I'm Losing Hope...

[heath.whiteaker]

very well put.

 

[Derek_Sine]

Edit.

 

[GoApe4RonPaul2008]

keep on keeping on, we all can see how rigged this election is, you just need people to get interested in Ron Paul. Educate yourself stay on top of everything, I'm not giving up. It disgusts me when people are already willing to give up. This is nothing, people have died for this type of stuff.


Because when it's all said and done what do you want to be remembered for?
Open your eye's we are up against the most complex form of suppression, this movement is much stronger than it appears.

Right on!

This is more then just to get Ron Paul Elected... Its to re-awaken the sleeping giant known as freedom.

 

[Rich333]

When y'all have finally woken up to the fact that the system itself is the problem and that trying to "fix it" is impossible/undesirable, check out agorism.info for a real solution to the problem. Or you can go back to the same strategy that's been tried for centuries by classical liberals and libertarians and has failed to result in anything but an exponential growth in the size and scope of the state. Your choice.

 

[Dave Pedersen]

Hell, I'd love to stay optimistic, and I will, but... I just need to get this out, and vent. So, eh... Bear with me.



If we don't win this time around, the war will surely be lost... Not battle. War. We have a national ID card with an RFID chip in it coming around the corner, and if anyone but RP gets elected with the exception of Kucinich and Gravel, we're getting it. We have the Patriot Act which gets worse by the day. We have our cell phones being used as dog collars. We have secret prisons around the country and around the world... We have LOST our FREEDOM! Doesn't anyone get this? We are FIGHTING FOR OUR DAMN LIVES HERE. And people have the NERVE to simply GIVE UP, and say, "if RP doesn't win, screw it." What NERVE do you have to say that? We are FIGHTING for our lives, here. Our freedom. If RP doesn't win this time around, we will CERTAINLY go FASCIST. Don't you all get that? We NEED to step up our game. It isn't just our country that's at stake. It's the entire world. If anyone but Paul with the exceptions gets elected, we're doomed for a war with Iran, which will set off WWIII, which WILL turn nuclear, which will KILL us all. No one realizes this.

There's no way in hell I'm going to give up on RP. If he doesn't win, we need to use our constitutional rights to our advantage. March straight into the white house, come at them with a petition, and declare that we are INSTATING Ron Paul as our new commander in chief with the authority under our constitution and other rights. If RP doesn't win, this needs to get ugly. NEEDS. And I don't mean with guns, or violence, or anything like that. I mean SMEARING any neo-con there is, and getting a petition together to INSTATE Ron Paul as our commander in chief. If we wait any longer, it's Fascism and WWIII. And NO ONE gets this. We're fighting for everything here. What nerve do people have to simply give up on it?

I copied this from wiki about the winter at valley forge. Thought it might be beneficial to relive what others have endured for our country:

With the winter setting in, the prospects for campaigning were greatly diminished, and Washington sought quarters for his men. Though several locations were proposed, he selected Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 22 miles northwest of Philadelphia. It proved to be an excellent choice. Named for an iron forge on Valley Creek, the area was close enough to the British to keep their raiding and foraging parties out of the interior of Pennsylvania, yet far enough away to halt the threat of British surprise attacks. The high ground of Mount Joy ( called Mount Misery by the soldiers) combined with the China River to the north, made the area easily defensible.

On December 19, 1777, when Washington's poorly fed, ill-equipped army, weary from long marches, struggled into Valley Forge, winds blew as the 12,000 Continentals prepared for winter's fury. Grounds for brigade encampments were selected, and defense lines were planned and begun. Within days of the army's arrival, the Schuylkill River was covered with ice. Snow was six inches deep. Though construction of more than 1,000 huts provided shelter, it did little to offset the critical shortages that continually plagued the army.

Soldiers received irregular supplies of meat and bread, some getting their only nourishment from "firecake," a tasteless mixture of flour and water. So severe were conditions at times that Washington despaired "that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place ... this Army must inevitably ... Starve, dissolve, or disperse, in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can." Animals fared no better. Gen. Henry Knox, Washington's Chief of Artillery, wrote that hundreds of horses either starved to death or died of exhaustion.

Clothing, too, was wholly inadequate. Long marches had destroyed shoes. Blankets were scarce. Tattered garments were seldom replaced. At one point these shortages caused nearly 4,000 men to be listed as unfit for duty.
National Memorial Arch inscription: Naked and starving as they are We cannot enough admire The incomparable Patience and Fidelity of the Soldiery –George Washington
National Memorial Arch inscription:

Naked and starving as they are
We cannot enough admire
The incomparable Patience and Fidelity
of the Soldiery
–George Washington

Undernourished and poorly clothed, living in crowded, damp quarters, the army was ravaged by sickness and disease. Typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and pneumonia were among the killers that felled as many as 2,000 men that winter. Although Washington repeatedly petitioned for relief, the Congress was unable to provide it, and the soldiers continued to suffer. Women, relatives of enlisted men, alleviated some of the suffering by providing valuable services such as laundry and nursing that the army desperately needed.

Upgrading military efficiency, morale, and discipline were as vital to the army's well-being as was its source of supply. The army had been handicapped in battle because unit training was administered from a variety of field manuals, making coordinated battle movements awkward and difficult. The soldiers were trained, but not uniformly. The task of developing and carrying out an effective training program fell to Baron Friedrich von Steuben. This skilled Prussian drill master, recently arrived from Europe, tirelessly drilled and scolded the regiments into an effective fighting force. Intensive daily training, coupled with von Steuben's forceful manner, instilled in the men renewed confidence in themselves and their ability to succeed.[1]

Soon word of the British departure from Philadelphia brought a frenzied activity to the ranks of the Continental Army. On June 19, 1778, six months after its arrival, the army marched away from Valley Forge in pursuit of the British who were moving toward New York. An ordeal had ended. The war would last for another five years, but for Washington, his men, and the nation to which they sought to give birth, a decisive victory had been won -- a victory not of weapons but of will.[2]