Richard Savage
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2007
- Messages
- 183
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor - he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation - he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city - he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared...."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.E.
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The so-called "Tea Party Patriots" are simpletons: they are always bringing up the "founding fathers" and the Constitution - as if any of them ever read the Constitution, much less understand its provisions for the foundation of our government. "We want our country back!" - they shout. It’s laughable. They are like the evangelical Christians that misquote the gospels and ask, insipidly: "What would Jesus do?" They are stooges and shills for those who would use them to their own cross-purposes - those who would undermine the very foundations of the nation. There are some that believe they have the right to take up arms against their lawfully constituted government! Beware those behind the Tea Party - those shadowy, anonymous figures behind the curtain that pull the strings of this puppet show. They are not patriots; they are not loyal citizens; they are subversives.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.E.
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The so-called "Tea Party Patriots" are simpletons: they are always bringing up the "founding fathers" and the Constitution - as if any of them ever read the Constitution, much less understand its provisions for the foundation of our government. "We want our country back!" - they shout. It’s laughable. They are like the evangelical Christians that misquote the gospels and ask, insipidly: "What would Jesus do?" They are stooges and shills for those who would use them to their own cross-purposes - those who would undermine the very foundations of the nation. There are some that believe they have the right to take up arms against their lawfully constituted government! Beware those behind the Tea Party - those shadowy, anonymous figures behind the curtain that pull the strings of this puppet show. They are not patriots; they are not loyal citizens; they are subversives.
