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You could take this photo several ways, the title makes you look at it in a cryptic sense..it could be as simple as engines from a B-26 Liberator or whatever they were called...
Or maybe you are infering to the death of patriotism and pride in our nation that has been slowly occuring ever since the 2nd world war.
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You are right. I was trying to figure out the shell of the plane that sat behind these and I think these engines are from a newer plane than the B-26, possibly a C-130, but none of the less I was thinking exactly what you said in both terms. It seems a lot of people in our nation are gladly giving or willing to give up our freedoms in several areas for their individual comfort and appeasement. Quite frankly, I would rather experience some discomfort and maintain our full freedoms and liberty than give up some of my freedoms for an easy life. Freedom takes sacrifice and most are not willing to sacrifice anything. True patriots are few and far between these days...
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Your comment above reminds me of a great chapter in Tocqueville's Democracy in America: "There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of the new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all. It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. The discharge of political duties appears to them to be a troublesome impediment which diverts them from their occupations and business. If they are required to elect representatives, to support the government by personal service, to meet on public business, they think they have no time, they cannot waste their precious hours in useless engagements; such idle amusements are unsuited to serious men who are engaged with the more important interests of life. These people think they are following the principle of self-interest, but the idea they entertain of that principle is a very crude one; and the better to look after what they call their own business, they neglect their chief business, which is to remain their own masters. ...", continued here: [link]
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That was a very enjoyable read! I thank you for sharing it with me!
I've been quite interested as of late in the words written and spoken by the founders of this country. A very great deal of what they spoke about in the past still applies in full today. Many politicians today might say the contrary, but it may very well be them who wish to trample on the Constitution and display their individual posture by taken the God given rights away from this country's inhabitants. It would seem that when such a people have the "authority" to do so, the balance of power has become skewed and not maintained. They are supposed to be representatives of the people, not their keeper and master!
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It's funny because i am not american but french and i feel exactly the same about what is happening today in our country and to europe as a whole. The last example of many: after the No of the Irish people to a referendum about a new european treaty last week, we now have plenty of politicians explaining to us that we should not have asked for a vote in the first place, that the treaty is too technical and that citizens should leave this kind of decisions to professionals !!!
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Wow-politicians should realize that they are there because of the PEOPLE and that the PEOPLE are the ones with whom they serve, not themselves! I believe the vast majority of politicians have lost touch with reality. I don't know about France, but over here the politicians have turned being a politician into a full time job when in reality it is a part time job. That is the whole purpose behind sessions-when their session for the year is over, they are supposed to go back home and work at their real job and contribute to their individual community. Unfortunately, the attitude has become elitist in nature and they feel they are above everyone else, living luxurious lifestyles that makes one wonder how they achieved such wealth being a politician. I feel politics should reluctantly and humbly accept their posts in government as their duty to their country and their people-most notably to defend the Constitution and our rights at all costs, not alter and infringe upon it for personal gain, fame, or glory. I laugh at the thought that many of today's politicians, had they existed in earlier times (during our countries Revolution, etc.), would have probably been tarred and feathered for their conduct and actions. lol This is somewhat a hot topic with you and I!!!
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