"But major party candidates for president don't often venture there." "It's pretty rare for a presidential candidate to support the right of the people to revolt against the government."
Susie doesn't know that it was Ted Cruz who won Heller? LOL
Posted on 04/29/2015 12:45:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The thing that always irks me about their "water the tree of liberty" types is their sheer stupidity. Seriously, you think you and your buddies are going to play Red Dawn against the full might of the U.S. government? Where do you suppose all that defense budget money went, folks?
And now we have Ted Cruz, egging them on. Dear sweet Jesus, this man has no conscience. Via Talking Points Memo:
WASHINGTON — It's a given that every Republican presidential candidate will run for president as a strong supporter of gun rights.
But Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is arguing that the Second Amendment includes a right to revolt against government tyranny, a point of emphasis uncommon for mainstream presidential candidates.
"The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution isn't for just protecting hunting rights, and it's not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny -- for the protection of liberty," Cruz wrote to supporters in a fundraising email on Thursday, under the subject line "2nd Amendment against tyranny."
This "insurrectionist" argument, as Second Amendment expert and UCLA law professor Adam Winkler calls it, is popular among passionate gun owners and members of the National Rifle Association. But major party candidates for president don't often venture there.
"Most presidential candidates who support Second Amendment rights focus on self defense. In the past many have also emphasized hunting," said Winkler, author of the 2011 book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. "It's pretty rare for a presidential candidate to support the right of the people to revolt against the government."
Nor has the Supreme Court recognized a Second Amendment right to revolt against the government, Winkler said. In the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court established an individual's right to possess a gun for lawful purposes like self-defense.
Fiery rhetoric is a trademark for Cruz, who is battling to win over Republican voters in a crowded primary field where he has trailed Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor, and Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, so far in early polls.
Cruz declared that he's "the only candidate running for President who not only believes in the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms -- but has the record of fighting for it, tooth and nail."
"But major party candidates for president don't often venture there." "It's pretty rare for a presidential candidate to support the right of the people to revolt against the government."
Susie doesn't know that it was Ted Cruz who won Heller? LOL
>> you think you and your buddies are going to play Red Dawn against the full might of the U.S. government?
Of course not, Susie. We’ll be going full asymmetrical. For example, leftie journos and other tyranny enablers may want to take a different route to work each day... just sayin’.
The website is called “Crooks and Liars.”
Which is Susie Madrak? A crook or a liar? Or, more likely, both?
The thing that always irks me about their "government can do no wrong" types is their sheer naivete. Do they seriously believe that the United States military works for a bunch of communist-loving, America-hating, fag-embracing, godless pukes? And that all the lefties have to do is snap their fingers and the troops are going to bomb, shoot, and blast their fellow citizens -- most of whom believe as they do -- into oblivion?
When the war comes, we won't be fighting the military. YOU will.
Ambush, sabotage, “anarchist cookbook” stuff.
Conservatives don’t “riot”. Waste of time and energy.
I guess he disapproves of the quote “Live free or die” too.
I can see the author put a GREAT DEAL OF THOUGHT into this statement. Here is Aleksander Soyzinetsian for the rebuttal.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
The Viet Cong, Taliban, Ba’athists and many others have had a field day playing “Red Dawn” and they are Bronze Age savages compared to the Tea Party. I don’t think Susie reads much.
Not true.
The person with no conscience is the person who would support unleashing the full power and might of the United States military against the People.
Ask Russia how well the "full might of the.. government" went against the Muslim guerrillas, with far less-accurate weaponry than is deployed afield BY THE MILLIONS during any given deer season in any US state.
To answer your question, you panty-wetting nitwit, we don't have to. Just OWNING weaponry scares the hell out of the US government, and lily-livered state-worshippers like you.
The more I read the emotional rantings of sexually deprived, morally bankrupt, and just plain ignorant women the more I question their right to VOTE!
There appears to be more and more emotionally challenged women spouting off about their own ignorance everyday.
Bingo. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is always cold water on these statists’ pronouncements.
To quote from the Communist mayor in the book "Don Camillo and his Flock":
"First against the wall, come the revolution."
I mostly blame these so called "Journalists" for using their positions of influence to spread evil propaganda that had the effect of electing these evil people.
Susie Madrak - Another pinko scumbag for the to-do list...
WTF is a susie madrak? and who gives a rat’s rectum?
Keep in mind that the power of the government is actually the power of the military. Within the military there are many loyal Americans that would side with the people rather than the government.
See my reference to what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had to say regarding this point.
Another good point. For every Bradley Manning and Bowe Bergdahl there are 10,000 Dakota Meyers, Alvin Yorks, Chris Kyles and Pappy Boyingtons.
No article that opens with “The thing that always irks me...” can ever, under any circumstances, be worth reading.
I don’t know who you are, sweetie. Therefore, knowing what does and does not *irk* you is of absolutely no value or consequence.
This man lived through their Soviet Utopia. I think he has an outstanding perspective for being regarded as knowing whereof he speaks.
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