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Old 10-31-2005, 09:18 AM   #94
OdinicRite
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Westville, Ok
Posts: 29
Yes, power does corrupt, but while the corrupted turn powerful most citizens sit back and do nothing. We were given the constitutional right to break down and rebuild said government in the case in which it oversteps its given power and place. Our forefathers gave us these rights as a way to keep our government the way that it was meant to be. Thomas Jefferson once said, "the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots." It was written in the Declaration of Independence that "it is our right and DUTY as American citizens to break down and rebuild our government if it is to step out of lines, whether it is through diplomacy or war..." But most people sit back and complain that the governmental element in our country is out of line but they are unprepared and too lazy to even think about using the rights given to us by the founders of this country, who themselves, came here to get away from a corrupt government, fought that machine and won, and build the foundations that our country rests on. To say that my previous post was somewhat irrelevant because of the corrupt elements in our contemporary government is understandable. But in that same frame of mind, without the people there is no government. People can survive without a government but a government cannot survive without its people.

-Axl
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