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Found this in an email I sent to our sheriff when Oregon tried to shove measure 114 down our throats. Thought it still had relevance.
I had a dream the other night, I didn’t understand. A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:
“We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
“The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you’d always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you’re no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave.
“You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun, Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money’s spent.
“Your children must attend a school that doesn’t educate. Your Christian values can’t be taught, according to the state. You read about the current news, in a regulated press. You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.
“Your money is no longer made of Silver or of Gold. You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our Nation, turn from God in shame. You’ve taken Satan’s number, as you’ve traded in your name.
“You’ve given government control, to those who do you harm, So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm, And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail, Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.
“Your public servants don’t uphold the solemn oath they’ve sworn. Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won’t be born. Your leaders ship artillery, and guns to foreign shores, And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people’s wars.
“Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died? Or don’t you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride? Are there no more values for which you’ll fight to save? Or do you wish your children, to live in fear and be a slave?
“People of the Republic, arise and take a stand! Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land! Preserve our Great Republic, and GOD-Given Right! And pray to GOD, to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!”
As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not Free, we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants, trample each GOD-Given Right, We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.
If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you’re asleep, And wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep, What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave: “IS THIS STILL THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE???"
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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Good Poet for sure with a strong message.
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Pretty good for a fellow who was pissing his pants about going to Richmond 😀 Kenneth
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Good Poet for sure with a strong message. Happy Camper LOL
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chipsNdips- honey hand me another pepsi- love this barca lounger- too chilly and windy to play golf, i'll watch nfl reruns- Ahh life is good
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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We’ve got you My Little Pretties
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Do you know the Author? Very well done. Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died? Or don’t you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride? Are there no more values for which you’ll fight to save? Or do you wish your children, to live in fear and be a slave
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Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed reading it, and it’s surely a message that we all need to hear and to heed I remember reading something very similar, but I don’t remember it being written as a poem. I think it was title a Visit From A Minute Man or something? Does that ring a bell for you? This is great. What is your source? Can it be reprinted and shared? I need to make a couple copies to post in a couple gun clubs! Reon
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
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I'm sorry I don't know where I got it.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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According to the 'fire, it's the boomers fault.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
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Very well done, thank you
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PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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"Aim right, squeeze light" " Might as well hit what you're aiming at, it kicks the same whether you miss or not" NRA Life, GOA
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The four boxes of freedom, “the soap box”, the ballot box”, “the jury box”. And the “cartridge box”. Where are we today in this process of securing our freedoms?
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