May the Constitution Live Long and Prosper
Posted on 01/04/2016 6:31:04 PM PST by stars & stripes forever
Star Wars video satire, The Constitution Strikes Back: The three-minute video features Ted Cruz as a Jedi warrior whose mission is to unite Republicans and reclaim the Constitution of the United States. The video opens with the following text crawl...
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From the Army Code of Conduct, Article VI:
I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.
From the Armed Forces Oath of Enlistment:
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
Me: Who gets to define the “principles which made my country free”? What happens when someone changes those principles and the new principles declare the old principles to be hateful and contrary to approved thinking?
Further, what happens when the government redefines the meaning of the words of the Constitution that all members of the armed forces, members of Congress, all judges, and officers of the executive branch all take an oath to uphold.
If government is free to redefine the concepts and the words, then it is free to alter the meaning of the very oath that everyone took. It turns the very act of taking an oath and holding others to their oath upside down and inside out! I makes everyone a slave of the people who make the decisions, not the other way around.
It is time to raise this question with anyone who will listen.
May the Constitution, as it was WRITTEN, ever be with you. Its flaws are but minor blemishes in comparison to the outrages of the present ruling elites.
Too bad Trump is not much of a Constitutionalist....
“The Don” is as much a Constitutionalist as his longtime New Yawk limousine liberal bedfellows are.
But no matter, his throngs of dupes care not.
RE: “Too bad Trump is not much of a Constitutionalist....”
The constitution is a vessel that can be filled with trash or treasure.
People seem to argue about the vessel and pay no attention to the contents it holds.
Very cool!
Of course, Yoda said, “There is another...”
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