90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Girls With Guns - Independence Day Edition!!

Democrats Are Totalitarians That Do Not Believe In Free Speech.

On The Morality Of Individualism...

Socialism places the collective “good” over the well-being of the individual.

Socialism Is Collectivism.

Deindividualize Then Subjugate...

The Democrat Pledge Of Allegiance Is Different From Ours....

Kamala Did Have A Little African In Her...

Willie Brown admits it: Kamala Harris slept her way to the top

Did Podesta’s Ex-Wife Pay Off Kamala Harris to Give Pyramid Scheme a Pass

The Kamala Harris Road To Success:

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Hey Kamala, This Is Who Else Hates ICE....

NINE TIMES THE MEDIA PUSHED MISINFORMATION ABOUT KAVANAUGH

This Is Why ANTIFA Wears Masks..

...And Of Course To Commit Violence When They Find Someone Alone...

Happy Independence Day!!!!

On The 4th Of July, We Celebrate Our Day Of Independence!

Trump Slams 'Dumb & Disloyal' Amash As Congressman Quits Republican Party

President Trump has apparently taken a quick break from preparing for today's festivities to take one last swing at Amash on his way out the door. In a tweet, Trump called him "the dumbest & most disloyal [man] in Congress". Trump insisted Amash "knew he couldn't get the nomination to run again in the Great State of Michigan" - something that we mentioned earlier as a possible motivating factor for Amash's decision to quit the Republican Party.

By adding the quotes around quitting, Trump also suggests - as we did earlier - that Amash was effectively pushed out over his impeachment comments.

We imagine this just made Amash's holiday.

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With most Americans away from their desks and enjoying a long weekend with the family, Michigan Congressman Justin Amash - you might remember him as the one and only Republican Congressman who has publicly expressed support for impeaching President Trump - just announced that he's resigning from the Republican Party, presumably to start a #NeverTrump party of one.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Amash claimed that he had become "disenchanted" with the Republican Party. Instead of putting the interest of 'the people' first, Amash said the party has become mostly self-serving for itself and its corporate backers. He also claimed that this political agenda had thrown the system of checks and balances in the federal government hopelessly out of whack (an interesting claim, considering how district courts have struck down most of the administration's big immigration initiative, and the House is presently mulling over whether to try and impeach the president).

True to Washington’s fears, Americans have allowed government officials, under assertions of expediency and party unity, to ignore the most basic tenets of our constitutional order: separation of powers, federalism and the rule of law. The result has been the consolidation of political power and the near disintegration of representative democracy.

These are consequences of a mind-set among the political class that loyalty to party is more important than serving the American people or protecting our governing institutions. The parties value winning for its own sake, and at whatever cost. Instead of acting as an independent branch of government and serving as a check on the executive branch, congressional leaders of both parties expect the House and Senate to act in obedience or opposition to the president and their colleagues on a partisan basis.

In this hyperpartisan environment, congressional leaders use every tool to compel party members to stick with the team, dangling chairmanships, committee assignments, bill sponsorships, endorsements and campaign resources. As donors recognize the growing power of party leaders, they supply these officials with ever-increasing funds, which, in turn, further tightens their grip on power.

The founders envisioned Congress as a deliberative body in which outcomes are discovered. We are fast approaching the point, however, where Congress exists as little more than a formality to legitimize outcomes dictated by the president, the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader.

Even with modern politics in a "death spiral", as Amash described it, he does see a way out: More Americans need to participate in the political system by voting, particularly those who are less interested in politics, since they tend to be less partisan. Rejecting both the modern Republican and Democratic parties in favor of independent candidates is, as Amash sees it, the only way to preserve American

liberty.

“The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

Finally, the Congressman started the column by recounting his father's journey to the US as a Palestinian refugee.

It's already suspicious that Amash & WaPo decided to publish this op-ed on the Fourth of July, when it would almost certainly get drowned out by coverage of a hot-dog eating contest in Coney Island and, of course, President Trump's 'Inauguration 2.0' Washington rally, which the president says will feature tanks and - more controversially - 'advanced aircraft' (note: DoD officials have insisted that aircraft not be used).

So much so, that we're inclined to believe that the timing was deliberate - that he released it on a day when everybody else is distracted, hoping that it would get lost in the never-ending accumulation of political headlines. Is the Washington Post widely read in Amash's Republican-leaning district in Michigan? We very much doubt it.

Amash's decision to quit the party will almost certainly cost him his ...

Our Ancestors Fought With Guns To End Tyranny. This Is Why Owning Guns Is In Our Constitution As An Inalienable Right.

Independence Day

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States.

Each year on the fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event.

The Declaration of Independence

Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776.

In a June 7 session in the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

Lee's words were the impetus for the drafting of a formal Declaration of Independence, although the resolution was not followed up on immediately.

A committee of five was appointed to draft the declaration, and the task itself fell on Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Discussions of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence resulted in some minor changes, but the spirit of the document went unchanged.

The process of revision by the Continental Congress began July 1, then continued through all of July 3 and into the late afternoon of July 4, when the Declaration was officially adopted. Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained.

John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence. It is said that John Hancock's signed his name "with a great flourish" so England's "King George can read that without spectacles!"

Today, the original copy of the Declaration is housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and the fourth of July has been designated a national holiday to commemorate the day the United States laid down its claim to be a free and independent nation.

Happy Independence Day!

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