The real problem with getting older is being able to remember being patriotic was not just something you said. The Star Spangled banner was not something Americans burned. God was integrated into our founding document and eventually, into the pledge of allegiance.
The Supreme Court ruled that it was the right of Americans to join the countries enemies in burning the flag. Any mention of God or his symbols are banned from public property. The words of the Constitution are twisted into something the founding fathers would not recognize. In their wisdom they provided a mechanism to amend the constitution. They established the Supreme Court to insure the words were obeyed and not to debate changing the meaning. Officials were obliged to swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. We now witness their working to find ways to circumvent that document.
As great as the founding fathers were, they did not foresee how their ideals would be corrupted by power seekers. It is not likely that they thought a man could spend fifty years in congress feathering his own nest or that the other members would protect him. They believed voters would be intelligent enough to rid the country of these men of questionable motives. Perhaps that is why the government wants God out of the publics mind.
Joel
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Let the burning begin. Real Americans know that flag is a military flag, and our government is an Empire.
ReplyDeleteReal Americans know the people are more important than the public officials. We also know this corrupt government has enslaved many people world wide.
It is ugly and vulgar. I say burn the damn thing to the ground. It is time to create a new government of the people, for the people, and by the people.
To hell with the United States and its war mongering bankers who wish to enslave poor people everywhere.
We seem to always come back to this argument about God and the founding fathers. How many times do we need to be reminded that the founding fathers drafted a Consitution that garaunteed freedom of religion for ALL religions, not just yours. Indeed, if you read the words of our faunding fathers you will see that they were very insistant on this freedom and to suggest that they were sold on any one religion is totally wrong
ReplyDeleteIt is freedom OF religion and not freedom FROM religion. If you are an atheist, that is your right, You do not have the right to insist everyone join you.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like the flag and what it stands for, you are free to live under another.
You even have the right to show how ignorant you are.
Yes, there were atheists among the founding fathers, BUT THEY RESPECTED others rights.
ReplyDeleteWhy did our forefathers come to the New World?? to get out from under the religion of England, if you did not believe the way the government wanted you to, you were jailed and your property was taken by the government. THIS is where we are headed.
WE SHOULD be respectful of what our forefathers did, they gave us the right of free speech, freedom of religion. WE SHOULD hold on to those privileges.
WE DO NOT need to apologize for what our forefathers did, or said.
WE SHOULD NOT allow those in power now to take our rights from us.
WE SHOULD not allow folks to take our heritage from us. Our history is our history and NO ONE should have the right to rewrite it, or apologize for it!!!!
IF you have committed a crime, it is part of your personal history, sure you can hide it from everyone, but you still know what you did and you can't run from it!!
to 3:21: uh....what?
ReplyDeleteMany of the founding fathers were very wealthy and came from cliques of powerful wealthy English families.
ReplyDeleteOur political past is full of individuals who extend from royal bloodlines.
We have been lied to about our history.
I must ask who has taken your right to religion away from you?
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