Visitor From The Past by Thelen Paulk

Found this on the web today...quite inspiring!

Visitor From The Past by Thelen Paulk

I had a dream the other night I didn't understand.
A figure walking through the mist with a 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.
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 foreign I.R.S.
Your money is no longer made of silver, or of gold.
You trade your wealth for paper, so your lives 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.
They defy and rape the nation, and leave it's fabric tattered and torn.
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 as 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 so hard 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?

Got another great tax related quote that I wanted to share.

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.

This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson

I'm a very conservative American. I believe in the Constitution as well as the principles and values our founding fathers built this country on. I am sickened at what has been happening in our government over the past several years. I did not vote for Obama and his actions so far as President of the U.S. have solidified my reasons for that decision. But it's not just him...Congress and the Senate have plenty to do with the mess too. And, to be fair, though I'm not a Bush hater, I do also understand that he played his role in making things worse in the U.S. Anyway, as we've watched the government continue to spend, spend, spend with all of this bailout nonsense, anger in this country is growing. On April 15th this year, millions of Americans across the country will be participating in what are now known as "tax day tea parties". In honor of these "tea parties" I found some tax related quotes that I thought were quite fitting for the current times.

“To contract new debts is not the way to pay for old ones.” George Washington

“To preserve [the] independence [of the people], we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” Thomas Jefferson

I believe the founding fathers of this great nation were inspired by God. I believe we should listen to them!

Well, I started this blog a couple years ago and ended up only posting a couple silly little posts! So, let me try again! Here goes...