From your previous postings, its clear that all you plan on doing is straddle the fence. Make no mistake, a battle is coming, and you, me, and every other American WILL have to take a side! I served in the US Army actively for over 22 years, and I can tell you unequivically that most current, prior and vets will NOT back this President or his Administration or their military leaders if and when this domestic timebomb goes off inside America! Where will you stand? I for one will stand on the side of American freedom and liberty! What am I declaring? Civil war in this country is not a matter of if, but when will the core patriot foundation of this country say they've had enough and decide to do something about it.
That is not bluster, that is pure American patriotic t***h! It is coming-you will be forced to choose sides whether you like it or not!!
GOD bless the United States of America!!

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I think I know what you are talking about and I often wonder the same thing. The question is: exactly WHAT to do?
1. The people cannot win a war against this government. It has weapons we do not have access to.
2. The b****t box is terminally c*********d, and factually worthless.
3. For a representative country, we are astoundingly non-represented, and I see little change coming there.
4. Because we have a "President" who thinks he is God, he wants the US Constitution GONE, and is working constantly to accomplish that little bit of housecleaning.
5. Ahhhh......the courts. Uh, no. The courts are as corrupted and staffed with socialists that there is no hope there.
6. The Supreme Court? Nope, no help. It is filled with left wingers, wimps, and battle-axes.
7. So much of our population has been deliberately dumbed down and brainwashed that we cannot expect any help there to restore our once great nation. They simply do as they are programmed to do, and don't know when they have it good or when they have it bad.

So while many of us agree that SOMETHING must be done, the question of "what?" prevents us from doing much of anything.

If just one year, all good Americans refused to file an income tax report, it might be a good thing. Could they arrest all of us? I suppose they COULD, as they have the FEMA camps ready for occupation. They would fine us. If we didn't pay the fines, they may confiscate our homes and property. Would people sit still for that? Have we discussed just who this country belongs to - the citizens or the "government officials"? What would happen if we just all got together, formed our own government and told this current one to "get lost"? Actually that is what I would like to do.

I think I will not file income taxes this year. I am 75, don't have much they could confiscate or that would affect me for decades as it would younger people. If they arrest me, they'll have to feed and cloth me and house me.

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I don't want to stir the waters too much as I value your and RossD's views and desires. However, I also value honesty, and in all honesty I really disagree with you re the "middle of the road" approach to anything. Middle of the road automatically lessens the best approach. I feel that the BEST solution is ALWAYS the correct answer, not some middle of the road "it's the best we can do". My view on compromise is that you come in with one idea how to solve the problem. I come in with another view to solve the problem. We have a method for measuring those two views, and if we must, we even ask others for their opinions. If the best of both plans can be agreed upon as being the best, but the rest of the plans cannot be agreed upon, we either go with one or the other OR we together re-write the remainder of the plan.

That is NOT what happens in our government. The pubbies introduce a bill, the dems automatically diss it, and historically the pubbies accept the loss.............THAT has been happening for decades.............and the average republican h**es that - we don't want to live under l*****t RULE. For a change the Republicans are fighting back for their very principles on which they were founded. For once the conservative Republicans in government are actually REPRESENTING a huge portion of their e*****rate. Those who do less will LOSE their next e******n.

As to being polite on posts, I believe most of us feel we are at war, verbal war as we have no other power than that of speech. The warrior who fights politely in this day and age will be slaughtered, right or wrong. No one is going to call me a cunt, a whore, an asshole, a teabagger and walk away unscathed. Make no mistake, l*****ts have called me those things (and worse) on these types of forums. Just because their leaders have taught them that this is how to fight does not mean they get to automatically win. We in the public KNOW that. If our leaders insist on misleading the herds, WE WILL attempt to do the leading. People who deny observable, notable, documented FACTS need to be told they are believing lies instead of their eyes and brains.
Some people don't even know how to communicate without hatred - those would be the militant left, and to a lesser degree the militant right.

I've always been of the opinion that centrist, mutually agreed on policy and politicians have done more to benefit this country than the shrill optics of today's "leaders." But I'm also a realist. Our society is simply mimicking what we see in media. Trash talk and bombast create reported soundbites. People revel in watching "real housewives" kick the crap out of each other.

The tipping point for me (from a political point of view), will be watching to see what real damage the tea party (or more aptly their antics) will cause in upcoming e******ns. If the e*****rate washes some out, it just might tone down the screechy rhetoric.

Sure. Everyone is entitled to a particular point of view. I have no problem with people being adamant about their cause. But I do have problem with folks who denigrate opposing points of views...especially when their actions and beliefs have caused problems they ascribe to others behavior. The debate over the federal debt is just one example.