Freedom-Fighters Forum

Posted by Alan Caruba on December 25, 2011 on TeaPartyNation

Many people make resolutions to start the year, but I think a list of things that must be done to protect and preserve the Republic should be tallied.

1. President Obama must be defeated in 2012 and the obstructionist Democratic Party must lose power in the Senate to ensure both houses of Congress will be Republican and in a position to initiate real change.

2. The Environmental Protection Agency must be reined in with increased Congressional oversight and (more…)

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

In a previous article I wrote, “To be an American is to have the Light of Liberty radiating within your soul because the Fire of Freedom is burning fearlessly and determinedly [fiercely] in your heart not just for yourself but for all men everywhere.” Some have suggested that Liberty and Freedom are synonymous. This seems to be true when using a current dictionary, but during our Founding Fathers era I do not believe this was so.

It might be of interest to know that the word Liberty is used three time in the Constitution, once each in the Preamble, the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. Each of these references refer to our unalienable right from God to Liberty. The word Freedom appears but once in the First Amendment. This reference is associated with our freedom of speech, press and right to assembly.

In the following treatise, I use Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary to define the terms “Liberty” and “Freedom” because his listed definitions would be much closer to the understanding of our Founding Fathers. The semantics of a word often changes as time rolls on from year to year. Often it is therefore important to return to the past to understand what was being written in our founding documents. I believe it is very important for We the People, individually and as a nation, to understand the difference between Liberty and Freedom if we are to preserve the VISION of our Founding Fathers and the Constitutional Republic they gave us.

In the Declaration of Independence our Founding Fathers wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” A “self-evident” truth according to Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary is one which is evident without proof or reasoning or that produces certainty or clear conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind. To be “endowed” with an “unalienable right” is to be indued, clothed or invested with a “right” that may not be transferred. Therefore, the “self-evident” Liberty mentioned in the Declaration of Independence is an endowment or gift to “all men” from their Creator [Almighty God] that may NOT be transferred. Further because our Liberty comes from God, it is self-evident that no man has the power or right to abridge another man’s God-given right to Liberty without the permission of that man.

Noah Webster defined Liberty as follows: (more…)

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

During the American Revolution there were approximately three million citizens in the thirteen colonies. Of these about one million were Americans seeking independence, about one million were Tories loyal to the Crown, and the remaining one million were “fence-sitters” waiting to see which way to jump or they just did not care about Liberty and Freedom one way or the other.

I am grateful to our Founding Fathers and their American compatriots who labored and fought so diligently to win our independence and secure our unalienable rights from our Creator to Life, Liberty, and Property. I am grateful to the American patriots who fought to preserve the Union while we were in the crucible of Civil War. I am also grateful for all Americans who have striven throughout our history to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Those who maintained a deep and abiding faith in our Constitutional Republic, our founding documents and the desire that their posterity would have a better America than they had received from their forefathers. For a greater truth has never been spoken than this, “To maintain the American way of life and pass it intact to succeeding generations is the responsibility of every true American.”

Why is it that our Founding Fathers and their compatriots were so fearlessly and determinedly American and We the People of today are not? There must be some cause, some good reason, why the Founding Fathers and their compatriots were so eager for Liberty then, and now We the People are eager for the servitude of the Welfare Socialist State?

Why are there so many divided Americans in our nation today? Why have they forgotten the essence of the expression on the Great Seal of the United States – E pluribus unum [Out of many, one]? What has happened to the once “great melting pot” that forged a great nation out of self-reliance, self-determination and the universal opportunity to try, to strive, to succeed or to fail? Why has America become the “great sectional plate” divided by class and ethnicity? Could it be that Americans have forgotten what it means to be an American? (more…)

Freedom-Fighters Forum is not publishing this as an endorsement but as interesting information promoting a guy who is undeniably impressive but about whom little is generally known despite his record of accomplishments.

Herman Cain is running for president. He’s not a career politician (in fact he has never held political office). He’s known as a pizza guy, but there’s a lot more to him. He’s also a computer guy, a banker guy, and a rocket scientist guy.

Here’s his bio:

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Morehouse College in 1967.

Master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics (making him a rocket scientist).

Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.

VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).

Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants (more…)

By Greg Gutfell, The Five on Fox News Channel

September 23, 2011

On a cable access network seen by twelve people currently housed in a mental health facility, film maker Michael Moore had something to say about the pathetic protest on Wall Street. I believe it was on a program called “Breakdown” with Kevin Overman. I think it is filmed in a storage locker under an overpass. Anyway he has a warning for the rich.

Moore: “Then the smart rich know they can only build the gate so high. And – and sooner or later history proves that people when they have had enough they aren’t going to take it any more. And it is much better to deal with it nonviolently now though the political system than what can possibly happen in the future which nobody wants to see.”

Yeah, nobody wants to see. That’s why you brought it up. But really if this warning of violence isn’t class warfare then what is? And it boils down to one simple fact. The power of the left is based on an implied threat, if you don’t give it to us some day we’re going to take it from you. You saw it in England looting camouflaged as rage. It’s really just greed exercised by people whose sole achievement is a nose ring. While the Tea party embraces the spirit of the American Revolution through the principles of the Founders, the left prefers the French Revolution where you cut throats and ask questions later. But of course, it’s those crazy right-wingers in tricorn hats we have got to worry about. Those hats are pointy.

By Robert T. “Bob” Uda

We do not need to take America back if we never give it away in the first place! So, let us keep it.

I am another Democrat-Liberal-Progressive’s worst nightmare.

I am a Yellow (i.e., American of Japanese Ancestry, AJA), “strict constructionist” Constitutional Conservative, taxpaying, American USAF veteran, and weapon-owning landlubber.

I am a writer/author, engineer, grass-root activist, philosopher, churchman, educator, businessman, entrepreneur, consultant, researcher, and counterterrorist. I work hard, long hours with my brains to earn a living.

I believe in Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost and freedom of religion, but I will not bug you about it.

I drive a Honda Civic that gets good gas mileage. However, I do not drive it because of energy efficiency, clean air, or green reasons. I drive it only because, (more…)

By Ron Coody
Istanbul, Turkey
July 12, 2011

I’ve read a little bit in recent days about the case of the death of Caylee Anthony. It’s tragic, unbelievably tragic. The court acquitted her mother of murder. What’s so unbelievably frustrating and unjust in the matter is that a little girl died and was tossed out. The mother doesn’t seem to care. Where is the desperate attempt to locate the person who put duct tape on Caylee’s mouth and let her to decay in the woods? Where is the heart-wrenching sense of loss that a normal mother would feel at losing her child? All the mother seems to care about is having gotten off free.

Maybe this is a chance for public attitudes to change. Perhaps something good will come out of this. Something deeply inside of us is enraged (more…)

Hmmmmmm….. such truth here…..

So true!!!!

I’m always impressed when the absolute truth shows up in short form:

As I came out of the supermarket that sunny day, pushing my cart of groceries towards my car, I saw an old man with the hood of his car up and a lady sitting inside the car, with the door open. The old man was looking at the engine. I put my groceries away in my car, and continued to watch the old gentleman from about twenty five feet away.

I saw a young man in his early twenties with a grocery bag in his arm walking towards the old man. The old gentleman saw him coming too, and took a few steps towards him.

I saw the old gentleman point to his open hood and say something. The young man put his grocery bag into what looked like a brand new Cadillac Escalade. He then turned back to the old man. I heard him yell at the old gentleman saying: “You shouldn’t even be allowed to drive a car at your age.” And then with a wave of his hand, (more…)

Father Dennis Edward O’Brien
Sergeant, USMC

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag.