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11-17-2011, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by chachacha
Is there a British dream? think about it....why is there an American Dream??? ....... our entire greatness comes from the belief that all men had unalienable rights given by their CREATOR!!! without this foundation, without a moral people, our great republic cannot stand...
and yet we move further and further away from dependence on our Creator and on our friends and neighbors, as it should be, to dependence on our new god, the government....will we be so foolish as to let our American Dream die an ignoble death at the hands of corrupt politicians? the world is waiting...if our dream dies, so will the dream of freedom for all mankind.
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The best explanation of this war against the inalienable rights given to us by our Creator is in Mark Levin's book, "Liberty and Tyranny":
"For the Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way. The individual must be dehumanized and his nature delegitimized.
Through persuasion, deception and coercion, the individual must be subordinated to the state. He must abandon his own ambitions for the ambitions of the state. He must become reliant on and fearful of the state. His first duty must be to the state--not family, community, and faith, all of which have the potential of threatening the state. Once dispirited, the individual can be molded by the state.
The Statist's Utopia can take many forms, and has throughout human history, including monarchism, feudalism, militarism, fascism, communism, national socialism, and economic socialism. They are all the same species--tyranny. The primary principle around which the Statist organizes can be summed up in a single word--equality.
Equality as understood by the Founders is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated impartially before a just law. Moreover, equality should not be confused with perfection, for man is also imperfect, making his application of equality even in the most just society, imperfect. .......
...The Statist, however, misuses equality to pursue uniform economic and social outcomes. He must continuously enhance his power at the expense of self-government and violate the individual's property rights at the expense of individual liberty, for he believes that through persuasion, deception, and coercion he can tame man's natural state and man's perfection can, therefore, be achieved in Utopia. The Statist must claim the power to make that which is unequal equal and that which is imperfect perfect. This is the hope the Statist offers, if only the individual surrenders himself to the all-powerful state. Only then can the impossible be made possible.
President Barack Obama made this point when lecturing the Wesleyan University graduating class of 2008 during his campaign: "Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation."
But salvation is not government's to give....."
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