Common Sense?

Question

Could Thomas Paine arguments in the first part about the Origin and Design of Government apply to todays American government just as well? If we were to substitute the word President for King and Congress for Parliament the result is startling.

http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense2.htm

Answer 1

Thomas Paine's " Common Sense" could definately apply to us now the whole time I was reading it I was thinking " wow if only every american would read this (and act on it) our country would be a lot better off.

Answer 2

We the people talk about being a free country under rule of law, but we are free no more. America is a country run by the rule of men and women without regard for the state or federal constitutions intended to limit, not expand, their power. Our leaders, all but a few, are corrupted by power. And worse is that we the people tolerate it on a daily basis and let the mainstream media manipulate our minds, feed us lies, disinformation and propaganda, and make decisions for us. Our choices for leaders are all from the same school with similar agendas.

We the people talk about democracy, but are run more like a totalitarian dictatorship with absolute disregard for the rights and property of the people of this country and the people of other countries around the world. Yet we stand by, do little or nothing and tolerate this abuse instead of accepting responsibility for our


present condition.

The American military fights wars of intervention to bolster our weak economy and dependency on oil, and has done so for fifty or more years. The American military is being used by the global elite to implement a new world order agenda of one world government, one world bank, one world money system, one world military under the absolute control of a plutocracy, and has done so for decades. This is not America, not the America I love and celebrate this July 4th.


Wake up America

The American people have fallen asleep at the wheel of the worlds only superpower. Its time to wake-up, stand up and be counted. With over 2.1 million people behind bars, mostly for nonviolent, political crimes against the State, America has the distinction of being the prison capital of the world.

While our children and their education has been all but abandoned by schools and parents alike; while the core family unit is broken; while the sick and diseased are left without health care and sold expensive drugs instead; while the environment is destroyed by over consumption and excess and while our moral condition is undermined by mass media, we the people have been asleep for decades. Isnt it time to wake-up America?


The tyranny of England in the 1700s has been replaced with the tyranny of an ever-increasing government presence and control over every aspect of our lives. Freedom and democracy are but dreams the past. While rights and liberties are being sacrificed for the illusory war on terror, America is drifting down the unholy road of tyranny, a tyranny of both an unlimited government and the tyranny of the masses of disenfranchised US citizens (i.e., economic slaves).

The emerging tyranny of the federal United States government is beyond compare and has been usurped by the global elite (e.g., 9/11) for the explicit purpose of creating a world government system under their absolute control (e.g., NAFTA, GATT, WTO, IMF). The American military is the new world army, invading any country (starting with the poorer ones like Afghanistan and Iraq who cannot defend themselves) daring to challenge a world authority by asserting national sovereignty.


Over six-hundred types of taxes, inflation and devaluation of the US Dollar burden the poor even more than the rich in America, as the power structure has found effective ways to structure assets and diversify to minimize liabilities.

Taxes consume up to 60% of the annual incomes of most Americans. Abolishing the personal and corporate income tax would not only provide an annual raise of household income, provide an incentive to empower the producers, but stop much of the corruption, theft of the public trust and wasteful pork in Washington DC

it will take more than fireworks, flag waving and hot dogs to restore independence in these united states of America. America of the past is gone. America before 9/11 is gone forever.


The America of the future will become a totalitarian, police state under the thumb of Orwells greatest nightmare. Worse is the majority of the American people dont care, stand by and do nothing except turn the channel. We the people are entertaining ourselves to death under the gray sky. Love for country and a moral conscience, besides hollow patriotism and blind obedience, have all but vanished from the political landscape of scarcity-based thinking, corruption, greed, violence, moral degradation, usury and exploitation.

Well, my American friends there are solutions for those with the ears to hear, if we the people bring them forth and dare to take action before its too late. The hour is passing and quickly Americans will be on the road of no return and extinction. As Thomas Jefferson once predicted, Americans will one day wake up homeless in the land of their forefathers And so it is happening. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of
the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power,
than by violent and sudden usurpations." -James Madison