Americana

The article below was stolen from a book titled "The Growing World; or, Progress Of Civilization, and the wonders of Nature, Science, Literature And Art interspersed with a useful and entertaining collection of miscellany by the best authors of our day" With a 1881 copyright

This page is intended to serve as a reminder and a source of information about who we are and how we got here. More than 230 years ago, the colonists had endured more taxations and usurpations than they could stand, and stood up to the oppression of England. Since then, our rights have been eroded to the point that we are not much better off than we were then. I wonder if the officials we have elected have ever read these documents, or if they understand or care what they mean.

From the Declaration Of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776

http://www.bartleby.com/133/

The Declaration Of Independence

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

The Constitution Of The United States Of America And It's Amendments

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html

In God We Still Trust

America, Wake Up!!http://www.usawakeup.org/America_Wake_Up.htm

How To Destroy America

http://usawakeup.org/HowToDestroyAmerica

Special thanks to CapnBob for this graphic!!

Dear Mr. President,
About 170 years ago, my ancestors (both family sides) moved to Texas from Germany. They came here to find a better way of life for themselves and for their children. They immigrated legally. They laid down the German Flag and they picked up the American flag. I'm sure that some fought on either side during the civil war. They fought, and some died in both World Wars, Korea, Viet Nam, and both Iraq wars and Afghanistan. I am a patriotic person. I respect, and I thank God every day, for those that have stood and fought for my rights as an american citizen.
It seemed a slap in my face when I realized I was required to pay for illegal immigrants children to be educated. Slapped again, pay for their medical expenses. Slapped again, my government debates whether to allow them to have my social security benefits. Slapped again, offer them amnesty.
Tell me, Mr. President, why the burden falls to those of us whose forefathers have paid for our well being to carry these criminals who have infiltrated our borders.
It occurs to me that I should go to Mexico and renounce my citizenship and sneak back across the border.
Let me say right now that I am not opposed to immigration from Mexico or any other nation. I know what built this great nation. It was the oppressed people coming here from other lands. People who were poor and wanted a better life for themselves and for their children. People who came here legally and shared the burdens and dreams of this nation. They helped change this from the rugged wilderness that it was into the world leader that it is. They did not turn it into the wanton slum from which they fled.
Allow me to quote the Preamble to the Declaration Of Independence if I may:
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Mr. President, I am in no way suggesting revolution. I am suggesting that the leaders of my nation take a minute to reflect and understand how we got here. Read again (I hope) "Common Sense":
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense
The Declaration Of Independence:
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
The Constitution Of The United States Of America:
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
I find it shameful to have to remind the President to look where we came from. How much longer will the American people suffer to have their rights given away? How many laws will be passed that take away from the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights until it becomes insufferable?
Mr. President, please, use your power and influence to protect and serve those who empower you. Pass no more laws on immigration or amnesty unless it is amnesty for our own citizens who's rights have been consumed by laws that contradict the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Send these criminals who have infiltrated our borders back to their native lands. Instead of enacting laws to give them amnesty. Abolish laws requiring law abiding citizens to pay to educate their children, to pay for their welfare and to pay for their healthcare.

Truly,
James Stork
Giddings, Tx.

DID THOMAS JEFFERSON HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL?

It has been said the greatest volume of sheer brain power in one place occurred when Jefferson dined alone...

Especially read the last quote from 1802.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

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.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'

What part of "Shall Not Be Infringed"

do you not understand?

Thanks to Big Kid and Texas COC

for this refresher course!!

FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE

1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

3. Colt: The original point and click interface.

4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.

7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

8. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.

9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

10. The United States Constitution (c)1791. All Rights Reserved.

11. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.

13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.

15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.

16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.

18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.

20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.

21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.

23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.

24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

HISTORY, Please Read -- It is Short

It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead. He did this because he said in words to this effect: "Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened". "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke In Memorial This week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it "offended" the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it. It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This is a memorial , in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated while the German and Russian peoples looking the other way! Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be "a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center "never happened" because it offends some Muslim in the U.S.??????

On Obama and Guns

Texas State Rifle Association Political Action
To TSRA Members: Below is an open letter from the Illinois State
Rifle Association's chief lobbyist,
please read!
Illinois State Rifle Association
420 E. Locust, P.O. Box 637, Chatsworth, IL 60921

Phone: (815) 635-3198 or (815) 635-3166 Fax: (815) 635-3723 Website: www.isra.org

Fellow Sportsman:

Over the past 15 years, I have served in the Illinois state capitol as the chief lobbyist for the Illinois State Rifle
Association.

I lobbied Barack Obama extensively while he was an Illinois State Senator. As a result of that

experience, I know Obama's attitudes toward guns and gun owners better than anyone. The truth be

told, in all my years in the Capitol I have never met a legislator who harbors more contempt for

the law-abiding firearm owner than Barack Obama.

Although Obama claims to be an advocate for the 2nd Amendment, his voting

record in the Illinois Senate paints a very different picture. While a state senator, Obama voted

for a bill that would ban nearly every hunting rifle, shotgun and target rifle owned by Illinois citizens.

That same bill would authorize the state police to raid homes of gun owners and forcibly confiscate

banned guns. Obama supported a bill that would shut down law-abiding firearm manufacturers

including Springfield Armory, Armalite, Rock River Arms and Les Baer. Obama also voted for a bill

that would prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month.

Without a doubt, Barack Obama has proven himself to be an enemy of the law abiding firearm owner. At

the same time, Obama has proven himself to be a friend to the hardened criminal. While a state senator,

Obama voted 4 times against legislation that would allow a homeowner to use a firearm in defense of

home and family.

Does Barack Obama still sound to you like a friend of the law-abiding gun owner?

And speaking of friends, you can always tell a person by the company they keep. Obama counts

among his friends the Rev. Michael Pfleger - a renegade Chicago priest who has openly called for the

murder of gun shop owners and pro-gun legislators. Then there is his buddy Richard Daley, the mayor

of Chicago who has declared that if it were up to him, nobody would be allowed to own a gun. And let's

not forget Obama's pal George Soros - the guy who has pumped millions of dollars into the UN's

international effort to disarm law-abiding citizens.

Obama has shown that he is more than willing to use other people's money to fund his campaign to

take your guns away from you. While a board member of the leftist Joyce Foundation, Barack Obama wrote

checks for tens of millions of dollars to extremist gun control organizations such as the Illinois

Council Against Handgun Violence and the Violence Policy Center.

Does Barack Obama still sound to you like a friend of the law-abiding gun owner?

By now, I'm sure that many of you have received mailings from an organization called

The American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) talking about what a swell fellow Obama is and

how he honors the 2 Amendment and how you will never have to worry about Obama coming to take

your guns. Let me make it perfectly clear - everything the AHSA says about Obama is pure hogwash.

The AHSA is headed by a group of left-wing elitists who subscribe to the British view of hunting and shooting.

That is, a state of affairs where hunting and shooting are reserved for the wealthy upper-crust who can afford

guided hunts on exclusive private reserves.

The AHSA is not your friend, never will be.

In closing, I'd like to remind you that I'm a guy who has actually gone nose to nose with Obama on gun rights

issues. The Obama I know cannot even begin to identify with this nationï¿½s outdoor traditions The Obama I

know sees you, the law abiding gun owner, as nothing but a low-class lummox who is easily swayed by the

flash of a smile and a ration of rosy rhetoric. The Obama I know is a stony-faced liar who has honed

his skill at getting what he wants - so long as people are willing to give it to him.

That's the Barack Obama I know.

Richard A. Pearson
Executive Director

Illinois State Rifle Association

Open Letter to Sportsmen:10/10/08