--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > > > > > Smoking pot makes ya lazy and stupid, that's why society has > >enacted > > laws agin it (not that this alcohol-based society has a leg up on > > stupidity). These kids threw away the opportunity to really expand > > their consciousness through TM and, proving the point about how > > stupid pot makes ya, used 100x the electricity an ordinary > >household > > would use just so Sheriff John would get the message. > > > > > The question recurs, "how shall we fortify against it?" > > The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, > every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the > Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the > country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. > > As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration > of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let > every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-- > let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the > blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his > children's liberty. > > Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to > the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap--let it be taught in > schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in > Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;--let it be preached from > the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts > of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of > the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the > grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and > conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars. > > While ever a state of feeling, such as this, shall universally, or > even, very generally prevail throughout the nation, vain will be > every effort, and fruitless every attempt, to subvert our national > freedom. > > They were a fortress of strength; but, what invading foeman could > never do, the silent artillery of time has done; the leveling of its > walls. They are gone.--They were a forest of giant oaks; but the all- > resistless hurricane has swept over them, and left only, here and > there, a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its > foliage; unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few gentle breezes, > and to combat with its mutilated limbs, a few more ruder storms, then > to sink, and be no more. > > They were the pillars of the temple of liberty; and now, that they > have crumbled away, that temple must fall, unless we, their > descendants, supply their places with other pillars, hewn from the > solid quarry of sober reason. Passion has helped us; but can do so no > more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, > unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future > support and defence.--Let those materials be moulded into general > intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the > constitution and laws: and, that we improved to the last; that we > remained free to the last; that we revered his name to the last; > that, during his long sleep, we permitted no hostile foot to pass > over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the > last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON. > > Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its > basis; and as truly as has been said of the only greater > institution, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." > > > > Jai Guru Dev >
Like Ron Paul observed,"things will have to get worse before people get the message" Looks like things are going that way and still no one notices.
