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Watch your language !
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Watch your language !
by Ronald H Levine
Ronald.H.Levine@mindspring.com
July 4, 2002
With the celebration of my Nation's birthday, I am posting this to ask all who read it to watch their language. My Nation's birthday has a name. It is called Independence Day. Independence has real meaning. That is the birth of this Nation. Please do not say: "The Fourth of July." It takes away from the meaning of my favorite holiday and this most important celebration. If someone wants to know the date of Independence Day, tell them that Independence Day is on July 4.
We tend to think that each of our own individual voices is small and diluted. Many don't even bother voting. That is a big mistake. We really do make a difference in how we vote and even what we say. You might think you have very little control and influence. Take control. Only you chose the words that you use. Choose not to adopt the new language that reflects a disavowment of our heritage. Choose to say Independence Day and not "The Fourth of July." Spread this around with your words and reasons. Copy this and post it everywhere and send it to your friends.
Other examples of insidious changes in our language that reflect a turning away from our heritage can be found. What do we call those in public office? Choose your words carefully. We often use the words that we hear. Words have changed. I remember when those in public office called themselves "public servants." Now they are calling themselves "the authorities." What does this mean! They work for us. We elect them. We can vote them out. We can replace them. We are self-governing people. They work for us. Let's choose to call them public servants. Let's vote out any elitist that would dictate to us and call themselves authorities. Let's tell the news media that they need to use correct language, too.
What do you call land in our Nation that is not privately held? Is it the news media that gets us to use words that deceive us on the real ownership? Now, almost everyone uses these incorrect words. It is NOT "government land!" Our Nation's Constitution specifically prohibits our government from owning land with some very limited and small exceptions. I remember the time when it was called "public land" and that is what I choose to call it. What will it be called next with the way OUR Nation is going? The King's land?
Listen closely for more words that reflect a change away from our heritage of Independence and the Divinely inspired self-government with systems of checks and balances that our Founding Fathers and revolutionaries gave us by risking everything they knew and fighting and dying for us. Throughout our history, many have fought and died to preserve our freedoms and heritage. The least we can do is protect our heritage by the words we choose. Each of us can easily do that. Even if you are one of those who believe that your one vote won't make a difference and it is not worth your time, you can at least do this. It won't take any more of your time.
Our Founding Fathers warned us to be ever vigilant. This means awareness. This means we must look for threats to our freedoms. This means that we must maintain control of our government that works for us. For now, it is still government of the people. Use your vote wisely while you still have a choice. Choose your words carefully to reflect our heritage.
Now that you have read this, you can be more aware of dangerous changes in our thinking. That is where excessive government power begins. Now that you are thinking this way, improper words will stand out to you. It will be like getting a car that is not familiar. Suddenly you start noticing them on the road.
Now you will notice how predominately people will say "Fourth of July" and you should say: "No, it's Independence Day."
If people wanted to lessen the importance of Christmas in this manner, they would call it The twenty-fifth of December. I wouldn't dare! People would rightly be as offended at that insult as I am to the detracting from our heritage. They would tell us that Christmas is about shopping, decorating a tree and presents. Oh, I guess they do that! I guess people think their "Fourth of July" is a celebration of fireworks.
Stand up for your Nation and tell people to take our language back! Let's use this holiday as it should be used. Let's celebrate our Nation's heritage and work to preserve it before we have to fight for freedom again. We can simply vote for freedom now. That is so much easier than waiting till after learning a harsh lesson to convince us, as history tends to repeat itself. Spread this around with your words and reasons. Copy this and post it everywhere and send it to your friends. Copy permission granted to all.
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3473
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
by Ronald H Levine
Ronald.H.Levine@mindspring.com
July 4, 2002
With the celebration of my Nation's birthday, I am posting this to ask all who read it to watch their language. My Nation's birthday has a name. It is called Independence Day. Independence has real meaning. That is the birth of this Nation. Please do not say: "The Fourth of July." It takes away from the meaning of my favorite holiday and this most important celebration. If someone wants to know the date of Independence Day, tell them that Independence Day is on July 4.
We tend to think that each of our own individual voices is small and diluted. Many don't even bother voting. That is a big mistake. We really do make a difference in how we vote and even what we say. You might think you have very little control and influence. Take control. Only you chose the words that you use. Choose not to adopt the new language that reflects a disavowment of our heritage. Choose to say Independence Day and not "The Fourth of July." Spread this around with your words and reasons. Copy this and post it everywhere and send it to your friends.
Other examples of insidious changes in our language that reflect a turning away from our heritage can be found. What do we call those in public office? Choose your words carefully. We often use the words that we hear. Words have changed. I remember when those in public office called themselves "public servants." Now they are calling themselves "the authorities." What does this mean! They work for us. We elect them. We can vote them out. We can replace them. We are self-governing people. They work for us. Let's choose to call them public servants. Let's vote out any elitist that would dictate to us and call themselves authorities. Let's tell the news media that they need to use correct language, too.
What do you call land in our Nation that is not privately held? Is it the news media that gets us to use words that deceive us on the real ownership? Now, almost everyone uses these incorrect words. It is NOT "government land!" Our Nation's Constitution specifically prohibits our government from owning land with some very limited and small exceptions. I remember the time when it was called "public land" and that is what I choose to call it. What will it be called next with the way OUR Nation is going? The King's land?
Listen closely for more words that reflect a change away from our heritage of Independence and the Divinely inspired self-government with systems of checks and balances that our Founding Fathers and revolutionaries gave us by risking everything they knew and fighting and dying for us. Throughout our history, many have fought and died to preserve our freedoms and heritage. The least we can do is protect our heritage by the words we choose. Each of us can easily do that. Even if you are one of those who believe that your one vote won't make a difference and it is not worth your time, you can at least do this. It won't take any more of your time.
Our Founding Fathers warned us to be ever vigilant. This means awareness. This means we must look for threats to our freedoms. This means that we must maintain control of our government that works for us. For now, it is still government of the people. Use your vote wisely while you still have a choice. Choose your words carefully to reflect our heritage.
Now that you have read this, you can be more aware of dangerous changes in our thinking. That is where excessive government power begins. Now that you are thinking this way, improper words will stand out to you. It will be like getting a car that is not familiar. Suddenly you start noticing them on the road.
Now you will notice how predominately people will say "Fourth of July" and you should say: "No, it's Independence Day."
If people wanted to lessen the importance of Christmas in this manner, they would call it The twenty-fifth of December. I wouldn't dare! People would rightly be as offended at that insult as I am to the detracting from our heritage. They would tell us that Christmas is about shopping, decorating a tree and presents. Oh, I guess they do that! I guess people think their "Fourth of July" is a celebration of fireworks.
Stand up for your Nation and tell people to take our language back! Let's use this holiday as it should be used. Let's celebrate our Nation's heritage and work to preserve it before we have to fight for freedom again. We can simply vote for freedom now. That is so much easier than waiting till after learning a harsh lesson to convince us, as history tends to repeat itself. Spread this around with your words and reasons. Copy this and post it everywhere and send it to your friends. Copy permission granted to all.
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3473
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
- Land of the Free and Home of the Brave???
by J Charette
July 4, 2002
The last several months in our household have been spent discussing a number of national issues that have faced and are facing various families, groups, and individuals. These issues have pertained to governmental interference and intervention, denying rights and freedoms in the name of "security", and an abusive use of authority and power.
So far, the discussions have remained in our personal family, but the story relayed to me yesterday ended that concept once and for all! Limitations on the use of my hands has kept me "off the internet" for the most part, but there comes a time when personal weaknesses must be set aside and our citizens' welfare takes priority.
The aforementioned story has to do with an upstanding, successful individual whose rights as an American, not to mention a human being, have been brutally violated. It is my understanding that this person was mistaken for a suspect in a bank robbery. It seems that while he was reaching for his wallet -- an action certainly considered NORMAL when pulled over by law enforcement -- was shot in the face by an FBI agent. Now if I have erred in my description of this story so far, please correct me.
Here is the part that had my undivided attention -- immediately. A Grand Jury has declined to indict this FBI agent? By what right can they ignore our judicial system in this way? Fear? If our own judicial system will not stand up for an innocent victim who has been brutalized by a Federal agent, who is supposed to? Each and every one of us who makes up this country must! Unless I am sadly mistaken, this country is not under the control of Hitler, the Gestapo, and this is NOT the 1940's!
We cannot afford to assume that our elected officials are acting in our behalf. We must each take the time, the effort, develop the willpower and gumption to get off the couch, out of the recliner, and head to the telephone, a piece of paper, or your friendly computer. Send messages to our Senators, our Representatives, and let them know you think what is happening is WRONG! WE are allowing families to be split up, children to be taken, lives to be wasted, our rights and freedoms to be denied.
I challenge each and every one of you to say STOP! ENOUGH! This is the United States of America, and our forefathers declared their Independence -- NOT their overpowering control! It is time we as Americans go back to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights -- read them, believe them, and help bring our Country back to what it was intended to be.
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3471
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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