A Message From The Liberty Oracle
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:42 pmMy thanks to all of you that have supported TFA over the years by attending meetings, volunteering your valuable time to work shows and being active members. Rich Mason founded the Shelby County TFA Chapter and has always administrated the TFA website and message board. Rich also was a tremendous influence in my understanding of the true meaning of Liberty and the protections of it that our Founding Fathers built into the basis of our country.
I'm blessed to have the council of men much wiser than me that I can ask about Constitutionally legal and ethical questions. Men like Pat McGarrity, Sr., TFA Executive Director, John Harris, and Rich Mason, to name some. I consider Rich to be our "Liberty Oracle". Rich is too busy to be very active in TFA right now because he is currently serving our country in the U.S. military.
With all due respect to my friends who plan to vote for the "lesser of evils"; I agree with the following assessment from Rich on the current state of politics.
In Liberty,
Pat McGarrity
Director - Shelby County, TFA
All,
Once, long ago, when I was young and idealistic, I used to believe that what
politicians said was what they really meant. I am an honest person, a
Christian who takes the Lord's commandment to "Simply let your 'Yes' be
'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
and could not imagine/understand the corrupt nature of politics. In my
first voting experience I voted for Richard Nixon. I truly believed he was
the right choice for us. I stayed up all night watching the results pour in,
praying for a Republican win across the board. What I got was a corrupt,
venal, paranoid tyrant. Nixon was the personification of a corrupt and evil
politician. Along came Regan. I wholeheartedly supported him. What I got
was better than Nixon, but he couldn't/wouldn't control his subordinates and
we got corruption and evil. He was not the stalwart of liberty we had hoped
for, and he certainly was no fiscal conservative, nor was he the defender of
the Constitution and its guarantees of our individual liberties that he said
that he was. Then I voted for Bush I and I got a very smart man, who turned
out to be a liar (read my lips, NO NEW Taxes, er, I really meant new taxes).
At least he was smart enough not to expand the first Gulf war into an all
out assault on Iraq. Still he was a patrician elitist who would have been
quite happy to have us stripped of our rights to keep and bear arms. Then
came the latest Bush. I did not, could not, would not vote for him. His
personal problems were too much for me to be able to support him. I voted
for the Libertarian candidate and did so with a clear conscious. The list
of his "sins" is too long to even begin to address here. What is common to
all of these men is that they were the lesser of the two evils, but they
were still "evil". They were part of the elites whose goal is to control
the people and strip us of our liberties, particularly the right to keep and
bear arms. They, to a man, were compromisers with regard to our liberties.
To me that makes them not worth our support.
Now along comes John McCain. a true war hero who has my profound respect for
the suffering he went through, but a man who has given himself over to the
corruption of the political process. Worse he would strip us of our rights
to free speech, the right to have our voices heard in the political
process.. an egregious offense that makes him unworthy of the Presidency. I
am unaware of anything he has done that would make his stance on individual
liberties, particularly the right to keep and bear arms that would make me
change my mind about his fitness to be President. Frankly, since he would be
working with a majority Democratic Congress, I would expect him to
compromise our rights further.
Frankly, the Republicans blew it. We gave them the power and they used it
corruptly. I am disgusted by a party that in 12 years went from the
Contract with America; to the nonsense we see today. pedophiles, bathroom
freaks, thieves, liars and a party that thinks the Constitution is an
irrelevant, dead letter. If you can vote for that party and say you are for
liberty and the Constitution, go ahead. I cannot and will no longer do it.
They don't deserve my vote, nor do I think they deserve yours. In the end
they will get us to the same place the Communists/Socialists in the
Democratic Party will get us, just a little bit slower, but not much. Your
shackles are being made to order, do you really want to keep voting for
either of these parties knowing that?
Here's the bottom line. as long as we allow fear to control us and don't get
up off our collective asses and DO something to change the fundamental
situation, i.e. the complete domination of the political landscape by two
corrupt and anti-liberty political parties, we will get what we deserve,
evil in the form of higher taxation and the loss of individual liberties in
all forms, particularly the right to keep and bear arms.. If you choose to
accept the "lesser of two evils" that an individual choice, but I refuse to
do so any more and have not done so for the past three Presidential
elections. There's an old saying "If you're not part of the solution,
you're part of the problem." In this case, my opinion is that anyone who
votes for a Republican based upon the "lesser of two evil approaches" is a
part of the problem.
I don't mean to sound harsh, but the facts are there for all of us to see,
that we are on the downhill slide to tyranny. If every person who truly
believes in the liberties our founders fought valiantly to ensure would
simply refuse to vote for the Republicans and the Democrats and get behind a
party that really supports individual liberty the tectonic shift in American
politics would be on. I doubt that will happen because too many of us live
in fear and embrace an approach that keeps them bound to the lesser of two
evils approach.
If you want to keep your right to keep and bear arms for yourself and future
generations then we must do something different than we do now. Repeating
the same thing every two and four years, expecting different results borders
on insanity.
We all have to choose how we will cast our votes, who we will support and
why. But, we owe it to ourselves and future generations to make better
choices than we have in the past.
All the best,
Rich Mason
Founder, Shelby County Chapter, TFA
I'm blessed to have the council of men much wiser than me that I can ask about Constitutionally legal and ethical questions. Men like Pat McGarrity, Sr., TFA Executive Director, John Harris, and Rich Mason, to name some. I consider Rich to be our "Liberty Oracle". Rich is too busy to be very active in TFA right now because he is currently serving our country in the U.S. military.
With all due respect to my friends who plan to vote for the "lesser of evils"; I agree with the following assessment from Rich on the current state of politics.
In Liberty,
Pat McGarrity
Director - Shelby County, TFA
All,
Once, long ago, when I was young and idealistic, I used to believe that what
politicians said was what they really meant. I am an honest person, a
Christian who takes the Lord's commandment to "Simply let your 'Yes' be
'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
and could not imagine/understand the corrupt nature of politics. In my
first voting experience I voted for Richard Nixon. I truly believed he was
the right choice for us. I stayed up all night watching the results pour in,
praying for a Republican win across the board. What I got was a corrupt,
venal, paranoid tyrant. Nixon was the personification of a corrupt and evil
politician. Along came Regan. I wholeheartedly supported him. What I got
was better than Nixon, but he couldn't/wouldn't control his subordinates and
we got corruption and evil. He was not the stalwart of liberty we had hoped
for, and he certainly was no fiscal conservative, nor was he the defender of
the Constitution and its guarantees of our individual liberties that he said
that he was. Then I voted for Bush I and I got a very smart man, who turned
out to be a liar (read my lips, NO NEW Taxes, er, I really meant new taxes).
At least he was smart enough not to expand the first Gulf war into an all
out assault on Iraq. Still he was a patrician elitist who would have been
quite happy to have us stripped of our rights to keep and bear arms. Then
came the latest Bush. I did not, could not, would not vote for him. His
personal problems were too much for me to be able to support him. I voted
for the Libertarian candidate and did so with a clear conscious. The list
of his "sins" is too long to even begin to address here. What is common to
all of these men is that they were the lesser of the two evils, but they
were still "evil". They were part of the elites whose goal is to control
the people and strip us of our liberties, particularly the right to keep and
bear arms. They, to a man, were compromisers with regard to our liberties.
To me that makes them not worth our support.
Now along comes John McCain. a true war hero who has my profound respect for
the suffering he went through, but a man who has given himself over to the
corruption of the political process. Worse he would strip us of our rights
to free speech, the right to have our voices heard in the political
process.. an egregious offense that makes him unworthy of the Presidency. I
am unaware of anything he has done that would make his stance on individual
liberties, particularly the right to keep and bear arms that would make me
change my mind about his fitness to be President. Frankly, since he would be
working with a majority Democratic Congress, I would expect him to
compromise our rights further.
Frankly, the Republicans blew it. We gave them the power and they used it
corruptly. I am disgusted by a party that in 12 years went from the
Contract with America; to the nonsense we see today. pedophiles, bathroom
freaks, thieves, liars and a party that thinks the Constitution is an
irrelevant, dead letter. If you can vote for that party and say you are for
liberty and the Constitution, go ahead. I cannot and will no longer do it.
They don't deserve my vote, nor do I think they deserve yours. In the end
they will get us to the same place the Communists/Socialists in the
Democratic Party will get us, just a little bit slower, but not much. Your
shackles are being made to order, do you really want to keep voting for
either of these parties knowing that?
Here's the bottom line. as long as we allow fear to control us and don't get
up off our collective asses and DO something to change the fundamental
situation, i.e. the complete domination of the political landscape by two
corrupt and anti-liberty political parties, we will get what we deserve,
evil in the form of higher taxation and the loss of individual liberties in
all forms, particularly the right to keep and bear arms.. If you choose to
accept the "lesser of two evils" that an individual choice, but I refuse to
do so any more and have not done so for the past three Presidential
elections. There's an old saying "If you're not part of the solution,
you're part of the problem." In this case, my opinion is that anyone who
votes for a Republican based upon the "lesser of two evil approaches" is a
part of the problem.
I don't mean to sound harsh, but the facts are there for all of us to see,
that we are on the downhill slide to tyranny. If every person who truly
believes in the liberties our founders fought valiantly to ensure would
simply refuse to vote for the Republicans and the Democrats and get behind a
party that really supports individual liberty the tectonic shift in American
politics would be on. I doubt that will happen because too many of us live
in fear and embrace an approach that keeps them bound to the lesser of two
evils approach.
If you want to keep your right to keep and bear arms for yourself and future
generations then we must do something different than we do now. Repeating
the same thing every two and four years, expecting different results borders
on insanity.
We all have to choose how we will cast our votes, who we will support and
why. But, we owe it to ourselves and future generations to make better
choices than we have in the past.
All the best,
Rich Mason
Founder, Shelby County Chapter, TFA