This is what the Law and The Courts are supposed to do for us. That's why we have linemen and umpires in tennis ... it's their job to tell the players ...us ... if our shots are inside the line, on it, or out.
If those whom we have selected to serve this function do not, our reaction is to fight amongst ourselves. Every country in this hemisphere has suffered through civil war and insurrection. Some have suffered through wars and revolutions on a regular basis. What makes you think we can continue to escape this fate?
I think we have lived through a successful anti-constitutional coup. Not a lot of options for undoing that if the leaders of the coup contol the vote!
I agree. That is where we’re at. We have no Constitution. We have no rule of law. We are on our own; it’s basically anarchy already. Whoever has power and influence screws whoever doesn’t, just like any other banana republic.
We will either forge a new country, or we will go the way of all great civilizations, fading into dim memory and Learning Channel specials after dying from internal rot.
I think we have lived through a successful anti-constitutional coup.
I don't believe this. Most people don't believe this. Most conservatives don't believe this. If you want to know why we aren't taking to the street in a counter-revolution it's because we don't believe this.
Maybe we're all wrong, but if you want us to adopt radical stances like "there is no Constitution and we're living in anarchy," you're going to have to come up with some convincing arguments.
A friend of mine told me that the birth documents released by Obama were forgeries. He explained that it had "something to do with layers." I looked into this, and discovered that someone had interpreted a standard behavior of scan-to-PDF software (breaking the document into image layers) as some kind of evidence of forgery.
Now, my friend is technical enough to understand this, so I went back and told him what I'd found. He agreed that this was not evidence of forgery and then said, "There's something about the fonts that's wrong." I haven't bothered to investigate further because I'm only willing to waste so much of my time.
Whether or not I like its chief executive (which hasn't been the case since 1988), I have a patriotic duty to remain loyal to my country. I'm not going to reject the legitimacy of the entire US government over "something about fonts" or because a marketing blurb mistakenly identified Obama as being born in Kenya of any of the other myriad half-baked "evidence" that circles around this issue.
Frankly, it should tell you something that the only lawyer in the whole country who thinks this is an issue worth pursuing is a part-time attorney who got her degree through the mail.