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We All Belong To The Government?

September 6, 2012 by  

We All Belong To The Government?

The Democratic National Convention kicked off with a video meant to unite all Americans. The production claims that “Government is the only thing we all belong to.”

The Mitt Romney campaign seized the opportunity and tweeted, “We don’t belong to government, government belongs to us.”

Despite the video playing at the DNC, the Barack Obama-Joe Biden campaign quickly pointed out that the video was not produced by the DNC, but rather the host committee.

“The video in question was produced and paid for by the host committee of the city of Charlotte. It’s neither an OFA nor a DNC video, despite what the Romney campaign is claiming,” said the Obama campaign.

Dan Murrey, executive director of the host committee, backed up the DNC’s claim:

The “Welcome to Charlotte” video was solely produced and paid for by the Host Committee’s New American City Fund, which promotes the city of Charlotte and welcomes our guests. The intent of this video was to tell the story of this region and it is completely unaffiliated with the Obama campaign or the Democratic National Committee.

 

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Bryan Nash

Staff writer Bryan Nash has devoted much of his life to searching for the truth behind the lies that the masses never question. He is currently pursuing a Master's of Divinity and is the author of The Messiah's Misfits, Things Unseen and The Backpack Guide to Surviving the University. He has also been a regular contributor to the magazine Biblical Insights.

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  • JON

    Yes! We all belong to the government–because we make up the government. A Government of the people, by the people and for the people. Remember that one? The Gettysburg Address.

  • gunner689AI

    A Republican and most Independents would say the gvt. belongs to us. The difference is between citizens and serfs. Maybe the demorats should change their names to demoserfs.

  • swampfox

    I belong to Jesus,nuff said!

  • cawmun cents

    Do we not belong to God?
    Oh I forgot….to the PLD gubment IS GOD!
    Let them prove it to you….give them another chance to help you worship THEIR god.
    Cheers!
    -CC.

    • cawmun cents

      By the way for context….PLD in my book stands for progressive liberal democrat,not Personal Liberty Digest…..you’re welcome Bob!
      -CC.

    • Jeremy Leochner

      I am a progressive liberal, though I am a social democrat not a democratic party democrat. At any rate I do not believe government is god. I do not believe people belong to anyone or anything. Its just a matter of treating others as you wish to be treated.

      • cawmun cents

        I offer my condolences then…..for your soon excommunication…..haw!
        -CC.

      • Jeremy Leochner

        I am an agnostic. My beliefs fall under certain labels but those labels do not determine my views. I do not believe I will be excommunicated by anyone. And if I am so be it.

  • 45caliber

    If we all belong to the government, then we are all slaves of those in power, aren’t we?

    • Jeremy Leochner

      We are all part of the government. After all “Government of the people”. I think the wording was wrong and the message was misinterpreted as a result. We all are part of the government and are involved in some way. But we certainly do not belong to it as property.

      • gunner689AI

        tell that to BO

  • Amelia

    If we “belong to government” than it will not be too long before we are shifted back to the dark ages of slavery…before government can provide you with anything, it must take everything away from you….It was with the birth of Christianity which took the people out of bondage and gave mankind his human dignity and freedoms.
    It was the Founding Fathers who drew up the Constitution that preserved them for us.
    Every act of Government against or without the consent of the People is injustice, usurpation, and tyranny.
    Our Constitutional Republic made the United States the freest, most prosperous nation the world has ever seen because of that Constituiton limiting the powers of a central government.
    Our Constitution was a model used by many other nations forming their own governments, giving the world more peace than any military iintervention..

    The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men/women who pervert the Constitution.
    Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is a force.
    Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never
    for a moment shuold it be left to irressponsible action.
    George Washington

    We have an election coming up, which may be our last , to fix every essential right that was taken away by Congress and a President using “Executive Orders” who have disregarded the people, and now up to the people in each Congressional District to find and elect to Congress their representatives and senators who are true Patriotic Americans who will restore our freedoms and rights
    .

  • Your Globalist Friend

    You were born into bondage. Resistance is futile. Humanity is doomed.

  • Dawg

    “All your bases are belong to us”

  • Wyatt

    Hmm , perhaps the Koolaid drinkers of the Democratic Party and the brain dead of Main Stream Media and their Zombie like watchers belong to to the government . But right thinking Americans , new , old or those of us who are Native Americans , decendant from the first peoples of America and those who believe in the Founding Fathers great experiment , the Government of the United States belongs to the people . Barry O made a statement that was right out of Lenin and Stalins ideological thinking . But then this was his great agenda right from the start . The Scheme of His Father (which ever one it might be) has always been to destroy America . It is time for the SHEEP to wake up and fight back . Tell this fraud , NO, We will not go quietly , we are voting you and those like you out of office now and forever ! This is America , this is OUR country , the President is OUR employee we are not his servants nor those of his butt kissing lap dogs . END OF STORY !

  • Alex Frazier

    If our government is by the people, of the people, and for the people, then I can’t say that I disagree with the statement made in the video. Government is a thing we all belong to. We are the government.

    I think too much has been made of this video. It’s splitting hairs. There was nothing said, in context, that suggested we are the government’s property. It was saying that government is a thing we are all part of, and that’s not an untrue statement if you are politically active.

    • vicki

      The DNC doesn’t think that it is “splitting hairs” or they would not have run for the cover of “plausible deniability” so fast.

    • Patriot1776

      It is not the government that we are a part of, rather the nation. The government is the means by which we govern our nation, it is not the all in all.

  • Old504Troop

    Barack, your slip is showing. Many of us have suspected this president was a socialist for quite some time now. This add proves it. Notice-he didn’t have anything to do with this add, but the Dems changed the platform when he found out how unpopular it was to leave out God and Jeruselem. And the Democratic hopeful for 2016 showed their slip too. No it is not Hillary, it’s Julian Castro, whose mother helped start LaRaza

  • jopa

    This all sounds to me like the Mitler Romney party is desperate and grasping for straws and still doesn’t have anything to tell us until after the elections.I have never heard anything so stupid as to getting an answer of Oh ask us after the elections.

    • Vigilant

      jopa pontificates, “I have never heard anything so stupid as to getting an answer of Oh ask us after the elections.”

      …and you voted for Obama anyway in 2008? “Hope and Change” and “fundamentally transform America” were very specific formulae, eh?

      • Vigilant

        Oh, and while you’re at it, jopa, you might want to tell us Obama’s specifics to turn things around, other than “give me another chance.”

        He and his party know damn well they can not run on his record. Four more years of the same old, same old will leave us dead in the water.

    • vicki

      jopa says:
      “This all sounds to me like the Mitler Romney party is desperate and grasping for straws…”

      Starting out with an ad hominem attack makes it seem that Jopa is desperate and grasping for straws.

    • gunner689AI

      How about Pisslosy on the BO Care bill; “Oh just sign it we’ll read it later.”

    • JC

      jopa says:
      September 6, 2012 at 9:58 am
      …I have never heard anything so stupid as to getting an answer of Oh ask us after the elections….

      But you were ok with …”We’ll have to pass it to see what’s in it”… Right?
      You Libbies are are just plain irrational, I’m sure of it.

      I hope the Republicans win and stop trying to “Fix” everything, and everyone.
      (Look what all that “something must be done” crap has gotten us already.)
      Nope I’m just fine with Mitt having no plan, if that were to be the case. ;-)

  • TIME

    Dear People,

    Let me be very – very clear about what I am about to post, what ever is { shown or stated or noted or played } has been 100% Vetted long prior to the first person stepping in the room.

    I do this for a living and have done so form age 15 and still do at over 60, let me repeat what I posted;
    { “nothing of this magnatude is ever done per chance!”}
    As in “NOTHING!”

    We have a show set down to the last note before we even walk on stage – months in advance. Even when we break for a few words between songs its rehearsed 1000 X’s over for its effect so we sell more records / CD’s / more shows.
    Let alone everyone we promote we do the same gig with.
    There is “NO FREE SCRIPTING” allowed for any reason at all ever.

    The cost of just doing the recon on the most effective methods of creating the most intense impact is crazy. This is done so the partron leaves feeling 100% Satasified and will brag about the show to everyone.

    So again { no one ever farts with out being on cue! }

    Peace and Love

    • Doc Sarvis

      That is NOT a good sign for the Republicans after the Clint Eastwood – empty chair disaster.

    • Vigilant

      “There is “NO FREE SCRIPTING” allowed for any reason at all ever.”

      So you think Clint Eastwood’s “script” was written intentionally to run some minutes longer than it had to? Get real.

      • Oneguess

        Kudos, Vigilant. Good posts. Keep it up! Khol Ha’kvod!

    • Vigilant

      Sarvis is actually showing some common sense and cognitive ability today. I must be dreaming.

      Well, it’s still early in the day.

      • Doc Sarvis

        Glad to see you are coming into the light.

      • TIME

        Dear Doc,

        Oh yes indeed {V less} is a big supporter of Barry Omen he is really working for Barry Omen and so wants him to win again!
        You got that right, V less sure is Barry light.

        Peace and Love

      • Vigilant

        No TIME for reading with comprehension says, “Oh yes indeed {V less} is a big supporter of Barry Omen he is really working for Barry Omen and so wants him to win again!”

        Right, idiot, and the Moon is made of green cheese too.

        TIME’s Alinsky tactics place him squarely in the camp of the left.

      • Doc Sarvis

        Time, was your post supposed to mean anything?

      • Vigilant

        No Doc, it wasn’t. We caught him in an unforced error (the “scripting” of Eastwood’s comments), and rather than man up to his error, he diverts the conversation to Obama and my alleged support of him (ridiculous).

        TIME’s bigotry, like GALT’s, is legend on this site. His way or the highway, and how DARE you point out any errors of logic or sense in his argumentys.

        Is it any wonder that TIME and GALT are such pals?

      • TIME

        Dear V less,

        O M G how bloody easy it is to wind you up. ;-)

        Ok Now you go and take a Nappieee now before you blow a fuse.

        Peace and Love

      • Vigilant

        Diversion and more diversion from TIME. What a coward.

      • TIME

        Dear Doc,

        Yes in deed V Less is deeply in love with Barry, but don’t tell anyone he really wants to keep that a secret! I don’t really care what V less thinks – let alone what ever distorted views V less may harbor.

        Frankly – I would rather be freind’s with someone who “thinks” Outside any box thats been created for them, as well keeps and OPEN MIND to the vastness of all possible viens.
        Rather than someone who just goes along to get along or has opinions based on the TV News or what any News paper magazine etc. tell’s them to think, act, dress, or eat.

        So in that reguard – Yes Galt is in fact a far better person than – V Less.
        Thus if Galt has a view that I may not agree with, thats his option as it should be.
        I would not wish to change it in any way shape or form.

        Saddly thats not the case with V less who is 100% clueless let alone so bloody easy to wind up I get a bloody good LOL with most all his post. His ignorance is his and he owns it, I could care less.

        Clint on the other hand I have quite enjoyed speaking with many times about a vast number of topic’s, oddly never politic’s.

        I – TIME – approved this message’s as well its content.

        Peace and LOVE

      • Vigilant

        O M G how bloody easy it is to wind you up.

    • Patriot1776

      I agree. Everything at these conventions is planned and scripted down to the last detail. This video as well as the exclusion of God and Jerusalem from the platform were all part of the obama plan. Just like the Seal’s taking out bin Laden, obama always leaves an out, if the reaction is negative he is ready to wash his hands and shift the blame. “The video in question was produced and paid for by the host committee of the city of Charlotte. It’s neither an OFA nor a DNC video, despite what the Romney campaign is claiming,” obama was supposedly surprised and questioned why God was left out of the platform, if the Seals had failed in their mission or there had been an adverse reaction he was prepared to escape from the blame. It is all part of the obama modus operandi, throw a radical idea out, if it works, great. If it fails, disclaim.

      • Vigilant

        From http://www.foxnews.com/

        “In God We Trust — Four words that speak volumes about America’s values, yet Democrats attending their convention in Charlotte, N.C., booed and shouted ‘no’ when His name was restored to the party platform.”

        Some great Americans those Democrats (NOT!).

  • Doc Sarvis

    WE ARE the government according to the Founding Fathers.

    • Patriot1776

      Exactly Doc, we Are the government. We do not belong to the government.

      • Doc Sarvis

        And the government does not belong to us.

      • Patriot1776

        Really? Government of the People, by the People, for the People…

      • JC

        Perhaps the Government doesn’t “belong” to us. But they are our employees…not an authoritarian aristocracy…as they seem to think they are. Vote out the Global Communists…ALL of them!

      • momo

        Doc Sarvis says: And the government does not belong to us.

        Then, who does it belong to?

    • Vigilant

      Glory hallelujah!

      Has Sarvis suddenly had an epiphany?

    • Doc Sarvis

      Exactly, it does not “belong” to us and we do not “belong” to it – IF we ARE the government.

      • Hedgehog

        Reminds me of an old POGO cartoon. The caption is; “we has met the enemy and they is us”.

    • vicki

      “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….”

      Looks to me like the founding fathers knew full well that the government belongs to US. WE built it. We can and must change it when it becomes destructive to our purpose in creating it.

      • Doc Sarvis

        I agree. Let’s put folks in the House and Senate who are for the American people, most of whom reside in the middle class. Let’s remove corporation’s status as individuals. Let’s move our country off of the oil habit we have to increase our national security. Let’s allow two consenting adults to unite under the law. AND let’s defeat Mr. Romney.

      • vicki

        Doc Sarvis and I agree on some things if not the details when he writes:
        “Let’s put folks in the House and Senate who are for the American people”

        Extra bonus points if they understand both freedom and the point of Constitutional limits on what the American people can get government to do. (Tyranny of the majority is a BAD thing)

        Doc Sarvis: “Let’s remove corporation’s status as individuals.”

        Why? Corporations are just a group of people working together. Freedom of association and all that.

        Doc Sarvis: “Let’s move our country off of the oil habit we have to increase our national security.”

        Ok but lets do it by individual choice not by a few people getting government to force a change. Btw I build my first solar power system back in the last century. :)

        Doc Sarvis: “Let’s allow two consenting adults to unite under the law. ”

        Yep. Remove the concept of marriage from government entirely and put marriage back where it belongs. In the hands of God. (Or the hands of your favorite creator). Civil contracts work fine for business partnerships which is all that the government involvement has with current “marriage” anyway.

        Doc Sarvis: “AND let’s defeat Mr. Romney.”

        Cool you will be voting for Dr Paul. Welcome aboard.

    • nnicko

      The govn’t is the emploee, we are the employer….we elect them to rep for us and in turn theywork for a wage…..we should have made small hats for them to wear because without the small hats, their heads got too big!!!

  • Warrior

    “You didn’t build that”; “Fair Share”; “We all belong to the Gubmint”. Hmmm, appears to be a pattern that has developed.

    Vote OUT every “progressive” you can identify unless, of course, you enjoy being a slave to their “Rule”. Sick “bast@rds”!

    • Jeremy Leochner

      Obama never said “You didn’t build that”. He was talking about roads and bridges and flubbed his sentences. He was trying to say you did not build it alone.

      • http://www.sweetsalesgirl.com/Kuurus/ Charles Johnson

        Obama did say “you didn’t build that.” he may! have meant them but he said that.

      • alpha-lemming

        I suppose that may be an acceptable redaction however……

        When you consider that Government has NO money which it first does not steal… er rather “invests”… from producers, coupled with the facts the top 25% of wage earners pay probably 80-90% of the bill AND ~47% pay no income taxes at all (and yes I know even the poor pay all those hidden taxes on virtually everything we buy)…. I’d say no… we actually DID build that!!

  • Jeremy Leochner

    I think it was wrong to phrase it in the manner they did. It sounded like they were saying belong to in the same way one would say I belong to this club or I belong to that city. As in we are all involved ore connected through the government. We are all part of a society and government is part of that society.

    • Vigilant

      Sorry, J, that falls a bit short. Can you honestly say you’ve ever heard anyone say that they belong to a city, state or even the nation?

      Normally, it’s “I’m from New York,” “I live in Seattle” or “I’m an American.”

      It certainly “was wrong to phrase it in the manner they did.”

  • Harold Olsen

    I’ve got news for Obama and his Nazi party. I belong to ME. But most of all, I belong to God. He gave me my freedoms and only HE can take them away.

  • Buster the Anatolian

    If the DNC and the Barack Obama-Joe Biden campaign did not approve of the video it never would have played. Having it produced by the host committee just gave the DNC an easy denial so they could appear to be innocent of it.

    • FreedomFighter

      How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.–
      Ronald Reagan

      The DNC is the communist party of America. The government serves the people.


      …We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”…

      http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

      Laus Deo
      Semper Fi

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