committee. So obviously, they will amend it to their wants, but they will approve and support it. Muslims come into it because on liebermans’ web page he talks about “radicalized muslim terrorists”, and how to find and stop them. So by the names they are using, it appears to me that they are using the terrorist problem as an excuse to control American citizens. This is their solution, however, any attack on the Constitution is an attack on all of us. This is definitely an attack on our constitution.
What can we do about this? Not a hell of a lot. I wrote Lieberman and Collins. They probably will not listen, because they know they are right and I am just a citizen. I also wrote my own congressman and senators about this.
If I read the ideas in S.1959 correctly, by emailing these people and telling them I do not approve or like it, then I am obviously a radicalized voter and should be watched. That is what they want. They want the power to watch and stop anyone that disagrees with the government. Hmmmmm, next month the Supreme Court decides whether the 2nd Amendment applies to the normal citizen or not. Here is what I am starting to think. They will decide that the 2nd amendment does not apply. At that point there will be a major push to disarm citizens. If you do not give them up, you go to jail? Possibly. After that, with unarmed citizens, they will be able to do what they want.
Paranoid? Conspiracy? Hey, just because I am paranoid does not mean they are not after me.
HA, HA
You know, our forefathers warned us about this very thing multiple times. But no one wants to believe it could happen.

Disgusting isn’t it? They have all the money (trillions of dollars in debt but we still supply their pork), they have free lifetime healthcare for themselves, and now they want more control.
Khruschev many years ago said thet “they would bury us from within”. He was wrong in one way. He had nothing to do with it. However, we are being buried from within by our elected party representatives.

I have been wondering for a long time about biofuels. They push that a lot the last year. It is the new road to independence from oil, or so they say. Basically it seems a good idea, but if you think it out maybe it is not such a great idea. Food, we all need it, most of us buy almost all of our food. Just about all of it we import. I love bananas and coffee.
Our small farmers are stuck because the rest of the world is in competition. The large corporate farms also have a problem with this. However, if you grow and sell your crop for biofuels you can make a lot more money and the government will give you a subsidy for that also.
That is a good deal, but what about food? It seems to me, that biofuel production will eventually outstrip food production because it is more profitable. This will not lower fuel costs. Anyone that says that is a liar. I remember many years ago that the government promised cheap electricity to everyone with nuclear plants. That never happened, but we paid.
The same with the biofuels, except for the problem with food.
Even more of it will be imported than before and it will ALL cost a lot more. Since the quantity of it will decrease the cost will increase. There is no way around it. So eventually, everyone except the rich will have to make a choice. Do I feed the kids or pay for heat so they will not freeze?
I know, that sounds silly and could never happen. However, look at what has happened over the last 30 years. Think about it. I may be wrong, but it really needs thought out by us instead of leaving that decision to congress and the corporations.

In our country, different states are arguing about water rights. Corporations and companies use up the water supply and disperse chemicals into it. Farmers need it but they also help destroy it with chemicals. Corporate hog farms dump feces into it.
Our food used to be grown in our own country. Now we import most of it from other countries.
It is the same with other products. We no longer manufacture much of anything of importance. Foreign companies have bought and own most of our plants and operate them but send the money to their country.
Our big companies have moved their plants to other countries to increase their profits. They hire workers very cheap and do not pay any benefits. Then they import these products to our country. Do we see a cheaper price because of this? No, prices never dropped. But corporate earning skyrocketed. They keep increasing the price of these goods, not to compensate for their investments, but to increase their profits and stock increase the value of their stocks. The stock market keeps closing at historical record highs. This benefits the rich, the stockholders, corporations, and foreign investors. However, it is killing the American middle class who have to pay for these profits.
Bush was talking about how good the economy is, how many jobs have been created, and just how hunky dory things are, under his administration.
That is horseshit. We have hungry people in our own country. The rich are richer, but the poor are poorer, and the middle class in struggling to make ends meet while they support the rich.
I am lucky. I work everyday in a profession that I have always loved. I also earn good money; at least to me it is good money. I suppose it would be a joke to some of our politicians. However, I am in debt also and I give up much of it to provide the government their pork and to support these criminals that run things, not to mention all these other countries thatwe bribe.
Recently, bush vetoed a bill to provide healthcare for poor children. Why did he do that? I would be glad that some of the money they steal from me goes to something useful. But immediately after, he promises billions of dollars to Afghanistan.
Our government supports the world. That means that we, the citizen are supporting the world. Bush, congress, corporate America do not support anyone. They take and redistribute. That is all they do.
Food and Water are the great equalizers. Around the world, people in poorer nations realize and fight this problem every day. Some starve and some die of thirst. That is terrible, but it is the way of things. I used to live on Lake Lanier in Georgia in the 1990s. It was very large and very pretty. I loved it. This morning I saw some pictures on TV of it. They are projecting that in 3 months it will be dry. How did that happen?
In the future, I see thirst and hunger spreading worldwide. Hmmm, guess the future is here, we do not see it in America yet as much yet.
What will cause more wars than oil though, is water. Without oil, things would change so drastically; without water, we die quickly.
Most of our food comes from countries that do not have regulations on what is safe or clean. By watching the news you can see that. We cannot control how they produce or store that food. We do have laws regulating imports. But the corporations have convinced the government from holding off on enforcing them. That is not a guess on my part, it is a fact. They are not scheduled for enforcement until next year. What’s with that? I guess that would hurt their pocket book.
I am 57 years old; I survived the 60s, Viet Nam, and my own stupidity. However, I can see that myself and the rest of you will not survive the idiots we have running the government and the corporations that milk us for as much as they thing they can get.
My children and my grandchildren will have to tolerate a level of existence that I never had to experience.
I am sorry kids, I did not know when I was younger, and I do not know what to do now.
All I have is a vote, and that is not enough.

I should not have turned on the news tonight. In Texas, there is a killer of two girls on death row. He is scheduled for execution. The problem some people see is that he is a Mexican illegal alien. The U.N. world court has said that we cannot do this and bush seems to agree and want to follow the ruling of the world court!??
The world court in my opinion has no say about anything in my country. We are a sovereign nation with our own laws. Once we give those up to the world court or any other international body then we are defunct as a nation. We will be just another member of the U.N., when in fact, it would not exist if not for us.
For bush to support this idea is tantamount to treason. I do not mean a hand slapping treason, but the kind of treason that should put him in a noose.
No matter what the liberals and the corporate world want, we are a separate nation. We are not one of their assets.
Over 200 years ago, we fought a war with Britain for our independence. The constitution was conceived under God to protect the citizens of the United States from a tyrannical government that wants to take our rights and dilute what America means. Since then, thousands of Americans have fought and died for this country and to keep us free. Bush slaps the face of every American that was ever born.
At what point and how far will Americans go to take back our country. Our enemy seems not to be overseas. Our most dangerous enemy is in this country.
One thing is for sure. I do not recognize the world court or any other foreign governing body as any kind of regulating agency in my country. I will not give up guns. I will not be “politically correct” because someone gets upset. I will not cow to Islam. I will not give up the America I know, just because some moron in this country or somewhere else believes they can do better.
I took an oath years ago when I went into the army to defend the constitution of the United States from its’ enemies whether foreign or domestic. There was not any length of time for it nor did I ever take an “unoath”. I took that oath just like thousands of other Americans. In fact, congress and the president took similar oaths, obviously, they did not mean it.
We do not control our borders and have no idea who is coming here, in New York they want to give illegal aliens drivers licenses, the state of Kalifornia seems to believe they know better than anyone else in the country by not following the laws. In the news we have people all over the country arguing and marching for their own special ideal. What all these people do not seem to realize is that our contry itself is in jeapardy. Once that is “reshaped” to fit the mold that many other countries and traitors seem to want, then they will not have the right to protest the way they do.

Four Illinois schools are renaming Halloween and Christmass. They are being named Fall Festival and Winter Festival. LOL Stupid people. Evidently, a muslim was told she could not put up ramadan decorations. The superintendant says they have to be “neutral”. But the arabic children are allowed to pray during lunch and different periods through the day. The other children are not allowed to pray.

Today in the mail I had some interesting news. I have been jumping through hoops for quite a while with VA Medical. I applied for disability for some problems. The VA doctor said I was the poster boy for PTSD and would get some kind of disability. After filling out all the paperwork and listing things I did not want to remember, I find out today they have decided that I am not “qualified” for any disability. On one hand, I do not mind not getting the money, but it felt like my time did not count for anything. I put in a claim for ptsd, malaria, knife wounds, peptic ulcers, and an eye injury. Everything healed up ok, I have all my body parts; but for over 30 years I have had nightmares (viet vet). So, in this letter, even though THEIR doctor said I had service connected problems, the VA board that decides this stuff said I did not. It does not matter how much blood I saw, how much screaming I listened to, any wounds I recieved, or how many people I saw die or killed myself. I know they are doing the same thing to the Iraq vets. Not in all cases, but in many. I can submit paperwork to review their decision and I will. I do not have any faith in them though. The people that decide who deserves benefits are the same kind of people that believe we can win these types of wars. Most of their “managers” though, I do not believe ever served.
No, I am not bitter, I am disgusted though.
One piece of advice though for any veterans or family of veterans, while it is fresh in their minds, while they remember exactly who they were with and what days different things happened, the vets need to make a logbook or journal for future reference. It may become very important down the road. If they are still in the service, they have to have everything documented by the military doctors and keep copies!

Give up Your Rights
You know, there are a few things that I have taken for granted most of my life.
One is that my individual freedom was secure by the constitution; another is the fact that if I so wished, I could buy and keep any amount of guns I wanted. I don’t really hunt much anymore, but I do like guns. It makes sense to me that guns do not kill people, people do. So I have never seen a problem with them.
However, I have been hearing about this new bill (HR 2640) that the House of representatives has passed. In effect, it removes the right of many, many veterans to own a gun. That is not how they describe it, but that is the way it will work. To make it even worse, The NRA, an organization that we used to trust to keep watch on 2nd amendment rights, has agreed to and supports it.
Reading about this has incensed me so much I have written the NRA, my senators and a few other senators.
By this bill, anyone that has been diagnosed with PTSD, or born with certain personality problems can not own a gun. They plan to give all the medical records and psychological profiles to the FBI. I supposee they will then decide who is good and who is bad.
Here is the web address to a better description of the new bill.

http://noworldsystem.com/2007/09/26/veterans-disarmament-act-to-bar-vets-from-owning-guns/

After reading this, it makes you wonder a hell of a lot about what is going on. I think problems like PTSD are very common and is caused by many different things other than military action. What about a cop? The police have many personal problems just like the rest of us. Will they take guns away from them because they have been trained and have seen violence? A woman that has been abused by her husband could have it also. Will she be banned?
Maybe their basic idea on this bill initially was a good one. However, they have turned it into a monster that will strip rights away from us, the individual, law-biding, taxpaying, voter.
I have a real problem with this. In my opinion, the government does not have a right to curtail what is guaranteed to me by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. That is the main reason these were written in the first place. They were written to protect the rights of the American Citizen from the government itself. Now they are trying to rewrite it all for the benefit of politicians, government, and their “special purpose” lobbyists.
Maybe Islam and the terrorists are not our real enemy? Maybe it is our own government.
Please read the information at the above link, think about it. By trying to scare everyone with terrorism they started homeland “security”. They took away our privacy, they can now bust into your house without a warrant, and now they want the guns. If they do get all guns, no one will be able to defend the constitution from her enemies at home and within the government. Terrorism comes in different disguises.

I recieved an email with the following opinion. I know I can be as full of crap as anyone else. I know that. But this made me think though, something I do not do enough of probably. lol
The trouble with this email is that I believe the opinion expressed is correct. I do not like Bush or any of those other “leaders” of democracy, but one thing I do believe is that we are in a war, one that cannot be ignored or stopped, or should be stopped. The enemy wants us dead or following mohammad. That is it plain and simple. It is not just a war with terrorists, it is a war with with islam, which I view in the same class as scientology, mormanism, ………… They are dangerous to everyone else though. I just do not like the way it is being done.

Author unknown.
President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq. Bush’s mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father fought for in WWII. It is not. Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression, but they still believed fervently in this country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders,so it was the people’s duty to back those leaders. Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or not. And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is today. Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President because it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their differences in WWII and worked together to win that war. Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort. Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline to soap, to butter was imposed, yet there was very little complaining. You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile countries and complain to them about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops’ morale. And a bunch even enlisted. And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off with a pledge of allegiance, and with prayers for our country and our troops! Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies. A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being “tortured” by being forced to wear women’s underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared by a dog or did not have air conditioning. There were a lot of things different back then. We were not subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of crack heads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets. No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve. It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the land of Oz. We even have the wicked witch of the west as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. We did unite for a short while after 9/11, but our attitude changed when we found out that defending our country would require some sacrifices. We are in great danger. The terrorist are fanatic Muslims. They believe that it is okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that about one third or over three hundred million Muslims are sympathetic to the terrorists cause…Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits.We either win it - or lose it - and you ain’t gonna like losing.