In this video, Santorum attributes the WALL of SEPARATION to one he describes as a former member of the KKK.
The man who uttered the WALL of SEPARATION is the author of the Declaration of Independence, the Father of religious freedom, the advocate of the Bill of Rights, the President who abolished the slave trade, and whose principles were described by Abe Lincoln as “the DEFINITIONS and AXIOMS of FREE SOCIETY”: THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Santorum deceives in his attribution, and evinces his evil in associating Jefferson’s WALL with the KKK.
"It is now no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation. One would state with great confidence that he could convince any sane child that the simpler propositions of Euclid are true, but nevertheless he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society...
All honor to Jefferson -- to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression." – Abraham Lincoln
Since Santorum lies about the WALL attribution, I do not give him the benefit of the doubt on his interpretation of the Wall of Separation. To the honest, I squeeze my mind to try to explain:
1) Private individuals cannot take the law into their own hands unless in an emergency. This makes it clear that what people have delegated to the state/government is the right to use force to repel, defeat, punish, or prevent the initiation of force. Thus, George Washington described the government as FORCE.
Does a private individual have the right to impose on a rights-respecter, e.g. impose religion-based values? No. Since the people cannot delegate a right they do not possess, the state does not have this power either. The WALL separates legal force from all actions and words that do not violate the equal rights of others.
2) The stock of car–maker Ford is traded publicly, yet it is privately owned. Whereas, GM and Chrysler have been taken over by the state. They are state owned.
Tim Tebow tebows in public. Since he is not a wielder of legal coercive power, since the NFL is not a government entity, and since tebowing does not violate anyone's rights: neither the ACLU nor anyone can sue Tebow or the NFL.
The honest do not equivocate between public and government.
3) In freedom, the people are free; whereas, the government/state/force is not free. LEGAL FORCE is chained to its only proper function: secure equal inherent inalienable rights. To freedom respecters, the function of the WALL is crystal: the WALL separates legal force from rights respecters. The WALL divides the free from the chained.
Santorum and his fellow anti wall of separation, e.g. Palin and West, are DARK-AGES warriors.
People have a right to question wielders of legal coercive power. To call a constituent, “idiot”, evinces DUNGHILL depravity. Puffing, "Damn, man, I'm governor..." is KINGLY. [video; article]
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." - Benjamin Franklin
"... for if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." – George Washington
"In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance…. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged…. Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.” - Thomas Jefferson
The moral descendants of Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson are for republicanism, for freedom, for the accountability of wielders of legal coercive power. THUG Christie is not. Next time he calls a former Navy Seal an idiot, he should SHED his GOONS, paid for by those he holds as unworthy of respect.
Other actions of Christie:
Action delineates and defines a person. Christie gave a $261 million tax break to a half-built casino in Atlantic City. Why doesn't he give a tax break to everyone? [article]
Christie is active in choosing which corrupt casinos get tax credits, but he is MIA in the Obamacare and 2nd Amendment battles. Fencesitting is ALWAYS evil. [article]
N.J. Transit Worker Fired for Burning Koran Rehired, Compensated for 'Pain and Suffering'. Chris Christie supported his firing. For shame! [article]
The "Romney fails to connect" ploy is purposed to make Mitt Romney commit the 2008 mistake of John McCain: embrace the ANTI separation of church and state.
The ONLY connection a moral person must make is to the Declaration of Independence and its defenders.
The American Revolutionaries had self-esteem. They were the kind who would not be ruled.
On April 19, 1775, “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, here once the embattled FARMERS stood, and fired the shot heard ‘round the world.”
"In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable. I am myself a nail-maker. On returning home after an absence of ten years, I found my farms so much deranged... My new trade of nail-making is to me in this country what an additional title of nobility or the ensigns of a new order are in Europe." - Thomas Jefferson
In 2012, there are people who, in 1775-76, would have whined that the British had all the riches and might. The same people would have rejected George Washington, faulting him for having been successful and rich.
The Revolutionary FARMERS were not envious whiners. Like the nail-maker, they were men of mettle. I call on their moral descendants: Let us fight for freedom!
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." - Voltairine de Cleyre
"The people are responsible for the character of their [government]. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them….” - James Garfield
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." - Thomas Paine
The Conservative Party endorses Rick Santorum. He is against the separation of church and state, saying that it is not in the Constitution. [YouTube video]
In 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences.... I do not like... the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations."
Without the man who uttered the words "WALL OF SEPARATION between Church & State", DARK-AGES warriors would be saying, "There are NO RIGHTS mentioned in the Constitution."
Religious Freedom by Thomas Jefferson:
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
"I consider the Government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution of the United States from meddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.... Civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents."
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone."
"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom.
Thomas Jefferson is the author of the Declaration of Independence, the Father of religious freedom, the advocate of the Bill of Rights, the President who abolished the slave trade, and the unjustly maligned man who fought slavery all his life [facts are here].
Rick Santorum and the Conservative Party are against the wall of separation and its author: Thomas Jefferson, the man extolled by Abraham Lincoln:
"The principles of Jefferson
Are the definitions and axioms of free society…
All honor to Jefferson - to the man,
Who in the concrete pressure of a struggle
For national independence by a single people,
Had the coolness, forecast, and sagacity
To introduce into a merely revolutionary document
An abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times,
And so embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days
It shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block
To the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”
Rick Santorum and the Conservative Party are against the wall of separation and the Father of the Constitution:
"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together..... We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Govt." - James Madison
Rick Santorum says that the pursuit of happiness harms America - [YouTube video]. Santorum and the Conservative Party are anti Declaration of Independence, the fundamental political document of the United States of America. Politics, the fourth branch of philosophy, defines the principles of a proper social system. The Declaration's politics rests on ethics or morality, the code of values to guide man’s choices and actions in determining the purpose and the course of his life. Its ethics rests on epistemology, i.e., reason-and-logic, which rests on metaphysics - the study of existence, nature, metaphysical reality.
“I believe with you that morality, compassion, generosity are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force; that a right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings; that no one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature; that justice is the fundamental law of society; that the majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest, breaks up the foundations of society; that action by the citizens in person, in affairs within their reach and competence, and in all others by representatives chosen immediately and removable by themselves, constitutes the essence of a republic…” - Thomas Jefferson
A Republican is one who values the legacy of the American Revolutionaries: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” To those who value the Founding Principles: Let us repudiate the enemies of Individual Rights: Rick Santorum, the Conservative Party, and their ilk. Let us keep our Republic!
Ayn Rand described the Conservative Party as: “not an American political party, but a religious party – A PHENOMENON FORBIDDEN BY THE CONSTITUTION.” She further said: “the Conservative Party… subordinates reason to faith, and substitutes theocracy for capitalism…”
This powerful party is backed by THEOCRATS.
Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth - 2009) and Pope Paul’s Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples - 1967) - These encyclicals blame the PROFIT motive for all the world’s problems, and call for a worldwide REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH by a world government as the solution. Ayn Rand further said that Pope Paul’s Populorum Progressio declares that capitalism is worse than Marxism and that the only morality is altruism (self-sacrifice).
Sean Hannity of Fox News often says, “I am not a Republican; I am a Conservative.” He and his kind crave to conserve, not the Declaration of Independence, but the Dark Ages. When theocracy warriors speak of capitalism, they mean self-sacrifice.
In 2009, the GOP lost New York’s 23rd Congressional District, held by the Republican Party since the Civil War. Conservatives in the GOP chased out pro-choice, pro-gay-rights State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, chosen by local GOP leaders as their nominee, and then supported the CONSERVATIVE PARTY candidate: Douglas Hoffman. THEOCRACY WARRIORS are mentioned in the following news reports:
“Leading conservative voices — including The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and The Weekly Standard and the talk show personalities Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck — took on the Republican nominee, Assemblywoman Scozzafava, who supports gay rights and abortion rights and had embraced some Democratic economic policies like the federal stimulus package. They labeled her as too liberal…. Ms. Scozzafava, who was selected as the Republican nominee by the 11 leaders of the county committees... was excoriated by Washington’s CONSERVATIVE ESTABLISHMENT almost as soon as she was nominated.” - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/nyregion/04district.html
“Owens defeated Hoffman DESPITE a VOTER REGISTRATION EDGE of 45,000 for Republicans and big-name endorsements for Hoffman from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson and others.” - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/bill-owens-leads-doug-hof_n_344776.html
In 2010, Hoffman lost the Republican nomination. “But Hoffman said he will actively campaign as the Conservative Party nominee, keeping his word to all those who believe in conservative principles.” - http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/doug_hoffman_to_concede_ny-23.html
In this article, Ayn Rand's intellectual heir, Dr. Peikoff said, "The early Christians did contribute some good ideas to the world, ideas that proved important to the cause of future freedom. I must, so to speak, give the angels their due. In particular, the idea that man has a value as an individual--that the individual soul is precious--is essentially a Christian legacy to the West..."
He also said: "A specter is haunting America -- the specter of religion.... The outstanding political fact of the 1980s is the rise of the New Right, and its penetration of the Republican party under President Reagan.... What we are seeing is the medievalism of the Puritans all over again, but without their excuse of ignorance. We are seeing it on the part of modern Americans, who live not before the Founding Fathers' heroic experiment in liberty, but after it."
The Republican Party must be saved from theocratic Conservatives. I am not a Conservative, nor a Liberal, nor a Libertarian, nor a Progressive. I am Jefferson's REPUBLICAN!
"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read, 'a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;' the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination." - Thomas Jefferson
"But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was JESUS OF NAZARETH. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, EASILY DISTINGUISED BY ITS LUSTRE from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the DIAMOND from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the MOST SUBLIME MORALITY which has ever fallen from the lips of man. The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this BENEVOLENT MORALITY, and rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, invented by ultra-Christian sects, is a most desirable object." - Thomas Jefferson to W. Short, Oct. 31, 1819
Conservatives are confident that they have taken over the Republican Party. On the Fox News Channel on February 19, 2012 between 12:00-12:10 noon, Santorum's spokeswoman mentioned Conservative PARTY at least twice, referring to the GOP. The existing Conservative PARTY is not an American political party but a THEOCRATIC party.
In 2009, the GOP lost New York’s 23rd Congressional District, held by the Republican Party since the Civil War. Conservatives in the GOP chased out pro-choice, pro-gay-rights State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, chosen by local GOP leaders as their nominee, and then supported the CONSERVATIVE PARTY candidate: Douglas Hoffman.
THEOCRACY WARRIORS are mentioned in the following news reports:
“Leading conservative voices — including The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and The Weekly Standard and the talk show personalities Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck — took on the Republican nominee, Assemblywoman Scozzafava, who supports gay rights and abortion rights and had embraced some Democratic economic policies like the federal stimulus package. They labeled her as too liberal….
But the race was perhaps most notable for the fissures it opened in the Republican Party. Ms. Scozzafava, who was selected as the Republican nominee by the 11 leaders of the county committees that comprise this vast district along the Canadian border, was excoriated by Washington’s CONSERVATIVE ESTABLISHMENT almost as soon as she was nominated.” - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/nyregion/04district.html
“Owens defeated Hoffman DESPITE a VOTER REGISTRATION EDGE of 45,000 for Republicans and big-name endorsements for Hoffman from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson and others.” - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/bill-owens-leads-doug-hof_n_344776.html
In 2010, Hoffman lost the Republican nomination. “But Hoffman said he will actively campaign as the Conservative Party nominee, keeping his word to all those who believe in conservative principles.” - http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/doug_hoffman_to_concede_ny-23.html
In 2008, the GOP chose a VP candidate who, like Santorum, attacks Thomas Jefferson's wall of separation.
Republicans: let us defend the WALL of SEPARATION between CHURCH and STATE. Mitt Romney wants to conserve the Declaration of Independence, while his opponents crave to conserve the DARK-AGES.
My old articles:
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/11/theocracy-warriors-rejected-by-new.html
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/02/theocracy-warriors-hurl-progressives.html
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/11/glenn-beck-is-pro-theocracy.html
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/11/republicans-restore-your-party-and-your.html
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act [EMTALA] is the mandate enslaving lifegivers and coddling freeloaders.
The United States Congress passed the EMTALA in 1986, under Ronald Reagan’s watch. The EMTALA requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. The EMTALA applies to virtually all hospitals in the U.S but includes NO PROVISIONS FOR REIMBURSEMENT. The law is therefore considered an "UNFUNDED safety net program" for patients seeking care at the nation's emergency rooms. As a result of the 1986 EMTALA legislation, HOSPITALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY FACE UNPAID BILLS AND MOUNTING EXPENSES TO CARE FOR THE UNINSURED.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act
Romneycare mitigates REAGANCARE, but the dishonest, like Santorum, lie.
The choice of Governor Romney was the bankruptcy and closure of MA hospitals, or a mandate for those who can afford and would be buying insurance were it not on their reliance on the unearned: e.g. the EMTALA.
Honest critics offer alternatives. How would you fund unfunded entitlements while convincing others to end them? How would you avoid the closure of hospitals?
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/09/mitt-romney-thomas-jefferson-and.html
This is Mitt Romney on Romneycare, and its difference with Obamacare @ 18:48 –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_wuYjV1RZs&feature=share
What Romney calls the FREE RIDER option [21:00], where many who can afford health insurance but get emergency or major medical treatment paid for by the government, i.e., you pay for it through taxes, is REAGANCARE.
REAGANCARE [EMTALA] is the mandate for healthcare providers, the mandate enslaving lifesavers and rewarding freeloaders. Romneycare does not favor freeloaders to the detriment of lifesavers and the responsible who buy insurance.
