from a friend i post as sent with his comment;

 Unfortunately, most have found comfort in their slavery. As long as they have CNN and their cell phones they will remain content. As seen from our previous struggles it does not take a majority to prevail. 5 to 10% of the population who have had enough are ample to oust the criminals if they can be aroused to the point of action.

Here's a little post from the 60's that can relate:

An American dream

I had a dream the other night, I did not understand. A figure walking through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed, he slowly took off his tricorn hat, and speaking low, he said:

We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we plea, to this the home of the brave, and the land of the free!

The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you’d always keep, but tyrants labored endlessly, while your parents were asleep. Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you’re now no more than slaves. In this the land of the free and the home of the brave!

You now buy permits to travel and permit to own a gun, a permit to start a business or to build a home for one. On land that you believed your own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money’s spent!

Your children must attend a school that doesn’t educate, your Christian values can’t be taught, according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, you pay a tax you do not owe, to please the IRS.!

Your money is no longer made of silver or of gold, you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make your nation, turn from God in shame, you’ve taken Satan‘s number as you traded in your name!

You’ve gave government control to those who mean you harm, so they can padlock our churches and steal the family farm. They keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen while corrupt courts prevail!

Your public servants don’t uphold the solemn oath they’re sworn, your daughter’s visit Doctors so their children won’t be born. Your leaders ship artillery and guns to far off foreign shores then send your sons to slaughter, fighting other peoples wars!

Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died or don’t you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? Are there no more values for which you’ll fight to save or do you wish your children to live in fear and shame!

PEOPLE OF THE REPUBLIC, arise and take a stand! defend the Constitution, the supreme law of the land. Preserve our Great Republic and our God given rights, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright!

As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came, his words were true, we are NOT free and we have ourselves to blame. But even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight!

If he stood by your bedside, in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of our rights he fought so hard to keep. What would be your answer if he called out from the grave:

IS THIS STILL THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE?

Author unknown.