Letter: Tangled web

Published 5:00 pm Thursday, October 17, 2013

What in the world is going on within our Democratic Party? We, the people have lost our house you know, that white one on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.? We pay for it, yet were not allowed in. Hiding something? After the partial shutdown of the government, weve lost even more. It shouldnt surprise anyone, because Obama has been steadily leading us to the slaughter: Socialism. I think that hes forgotten that many of our forefathers fought to their deaths in order to escape the tyranny of the British monarchy and establish a constitutional republic with very limited government.

Recall what Abraham Lincoln wrote, and I quote, We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts. Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. … To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Or, as Sir Walter Scott put it, Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

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