Posted on 01/25/2009 10:59:57 AM PST by L.McCullen
If you want a glimpse into the minds of those in Obama's administration, just take a look at the new whitehouse.gov website in the section talking about the Bill of Rights. Apparently they believe government has chosen to "give" you and I the right to bear arms.
Now, I don't know about you, but in my schooling I was taught the Bill of Rights were not a list of rights "given" to us citizens, but were a declaration of what rights the federal government could not infringe upon. I think SCOTUS agreed with me on the last year as well.... but I could be wrong. ;-)
If you note, none of the other rights listed on this site under the new Obama administration were "given" to us. So, I'm guessing, and one could easily interpret, that which is given can also be taken away.
Bingo
I guess they also “give” us other freedoms (like speech and the ability to listen to Rush) as opposed to those being the God given self-evident kind.
refer to my tagline.
Blame spinless Republicans too. RINO vermin like Charlie Crist who helped engineer Juan McCain winning.
Spineless Republicans who were silent when the votes were counted and they knew O is ineligible. Not one of them said a peep.
Time to mail out to all the Congress people, NRA and conservative media about this egregious distortion of the truth. Lets get it made public to show the country one more example of how our new Dictator thinks.
My guess is that page was up before last week. It’s how government/acedemic types think.
No, this is new. The Messiah and his cronies have completely revamped the site. I believe they did it on Jan. 20.
Yes, this is new. The whole site changed over at noon on the day of the coronation.... I mean inauguration.
Also check out...
THE AGENDA • ADDITIONAL ISSUES
Sportsmen
President Obama did not grow up hunting and fishing, but he recognizes the great conservation legacy of America's hunters and anglers and has great respect for the passion that hunters and anglers have for their sports.
Snip...America's hunters and anglers are a key constituency that must take an active role and have a powerful voice in this coalition.
The Third Worlders now in charge will move slowly in taking citizen arms. Gradualism works. Remember there can be a constructive taking as well as an actual seizure.
ping
I wish it was only Barack Mugabe who had contempt for the Constitution, but I believe that the entire American political class has nothing but contempt for it.
Not that I doubt you...but do you have documentation or a link to another page that would prove this?
The Obama giveth, and the Obama taketh away.
Amendment II: Right to bear arms
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I guess they are going to have to pry my guns from my cold still hands!
Statists believe that ones "rights" come from the government. The problem is that those are no longer "rights" when they're bestowed by a government: They're "privileges" which can then be taken away by that very same government. As seen in the Declaration of Independence, rights are granted to us by our creator. The whole concept of the Constitution of the United States was to set up a government with strictly defined powers, and limits on what it could do. The general idea was "if it's not in the Constitution, the federal government isn't allowed to do it." We can easily see this in the opposition to "The Bill of Rights." Those who opposed the BoR stated openly that they feared the inclusion COULD BE interpreted that those specific rights were allowed, but no others. But the majority believed that nobody would ever be so foolish. They've been spinning in their graves for more than a century now...
Mark
I have heard from more than one source that none of the big retailers are restocking their ammo products.
Sports Authority and Wal-mart are both going out of the handgun ammo business and probably hunting ammo too.
Nothing has been restocked on the shelves since Nov. 4th as the try to move all their stock from the warehouses. They don’t want to be caught with any stock if laws get changed overnight preventing them from selling it the next day.
The big O won’t have to do much as the retailers are already putting their heads between there legs and voluntarily granting the evil one’s his wishes.
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