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Let my people go [UPDATED]
Published 9:28am Friday, October 26, 2012 Updated 11:39am Friday, October 26, 2012Many say that the upcoming elections look more like wars than political contests. The resemblance to war goes beyond the usual conflicts between two opposing political interests: the taxpayers of the Republican party and the tax consumers catered to by the Democrats.
But, taxpayers in or out of the GOP are working to defeat a president who preaches redistribution, which is a word that means taking from me and my family to buy votes from his welfare-dependent supporters.
These past four years have seen grueling and stinging times which have taught America’s working peoples, from farmers to retail clerks, to factory workers and brain surgeons, what it feels like to
be a subjugated people crying out to our Pharoah Obama, “let my people go”.
Of course, the people who benefit from the system, such as people in public housing or on food stamps, public school teachers and social workers, and government bureaucrats, are equally apprehensive about the possibility that the current president might be replaced by a person who might even think about slowing the rate of spending money on themselves.
Western civilizations offer many examples of democratic republics deteriorating to dictatorial monarchies over centuries of their existence.
But we in America seem to be an impatient bunch who have speeded up the schedule. Our ancestors freed themselves from British rule in 1776, and then, in less than two centuries, made Franklin
Roosevelt dictator-for-life. And all too many are content to grovel and cower at the feet of Roosevelt’s current incompetent successor.
A wise man said that liberty is only for the free, it cannot be given to slaves, and if someone has to be liberated by another person, he becomes the slave of the liberator.
We can liberate ourselves by casting out Barack Obama, his minions and fellow Democrats, on November 6th, then get about the business of working ourselves out of the wreckage caused by Obama and his secular utopians.
Bill Schulz
Fergus Falls
If William Schulz wishes to equate his republican fellow travelers with the children of Israel, he can do so. However, his hyperbole makes him neither credible nor wise.
Bill would do well to remember in the Exodus myth that when the real Pharaoh let the children of Israel go, they wandered aimlessly for 40 years, eventually succumbing to their republican instincts to worship Gold, their real god.
To me the choice is simple, stick with what’s working or get in with the “in crowd” and let William Schulz lead you aimlessly for 40 years. Who knows it might be fun, wandering around, eating stuff that fell from the sky, listening to Bill tell some whoppers to scare the bejabbers out of you every time you start to think for yourself and in the end you’re still stuck in a desert.
One last thing, for you people who aren’t 97 years old, the next time you see William Schulz and his groupies pacing the parking lot at Wal-Mart, you might ask him this simple question, “If Franklin Roosevelt was a dictator for life, how is it that the Supreme Court overruled him several times?” Once you realize that Bill was just pulling your leg on that one, you might ask yourself what other truths he took liberties with.
The Supreme Court declared Roosevelt’s power grabs unconstitutional, until Roosevelt threatened to add judges to the supreme court that would vote his way. The court then acquiesced. The dictator died in office a few years later.
Due to Roosevelt’s actions, congress passed term limits on the presidency. Previous presidents resigned after 2 terms to prevent such an aberration.
Jeez Bill, for a wanna-be intellectual, I’d have thought you’d present more than the hyperbolic rhetoric of the far right radicals, fundamentalists and fascists of your party. You haven’t presented anything close to evidence for the beliefs you present as facts – just a stream of consciousness from a narrow mind.
Even your main “theme” isn’t plausible, it seems that most of the time people are talking about immigration, so there’s no one stopping you from leaving. That’s why your analogy is ridiculously dumb. If you really want to go, there’s no one stopping you. You could move to Iran, for example. Just substitute “Islam” for “Christian” and you’ll fit right in with that group.
No less absurd is the “dictator for life” line, following your line of reasoning, William Henry Harrison, Zack Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Warren Harding and John Kennedy (in addition to FDR) are all “dictators for life” – since they all died in office, but clearly that’s pretty silly.
So given your (self-proclaimed – and undoubtedly revisionist) knowledge of history, why don’t you tell us about the democracies that have “deteriorated into dictatorial monarchies” over the centuries? Specifically, which democracies have become “new kingdoms” and established a monarchy? And if you can find one that isn’t the result of a military or religious coup, what led up to this transition?
Phaedrus, are you unaware Roosevelt died in his fourth term in office?
Yes Swede, I did know that, but I also know that it is irrelevant. The only way “X-for-life” makes any sense is if they died while currently holding the office. So, when Bill refers to “Roosevelt’s current incompetent successor” he means to imply that Obama is “dictator for life” (on Oct. 18th he actually called Obama “Supreme Leader for Life”). However, since Obama is still alive, that attribution is necessarily false. So my other point is that, like the “boy who cried wolf,” if someone is continuously producing claims that are demonstrably false (as Bill is wont to do), only a fool would believe anything said by someone with such a weak, nebulous passing acquaintance with the truth.
M. Van Horn, I thought my point was fairly simple. William Schulz says that Roosevelt was a dictator. Dictators do not get overruled by courts, therefore FDR was not a dictator and Bill Schulz was wrong again.
Some of you constitutional scholars on the right may have missed this salient point about FDR also, the American people elected Franklin Roosevelt to office 4 times. Not once did FDR attain the Presidency by force of coup or voter fraud.
So when you or William Schulz says that Franklin Roosevelt was a dictator, it simply means that the speaker is ill-read, ill-schooled and all to eager to prove it.
Curly and Moe, Bill has exposed the fact that FDR was dictatorial , that he used WWII to ram through dictatorial edicts (under guise of executive orders} never before attempted by other wartime presidents.
For the past 70 or so years, FDR has been the patron saint of radical Marxist socialism which has taken control of the democrat party. The mantle of prosecutor of class warfare has been passed to the Supreme Leader for Life, B.H. 0bama (Bill isn’t the only one who sees 0bama as Supreme Leader for Life, the phrase is used by millions of people, both his detractors and supporters) and B.H.0. is vigorously waging the war to wreck America and turn her into just another third world dictatorship.
He must feel grateful to count two supporters as loyal as yourselves among his army.
Yes Camilla, his exposé was worthy of repetition on 60 Minutes. I’ll call CBS first thing in the morning. We can not let this new found evidence be swept under the carpet of history.
While I’m working on the CBS angle, you should get Bill to point his Sherlock Holms instincts on the trail of Judge Crater, Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa. I’ll sleep better tonight knowing that Bill is on the case.
Camo – I hope you don’t plan on referring to yourself as an “adult” anytime in the near future – you’re so tiresome.
If your definition is “ram through dictatorial edicts (under guise of executive orders} never before attempted by other wartime presidents.”, then you’ve already defined George W. Bush as a dictator (and probably every dictator that has been president when a new technology was introduced). What purpose does it serve to say that we elect a dictator (rather than president) every 4 years, since you seem to be using the terms interchangeably.
If millions of people are using the term, that’s a pretty sad commentary on the state of things. People going around mumbling gibberish thinking it’s significant in some way. And if you have so little respect for the office of the President, you probably shouldn’t call yourself a patriot either.
Forgot to refer to Bill’s allusion to secular utopians.
There is a new word to define 0bama’s version of the socialist utopia of the proletariat.
DYSTOPIA
Oh – that’s right, Camo Queen wields the power to redefine words arbitrarily to mean whatever she says they mean (and that’s really helpful for someone who’s willing to say anything to further an ideology).
The right wing “utopia” starts with company housing, a company store and the return of Robber Barons. The first thing you have to do is get rid of the social safety net and outlaw contraception.
Have you seen the Republican platform? It’s a position says that if you want to try in vitro fertilization, they would make it illegal. However, if a woman were to “magically” get pregnant from a rape (because it’s would be their fault for not “shutting the whole thing down”), then they must carry that to term. I guess that’s consistent with conservative medieval and magical thinking though. They’d have to believe that the rules for Monopoly would be a good economic policy, since they’d be starting the game with the equivalent of two banks while you’re starting with $1500. This seems to be particularly true for those trying to buy the election for Romney – they are, after all, “better than you” (because they have more money), and money is the measure of everything. The more money you have, the smarter you are (see Paris Hilton). The collectivist herd known as conservatives has spoken and they can’t say anything but the truth (just ask them, they’ll tell you), but remember we’re not talking about the “old” definition of truth, it’s been redefined to mean “whatever is said by conservatives, even, or may especially, those things that contradict each other.”
Moe, you must be under a lot of pressure due to the prospect that it appears that your Supreme Leader B.H. 0bama may be collecting an unemployment check after next January. Why else would you speak of Paris Hilton in a disparaging manner? Have you forgotten that she is the darling of Hollywood liberal Democrats for her flair and panache in flaunting moral codes in her sexual promiscuity and drug use? She is one of the leading lights and examplars of amoral behaviors which define the “liberated” socialist credo of the democratic party.
The P.C. gods will not be pleased with your choice of Paris Hilton here. They are counting on her to promote their champion, Barack H. 0bama. You better make haste to apologize to Paris.
Hey Phaedrus, I think you’re on to something. Many times in my life I have observed that those who scream the loudest and protest when others are calm are hiding the most. Evidence? We don’t need no stinking evidence. After all, when has Camillabill ever needed evidence, Bill Schulz certainly never used it and that other dude, the one that flips out every other day thinks evidence is something they use in an Auto body repair shop. A good example is all those republican congress members who said one thing loudly on the House floor and practiced something entirely different in the seedy motels of Arlington and Bethesda, not to mention the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. I wonder if Holly has anything to say on this subject?
Anthony Weiner, D N.Y. ?
William J. Clinton (Monica Lewinsky) ?
Hey Camillabill, Weiner and a girl. Clinton and a girl…I thought that was the kind of sex you were in favor of. Admit it Camillabill, you would have been much happier if it had been Weiner and Bob or Bill and Steve.
Here’s the difference Camillabill. Neither Clinton nor Weiner ever stood on the House floor or anywhere else and berated others for their sexual proclivities. Your guys, on the other hand nary let a minute slip by without telling everyone what pious Christians they were and how everyone should try to follow their Christian rules. Phonies!
Eliot Spitzer, AKA “client number 9″. Former Attorney General of NY (Democrat, of course) famous for busting up vice and prostitution rings, demanding maximum sentences during the tials of those he busted. And the cutie he was caught with, who rented herself to him several times at $5,000 per night, plus first class airfare from NYC to Washington, DC. Wasn’t he also Governor of NY when busted, succeeded after his resignation by a blind lieutenant gov?
Once again Camillabill, you just don’t get it, your hypocrisy is showing (again). Perhaps you could cite or produce a video of Elliot Spitzer professing to be some great christian or foisting his high principals or beliefs on other people.