CW2 Ping
“The President, who happens to be a Constitutional law professor”
Actually, he was an instructor, not even an Assistant Professor, and he taught some BS elective about race.
I bought that book.
Particularly enjoyed the section on “caveman economics.”
Made my son read it.
I like that.
” 1. Assume that the Supreme Court has struck down a federal law, but the DHS shows up in your county to enforce it anyway. What do you do? And no, you don’t have time to consult with the state bigwigs, the DHS is busting down doors and hauling away your citizens, so you have to act now. 2. Assume that the Supreme Court has struck down a state law, but the state law enforcement officials show up in your county to enforce it anyway. What do you do?”
Great question;one with no easy answer.
Most of his book is great. Some of it I am not with him on. But I can’t expect 100%. It really is a good book overall though, I bought a copy.
Because this wild-eyed crap isn’t seeming so off the wall all of a sudden, is it?
Not at all. If 0bama is re-elected, Free Republic might/probably will be, banned/shut down.
We need other ways to communicate.
I never thought I’d live to see what’s happening to my country, Matt. To be honest with you I’d hoped I’d be gone when it did. But now....
I’m asking my state rep what actions will he support in this instance. Should be interesting; will report back.
There's "you"==me ...and then there is "you"==the general population.
So the most important answer isn't what "I", myself ( Being a Marine only a few years from 80-years of age and able to remember what the Nation was like when there were at least half of our original liberties still intact), would do.
The important answer is what 95% of the general population would do.
IMHO, simply look back at recent history when three separate tyrannies slaughtered hundreds of millions of their population without their general populations doing anything except bowing their collective heads in submission.
Our Founders started with an initial estimated 5-to-10 percent of the population willing to sacrifice everything. Their bravery was rewarded in large part because of existing in a time of:
We have ventured too far into Reagan's prophecy. I weep for my children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren...
At the time, I speculated that when the Legislative and the Executive colluded to ignore the Constitution, it was game over.
I clearly remember the closing words,
"What alternative is left (to armed insurrection)?"
Clearly at that point neat, rational Constitutional Amendments are not a likely option, as we are presently witnessing.
The Founding Fathers were simply incapable of including a remedy to that scenario, other than the implied repetition of the Declaration of Independence.
But there is a bright side, which can be discussed another day.
Without the military, which would NOT participate in turning their own country into Iraq/Afghanistan, it'd be game over for Mordor.
We need a more active role for citizen militia. Working in conjunction with local Sheriff's Departments, or as an extension of the Courts as defined above. Even if most of it only amounts to just helping direct traffic during severe weather/accidents/evacuations.
Yes, it'd still be chock full of "never was", non-hacking, wanna-be Rambo, Mall Ninjas. Giving the Militia a real role to play could entice former .mil guys like me to get involved and to see if we can't unf*ck their cluster for them.
...Let a [federal] regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger...
To these [federal troops] would be opposed a militia... of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by [State] governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of [federal] regular troops...
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate [State] governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of [federal] ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of...
And as Thomas Jefferson observed in his Kentucky Resolutions:
1. Resolved, That the several States composing, the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that [federal] government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral part, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each [State as a] party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Leave the militia in the control of the States. The original system of "checks and balances" anticipated a balance of power between the States and the federal government, not simply between the different branches of the federal government. The high court is a part of the federal government, and (as Madison noted in his Report on the Virginia Resolutions) as potentially subject to corruption as the other branches of that government...
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Whatever it is does matter. If we're talking about 0bamaCare where does he get the massive funding necessary to implement one of the biggest bureaucracies ever created? Congress has changed since 0bamaCare passed and it's going to change some more this Nov. Even if it was made up of the same butt monkeys that passed it I can't imagine them having the gonads to fund a bureaucracy that was deemed un-Constitutional by SCOTUS and hugely unpopular with the people.
>Because, after all, it is judges who judge.
Factually incorrect; in criminal cases it is the jury that judges [innocence and guilt].