Why Thomas Jefferson Would Be The GOP's Public Enemy #1 If He Said This Today

---------" To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."---------------

Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner.

-------" I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious"--------

Like himself.

--------" The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."--------

Like not allowing him to be a parasite on the industry and fruits of the labor of others?

-------" When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."---------

When the government fears the people, there is repression.

--------" I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."-------

How was the Louisiana Purchase oppressive. That took money away from citizens and spent it with reckless disregard for the will of the people?

Thomas Jefferson did more to expand the role of the Federal Government than any other president for 75 years.

------" Jefferson would not have made a very good liberal by todays standards."-------

Thomas Jefferson would have made an excellent hypocrite by today's standards.

Say one thing, but do the opposite.

What a bunch of contextual crap.

How many lobbyist are in Washington or have been in Washington for the last say, 50 or 60 years?

What's the point?

Big money / big business has been perverting our laws, regulations and politicians.

Why is this relevant?

Big money / big business has bribed it's way into an immoral position of stealing a disproportionate amount of the "industry and skill" of the American People, on this fact you are lost.

Why do some fail to see or realize the unfairness our economic system has drifted into?

Because they lack the "industry and skill" to make or accomplish something for themselves, therefore they project onto ALL others their own lack and shortcoming - while simultaneously seeking the ego satisfaction associating themselves with the modern version of a super ego, the ultra wealthy.

huh????

Then you are suggesting that Jefferson was, in fact, a liberal much like liberals today.

i know right? you can hardly judge a man from one misrepresented quote. his entire carreer is a better example to pull from. tom definately would be a modern day republican and or tea partier

i believe he fucked a few as well

10 4 and has continued unabated under the obama regime...Obama Backers Tied to Lobbies Raise Millions
WASHINGTON — Despite a pledge not to take money from lobbyists, President Obama has relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid. At least 15 of Mr. Obama’s “bundlers” — supporters who contribute their own money to his campaign and solicit it from others — are involved in lobbying for Washington consulting shops or private companies. They have raised more than $5 million so far for the campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/us/politics/obama-bundlers-have-ties-to-lobbyi...

thats blasphemous

+^d

Wrong group dirtman. This applies to the liberal part of the country.

Uhm,.....so , she goes to church,....you have issues with that ?

Actually, our economy and opportunity has sucked since the founding of this nation, we need to flush that interfering Constitution down the can and let Obama do what he wants. We are smarter than the Soviets, smarter than Castro, smarter than Jung Il, we can make Communism work here, we can call it, Neo-Communism, or resurrect the Progressive Movement, sounds fresher than the tried and failed version. To hell with individual rights,we should impose the dictates that the great and noble leadership of China has on their people. Our Dear Leader himself, the smartest man in the world, also agrees that we should be more like China. We need to eradicate those interfering Republitards from Washington and let the "democrats" run the county. Everything will be sunny, we can drive our cars on pond scum and not have to buy oil from those Arabs, and the world will love us once again.

Absolutely.

Huh? I can't tell if that's sarcasm and/or lunacy

it goes back more than 10 years my friend and continues unabated under the current regime

tea partiers for communism!

give him credit, its both

Ah, a voice of Clasical Liberal reason. Thanks!

. . . . .but anyone who wants to crush corporations cant be all bad.

( I actually am really a fan, . . .as the founding fathers go. )

- would still prefer democratic rule by lottery.

p.s. _ I get the sense that he was in favor of a ( somewhat ) representative " intellectual aristocracy ". Not holding my breath for the dawn of the enlightened age of philosopher kings myself, . . . . but it IS a fetching idea !

hmmmmmm,.....maybe three really bright,....and bored,.....and well fed / food secure guys on a desert island with plenty of sunshine, pleasant climate,.....and NO sharp objects,...or chicks of nubile age . . .

p.p.s. - and lets be clear, that would have to be 'kings',......NOT 'queens',....or the group cohesion and dynamics is a crap shoot.

pun unintentional. NO,....really. but I am now amused.

I titter in your general direction ! +^d

I agree -he almost certainly was. Yepper. We are a snarky quibbleish folk from the very onset !
( good for US, I think )

point taken +^d

Platonic BAZINGA ! ( I don't think it would work as stand up material,...but appreciated. )

as an aside - that is a terrific work of art- love it with color restored/corrected. One of my personal faves.

p.s. - my bumper sticker;
"ARISTOTLE -he meant well"

democans and republicrats

we learned that trick from the left

Exactly .

No----they are the LOOPHOLES to the laws of the country.

If YOU tried to get away with the things that they do........you'd be in jail.

And THEY were ALL Republicans............................

What use to be the Republican party. That party doesn't exist anymore.

Well, I don't know where your citations in support of this may come from, but what is clear by their own displays, is that the Flea Baggers from the OWS bowel movement certainly would not support those great thinkers you mentioned.

Mitt Romney's support would be a clue. Give us a candidate to run against besides Mitt. I will even help you out. I will vote for Ron Paul in my primary on Tuesday.

I agree also...
Though our perspectives may not be the same, I support your passion

The Democrats had a limited government peace candidate four years ago. Stuck at 8 percent he quit his candidacy and reneged against his presumed allegiance to become the kingmaker in a close election. I don't know if he will be back in 2016 because he has been under investigation repeatedly. However, each time he has been cleared, and if he does he will get my support.

The difference between Ron Paul and Bill Richardson is mostly only their approach to education.

BHO is a leader in the crony-capitalism movement. One must only sniff around for a few moments to find numerous examples.

Perhaps the GOP/Tea Party needed their chance in 2010 to help spur the OWS movement as well as the unimpressive GOP primaries.

Cold day in Dante's 10th circle of Hell when we allow that evil to succeed.

The GOP/tea party did impel their party in 2010, they got the house.

A lesson learned, can not underestimate the evil, even the asinine tea party.

Yes and Rick Scott won Florida, voters get what they want, assuming the elections are not fixed of course, which I am not saying that they are, but the medicare fraud guy won Florida?

And perhaps even worse, countless state legislators and Governors. I think perhaps more damage has been done at the state level the last 2 years than at the Federal.

Of course he is, Thomas Jefferson was an Aries as you and I are, Kenny.
He knew the score even before the opposition started the ball in play, as
he was so sharp, his mind's eye could see the logical implications of their
moves long before the average person could. I've studied the mainsteam
quotes of all the more notable free masons from Jefferson to Adams to
Washington, to Franklin, to Monroe to Jackson. The same shit the enemies
of the USA are trying to pull today is exactly the same shit they were pulling
in his era. The main difference now from then is that we have educational
media by internet access that's so super advanced over what existed in
the 1700s that we're now finaly up to the same speed Jefferson was. ( Though
it also helps our understanding to see played out now the consequences
of the collective past mistakes in judgement since which have borne out
all he said is true ) The spirit of Thomas Jefferson lives & breathes in every
modern human soul who speaks Jefferson's mind. Noone can kill an idea.
Ideas are deific, eternal, and immortal.

God Damn that was good PressCore, well done!

Deep PC. Very deep. +^d

De nada, amigo.

I second that!

Perhaps those who view the very few news outlets that are outside the blantantly Leftist slanted and evaporating "main stream" snews media could dumb themselves down a considerable amount so that they could perhaps begin to comprehend the points being lauded! :)

So many wise words!

To this very day MSII.

No wonder one of the troll's almost had a rupture when I one mentioned Jefferson and the Freemasons.

We'll just have to name drop more often.

I agree he would have been on their hit-list as "anti-capitalist"!

More than you might know. One of the fiends who enabled Hearst. Anslinger.
J.Edgar Hoover of the Flunkie Bureau to engineer Prohibition was DuPont.
( He was developing nylon which couldn't compete with Hemp for use in the
U.S. Military's applications. In order to secure a lucrative G contract, DuPont
had to first have his competitor outlawed.) I DVRd a documentary from the
History channel entitled: " Empire of Industry " this week. The synopsis used
to describe the contents of the 1 hr show was: " The DuPont Dynasty ( unduely ) influences affairs of State since the era of Thomas Jefferson. " Both free
masons Jefferson & Washington planted vast fields of Cannabis and Hemp
on their plantations in Virginia. Here was a family Dynasty interfering with the
U.S. from the time of it's inception, and still interfering with them 150 years later.
We have a $ 2.3 Billion annual Prison Industrial Complex in the USA because
of the enemies of Jefferson & American Liberty. Gingrich advocated the use
of the death penalty for MJ users in 1997. Advocating persecution & genocide
of millions of law abiding American citizens for using a medicine...No doubt
which one is the REAL public enemy # 1 is there ? If anyone seeks to be a
genuine terrorist it's that evil hypocrit Gingrich.