I reflect everyday on the steps that are taken as a nation, and fight the jaded attitude I maintain towards an increasingly corrupt government. I find the smallest of examples as revealing as the largest issues... Last week our President bowed to a leader of a Muslim country, and the government released a statement to declare the the President indeed did not bow (because inside all fair-minded Americans we found this is a disgrace) but shook the hand of a shorter person... I'm flabbergasted at how deceitful the government officials think they can be, and what they think we'll believe... They lie so readily (and ineptly) about the most basic of matters, and I cannot imagine what they devise in closed quarters.
Um, side note: Why do we feel that bowing to a Muslim leader shameful? Because that country has made attacks verbally, politically, and militantly against America for generations. They hate us... Because the Koran tells them to, and they follow their radical faith. It's considered radical, because any faith that calls upon it's followers to shun and kill people of another faith is radical. We should not respect nor tolerate a country that, if ever given the chance, would crush people of an innocent nation in honor of Islamic faith. End side note.
There's been increasing talk about taxing without accountability. Check out the new and improved tea parties. The Huffington Post and several other liberal news sources attempted to sound like this is strictly a right wing radicalism, and interviewed people with select opinions that supported that. Honestly, it doesn't matter what they think, or what they report. The movement is a fantastic uprising, an all-grass-roots movement that supports no political agenda or person... Merely the idea the taxation with representation (amazing how we come full circle, isn't it?) is wrong. Wrong morally - because an organization how no more right than a normal person has to take money from someone else - and politically - because this nation was the shining beacon of freedom in a power-hungry world, and is now driving full speed ahead into a socialistic agenda.
Ah, socialism. It's funny, I read so many books growing up on socialistic regimes, and was fascinated by the beliefs of Karl Marx and friends. I got their logic, it was simple enough - it seemed almost holy... Let's do the best we can with everyone and for everyone, because we, the smartest and savviest, should rule the lesser folk for their benefit.
See, they never understood the simplest of truth's: people are bad. People are corruptible, and driven by selfish desires. And people in groups will force their selfish desire on others regardless of good intentions with far more ferocity than one person alone. Established rights can be considered optional when a corrupt group of people begin tailoring their agendas and actions for monetary gain... Rights are optional if they impede a nice fat tax increase. A government knows that the more "things" (programs/nice sounding refunds/beautiful health policies) they promise citizens, the more willing they are to be taxed - and the more willing they are to wait, like dogs, for their tax dollars to be fed back to them.
Um, another side not: It is never correct to infringe on a citizen's rights for the sake of serving another. Never. Never.
Taxation is an odd exception, because of living in a country with necessary regulations, law, and law enforcement to maintain decency and equality of treatment. We live as citizens of this country, giving our money to the government on faith that it will be used to serve us. Basically, we should be giving money to help ourselves as a citizen and country - the government is charged with the responsibility to invest the money into those areas and this investment is to be visibly returned. Sadly, so sadly, this is becoming less and less true. America in it's infancy saw the effects of taxation without government accountability, benefit, or return. Today, accountability is gone, the benefit is for select groups, and the return of our invested tax dollars is slipping completely away... And that is why we're throwing tea parties all over again.
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Two things:
1. Islam is no more violent than Christianity. Have you read the Old Testament?
2. If it's never okay to infrige upon an American citizen's rights to serve another person, how do you defend the idea of a Constitutional ban on things like abortion and gay marriage?
I'll join in on your tea party, but I expect it to be followed by Declaration that states we will no longer stand to be governed by mongrels that take away our freedoms and sleep like whores with special interests.
This country, as it did as a colony, must burn to be reborned.
Chris:
1) I am very well acquainted about the old testament. God never gave an order to destroy all heathens or nonbelievers. There were often direct wars against heathen tribes because God lead them to fight for Israel's cause, often because the other nation wanted to take over the Israelites and make them slaves. There never was and will never be a mandate by God that says "seize and kill all disbelievers" and "fight all unbelievers near you and let them find in you hardness" or to not have friends amongst other believers (as the Koran does, several times over). Any prophecies concerning the destruction of nonbelievers in the Bible are to be carried out by God, because even Christians do not have the right to judge and harm people on earth.
2) Abortion is exactly that - infringing on an American citizen's right. That's what it is - killing a child is wrong and an invasion on their right to live. All science has done on it's studies of fetuses is show how perfectly formed they are. Their heart starts beating a perfect rhythm at three weeks. They have every cell they need to live at the point of conception. Simply because they're incased in and dependent on a womb does not take away their inherent nature as a human. Every cell and every function is the same. And since babies are dependent on an outside source for food and shelter until at least preschool age, it's easily assumed that you could kill them anytime until then. Why not? They're in the same state as when they were in the womb.
Gay marriage....I don't have a belief on government control either way. I have not seriously thought about it in terms of human rights. Although I know that my personal convictions state that homosexuality is wrong and is not equatable to a heterosexual marriage in any way, I understand that it is not an issue similar to killing someone.
NCF: I admire your enthusiasm. However, with an entire nation struggling to stay alive, we're not going to burn. There is not re-set button. And unfortunately, if there were, things would progress to our current state again in another 200 hundred years, because humans are corrupt and fallible. Living within the system as the best individual, family, and community we can be is what makes this life beautiful and worth caring for.
I can only assume, then, that you haven't actually read the Koran. It's no more violent, or ill-tempered, than the Bible. Anyone who paints it as a "kill the non-believers" bloodbath either hasn't read it or hasn't read it fairly.
As for your second point, the fetus/child/whatever isn't actually a citizen until it's born, so your entire point (in your original point) sort of falls flat on its face. I get that you're pro-life; I am, too. I just believe in a woman's right to choose.
Your "until preschool" line is vitriolic hyperbole, which doesn't really deserve any sort of serious response.
Your assumption is wrong. I have read the Koran. The quotations I made are actual quotes from the Koran. Obviously you misunderstood my point: It is not a matter of who is violent more, it is a matter of violent commandments. The Koran states to discontinue contact with and to kill non-believers. This is a direct threat to every person not in their religious sector. The Bible says no such thing at any time. There is nowhere in the Bible a continuous commandment to kill all non-believers, or to even discontinue contact with. I can only assume, then, that you have not read the Bible or the Koran.
There is no woman's right to choose. I find it a disgrace that the law considers a child not a citizen until it is born. That is a human law that can and should be corrected. However, even illegal aliens are given more protection of rights than unborn children. You still cannot kill a non-citizen, your point falls flat on it's face.
It's considered in pediatric medical fields that preschool is when personality, life skills, and independence begins developing children. I was saying that the point of a child not being a child until it's born b/c of dependency is invalid. They are in the same state of dependence on maternal/paternal/human care until age 4-6.
Oh and the term "vitriolic hyperbole" is funny, haha! I had to think about that one for a second. But unfortunately, what I said was based on medical research. Sorry.
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