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Welcome to the Sons of Liberty webpage.  I decided after the debacle of the last general election in 2012 to put up this webpage in order to have a voice.  Like many of you I have felt completely helpless against what unfortunately has happened - the second term election of Barack Hussein Obama, and what I believe to be the consequences of this election

The purpose of this webpage is myriad.  One of the most important reasons is for me to be able to write about what is going on in our country and to speak with likeminded Americans who want to be heard and also to know the comfort that there are people out there who think similar to you.  My first article for this page is "Thoughts on the Presidential Election of 2012."  I wrote this piece in November 2012 right after the election and as you will read, I have serious concerns about our future.  In the comings days, I'll write on political issues as well as morality issues, since they are truly linked.

President George Washingon said in his 1796 Farewell address:  "Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?"

So here, forthwith, is my commentary in the blog to the right.  Let me know what you think.  

Gerri Gibney










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"Out of the Darkness"

by Gerri Gibney on 05/15/13

“Out of the Darkness”

 

Don’t know about you, but since the presidential election I have been looking, searching, no – longing, for someone, anyone, who can speak plainly but intelligently about Republican ideas.  A person who can articulate the politics I believe in, and make it understandable.

 

Recently read a short but really interesting editorial about Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s choice for V.P.  During the election campaign we did not hear enough from Mr. Ryan, he was generally consigned to explaining numbers, rather than ideals.  Mr. Ryan’s acceptance speech as Mr. Romney’s V.P. was on the deck of an American air craft carrier.  The one thing I remember most about that speech was something like this, and I paraphrase most generously; …as Americans we know that our rights are not from the government, but from God.  That is how our government was founded; our forefathers knew that man is given his rights and freedom by the Almighty, not by another man.

 

 All I can say to that is, Amen.  It really struck me that here was a man, Paul Ryan, who understood what makes America the exceptional country we are.

 

The short editorial spoke of two recent speeches; one at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, and one at Benedictine College in Kansas.  I have not read these two speeches, I will read them.  According to the editorial, Mr. Ryan made his case for the GOP agenda of free markets, limited government, and a public square thick with churches and charities. 

 

Mr. Ryan contrasted the GOP agenda with the following:  “Barney Frank once said government is the name for the things we do together.  But that’s just one name.  There are lots of them:  the church meeting, the neighborhood watch, the food bank, the small business, the health clinic, the homeless shelter.  We like to call these things ‘mediating institutions.’  But in the end, they’re just people – people working together.”

 

My only objection to Mr. Ryan’s statement is that government is one of the names we do together.  We don’t do anything in the name of government together, we simply forge a consensus and compromise.  I suppose you could call that togetherness, I don’t.  But, when Mr. Ryan spoke to Benedictine College he said the following:  “Free enterprise doesn’t reward greed,” it rewards value – because competition checks greed.  And there’s no greater opportunity for greed than government cronyism.  Greed knows how to exploit the books of regulations and the whims of bureaucrats.  It knows how to navigate the halls of power.  So if we’re concerned about greed, we shouldn’t give it more opportunities to grow.”  And, again, I say most certainly, Amen.

 

Paul Ryan is now on my list as someone to be watching as a possible spokesman for me.  There are a few others, unfortunately, the list isn’t very long.

 

I know there is a patriot among us; one who is not afraid to speak American ideals, who will lead us out of this dark time in our history.  A patriot who knows America was established as a faith-based, God-centered Judeo-Christian nation.

 

Gerri Gibney

May 15, 2013

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