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Thank you, Mr. President

 

We should all thank George Bush for making things so

bad Americans can’t ignore it any longer.

By Mick Youther

 

n the spirit of the Thanksgiving season, I want to

thank President George W. Bush and his administration

for everything they have done for America. They have

taught us the importance of fair elections—free from

judicial interference. They have shown us what it is

like to live in a nation where the “king” can declare

war, break treaties, imprison foreigners and citizens

and try them in secret trials with secret evidence.

Thanks to Bush & Co. we now know why the Founding

Fathers provided checks and balances on government and

why they warned us to guard against every attack on

the Constitution.

 

• “Liberty and order will never be completely safe

until a trespass on the Constitutional provisions for

either, shall be felt with the same keenness that

resents and invasion of the dearest rights.”-- James

Madison, 4th U.S. President and “Father of the

Constitution”, 1792

 

• " The Constitution is not an instrument for the

government to restrain the people, it is an instrument

for the people to restrain the government -- lest it

come to dominate our lives and interests. " -- Patrick

Henry (1736-1799) American Revolutionary

 

• " When all government, domestic and foreign, in

little as in great things, shall be drawn to

Washington as the center of all power, it will render

powerless the checks provided of one government on

another and will become as venal and oppressive as the

government from which we separated. " -- Thomas

Jefferson, 1821

 

• “In all our associations; in all our agreements let

us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim--that

all power was originally lodged in, and consequently

is derived from, the people. We should wear it as a

breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.”--George

Mason (1725-1792), Author of Bill of Rights

 

• “The Constitution is a written instrument. As such,

its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when

it was adopted, it means now.”-- South Carolina v.

United States (1905)

 

• “The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to

take the government off the backs of the people.”--

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)

 

• " The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us

would be] submission to a government of unlimited

powers. " -- Thomas Jefferson, 1825

 

 

I do not mean to suggest that Bush & Co. started the

assault on the Constitution. There have always been

elitists who were willing to undermine the

Constitution and govern with deception and

manipulation because they believe that they alone know

what is best for America.

 

The reason Bush & Co. deserve a special Thank You is

because their attack on our Constitution has been so

arrogant and so blatant that it can no longer be

ignored. No more slow erosion of our liberties—the

Bush Administration has given us the slap in the face

that we needed to wake us up to what is happening to

our America. People who had never protested anything

before came out to protest Mr. Bush’s war. People who

had never been politically active are getting

involved. People all across the naton are starting to

take their citizenship seriously. That is the only

thing that can save America.

 

• “The most important political office is that of the

private citizen.”-- Supreme Court Justice Louis D.

Brandeis (1856-1941)

 

• “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of

every citizen who would protect the rights and

privileges of free people and who would preserve what

is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”--

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President and Supreme

Allied Commander

 

• “It is the duty of the patriot to protect his

country from its government.”-- Thomas Paine

(1737-1809), American Revolutionary and Author

 

• " It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to

be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in

themselves. We are able to preserve our

self-government if we will but think so. " -- Thomas

Jefferson, 1800

 

• " We, the people are the rightful masters of both

Congress and the courts--not to overthrow the

Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the

Constitution”-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

 

• " It is not the function of our Government to keep

the citizen from falling into error; it is the

function of the citizen to keep the Government from

falling into error. " -- Supreme Court Justice Robert H.

Jackson, 1950

 

• " The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away,

for expedients, and by parts ... the only thing

necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do

nothing. " -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Member of

Parliament, Philosopher, and Author