I am now able to report SOME of what my American history friend couldn’t wait for us to read a few days ago. You’ll recall that he burst into my home clutching a sheaf of papers in his hand, waving them triumphantly and shouting, “You’ve got to read this! You’ve got to read THIS!”
What he had with him was an annotated copy of Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis” letters which he had ‘morphed’ into modern times. Please understand Dick, that his comparison of 18th century England to Amway/Quixtar and Mike Mohr to Lord Howe is as unsavory to me as it will be to you. I recalled what good Queen Victoria is to have said nearly 100 years after the events of the American Revolution, “We are not amused!”
As we listened and read his version of Paine’s letters, my dear friends began howling in laughter and I sought the quiet comfort of my study. At the risk of sounding the broken record; you must do something Dick if you ever wish to win the confidence of the common people.
Here is the beginning of his work. His 'additions' are in brown:
"December 23, 1776 (November 1, 2007)
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier (the so-called IBO “leaders” who stayed on the IBOAI board) and the sunshine patriot (same people) will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country (team-mates); but he (Orrin Woodward, Chris Brady, Tim Marks, Billy Florence, Randy Haugen, Chuck Goetschel and others) who stands by it (them), now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
Britain (Amway/Quixtar), with an army (of attorneys) to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right not only to TAX (sell her products at prices so uncompetitve as to make them impossible for the IBO to sell) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" (the IBO’s are OUR PROPERTY! Just look at our RULES!), and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. (or Rich DeVos who thinks he IS God)
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military (legal) destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. (Mike Mohr could have prevented all of this from happening on August 9th)
Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils (the DeVos family); and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain (Rich DeVos) can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he. (Better!)
…a generous parent should have said (and Orrin Woodward did say), "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man (a real man) to duty. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America (the Team). Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confident, as I am that God governs the world, that America (the Team) will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign (DeVos/Quixtar/Amway) dominion. Wars (of public opinion), without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the continent (people who believe in free enterprise) must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Voltaire has remarked that King William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington (Orrin Woodward), for the character fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted health, and given him a mind that can even flourish upon care.
My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief (Mike Mohr) breaks into my house (business), burns and destroys my property (the relationships I painstakingly built), and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it (my team-mates) , and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king (DeVos) or a common man (Mohr); my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other."
Dick, it pained me to read this and also to publish it, but you must know what is being said about you by the people you hope will elect you one day! Don’t you see? The longer this conflict stays online, the more rope you give Jim Payne and Mike Mohr; the worse you look and the odds that they will use that rope to hang your chance for public office increases exponentially.
The Team will continue to win the people's thinking (which is what is happening even among my friends) and they will eventually win their freedom. And you, instead of playing the magnanimous leader, will be scorned as an elitist billionaire.
Dick, I know you and your dad do not fancy yourself as Kings! It's time to show us who you really are!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Mohr's Campaign Makes Rich DeVos the new George III
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