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Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress
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Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress


Aug 25, 2015, 1:50 PM

https://www.facebook.com/charliedanielsband/posts/10153710033818287


An Open Letter to Congress - Charlie's Soapbox 8/24/15

I am a proud American who believes that America has held - and still holds - a very sensitive and special place in the affairs of mankind on Planet Earth. I believe that America has been divinely blessed and protected in our two centuries plus of existence.

I believe that America has been a counter balance that has cancelled out a lot of tyranny, evil and conquest and, admittedly, we have made a lot of mistakes, but on balance we have exerted a certain Pax Americana in the international affairs of mankind.

It took a lot of old fashioned guts for the Continental Congress to stand up to the world's mightiest military and tell them that we demanded our independence, even at the peril of going up against a far superior force on land and sea with a ragtag army of untrained citizens, many who had to supply their own firearms.

It took courage above and beyond for Abraham Lincoln to push the country into a Civil War that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would divide this nation for decades.

It took guts to give the order for American troops to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, straight into the face of artillery and machine gunfire, wave after wave being cut to ribbons by German shore emplacements.

The history of this nation is written in the blood and courage of men who stood in the face of overwhelming odds, politicians, soldiers, statesmen and ordinary citizens who sought to do the right thing regardless of the cost or the consequences.

Well, ladies and gentlemen of the United States Congress, it seems that that particular pen has run out of ink. The courageous politicians that once championed this nation have been replaced, for the most part, by a breed of milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants who are supposed to be representing a constituency of citizens who have to live with the circumstances of their timid folly.

You don't even have the courage to face down an out of control president, even when he makes a deal with the devil. Don't you bunch of timid capons even care what kind of world you're leaving to your children and grandchildren, not to even mention the rest of us? Are you really party partisans before you're parents and grandparents or even human beings?

Be honest with yourselves a minute, go into the bathroom and look in the mirror and ask the person you see this question.

"Do I really believe that Iran will not use the money we're releasing to them to finance terrorists to kill Americans, and, when, not if, but when, the Iranians develop their nuclear device, will they really use it against America and Israel?"

You can’t hide from the truthful answer to that question forever, an answer will be required of you one day.

You have allowed Obama to tilt the Supreme Court so far to the left that they're little more than a shameful extension of the Executive Branch.

You have talked for decades about the porous southern border but have done absolutely nothing about it.

You have allowed cities in this nation to declare themselves sanctuary cities where they protect the worst of the worst criminal aliens, American citizens paying an awful price for your silence.

You watch an impossible National Debt balloon completely out of control knowing full well that a day of reckoning is coming that will seriously curtail the quality of life for coming generations.

You allow corrupt government agencies like the IRS to run over the very people you are sworn to protect and allow the entitlement society to expand exponentially while you actually entertain the idea of raising taxes on those who still work and shoulder the burden.

You compose a third of the constitutionally mandated ruling system and you shirk your duty
and allow this nation to move a little closer to the edge every day.

I wish you bunch of sold-out, jaded, burned-out hacks would just go home and let some people who still have some vision and whose consciences haven't been seared past the point of reminding them when they're wrong take over and start to claw this nation back on to the path of sanity,

Your ratings are in the single digits, your morals are in the gutter, your minds are on self-preservation and somewhere along the way you traded your honor for political expediency.

You've violated your oaths, you've betrayed your country you've feathered your nests and you've sat on your hands while an imperial president has rubbed your noses in the dirt time after time.

You're no longer men, you're puppets, you're caricatures, jokes, a gaggle of fading prostitutes for sale to anybody who can do you a political favor.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

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Willie Nelson's letter to Congress (probably)


Aug 25, 2015, 1:58 PM

Legalize weed you idiots.

-Willie

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Re: Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress


Aug 25, 2015, 2:00 PM

Charlie should be Trump's Speech Writer. I can hear Trump blasting all of them now with this speech.

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Re: Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress


Aug 25, 2015, 2:01 PM

I like that it is by and large an apolitical letter. He doesn't call out Dems' or 'Pubs - just congress as a whole since by and large they both share blame (or praise) for most issues/resolutions.

And for that Mr. Daniels, I salute you.

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Re: Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress


Aug 25, 2015, 2:17 PM

No more needs to be said. Washington has become the enemy of the people. The parasites are coming close to killing their host and when that happens, it's over....

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Charlie probably didn't even say it,


Aug 25, 2015, 2:17 PM

like that Robin Williams or Carlin email that used to get passed around about not messing with 'Murica.

On a side note, anyone remember when Charlie and the CTB used to make fantastic music and that is how we heard about him? He is the Ted Nugent of country/fiddlin'.

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yes, right about the time tim robbins was getting


Aug 25, 2015, 2:24 PM

donkey punched in shawshank?

a lot of "ted nugents" in the entertainment bidness.

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Tim Robbins?


Aug 25, 2015, 3:07 PM

Okay.

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anytime.***


Aug 25, 2015, 3:08 PM



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Anyone remeber that most entertainers are Liberals


Aug 25, 2015, 2:48 PM [ in reply to Charlie probably didn't even say it, ]

always spouting their views , yet the few that are willing to admit that they have a conservative lean get attacked ? It's called trying to shut up the opposition to make the bleeding hearts believe that the opposition isn't as big as it really is.

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Good Lord....


Aug 25, 2015, 3:11 PM

anyone notice how Conservatives have become everything they despise about liberals as in being whiny babies? Get a giant pacifier. Waaaaaaah , my country isn't exactly the way I want it to be. Waaaaaah! ??

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Re: Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress


Aug 25, 2015, 2:31 PM

Nice words Charlie! Ummm, but he's wrong on one point. "We" aren't releasing any money to Iran. The money is from frozen oil sales and is sitting in China, India, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, and Taiwan.

Apparently Charlie doesn't realize that the Iran deal is between Iran and China, France, USA, Russia and United Kingdom (5 permanent members of the U.N. Security Council) + Germany.

Like the deal, don't like the deal, whether we sign on or not Iran gets the money and the other countries will lift sanctions.

Just keeping record straight. Still love the CDB!

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Re: Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress


Aug 25, 2015, 2:47 PM

Big talk from a good ole boy who never served even though he was of age during Viet Nam.

Ok, so close the southern border. Then he can bring his ignorant, fat butt out here and pick the fruit and vegetables that that we all enjoy.

Seems the Supreme Court is pretty balanced these days, and maybe slightly right leaning.

Cracker.

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the fruit will get picked, but by people that contribute


Aug 25, 2015, 2:53 PM

a full share to the community, the state & nation that provides them an umbrella of freedoms.

citizens should share in the bounty, illegals/interlopers/parasites should be deported post haste.

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Re: the fruit will get picked, but by people that contribute


Aug 25, 2015, 3:27 PM

> a full share to the community, the state & nation
> that provides them an umbrella of freedoms.
>
> citizens should share in the bounty,
> illegals/interlopers/parasites should be deported
> post haste.

People out here doing the picking are almost all from south of the border. They are hard workers who have families and support their communities. We have plenty of "blancos" out here who are on welfare and are involved in crime, and are not contributing in any way to the state or the nation. But you never see them in the fields doing the hard work. Fact is, you never see them doing much of anything constructive. I say deport them and keep the hard workers from down south.

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one mess at a time, after deportation the illegals are more


Aug 25, 2015, 3:33 PM

than welcome to go through the proper channels & process in earning their way back. it would have saved us all a lot of time, effort & money if they had done it right the first time assuming they could pass the background check.

as for the others stealing from our great nation, they will be addressed as well.

i'm all for more united states' citizens contributing to the whole and fewer soaking the fruits of others' labors.

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Employers see illegals as a cheap labor source. Stop


Aug 25, 2015, 4:41 PM [ in reply to Re: Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress ]

employers from hiring them and the problem is easily solved. But, congress won't do that. They would rather use the issue to whip up the base for election purposes while enjoying the fruits of that cheap labor. Nor will they legalize them. If they are legalized, employers lose the leverage that allows them to keep wages low and if they become citizens they might vote Democratic.

So, there is a lot to be gained by some by keeping things the way they are.

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Re: Employers see illegals as a cheap labor source. Stop


Aug 25, 2015, 5:05 PM

"So, there is a lot to be gained by some by keeping things the way they are."

One thing to be gained is the work that most legal "citizens" won't do does get done by folks from south of the border. FYI, out here many field workers who started in the fields have gained legal status and now are leaders in the local business and professional ranks and their family values are beyond reproach. Just saying, it's easy to vilify a group without looking beyond the superficial opinions of so-called spokesmen such as good-ole-boy CD and current GOP presidential candidate leader Donald Trump. Keep your thinking caps on brothers.

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Oh, I agree. I was just offering some explanation as to why


Aug 25, 2015, 5:58 PM

this issue never seems to get resolved.

Trump is playing the Lee Atwater Southern Strategy and it's working for him.

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Re: Oh, I agree. I was just offering some explanation as to why


Aug 25, 2015, 6:22 PM

Thanks. Appreciate your input and respect your opinion.

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TU for the Atwater mention.***


Aug 25, 2015, 6:31 PM [ in reply to Oh, I agree. I was just offering some explanation as to why ]



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Work hard. Rock hard. Eat hard. Sleep hard. Grow big. Wear glasses if you need 'em - The Webb Wilder credo


Employers see them as cheap labor,


Aug 25, 2015, 7:49 PM [ in reply to Employers see illegals as a cheap labor source. Stop ]

the other sides sees them as political fuel. Let's not forget who they vote for. Registering at the DMV with the illegal papers they use to get the license was one of the biggest scams ever pushed on us . Neither side will ever be driven to straighten it out.

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Re: Charlie Daniels Letter to Congress- Not him or


Aug 25, 2015, 2:58 PM

he would have closed with ..."thank ya, we 'preciate it"

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Agree with some of what he said BUT.......


Aug 25, 2015, 3:18 PM

Anyone who has an ounce of intelligence that believes there is much, if any, difference between the two parties is fooling their selves.

Save a few issues, the "two parties" are one in the same. Both backed by the same big corporations and elitist donors.

Their "game" is division. Both parties try and divide the nation - and they are extremely successful in doing so...

Wake up!


Message was edited by: gville76®


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For relaxing times, make it Suntory time


Re: Agree with some of what he said BUT.......


Aug 25, 2015, 5:55 PM

> Anyone who has an ounce of intelligence that believes
> there is much, if any, difference between the two
> parties is fooling their selves.
>
> Save a few issues, the "two parties" are one in the
> same. Both backed by the same big corporations and
> elitist donors.
>
> Their "game" is division. Both parties try and divide
> the nation - and they are extremely successful in
> doing so...
>
> Wake up!
>
>
> Message was edited by: gville76®

Well said. They just don't get it. People fall for the same divisive crap that they've been falling for since the Korean War. Around Vietnam it was "America love it or leave it', then it was 'burning the flag', and then 'gay rights' and now it's gay marriage, religious freedom, Iran deal and immigration. All the while politicians represent corporate interests 1st, citizens 2nd. Check your health insurance, car insurance, power bill, internet access and hospital bills, your kid's tuition....then scream about "immigration" or "gay marriage" or conservative this or liberal that......and you'll be doing exactly what your supposed to be doing, instead of looking at the real problem: Our democracy has been sold to the highest bidder and your representative government doesn't represent you anymore.



Your dead right gville76 . But most just don't get it.

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Not my typical post


Aug 25, 2015, 7:40 PM

Normally this site for me is fun, entertaining, lots of sarcasm, and a diversion from everyday life.

Oh, and Clemson sports - namely Foosball!

What I find most concerning about this issue - most people, even some of the most intelligent people I know, follow, and believe most everything that is fed to them by the media. Very few stop and think about what they hear. They take it on faith, so to speak. Whether they watch CNN or NBC etc (Democrat networks) or Fox News (Republican) they fail to recognize most all of the media/entertainment/hollywood/news outlets are owned, and controlled, by the same people/corporations.

They are just pandering to their audience - but they definitely are delivering the same messages. Albeit in a slightly different timbre.

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I guess you write stupid letters when you can't write music.


Aug 25, 2015, 3:38 PM

Just another dumb redneck that can't write music trying to be relevant again.

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What proof do you have of Charlie Daniels character?


Aug 25, 2015, 8:21 PM

I happen to be lucky enough to have met him in person. He's one of the most genuine guys that I've ever talked to, extremely cordial and a gentleman to top it all off.

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Where did I mention his character?***


Aug 25, 2015, 9:06 PM



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Well, you called him.......


Aug 25, 2015, 9:38 PM

"Just another dumb redneck that can't write music trying to be relevant again"

My impression of Charlie Daniels was nothing like your description. Just saying that he seemed like an American who was proud of his country. The guy seemed to have a lot of passion for America.

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I wish his passion would create another


Aug 25, 2015, 10:11 PM

tune like his Black Autumn.

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