On 3/20/08 3:42 PM, in article Xns9A6795AFBEB4Ebat222@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"tango"
<tango@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I have never heard the US referred to as a Republic in my Lifetime.
> I think you may be confusing it with the Republic of Ireland. :).
Forgive me for resurrecting this subject once again but laying here in bed
I
happened to think of something that is thought of little anymore but I'm
sure you have heard before which might make you revise your statement
above.
Consider the words in the Pledge of Allegiance,
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to
the
REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
I, like you, have heard that we were a Democracy for so very long and I've
wondered just where our parties names came from. I remember the
Federalist
and I suppose ideally the Republicans were more staunch people for the
Republic point of view where Democrats maybe followed the Democracy point
of
view more so. I really don't know but I assume that neither mirrors or
appears to represent what their namesake actually was about. I am
wondering, in this time where minority rule seems to be more the case,
what
form of government are we anymore? Would our forefathers and those who
wrote the Constitution and the Federalist Papers recognize the government
that exist today? Would they approve or gasp in horror at what we've
become. Are we to evolve into a government that no longer follows the
Constitution but through the courts of the land neuter the ideas in the
original do***ent? Maybe our form of Government today is a Politically
Correct Environmentally conscience one with one nation under Greed. With
the lobbyist and Politically powerful groups today controlling much of the
legislative branch and various ideologies seemingly governing the verdicts
from the Bench along with pandering moves by many to remove all reference
to
God yet, out of fear of damaging middle east relations, catering to the
nations of Islam to keep the flow of oil coming in.
In 50 short years we have forgotten a great generation that sacrificed to
keep us free from oppression and all but dismantled a self sufficient
country that could sup****t itself in most every category and every
industry,
removed any reference to prayer or God from our schools or Governmental
buildings and destroyed the institutions of the President, Congress and
the
Legislature where all we seem to look to them for is contempt, lies, and
deceit leaving us with little to no confidence that they can have empathy
with the common working man. We have given strength to the media and they
have also rewarded us with actions which warrant distrust at what we are
to
accept as unbiased news. We have also given greater strength and power to
our adversaries through trade and our thirst for oil and reserves that we
no
longer seem to be able to supply ourselves.
When walking through the hall of a Church we were visiting Easter Sunday,
I
noticed a wall in the Church called the "Wall of Freedom". There hung
copies of various speeches of Presidents such as Wa****ngton's Farewell
address, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation proclamation,
The
Letters of Surrender between Germany and the Allied Powers and the Letter
of
Surrender between Japan and the Allies, copies of the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution and some excerpts from some of the
Federalist Papers along with words from Martin Luther King's speech, in
Wa****ngton, and copies of pages from President Kennedy's inaugural
speeches
notes where he spoke "Ask not what your country can do for you ...". I
thought this is a wall of Blood as our past generations sacrificed much in
blood and fears to continue our form of Government and it's ideals and
principals and then to hand unto us the torch to carry. I fear we have
lost
our vision and direction or polluted it greatly since those times. I fear
for the future of my Grandchildren and wonder what world they will inherit
and worse what will they think of us and our Generation?
Again a link regarding democracy and republic :
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html
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