How'd I know?
Posted on 04/04/2015 9:28:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Colbert King published an odd piece in the Washington Post on Friday that was equal parts hysteria, constitutional ignorance, and alternate history. He suggests that resistance to some of President Barack Obama’s executive orders amounts to nothing more than “insurrection.” Indeed, he compares this resistance to the actions of white southerners to President Abraham Lincoln. The assessment is bone chilling since the proper response to insurrection is to send in troops and start shooting people, just as Lincoln did when the Southern states tried to secede and form their own country.
King focuses on legislation being passed by the Arizona legislature that seeks to nullify some of the more constitutionally suspect executive orders regarding illegal immigration. One can argue whether this move is the most appropriate strategy, but it hardly constitutes raising the Stars and Bars. At worse, the legislation will set up a court battle over whether the supremacy clause, which states that federal law trumps state law, also applies to an executive order.
In the meantime, a number of states are seeking relief in the federal courts, asking that the executive orders be overturned as an unconstitutional overreach of executive power. This little bit of “insurrection” will likely be decided in the Supreme Court and not on the battlefield....
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How'd I know?
The response is also stupid.
Opposition to Obama and his ilk is the highest form of Patriotism.
These idiots have lost all credibility when they write stuff like this. This is the kind of writer who shouldn’t be writing for a high school newspaper.
I don’t even have to look, Colbert King is black.
Dissent is Patriotic - 2008
Dissent is a Crime - 2015
What did he classify his opposition to George Bush as? Insurrection? Rebellion?
Another affirmative action hire that shows his abject ignorance of our history and our form of government.. Chances are excellent that he never read the documents of the founding of our nation, but this offensive jerk gets a fat paycheck from the Big Government believers at the Compost because he fills a quota for them. That is why the Democrat media has no credibility.
“Anyone who does not love The State must be criminally insane, and should be forcibly detained and medicated until they are no longer a threat.” -Stalin ... or the Washington Post?
Did he leave out the “racist” part, huh, did he, did he?
Does it seem that we are rapidly heading to a point where every expression of traditional Christian morality and every criticism of statism is considered a crime, even treason? And that the MSM are not pushing back against this trend, but are fueling it?
“If this be treason, make the most of it”
Patrick Henry’s words are more than appropriate again.
This “writer” exemplifies why affirmative-action is a complete farce.
It is sad that the media still insists on calling them executive orders.
So what? Resistance to a tyrant is the responsibility of citizens and patriots, acquiescence and cooperation is treason.
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