Yet you, the serpent disguised as one of history's greatest defenders of representative democracy, perpetuate a lie so heinous it is beyond comprehension, that your founders wanted to conserve the British government.
You are the one with the forked tongue Publius. My post never suggests that our Founders wanted to preserve the British government. I said they want to preserve the rights of Englishmen. King George III violated the colonist's rights under English law through taxation without representation in London.
Patrick Henry's opposition of the Stamp Act was based on the British Parliaments violation of British common law. The colonist's were not and never could be represented in London. In response, The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was written and the Stamp Act was rescinded. Then the Townshend Acts were imposed, leading to boycotts and smuggling, and most famously the Boston Massacre. Result? The Townshend Acts were repealed. Finally comes the Tea Act, which in fact brought with it no new taxes, and in fact lowered the price of East India Company Tea in the colonies. Samuel Adams didn't see it that way, but as a way to undercut American merchants. Sparking what we know as the tea parties in Boston, Annapolis, and Charleston. Finally the British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts which closed the Boston Harbor and brought Massachusetts government under direct authority of the crown, which was viewed by the colonists as another assault on English civil liberties. Leading us to the Revolutionary War.
Colonial leaders justified their protests against Parliament in terms of the Magna Charta and the English Bill of Rights. The Revolution was intended to preserve the ancient constitutions of their forefathers. The British Parliament was usurping powers to itself that rightly resided with the colonists. The American Revolution was based on traditionalism and conservatism, looking to keep what they had. They wanted to preserve their liberties that had been developed over centuries of English history and law. This was not an ideological revolution against English law as it were, but the unconstitutional laws under King George III.
Like our forefathers before us, those in today's American tea parties are not looking to overthrow the government and radically change the laws that govern us. But instead, pleading to our elected officials to return us to the laws that preserve our rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness guaranteed under our Constitution. When drafting the American Constitution, our Founders created a systems of checks and balances as a mechanism to prevent the type of tyrannical government the occurred during George III's rule. Those checks and balances are being tested today. Are they working?
Our Founders had King George violating their liberties guaranteed under English law, we have the corruption of the two party oligarchy, or the permanent political class violating ours.
What I can tell you that my compatriots abhorred was the idea of someone using their political office to garner personal wealth. The idea that one could even consider using their status as a legislator to influence a governmental decision to the benefit of their purse, and to make the matter that much more egregious, against the will of the people, is inconceivable to me. Such conduct is violative of every principle upon which this nation was founded and I am saddened that such behavior is not only contemplated today, but carried out. And that it is defended by a man invoking the name of the great Cicero is that much more offensive.
Then you and your compatriots must abhor GP's direct plundering of wealth from the County taxpayer through the quasi government agency called Metroplex for personal financial gain, while also using his position within a political party as chairman to influence and gain access to this quasi government agency by appointing his business partner to the board.
I can understand your sadness with my perceived defense of political plundering through a position of power granted by the citizens. But I must reassure you, I in no way support such arrogant behavior. I sit here, waiting for proof of GA's alleged profiting through the influence of his political office. Please show me hard evidence, and I will rail against these alleged abuses of power with you. There is documented proof of GP, who is a well to do intelligent businessman with a law degree and a certified CPA, receiving funds directly from this quasi government authority, funding his private practice. Does that sound conservative to you? Has GA been receiving government grants and loans to support his private business?
Join me Publius in exposing the greed and corruption of those at all levels of government, and return our republic to the people whose motives are driven by their desire to serve the people and not their personal interests
Doen't our last assessor work for guilderland? Nah....I don't think DM would be accepted in guilderand. DM carries the cesspool of rotterdam politics baggage. DM would be like a fish out of water.
Although the rotterdam seniors would throw a going away party for her if she did go!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
DM has left the payroll of Schenectady and her many hats in Rotterdam for Guilderland? This is news. Maybe SOS should enforce the City residency law? Naah, nobody cares as long as it stays one party only.
Never ask DM to pass the salt. When she eats, she eats alone.
Nope have a pretty normal IQ, certainly not as high as yours Cicero with all that mumbo, jumbo malarky about the Romans. You are really smart. Have you ever considered elective office? If you do you will have to work on your sarcasm.
Then again maybe you are an election LOSER like three quarters of the posters on this BS Blog. HaHaHa
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DM has left the payroll of Schenectady and her many hats in Rotterdam for Guilderland? This is news. Maybe SOS should enforce the City residency law? Naah, nobody cares as long as it stays one party only.
