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The “Right” Is Wrong

The “Right” Is WrongAugust 13, 2009Raynard JacksonAlways be weary when someone begins a sentence with, “I have the right---!” I can guarantee you that the next statement will not end with, “but I have a responsibility to--!”During these summer town-hall meetings, everyone has been asserting their “right” to be heard and speak before their fellow citizens. Well, the last time I read my constitution, I found no guaranteed right to speak at a public meeting, no right to be heard, nor a right to disrupt a meeting because you disagree with the views of others.We have created a culture where college students interrupt their own graduations because they don’t agree with the choice of speakers. If they don’t like the speaker, then don’t participate in the graduation. But, they do not have a “right” to be heard because they disagree with the choice of speaker.There is no constitutional “right” to walk into a Catholic Church service and to extol the virtues of being a Baptist. If you disagree with Catholicism, then find a church you agree with or start your own church with like minded people. But, there is absolutely no “right” for you to be disruptive.If your member of Congress is holding a town-hall meeting, you can participate in the discussion; but then you have the responsibility and obligation to sit quiet and let others voice their position.There is no question that Republicans are fanning some of this ignorance at these town-hall meetings. Republicans are supposed to be the party of values, but this vitriol directed at the president of the United States is embarrassing and should not be tolerated.I don’t have a problem with Republicans calling Obama out on policy! But this continued birther movement, comparing Obama to Nazis, and all the racial language directed at the Obama family, is beneath Republican principles. Republicans have a right to disagree with the Obama policies, but they also have the absolute responsibility to keep the rhetoric focused on policy, not all the extraneous issues.So, the Republican line is to cite examples of Democrats attacking former president Bush (the son). Well, that’s like one of your kids saying all of their friends stay out past midnight, so they should be able to as well. What others are doing is of no consequence. We Republicans are supposed to be a party of principles. We must expect more from our party. We must remain the party of principles, even when the opposition doesn’t.We must continue to honor and celebrate the right of free speech given to us by the constitution, but just as important is the responsibility that goes along with that right. Senator Jon Ensign and Governor Mark Sanford both have the right to remain in office, legally (after admitting to sexual affairs with other women); but they have the responsibility to resign because of the principles they violated. They violated the principles of fidelity to God, to their wives and to their families.It is not consistent with our party’s values to point to members of the Democratic Party who are guilty of the same transgressions. Either we are going to be a party of principles or we are not. But we must take a very public stand when it comes to upholding the principles we organized around.People have confused “being right” with having a constitutional right. Protesters who are interrupting these meetings feel that everyone has a “right to hear their opinions!” There is no right to interrupt a meeting.We must get back to the days when people respected the office of the presidency and congress. But, unfortunately, politicians haven’t exactly earned this respect of late. Like hamburger and French fries, like Abbot and Costello, so “rights” and responsibility go together.The “right” is wrong without the corresponding responsibility.Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-based political consulting/government affairs firm. You can listen to his radio show every Saturday evening from 7-9:00 p.m. Go to www.ustalknetwork.com to register and then click on host, and then click on his photo to join his group.
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  • BILL OF RIGHTS
    Amendment I

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances


    LET US NOT FORGET, WE ARE DEALING WITH A GOV. THAT LIED TO GO TO WAR IN IRAQ AND IN THE PAST, A GOV. THAT HAS ABRIGDED THE LIBERITES OF THE PEOPLE BASED ON THOSE LIES THROUGH THE PATRIOT ACTS AND HOMELAND SECURITY. THIS SAME GOV. NOW HAS MILITARY PATROLLING THE STEETS. WHY?

    THE SAME GOV. THAT HAS MILITARIZED AFRICA, USING AFRICOM WHICH HAS BEEN BROKERED BY YOUR NEWLY SELECTED TO SERVE WHITE IMPEREALISIM , SO CALLED PRESIDENT.

    Not Shouting

    The sad thing about it, is that the Constitution does not pretain to us, As we were "Emancipated "and given "Civil Rights " under the illegal 14th Amendment. We have
    been mis-informed, about our political status in Amerikkka, and that is why we are mystifed when we see the increased brutality and violence metted out to our people in this day and time.


    PEOPLE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE ANGRY, RUDE AND OUTRAGED!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL36ZjUq0K0


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUP66blTyQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NicBfs5Ok

    AND IF THAT'S NOT BAD ENOUGH
    [PDF]
    Civilian Inmate Labor Program
    793k - Adobe PDF - View as html

    Figure 1–1: Civilian Inmate Labor Program process, page 3 ... Labor Program and civilian inmate prison camps with the Assistant Chief of Staff ...

    www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/ r210_ 35.pdf




    PRESS RELEASE

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    It's the U.S. Population that Rejects Obama's Nazi Health Policy
    Aug. 7, 2009 (EIRNS)—Despite a barrage of propaganda from the Obama Administration claiming that the overwhelming and tumultuous rejection of the President's health-care plan (and economic policy, in general) at town hall meetings around the country, is the work of a small group of right-wing Republican conspirators, the truth cannot be hidden. The American citizens who are pouring out in unprecedented numbers to these local meetings, are motivated by their real hatred of what the Obama Administration is doing to them, and plans to do, on behalf of the financiers. They are independents, Democrats, and Republicans—with nary a Brooks Brothers suit among them, and clearly not under anyone's control.

    What is underway is a dramatic political shift, in which the American people are determined to make their voices heard. This shift occurred simultaneous with LaRouche's Aug. 1 webcast, and is also informed by the aggressive campaign which LaRouche PAC has been waging since April, against the increasingly fascist nature of the Obama Administration. Increasingly, LPAC's aggressive exposé of the Nazi T4 program, which is the model for Obama's health "reform," is being picked up by Republicans as well, and, not surprisingly, the plan is being rejected. Anyone over 50, handicapped, or with a chronic illness, is targetted for denial of care, and perhaps death, in the Nazi cost-cutting drive which the Administration is attempting to ram through.

    Under these circumstances, the key proponents of the Nazi proposals, and the Congressmen and Senators who have been threatened and pressured by the Obama Administration, are going absolutely hysterical. Why else would Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) say, as he did on Aug. 5, at a press conference on the "progress" of the health-care bill in the Senate:
    Our job is to make sure that we're undeterred—undeterred by what we hear at town hall meetings and what we read and what we watch.... It's an easy choice. You go for getting the bill by whatever means you have to, stretching the bipartisanship as far as you can. If that works, fine. If it doesn't, then go on to something else, but you've got to get the bill. You have to have the bill.

    In other words, don't listen to the people. Ram it through. This, from the Senator who has taken the lead in proposing to set up a board of "experts" that will decide what treatments will not be paid for, in such a way that it will be insulated from political pressure.
    Obama, that London stooge, and his coterie of Nazi advisors are in big trouble, and they know it. They have been virtually ordered to ram the health policy through, as a means of imposing fascist austerity, and they have not even succeeded in getting a unified bill produced in either the House, or the Senate. They are way behind schedule—and headed for a colossal failure.
    Where this clash goes, now depends upon the degree of influence which Lyndon LaRouche and his political action committee can gain, fast, and the nerve of those members of the institution of the Presidency, to act to control the President. LaRouche warned in his webcast, that a refusal to get immediate action on his revolutionary reform proposals, could lead to such a chaotic breakdown and crisis by October, that there would be the danger of dictatorship. But there is a clear alternative, LaRouche pointed out—and it had better be taken now.

    www.larouchepac.com

    www.worldreports.org

    "Every activity that asserts individuality and autonomy from corporate/government/religious control is in itself a profoundly revolutionary act."

    THAT INCLUDES CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE



    RESIST AFRICOM, RESIST FORCED VACCINATIONS, RESIST FEMA AND CIVILIAN INMATE LABOR PROGRAMS




    https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BAFB91F63BEA261&search...

    THAT'S RIGHT ACT UP, !! (your life may just depend on it!)


  • Chicago-Midwest
    Too bad we need them to think for the whole,
    because they're too much like us as individuals
  • West
    What is the difference between the republicans and the democrats?

    Not a Penny Worth of a Difference.

    Divine loving
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