Barack Obama campaigned last year on getting out of the wars and bringing our troops home. According to a WSJ article on Aug 10, The Obama administration is in the midst of an Afghan buildup that will push U.S. troop levels here to a record 68,000 by year end. Now, 8 months after taking office, the war in Afghanistan is going so poorly that America's top military commander Admiral Mike Mullen was grimly preparing a war-weary public Sunday for the possibility that many more U.S soldiers (upwards of 20,000) may soon be needed.
Casualties are up 50 per cent over last year and roughly five times the levels in 2004. Casualties this year stand at 289. Last year’s 12 month total was 294. 42 Americans died in July, the highest number in a single month since the 2001 invasion. 9 U.S. Army soldiers, five Marines and one U.S. Navy sailor were killed between July 25 and August 7, 2009.
Our allies are pulling their troops out due to citizen opposition to this war and the result will be more endangerment of our troops.
Is our American public so gullible that we believe that this war is against terrorism? If we were really concerned about terrorism in our own country, wouldn’t we be shutting our borders, making it more difficult to get into America? But, no, our borders are porous.
If I am worried about someone breaking into my house, I would not leave the doors and windows open while I went down to the local doper hangout looking for someone that might someday try to break into my house. I would lock my doors and windows and perhaps put alarms up. Likewise, we should be closing our borders and putting our troops in place to protect them.
Furthermore, when our vets come home, we must take care of them. Our current troops as well as our vets from previous wars should be allowed to go to any healthcare provider of their choice at taxpayer expense. We owe them the best healthcare possible for service related injuries and illnesses.
Rather than that, though, there are those in our government that want to publish a booklet for our vets entitled “Your Life, Your Choices”. This book includes a checklist to help determine whether a veteran’s life is worth living. Two statements in the document are "I am a severe financial burden on my family," and "My situation causes severe emotional burden for my family."
Is this how we thank our vets and their families for the sacrifices they have made? I am disgusted!
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Wake up America; It's time to fight for Liberty!
Today I am going to post an article by my future colleague and fellow Congressional candidate RJ Harris, OK4.
Wake up America; It's time to fight for Liberty!
By RJ Harris
Unprecedented in our nation’s recent history, the silent liberty loving majority has begun to wake up to the "long train of abuses" being perpetrated against them by the current ruling classes. Unfortunately, many in the leadership of the many grass-roots organizations attempting to marshal the awaking body politic have asserted that they should not be politically active nor partisan- motivated. God love the Birchers, but for the last 50+ years they have attempted that exact same non-political, educational effort to no avail…for here we are watching as the Congress and the White House rip our Constitution to shreds, destroying our Republic in the process, while we stand by being non-political and non-partisan. Not to be out-done by the neutrality of the 501c3s, the Republican and Democrat Party Establishments refuse to support primary challengers to their own incumbent bailout voters. What have these current incumbent bailout voters, and the parties that support them, have to fear so long as we remain enthralled to party incumbents or committed to non-political educational movements? They can simply wait out this current gale of anger from us and then go back to their nefarious ways when we go back to sleep. The only thing they understand, like so many tyrants before them, is political force. When we start replacing them with Constitutional Conservatives, in large numbers, THEN we will certainly have their attention.
So how do we keep these new patriots awake and in the fight? I guarantee you it’s not through being non-political and merely an educational movement. People do not stay up all night making signs to hang from freeway overpasses nor post blogs all over the net for "educational" efforts. They do not give money in record amounts, like they did for Ron Paul, for efforts that will not result in real change. They do not get back involved in their parties to rid them of the socialists (Democrats) and corporatists (Republicans) that have taken them over by staying neutral. And they do not march in the streets with the same fire and righteous anger as they did on April 15th 2009 when they are repeatedly told that their fight is going to be non-political, neutral and therefore irrelevant. However, we will do and have done all of those things for Constitutional Conservative Candidates that we KNOW will stand up and fight for US!
My fellow Americans and Oklahomans, there are Constitutional Conservative Candidates stepping forward to fight for us all over this country and they have the establishments in both major parties running scared. As a result, you can bet that these candidates will not get any financial aid or volunteer support from their respective party establishments. Furthermore, real Constitutional Conservative Candidates will refuse to solicit money from lobbyists or party officials known to be supporting bailout voters. Thus, as much as the Constitutional Conservatives are riding to our aid, we must ride to theirs and support them with donations and volunteerism.
Socialism and Corporatism are taking over our government, our Republic is failing, the Constitution is being ignored and the American birthright of freedom is being sold out by the very people sworn to protect it. The time for neutrality and sunshine patriotism is over. It’s time to fight with your activism and your money and your votes; or watch your country die. It’s time to hold the representatives we elected accountable by replacing them with Constitutional Conservative Candidates from within our ranks. It is time to WAKE UP, and fight for liberty!
The consequences of continued non-political efforts and neutrality are too heinous to consider. Nevertheless, consider them we must. When the Roman Republic fell to imperialism from within itself, the western world did not know freedom again until 1776. For 1700+ years’ freedom and individual liberties were ignored by the great western powers of the world. If we let freedom and liberty fail on our watch, how long will it be, how many generations will pass, before the next George Washington or Thomas Jefferson are born?
We must fight now or freedom will fail and our children will wake up slaves in the land our fathers founded. FOR LIBERTY!
RJ Harris
Constitutional Conservative Republican
US Congressional Candidate
Oklahoma 4th District
www.rjharris2010.com
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
Wake up America; It's time to fight for Liberty!
By RJ Harris
Unprecedented in our nation’s recent history, the silent liberty loving majority has begun to wake up to the "long train of abuses" being perpetrated against them by the current ruling classes. Unfortunately, many in the leadership of the many grass-roots organizations attempting to marshal the awaking body politic have asserted that they should not be politically active nor partisan- motivated. God love the Birchers, but for the last 50+ years they have attempted that exact same non-political, educational effort to no avail…for here we are watching as the Congress and the White House rip our Constitution to shreds, destroying our Republic in the process, while we stand by being non-political and non-partisan. Not to be out-done by the neutrality of the 501c3s, the Republican and Democrat Party Establishments refuse to support primary challengers to their own incumbent bailout voters. What have these current incumbent bailout voters, and the parties that support them, have to fear so long as we remain enthralled to party incumbents or committed to non-political educational movements? They can simply wait out this current gale of anger from us and then go back to their nefarious ways when we go back to sleep. The only thing they understand, like so many tyrants before them, is political force. When we start replacing them with Constitutional Conservatives, in large numbers, THEN we will certainly have their attention.
So how do we keep these new patriots awake and in the fight? I guarantee you it’s not through being non-political and merely an educational movement. People do not stay up all night making signs to hang from freeway overpasses nor post blogs all over the net for "educational" efforts. They do not give money in record amounts, like they did for Ron Paul, for efforts that will not result in real change. They do not get back involved in their parties to rid them of the socialists (Democrats) and corporatists (Republicans) that have taken them over by staying neutral. And they do not march in the streets with the same fire and righteous anger as they did on April 15th 2009 when they are repeatedly told that their fight is going to be non-political, neutral and therefore irrelevant. However, we will do and have done all of those things for Constitutional Conservative Candidates that we KNOW will stand up and fight for US!
My fellow Americans and Oklahomans, there are Constitutional Conservative Candidates stepping forward to fight for us all over this country and they have the establishments in both major parties running scared. As a result, you can bet that these candidates will not get any financial aid or volunteer support from their respective party establishments. Furthermore, real Constitutional Conservative Candidates will refuse to solicit money from lobbyists or party officials known to be supporting bailout voters. Thus, as much as the Constitutional Conservatives are riding to our aid, we must ride to theirs and support them with donations and volunteerism.
Socialism and Corporatism are taking over our government, our Republic is failing, the Constitution is being ignored and the American birthright of freedom is being sold out by the very people sworn to protect it. The time for neutrality and sunshine patriotism is over. It’s time to fight with your activism and your money and your votes; or watch your country die. It’s time to hold the representatives we elected accountable by replacing them with Constitutional Conservative Candidates from within our ranks. It is time to WAKE UP, and fight for liberty!
The consequences of continued non-political efforts and neutrality are too heinous to consider. Nevertheless, consider them we must. When the Roman Republic fell to imperialism from within itself, the western world did not know freedom again until 1776. For 1700+ years’ freedom and individual liberties were ignored by the great western powers of the world. If we let freedom and liberty fail on our watch, how long will it be, how many generations will pass, before the next George Washington or Thomas Jefferson are born?
We must fight now or freedom will fail and our children will wake up slaves in the land our fathers founded. FOR LIBERTY!
RJ Harris
Constitutional Conservative Republican
US Congressional Candidate
Oklahoma 4th District
www.rjharris2010.com
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
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