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“Just Come in to the Reservation and We’ll Take Care of You.”

July 31, 2009

The Lakota people of the northern plains, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, were ground out of their way of life by the "Great Father" in Washington and his "Long Knives." The oppression was aided by other prominant leaders like Spotted Tail and Red Cloud who sold out and became accomplices in the demise of their own way of life. The story is heartbreaking, frustrating, and infuriating.

If we have learned anything from history, it is that we don't learn from history.

Does anyone else feel like our way of life, our freedom, and our lands are being taken away from us by a new "Great Father" in Washington and his "Long Knives" the press? Will we be forced to live on agencies of government health-care and turn in our weapons and sport utility vehicles? Will we be forced to send our children to the "Rising Sun" schools? Are those who ascribe to The New Tolerance and Political Correctness sowing the seeds of destruction of their own freedom and liberty?

History infuriates me sometimes with its injustice and cruelty. Sadly, I don't have to look back into history for righteous indignation anymore. I just have to turn on the news.

Just as in the closing days of the 1800s in the west; something special is being stolen.

Posted in Politics

18 responses to ““Just Come in to the Reservation and We’ll Take Care of You.””

Phyllis Hoff

July 31, 2009

Chris:
Glad you are back. This is so true. I work in the employee benefits field, and every day I get the latest and greatest from the so-called Health Care Reform straight from Washington.
It is a disaster.
Low and behold, they are fighting each other.
They are contemplating and bickering about how to take our freedoms away.
Government is not the answer.

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Kerry Konecny

July 31, 2009

Hi Chris, I am glad you are back too! I agree that history shows clearly what happens in a socialist society. Some random thoughts…it seems that people are resigned to a “that’s the way it is” or “what can I do about it” attitude. I remember the CD you did a while back about the power of one person(for good or bad) can make a huge difference. I think being a part of TEAM gives us a voice by being a business owner so we now have a bigger stake in the economy so we will hopefully learn more and then do more based on that information. A great book is “Business for the Glory of God” by Wayne Grudem. He opened my eyes using the Bible to see that everything in God’s creation including ownership, profit, competition, etc. is to be used to glorify Him. Nothing is neutral…especially Christians…we are with Him or against Him in all we do! Thank you for your leadership!
Kerry

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Chris schill

July 31, 2009

Chris, I couldn’t agree more. It IS absolutely infuriating and is so difficult to explain to people who are sleeping and not paying attention. Without leaders like you and Orrin, I might never of realized what is actually going on right under our noses. Thanks for leading the way and keeping the truth in front of us.

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Abraham

July 31, 2009

I can hardly contain my thoughts about such injustice and this new world religion of Political Correctness and how it is stripping our nation. It is a virus, spreading and infecting all it touches. Can there be a cure for such a thing? Is there anyway to stop this colossus from devestating our youth and unborn? We stand for truth! We are the beacons of light for so many that are lost in the dark. As we stand together, we begin to shed light onto the dark places. The more of us that stand, the brighter our future looks. God will raise up a generation to combat this horrible attack on truth.

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bcampau

July 31, 2009

You’re back! Nice trek I’m sure. I survived with Fox, Drudge, Seth and others.
I’m in. Time to unleash truth. It’s getting disgusting. Maybe it’s always been, and I’m just a bit more educated than I was before.
Either way…..ark….for sure.

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Eben Smith

July 31, 2009

Glad your back also. Ever since you requested to read alas shrugged the has been pull form my eyes. And I totally agree they are blatantly taking our freedom’s away. Eben

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John Dickinson – Team One Purpose!

July 31, 2009

Chris,
I agree. Sometimes it looks like laws are created to justify the reason for the politician’s jobs. these laws sometimes restrict our freedoms.
How different would the political scene be if politics was a voluntary position where the politicians took no pay or donations or incentive money to volunteer their time and effort. Of course, they might need to have a job or run a business to support themselves, but this concept has and does work, especially for some religious organizations.
Thanks!
John

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Bill Kolasa

July 31, 2009

Welcome back to your blog, Chris!
Firstly, I have always been at odds of how the White Man took the Red Man’s land and all the disrespect there. I often wonder if that was needed for the USA to be created and grown to be the superpower and beacon of freedom. It’s sad that that victory had that price attached, at least in some way.
Secondly, I agree with you entirely on the present-day taking of our way of life and freedom. I’m working harder at it now, and at least trying to have more courage than I ever have to help you and the Team change that. I’m learning tons from books and leaders like you and Ronald Reagan and Mark Levin.
Thirdly, your comment on history repeating brings up a point I often return to in my mind, and of course it connects with the cycle of the body politick. History many times infuriates me with its injustice as well. “It’s not fair!” “That’s right; life isn’t fair.” Then I get mad at God for allowing it to be that way. In fact, hearing “Life isn’t fair” is perhaps the quickest way for me to get angry. There are many parts to that, but I’ll just stick with the cycle of the body politick.
It makes me really mad that humans can work and work and work and work, and learn and learn, and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice, and build something of freedom (say the Roman Empire or the United States) and it can just come crashing down either quickly or slowly, the bad guys win, and either the builders or their next generations have to suffer in slavery or squalor, and/or rebuild. And so it’s almost like regardless of how much we humans do and accomplish, we can’t seem to advance ourselves at all–if the cycle of the body politick, by nature, can’t be broken–and we end up with a best case of net zero. Like sometimes this whole universe we live in is God’s sick experiment.
“That’s not fair!” “That’s right; life isn’t fair.” I even hear sometimes, “That’s right; it isn’t fair. It isn’t fair that you have fine clothes and enough food to eat and good medicine and all your teeth, and those people in That Country don’t.” My response is always, “That’s right. Why shouldn’t they have it as well?! We know that we don’t have a limited amount of wealth, so why not?! But no matter what we do, it never makes a difference in the long term! What kind of a world do we live in, that God would either create it so, or allow it to be this way?!” As I said, like sometimes this whole universe we live in is God’s sick experiment. I’m certainly not appealing to the ideas of communism or socialism, but I am a huge idealist, always have been, and have decided I always will be. I refuse to give up on my ideals–otherwise I have nothing to shoot for, and so then what would be the purpose of life? Yet, according to the cycle of the body politick, it never makes a difference in the long term.
“Well, it’s because of the Fall of Man.” Even if a person takes the Fall of Man in Genesis literally, I somehow reeeeeally doubt that God didn’t know what was going to happen, and the result of it.
So that leaves us with the great two-word phrase as the hinge of all the argument: “Well, it’s because of Free Will.” C.S. Lewis in “Mere Christianity” came to this same phrase, of course. He said that evidently God felt our Free Will was worth it. Sometimes I agree. But when I am reminded of all the suffering I know, or learn of new suffering, and recall that we humans can’t ever seem to advance ourselves as a whole, no matter what–in those moments I disagree. In those moments, like as I am writing this right now with tears, I think I would trade my Free Will if it meant that all that suffering would end and be fixed. I’m not talking at all about communism or giving it up to a human or group of humans–but I think I’d give it up to God. In those moments, I think I would give up my Free Will to God and become a mindless automaton drone if it meant that all that would be permanently fixed.
Just my thoughts. (Thanks for letting me share, or at least be a sounding board. I think I’d like to write a book some time with all these essays like this that I write to you and others.)
Sincerely,
Bill

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Miriam Teresi

August 1, 2009

Per Glen Beck (fox news Channel) – almost 80% of Americans are happy with their current Healthcare, and almost 94% are against a national healthcare system. So I have to ask – what in the world is Obama and our senators/representatives smoking if they think that we really want this.

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Cathy – Team Rascals

August 1, 2009

Chris,
I am SO glad you are back, too!!!
There is a book series by Peter Marshall and David Manuel that should be required reading in every home in the land. It gives a unique perspective on American history, from the early explorers to the days when Abraham Lincoln was about to be elected as President. They show us as we were, and what we could have been, and what we still can be.
The book are as follows, in order of both appearance and historical timeline:
“The Light and the Glory”
“From Sea to Shining Sea”
“Sounding Forth the Trumpets”
ALSO, if anyone goes to conservative radio show (and former presidential candidate) Fred Thompson’s website, you will find an interview he did last week with Dr. Betsy McCaughey. She is the former Lieutenant Governor of my own state of NY, and one of the few people to have read the health care bill now in front of Congress in its entirety. (Not even Congressment and Senators do that very often!!) She is currently a Patient Advocate and Founder of the Committee to Reduce Invectious Deaths. Her comments are shocking, to say the least!!!! The interview is very brief, only about 10 minutes or so, and it was done on July 27.
Here’s the link to the interview: http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid=320&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03NDIzJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPTMyMCZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9MQ==

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Gyorgy Veszpremi

August 1, 2009

Chris,
I was born and raised in a communist country. I escaped from there when I was 26 years old. After living on the outside of the former Iron Curtain about the same amount of time and seeing the direction “freedom” is heading all I can say every person on this planet should protect freedom and stop the communistic system from spreading. I am just a nobody who can become somebody, but as a TEAM we can achieve GREAT things. !!! FREEDOM !!!

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Lucas and Chrystal Moldenhauer

August 2, 2009

Hey Chris,
It was such a blessing to talk to you and hear from you and Terri in Cleveland. The Crazy Horse monument is such an inspiration to me. Thanks for the application to current and urgent legislation.
Lucas and Chrystal Moldenhauer

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Skipper

August 3, 2009

Howdy Chris, It is interesting to note: When the Native Americans rights were being taken away many of them didn’t realize it. When the Jews of Germany were having their rights taken away many of them didn’t object. Many of them thought that it was for their betterment. Why did they think this way? Because they wanted immediate gratification. They didn’t consider the long term consequences of their actions. We must become like the Founders of this country and start thinking more about the future than about today.
Skipper

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Phyllis Hoff

August 3, 2009

Chris:
This may be appropriate here or a whole post in itself.
You may have already seen this.
This is a YouTube video that was made of US Rep. Tom Price-6th Dist. on Wednesday. Tom is a member of the House Healthcare Committee, and the video was shot in the Wed. Committee meeting. Tom has said that our Constitution is being burned right before our very eyes. We must, Democrats and Republicans alike, let our “leaders” know that this plan is unacceptable.
There has to be a better way than a government takeover! If the Government takes over, it will be one of the most colossal blunders in the history of this Nation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_YOlUBoIk

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Eric and Rachael Gregory

August 4, 2009

Chris,
I have been enjoying taking the opportunity to engage people about the truth of the democracy/republic discussion. The simplest way to answer the question is to have someone recite the pledge to the flag. Sadly some people cannot even remember it. The third phrase says ‘and to the republic for which it stands’. We must be salty and provocative patriots and capitalists wherever we go, and with whomever we speak. We will not go quietly into the night! If the colonists could throw off such gov’t after a long train of abuses, we can turn the tide of American thinking from the inside out. It all starts with our thinking. Long live freedom!

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Dave Nelson

August 4, 2009

HI Chris,
I’m Glad your here. We miss u Dude. A day just aint a day without Chris Brady. Sometimes you have to get old before you realize how much you miss having certain people in your life.
Thanks for writing more books.
Dave Nelson in Florida-
I wonder was it this hot when I was younger living without airconditioning? Am I a weenie?

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Cathy – Team Rascals

August 4, 2009

Skipper,
Whey (Greetings) on behalf of my adopted people, the Haudenosaunee Kanienkehaka (Iroquois Mohawk) nation. Please note, I speak as a daughter of adoption, and not as a birth-right member of the people.
How I got to be a daughter of the people is a long tale for another day. Suffice to say, my adoption gives me the authority to speak on my First Nations’ brothers’ behalf.
You said, “It is interesting to note: When the Native Americans rights were being taken away many of them didn’t realize it.”
The leaders knew, Skipper. They knew and were powerless against the superiority of the arms, numbers and will of the governments they faced, in the English, French and finally and worst of all American. The leaders knew of their betrayal and were impotent to stop it.
My own people simply chose the losing side in what we call the French and Indian War, and later during the Revolutionary War. They sided with the French first, and when the Americans won the Revolutionary War, they paid the price for their dual foolishness. They were driven from their traditional homes into Canada and far west into Minnesota’s lake districts. Now, only a few scattered enclaves remain near where they used to thrive, Ganienkeh, a tiny group in far north NY; Akwesasne (St. Regis), the “casino Indians” as they are known along the U.S. and Canadian borders; and Kanatsiohareke, a tiny non-recognized community in the region that caters to tourists.
The people were peace loving, fighting to defend homes and territory, and heavily evangelized by both the French and English. They had what scholars see as a sophisticated form of representative government amidst the Confederacy and among themselves. They were a matriachal society, which tended to keep them more peaceful than patriachal ones.
U.S. culture has portrayed them as demon-people, just because they were on the wrong side in a couple of wars. History is often skewed toward the winners in conflicts, and our popular culture’s of the people is a good example.
By the way, if you need a good example of this same thing among the Lakota Sioux, just find yourself a copy of “Dances With Wolves,” reserve an evening and a box of tissues and prepare to educate yourself.
Wandu (Thank you) for listening to me.
ughnakomika (farewell)
White Owl (aka Cathy)
P.S. A note of clarification. The First Nation’s words I used are Cree, courtesy of a Cree friend. I do not remember enough of the people’s language of what I learned so many years ago to speak and/or spell it properly. The name I closed with, however, is mine.

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Skipper

August 5, 2009

Hi Chris, If the government does as good a job with socialized medicine as they did with taking care of the indians on the reservation we are in trouble.
Skipper

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