Posted on 01/06/2011 7:23:56 AM PST by Voice of Reason88
Democrats are howling about the new Republican majority’s decision to read the Constitution in its entirety on Thursday.
You are not “free” when the collective demands of favored citizens can place unlimited demands on the fruit of your labor.
You are not “free” if your choices are meaningless.
You are not “free” if you are not allowed to dissent.
There is only one governing principle that properly respects the freedom of all citizens: ironclad obedience to a clear and concise document that identifies their inherent rights, and forbids the State from compromising them, under any circumstances. The Constitution does not “give” you those rights. It recognizes them.
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> The Constitution does not “give” you those rights. It recognizes them.
Precisely!
The rights are “endowed to us by our Creator” and are therefore “unalienable”, that is, they cannot be encroached or infringed.
The DemonRATS should be required to swear-in to the Communist Manifesto. It would be one of the few acts of honesty they commit.
“The E Plebnista, they are Yang holy words. You will not speak them.” - Cloud William, The Omega Glory
Stephen Cohen (D) Tennessee gave a one minute speech this morning to complain about the GOP reading of the constitution. He then called it a slave supporting document that only the courts had corrected.
When you come right down to it freedom is just not that popular a concept. People are eager to trow it away for the smallest trashy trinket.
O.M.G. Do you have a link to that?
I wish Liberals would simply state that they oppose the Constitution utterly, and wish to overthrow it. :)
"...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..."Isn't it about time members at least hear what it is they are bound to support, defend and bear allegiance to?
Stephen must not be familiar with how The Constitution is amended.
Seeing as how DemcoRATS are largely responsible for slavery, The KKK, and segregation, Republicans should promise Stephen Cohen they will do everything in their power to prevent DemocRATS from re-instituting slavery, The KKK and segregation.
It does not say that this right is granted by a benevolent and kindhearted government.
It does not say ‘the right of the “militia” as the Oppressive-left would have us believe, but the people.
Because if the Oppressive-left can convince the sheeple that a kind and benevolent government has thusforth granted these rights – It can also Take these rights away.
Oh wow! How Life imitates art!
Thank you for reminding me of that.
Stephen Cohen needs to read Fredrick Douglas. Douglas belived the constitution to be a slavery supporting document till he read it in depth. Then he changed his view of it and recognized it as an anti slavery document.
I thought freedom was just another word for nothing left to lose...
;-)
Cohen’s comments were the last of the one minute speeches. They’re getting ready to read the constitution now.
I am simply FLOORED by the sheer AUDACITY of those rat-ba$tard republicans for wanting to actually READ the CONSTITUTION aloud during a session of congress!
It contains quite possibly the most outrageous words ever spoken on the floor of the United States House of Reprehensibles!
Why, it’s downright REVOLUTIONARY!
;-)
When they get to Article V, whoever is reading it should start with "Mr. Cohen, please pay attention."
This is a great quote and a drawing line between real Americans and Liberals. I believe the problem with the liberal utopian vision is that in order to pursue it and believe in it, one must lose all respect, for anything standing in the way.
Then again, we know that the Democrats welcomed the Comes with open arms...
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