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Everyone who cares about this country needs to go here and read the text of a bill introduced by Chris Dodd (D-CT).

This bill appears to be a good start in trying to stop the human rights hemorrhage that has been going on in this country.  While Dodd himself nextel ringtones software | polyphonic ringtones for sony ericsson | ringtones for metro pcs cell phone | download nextel ringtones | sony ericsson ringtones | download polyphonic ringtones | tv theme ringtones | free cricket ringtones | ringtones for cingular phone | free downloadable ringtones | hotlink maxis caller ringtones | free mp3 ringtones converter | cell phone ringtones | free ringtones for prepaid phoneкомпютри втора употреба | download free verizon ringtones | free ringtones for t mobile phone | free motorola razr ringtones | download free polyphonic ringtones | t mobile ringtones | 24 fox ringtones | is not the picture of sweeping reform - he’s a big proponent of an expensive, inflated military for example - even he can see rent a car bulgaria that the abuses of both

the current and former administrations have gone too far.

While Dodd’s website is full of the same tired political garbage we’ve been hearing for decades from both sides of the aisle, this is still a good bill and I think it deserves our support - that’s yours and mine.

I signed as a citizen co-sponsor and I think you should too.

Get the word out to your family and friends while you’re at it.

Just for fun, I urge you all to look at this sometime in the near future. It is a collection of quotations from the writings of Thomas Jefferson concerning government and politics. Anyone who can come away from reading even a small fraction of these writings without having some profound feelings one way or another is probably a bureaucrat.

The eloquence and simplicity displayed by Jefferson in some of the finer quotations contained on those pages is astounding. It is said that once when John F Kennedy welcomed 49 Nobel laureates to the White House he quipped, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

Unfortunately, we have strayed far away from the Jeffersonian vision of what our Republic should be.

While Jefferson did not believe in a standing army, a full half of our national budget goes toward past and present military spending.

While Jefferson believed that government was a natural threat to liberty and should be watched vigilantly and always limited, we steadliy give away our rights as citizens and allow the government virtually unchecked powers.

While Jefferson believed that the ideas of conquest and entanglement with foreign governments were antithetical to the American way of life and of government, we constantly meddle in the affairs of other nations to the detriment of our own people and to theirs.

Jefferson abhorred war, distrusted government and aristocracy, believed in the people, and understood that freedom of speech and of the press are the greatest assets and safeguards to a free society.

Today we have a virtual aristocracy of millionaires, a President who refers to himself as “The Commander in Chief” - not of the armed forces as prescribed by the Constitution, but of the entire country. We have “Free Speech Zones” and we jail members of the media for exercising their rights.

The situation is grim.

Luckily, Jefferson reminds us that the will of the people is the supreme authority, that this authority can never be taken away, and that the voice of the people can never be silenced as long as we refuse to lay down. Jefferson reminds us that governments don’t grant rights, they only limit them, and we must not allow them to limit ours any more.

Now is the time to reflect on Jefferson’s message and see if together we can make those ideals he described some two hundred years ago apply to, and make sense in, a modern society. We have to begin thinking about the future of this country, and of the ideals of individual liberty that a small minority of people would like us to forget.

It is time to reclaim our place and once again bring the government under our control instead of letting the government control us.