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Celebrating the Birthday of a Dying Republic

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Is it not bizarre -- on July Fourth -- that in celebrating the birth of America so few realize that the republic has been actually dying incrementally for the past thirty years?

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In considering that we have become either the witless or feckless victims of a wretched government bipartisanly obeisant to the same cabal of greed masters, and that we have been betrayed by the activist movements each possessed of its own celebrity and fearful of its organizational survival should peace ever actually break out, I thought that the following quotes were germane and timely, perhaps timeless:
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"We are forced to live as if we were free." (John Gray)
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"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." (Eric Hoffer)
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That's all for now, perhaps forever.....Rafe Pilgrim

 

Rafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare (more...)
 

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Sides being drawn by Steven G. Erickson on Friday, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:57:52 PM
I celebrate my freedom to ... by Philip Pease on Saturday, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:03:51 AM