Who thinks our founding fathers have already rolled over in their graves?or do you think they'd be supportive?
148781
I think they would look at our government and puke, but thats just me................
646860
I feel very let down by him.  \n\nI have supported him up until this.  Although, I feel that he does have sincere compassion for these poeple, he should have more concern for his own constituents' security.
1175581
I agree with what your saying...I believe that its a conspiracy to bring down our country and what our forefathers wrote in the consitution.  By getting people to stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance and even taking God out of it..is to me the work of  the KKK and other radical groups that have since changed their image.  If we stick together ...those of us that truly believe in the Constitution and  freedom of religion and all that our fallen comrades died for and our forefathers set for us...
425684
I speak from across the fence on this matter, but I will let you know what I hear most often. The Patriot Act that has broadened the government's ability to seek information from it's fellow citizens has left some more liberal voters upset. They feel that the government's noose of power has grown a bit tighter, and I assume they foresee a future government domination over the people of this nation. I do not know of any firsthand accounts where someone's privacy rights have been infringed upon, or violated. Not that I wish there was, but there doesn't seem to be anyone personally hurt by the Act. Personally, I've felt that as long as man would uphold his responsibilites to treat his fellow man with love, and respect there would be no need for government at all. But we both know that we fail to do this, therefore creating a need for government. So if the privilages we enjoy so dearly seem in danger, I believe it is because of our own faults. I hope that this has been helpful.
1125401
Go, Lady Godiva\n\nReally need one right now, for the burden in the usa has become alot\nand it's going to break the people who really care about others.
540574
No. It's a far cry from his day. He'd be shocked at how the constitution has been slaughtered and reinterpreted to fit the desires of a fickle society. I'm sure, if he were alive, he'd be explaining what our forefathers were thinking when they wrote our constitution. <*)))><
445284
No one believes them ,they just don't know what to about it.It has gone far beyond the peoples voice and I fear it's to late now to ever get it back to the way it was meant to be.Can you imagine what our fore fathers would say if they could see how things are done now?Wow what a far cry  from what was suppose to be!!
367250
I think that they would be amazed with all the government red tape. Jefferson believed in limited government involvement in peoples lives. Washington being a general would be surprised in the military both foreign and domestic. And I think they would be surprised on how much of a world powerhouse (the United States) the 13 original rebel colonies turned into. They would be pleased in all the good things and distressed with all the bad.
1022057
I really think this free speech thing is going too far ... if it's OK to desecreate a flag, then  it's OK to spit on the graves of those who died for our right to fly that flag ... and of course it'll be OK to tag government buildings ... and on and on ... a bit of common sense and common decency wouldn't go astray ... there are many things in the Constitution that aren't spelled out ... I doubt very much if the founding fathers ever thought that the question of burning the flag of their new country by its own citizens would ever arise!  You can't write down everything in a constitution, but think some things should be self evident!
888684
I think that most people in our country today have no idea what it is like to go without!!  Most of us in America have no idea what injustice and No freedom means, therefore so many of us take it for granted!!! There is no perspective...there is nothing in most of our experience to compare it to!!! All of the groundwork was laid out for us by our forefathers!!! If we don't take an active seat in forming the laws, our country could come out of hand ....my best recommendation is to let everyone in your circle know how very important it is to retain our freedoms and use our tools for stabilizing this free country we are living n today!!! In world History we have seen mightier fall!!!
890980
I'll use the wisdom of the founding fathers on this one\nBenjamin Franklin: Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both\n\nhow amazing two thumbs down for a direct quote from Ben Franklin, I guess the people that gave those are part of the Hate America Crowd,amazing\n\nThe problem from things  Warrentless Wiretapping programs are that they are without scrutiny, all we need to is look back at history and remember how Nixon abused the power and privialge of office to understand these mechanisms cannot be fully trusted without judiciary and/or congressional oversight, who decides what an enemy combatant is, and where is the line going to be drawn, can I be declared an enemy combatant simply for excersing my free speech rights? Who determines this one man or many? ABUSE of power is the central concern of those opposed to these programs and there are consitutional remedies to make them more transaparent WITHOUT destroying there ability to function Raw power without oversight is always ripe for abuse and this is has a great deal of precedent, it was abuses of power afterall that lead to the birth of this nation and the concept of Democracy as we know it today
718717
hell no...way too much government and the governement seems to think it can regulate every detail of our lives...that was not the original intention of the founding fathers\n\nthe government that rules least..rules best
999576
I am proud to be an American, I am ashamed of those who in office voilate the very oaths they are under affirmation to uphold, defend and preserve.\nOur founding fathers left their homes and came to America to start a new world, a world where people had the right to choose the religion of their choice without persecution. They also did not believe that a man should be placed in jail because he owed someone money, thus they were against debtor prisons. They believed that all men were created equal and that each person had the right to liberty and the persuit of happiness. That that right was not granted by man but by the creator.\nThe consitution declares itself the supreme law of the land, therefore there is no federal law, no state law or city ordance that can supercede it. It goes on and states that any law that is found in contridiction of it is null and void. We were meant to be a country of the people and for the people. Not a country where one because of his income had more rights than those who did not have the same amount of money. We are each granted equal protection of the law under the consitution, unfortunately we have had leaders in office over the years who did not honour their oaths, they enacted laws that are in direct contridiction of the consitution. They deglated duties that congress was to fullfill to private corporations, which they had no right to do. They are currently taxing the citizens in violation of the consitution because it is tax without approriation, it is a slave tax, and the 13th admendment strictly forbids slavery. Yet our current government believes that it owns the citizens of this nation. It doesn't but acts as if it does. In 1913 on Christmas eve when the majority of congressmen had returned to their homes for the holidays, a group of congressmen stayed behind and enacted what has become known as the Federal Reserve Act. It is this act that Woodrow Wilson claimed on his death bed that he had betrayed his country unaware. It was an act just like it that Andrew Jackson called a den of theives and vipers and by his eternal God he was going to route them out. He refused to renew their charter and was able to keep them out for 77 years. Lincoln during the civil war stated he had two great enemies, the south in frount of him and the international bankers behind him, of the two he feared the bankers the most. Lincoln did not finance the civil war through international bankers that wanted to charge him 29% intrest rate, he instead went to congress and told congress to issue out from the treasury the funds needed to finance the war. They became known as Lincoln greenbacks because they were green on the back side. Then in 1913 we had a private corporation to take control of our monetary system. Ben Franklin stated that if a private corporation ever got a hold of the monetary system that the children of the founding fathers would grow up homeless in the land that their fathers founded. It is intresting to note that the only bill that does not bare the face of a dead president is the 100 dollar bill which has the face of Ben Franklin on it who was never president. It is also intresting to note that the first president is on the 1 dollar bill whereas the man who was not ever president is on the 100 dollar bill. Then we had the great depression after this event of 1913, think that there was really a shortage of money? Not really it was the means in which this private corporation was able to take control of the publishing houses, newspapers, etc. How do you control the masses? Simple you control what they know. Why do you think our government hates the internet so much. They cannot control its content. Then in 1960 we had a very close election, between Richard Nixon and JFK. JFK won. JFK had no intrest in keeping troops in Vietnam and was in the process of withdrawing all troops who were there. He also understood the consitution and realized that congress had made a grave error by deglating their du
952069
DR: Your side said that when Nixon was in power too!\n\nIt is a great day, I finally feel after 6 long years I got a piece of my country back. Tired of seeing the constitution ripped to shreds by a bunch of pasty-white closeted bigots. \n\nViva Le Resistance!
1137352
I think the founding fathers are rolling over in their graves about what both parties are doing to this country. Politicians are all for themselves and they want you to pay for it! They SUCK
687587
Sometimes I think it is all the fault of the American patriots, that they stooped to the (then unheard-of) tactics of shooting at the British from behind trees and bushes. They used these underhanded techniques, largely learned from the savages of the American continents, to compensate for their numerical inferiority. \n\nThough I share the beliefs and values of the Founding Fathers and their armies, though I cherish the freedoms we have as Americans, this still bothers me.\n\nThe success of the American colonials inspired the French Revolution, which was so bloody it is now known in history as the Reign of Terror. If only Louis had thought to give them a whiff of grapeshot and then fix bayonnets and charge the rabble away! There would still be a Louis on the throne of France. Instead, it only encouraged that unpleasantness with the Corsican adventurer and all the rest that followed.\n\nFor generations afterward, whenever a coup took place in South America, the mustachio'd 'gentlemen' would say, "We are not revolutionaries! We are freedom fighters! Not conqustadors, patriots! Not oppressors, liberators!" \n\nCommunism picked that theme up and ran with it for decades. Until it fell apart. Even now, there are some that think Communism has not been discredited; only that it has not been tried hard enough, long enough.\n\nCommunism funded many people and movements in Africa. And there was, and is, the tension between Islam and the rest of the world. Strategic materials such as chromium and uranium have provoked many a conflict. Less strategic materials such as gold and diamonds have also done so.\n\nIn the final analysis, I would have to say-- as old as it sounds, it is still profound-- the ends do not justify the means. Some may think that we, as Americans, cannot point the finger (given our own beginnings.) \n\nBut if we want there to be an end to this, someone must start. If we wait to begin until there is a nation that has never done such things, we will be waiting a long time.
748562
Yes! The whole Nation should be mourning! Soon however we all will be mourning after the Democrats bring this Country down.