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Declaration of Independence and Slavery

 

 For the 4th. of July,  I would like to see in print,  The Declaration of Independence, as written by Thomas Jefferson.  The following was deleted from the original regarding slavery,  prior to final approval. Many citizens believe that the real fight for individual freedom and  civil rights for minorties began in the 1960,s. The original draft of the Declaration tells a different story. 

 

     "He (King George lll) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred

rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant land who never offended him, captivating & carrying

them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable  death in their transportation hither.

The practical warfare, the oppression of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian 

King of Britain determined to keep open a market where MEN would be bought and sold."

 

  These words remind me that the fight for liberal and libertarian  ideas of individual freedom is the supreme struggle....Even between two god fearing peoples. It is my  hope that July 4th all  men will join the struggle. We needed them then and we need them now even more!! 

 

 

letter/editor freedom newspapers/ocr

published july 4th 

 

  SEAN HANNITY  the great american
  You've reached the hate Hannity hot line. This message is for people who disagree with Sean. If you leave a message here it can be played on air. THE OWNER OF THIS MAIL BOX IS NOT ACCEPTING MESSAGES AT THIS TIME.
 
  What that means is the hot line has been, for the time being, taken down. Sean was caught doctoring the comment line to come out a certain way. Reasonable comments were cut completely or editing in such a way as to leave out the actual disagreement. Example; Hey duffs boy, you don't know the difference between a socialist and a conservative. This would be cut to dufus boy, added to some other foul language and presented as the actual comment.
 
  I believe the purpose was to demean and slander liberals. And, to destroy the past, the liberalism of John Loke and Thomas Jefferson, and present core values and principles of liberalism as the  new conservative. To claim the values and principles of liberalism, as your own,  and at the same time time claim "liberalism is the basis of socialism" is dishonest to the core.
 
  I can agree with some of Sean's  political ideas  and as a vet I appreciate what he does for the military. I can not agree with his purpose and methods. Partisan politics is no excuse for misleading the public, especially the young people, on such a grand scale.  But being guilty of the same behavior,doctoring comment lines and blocking e-mail comments,  to paint a false picture is no different than what he accuses others of doing. Even, if my analysis and opinion is not 100% accurate it still does not justify what amounts to a falsehood. 

 "Conservatives define liberal as anyone who is not their idea of a conservative."
Clarence Page - Chicago Tribune.   I believe the facts support this observation.  Meaning that Limbaugh, Hannity and the "mouth that roared" Mark Levine's use of the word liberal has no meaning at all. Example; Mark Levine says "liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."  If he does not mean the liberal philosophy of John Loke or Thomas Jefferson....who or what does he mean?
  
  The biggest political lie in our history is socialists, marxists and authoritarians are liberals and examples of liberalism. This is the lie that Sean is selling and the purpose of the doctored comment line. The difference between  Tokyo Rose Radio (West Coast) and ABC Radio's Sean Hannity? Nothing! They all mislead their listeners for pure partisan political reasons.
 
  "The OWNER of this MAIL BOX is not accepting messages at this time." Especially if you are a liberal and your comments contradict the "The BIG Lie."
 
 Be careful. You never know what shenanigans people are up to these days." - Sean Hannity - 2008
 
 
"This is where we need truth to catch up with reality."
Lightfoot Letters - 2007

Original letter June 8, 2008

Revised June 29 

June 17 Sidebar:

 It should be noted that the Rushman will not take calls or accept challenge to his ideas of what it means to be a conservative, socialist ect. I do not believe it to be the same level as Sean Hannity...But the dishonest misleading component is clearly there.

Original letter June 8, 2008

Revised June 29 

           TOBACCO SHOULD be BANNED

                                        Letter to the Editor
 
  My mom, my dad, my aunt and uncle all died  from cancer.  I think I can more than relate to the loss of a close relative. Especially your mom or dad.
 
  However, I do not blame anyone for their personal choices. My grandmother did not allow smoking inside her home. She could paint a visual picture of what smoking and chewing tobacco could do to your body in the 1940's. My mom, her sisters and brothers choose not to follow her advice. It was their decision for the part tobacco played in their lives.
 
  The idea that we are ignorant and we blame others for all our bad decisions must stop. It is dishonest on our part and is a very poor example for children. It teaches them and society nothing except, we are not responsible for our own choices. Someone else is to blame. In this case it is the tobacco companies. Not us, no it could not possibly be our fault for our own bad decisions.
 
  Do I wish my mom and dad were still here. Of course. Do I miss my favorite aunt who was so much like my mom. No question about it. Would I do anything to limit their choices that I wish were different.  Absolutely not.
 
  I am thankful every day that I have the freedom to make bad decisions, to make a bad choice.

 letter/editor la times/dp
 
Nakba week only a hatefest by UCI's Muslim students............
 
 
On May 7-15, the UCI Muslim Students’ Union Assn. staged a weeklong “Nakba” event that, under the guise of commemorating the “catastrophe” of the founding of the Jewish state, brought to campus the genocidal philosophy promoted by leaders and movements throughout the Middle East.  David Horowitz
 

 
 
The reality of all opinions should be based on *"what you do is what you are, not what you say." Islam says one thing but the reality is something completely different. The slaughter of innocents by Islam since the time of Mohamet is well documented and seems to have no end in sight. We as a people,  in no way, can participate, encourage or be silent to the continuation of a system of mass murder by self serving individuals.

"This is freedom's time on the line of history. If we cannot or we will not defend ourselves it might be freedoms last time for dark centuries to come."

Senator Barry Goldwater
 
 
published: in part may 19
latimes/dp 
*lightfoot letters

Gay marriage ruling vaults issue back to front

How do you feel about the way the Myanmar (Burmese) government is handling international aid efforts?

Most socialists, marxists, communists, authoritarian governments are afraid to accept outside aid. They have this fear that other forms of government, especially the United States, will make their form of government appear less than adequate. Which is most likely the case, which will make the government look bad in eyes of the citizens.  This is so deep seated that they will punish their own people, by holding up aid,  rather  than show any weakness in their own system of government. Seems to me that this theme is played over and over again. Said another way; the ability of the government, Myanmar, to function does not match  the official propaganda at home.

 WHO  WILL PROTECT YOU ?

IMMIGRATION IS A PROBLEM - LEGAL and MORAL

Note:  I  only post letters that I have written.  I do not aree with some implied political views contained herein. However, I felt this letter from a friend of mine was very compelling because it  illustrates the  conflict between moral duty and legal duty.

May 8, 2008 

Dear friends,

Long time since I wrote a group mail but the after the events of the last few days I had to write something. Please read it all.

Please forgive me for my english

This story actual starts last September when I started to be involved with refuges and migrants that got to Tel Aviv, I joined a group volunteers that start to work with African refugees that arrived in Tel aviv.
I was responsible for the cloths and equipment donations, I didn't have a warehouse and in some point I was invited to use a big space in a squat which was occupied by activists and young people.  Shortly after being part of the community I was introduced to Mamadu, 16 years old young boy from Guinea in west Africa, he left his home there few years earlier and after traveling through Morocco and Egypt he found himself in Israel.
Here started to go to school and to work.

Around October the squat got an eviction warren and we decided to find Mamadu a better place to be. I introduced him to my parents and they invited him to say with them for while. They found that Mamadu is a very modest, smart and gentle boy. He became part of the family.
In late February the Israeli government decided to start to "fight" against the waves of refuges arriving is Israel and started to arrest People randomly in the streets of Tel aviv, their only way decide who to arrest was the color of his skin, after being arrested and detained in police station they checked if the person has a permit to be in Israel.

One day in the middle of March on his way to school Mamadu was arrested, From this moment on my mom tried to convince the judge that he can stay under my parents custody or even got adopted but the only thing the state lawyer tried to do is to prove the Mamadu is in not a minor, all his documents saying that he is 16 years old. To prove that he is not a minor they did a wrist check that said that he is 16 years old; this wasn't good enough for them so they did another examination which is more offensive and humiliating. They doing all these examination to deported him from Israel.
Israel doesn't have any relationships with Guinea so they will be deport him to The Ivory coast where he has nobody and it might be dangers for him to be alone there.
Every Monday we went with his friends to visit him in jail we had only half and hour a week to see him. Mamadu made many friends here and every time we could take only ten of them with us.

All this time when we visited him in jail they asked my mom to bring his passport, without it they can't deport him.
My mom decided that without a judge warn and through a lawyer she won't give it to them.
Last Sunday the judge decided according to second medical examination that Mamadu he is not minor.
Yesterday morning  (Tuesday 29.4.2008) at 06:35am few minutes after my father left home to work 5 policemen, four bullies and girl knocked on the door and ask my mom to open the door and asked for the passport, she asked to see a warren but they didn't have one, so she refused to give them anything from the house. They have arrested her because of it, some how she succeed to tell my father and he came back quick and where he found out that they are taking her to the immigration police station.
My father, a friend and myself arrived at the station where they refused to tell if she is there, what she is being arrested for. We became more vocal so they threat to arrest us as well. I called a friend which is a lawyer and they refused to give him any detail without him coming to the police station. After two ours an investigator called me and told me my mom require a lawyer.

An hour later we accidentally saw that they taking her away, my father succeed to ask her where they are taking her and we found out that they taking her home to search the home for the passport.
We arrived home after the cops left and my mom said that they got a search warren so she had to give it to them.

Now we are trying to find a way to stop his deportation that will take place somewhere in the near future.
This might be his only chance for a "normal" future.
We as family will do the same thing if another boy as him will arrive again and need help.
Our family was saved by Russians when the Germans invade, they didn't care what the risk they take is, we our committed as human beings to treat everyone who ask asylum or freedom to help him.
Humanitarian support is not a crime is our duty.

i have to say as well that I am not surprised at all for this behavior, a state that depresses other people for more than 40 years, a state where only money talks and you can die if you don't have, a state where human rights is a fictional idea and only if where born to right mother (Jewish) you might be treated well.
A state like this has no compassion and doesn't care for the voiced that can't be heard.

I was raised by parents the told me that everyone is equal and has the right equal human rights and descent way if life.
Even if they take us to jail we will continue to help people like Mamadu, and we do it again and again.

Shachaf Polakow

"Former DNC Chair backs Obama"
NY Times May 1, 2008
Lisa Tozzi and Brian Knowlton

"We always knew this was hard,  and the reason is because we're trying to do something new".
Senator  Barrack Obama                                                                                      
 

 
........In 1787, Alexander Tyler, history professor at the   University of Edinburgh, 
had this to say about "The Fall of The Athenian Republic" some 2000 years prior.                                                                                                                                          

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
form of government. A democracy will continue to exist until the time the voters
discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment, the majority always votes for candidates who promise the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will 
finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy,  always followed by a dictatorship.
 
The average age of the worlds great civilizations from the beginning of history,
has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always 
progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency 
to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back into bondage.".
 
Today, Professor James Olson of Hamline University of Law, St Paul Min.,
believes The United States is now somewhere between the "Apathy"
and "Complacency" of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy;                             
with some 40 percent of the U.S. population already having reached the               
"governmental  dependency" phase.
 
 I believe the apathy and complacency is caused by the socialist ideas and                                        programs created by federal, state and local governments. The governments
are blind to the cause and effect of the socialist welfare state.
       
The Green Party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are chugging alone
on the Socialist train and have no will or desire to get off.
This is the "Change We Can Count On"  Senator Obama wants to continue.  In reality no
change,  just more tickets on the train.

 "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."    Thomas Jefferson                     

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