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Well said henri.

Free health care , free food ,free housing, no work. I want this for myself. I wish WE Taxpayers were Not paying for all of this....

The USA is so worried about it's stand in the worlds eye. They could careless about the People who foot the bill "WE THE PEOPLE." WE get nothing. Just go and try to get all of above. you will be DENIED.

Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman

Liberty Counsel

A crucial hearing will take place next Thursday.

Please forward this message to your friends. --Mat

We just received word that President Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Thursday in support of the anti-faith Hate Crimes bill.

This is a follow up to Attorney General Holder's statements earlier this week which amounted to nothing more than politically motivated fear-mongering.

It is clear what the Obama team is doing...

They are laying the political "cover" for the Senate to pass a Hate Crimes bill that gives special protections based on "sexual identity" while refusing to protect the religious liberties of millions of Americans!

+ + Let's Greet Mr. Holder with 100,000 Petitions!

I just asked for a count of our petition opposing this anti-faith Hate Crimes bill and have been told that -- thanks to you and so many others who have signed -- we recently crossed 83,000! So here's my challenge to you:

When you help me reach 100,000 petitions by next

Wednesday NOON, I will make sure these petitions get

delivered to the ranking members on the Senate Judiciary

Committee in time for the 10am Thursday hearing.

Please forward this message to your friends and urge them

to sign the petition now:

http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?u=19829&PID=20854830&P=1

The fact that the Senate's leadership has been forced to have hearings on the Hate Crimes bill is a tremendous victory!

The enormous pressure we have brought to bear through previous petition deliveries, massive fax campaigns and an avalanche of calls has forced them to change their plans!

++ Now is the time to really turn up the heat!

This new anti-faith Hate Crimes law isn't really about protecting anyone's rights. It is all about giving Holder's federal prosecutors more power to prosecute their version of political correctness!

We simply cannot sit by and let the Obama team dictate on this issue and paint Christians like you and me as evil doers and "haters" in this debate!

Again... the hearing is Thursday at 10am. I want to make sure this Committee receives 100,000 petitions, but to do so I need you to help me reach 17,000 more friends right away. Please forward this message to 10, 20 or 30 of your friends today:

http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?u=19829&PID=20854830&P=1

Thank you and may God bless you.

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman

Liberty Counsel

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I called the white house yesterday because I got a text asking me to call and support the fast track bull.I called and said enforce the laws.Even the message when i called told me what to say.lol the guy didn't like what i said so he hung up on me.Seems they count the calls against it as for it.I could tell the guy was harassed all day on this.Liars claim 21000 called to support it.Seems to me 21000 is nothing compared to the 200 million that don't want it.Obama and crew are some of the stupidest commies I have ever had try to screw me out of my vote.

Hey, if they can speed up the process and get those illegals voting they will have a whole new crop of democrat voters! They love those illegals!

Check out numbersusa and follow the congress link and see who is up for re-election.

I would also like to apologize to the slave owners who were dead before my family came to America,for the grave injustices imparted on them by thier ancesters.

They will still be blaming slavery a thousand years from now, it's a convenient excuse for failure.

Democracy:

A government of the masses.

Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.

Results in mobocracy.

Attitude toward property is comunistic-negating property rights.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Results in demagogism license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.

A certain Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago, had this to say about Democracy: " A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship."

A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action. There is only one dissenting vote, and that is cast by the person at the end of the rope.

Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.

Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.

Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.

A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.

Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of:

an executive and

a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create

a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize

certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."

A republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if a majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.

Difference between Democracy and Republic, in brief:

Democracy:

a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority.

b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences

Republic

a: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government.

b: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.

Democracy and Republic are often taken as one of the same thing, but there is a fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensuring some rights and protection to Minorities and individuals.

The difference between Republic and Righteous Republic is that in the Republic the Government rules according to the law set up by men, in the Righteous Republic the law is the Law of God. Only in the Righteous Republic it can truly be said "One nation under God" for it is governed under commandments of the only One True God and there is no pluralism of religions.

Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered.

Mobocracy: 1. Political control by a mob. 2. The mass of common people as the source of political control.