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Name One Tyranny Overturned by Popular Vote
Thursday, June 28, 2012 | Bob Ireland

Posted on 06/28/2012 1:25:01 PM PDT by Bob Ireland

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Fed up!
1 posted on 06/28/2012 1:25:08 PM PDT by Bob Ireland
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To: Bob Ireland

I agree with what you said 100%. Barry is on his way to re-election in November and we’ll be lucky to hold the House with a very slim majority which will mean little.


2 posted on 06/28/2012 1:29:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution?!)
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To: Bob Ireland

Prohibition


3 posted on 06/28/2012 1:30:12 PM PDT by sorrisi (CAP spending and TRADE Congress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Bob Ireland
I can't spell his name but he was a dictator that was either hanged or shot in europe.
4 posted on 06/28/2012 1:31:28 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: Jim Robinson; MinuteGal; gonzo; JulieRNR21; seekthetruth; M Kehoe; Matchett-PI; mcmuffin; surfer

ping


5 posted on 06/28/2012 1:31:44 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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yup. those who think that any of this is ‘good news’ for our side are delusional


6 posted on 06/28/2012 1:32:08 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Bob Ireland
name one tyranny in history that was overturned by popular vote.

Prohibition?

But right, usually we have been able to trust the courts to be the last ditch safeguards of liberty against an abusive president +/or legislature. This bill should have been treated like FDR's National Recovery Act--overtly derided by justices and repudiated 9-0. But that was then, and the excesses of the New Deal have been sanitized and swallowed whole by the idiots of The Law. In our "Post-Constitutional Court" the NRA would be upheld today.

7 posted on 06/28/2012 1:32:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: mountainlion

Mussolini was mhanged AFTER the world went war and millions of lives were lost. Since when is that a vote of the electorate????


8 posted on 06/28/2012 1:33:34 PM PDT by Nifster
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***a dictator that was either hanged or shot in europe***

Is that a 'popular election'? I think you are referring to Benvenito Mussolini.

9 posted on 06/28/2012 1:34:32 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: sorrisi
"Prohibition"

They just changed the products prohibited. Nothing changed.

Do you say things for fun? Can't abide that anymore, get real.


10 posted on 06/28/2012 1:36:51 PM PDT by I see my hands (As Islamists perpetrated 9/11 so SCOTUS perpetrated 6/28)
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To: hinckley buzzard; sorrisi

Prohibition was a bad LAW. I believe the original poster is referring to an actual tyranny - you know, like the one we have now where they can do whatever they want and Constitution be damned, and if the people complain, they just get the Court to say it’s all legit. Now, with that in mind, try a new answer.


11 posted on 06/28/2012 1:37:13 PM PDT by fr_freak
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Just because it hasn’t been done doesn’t mean it can’t...or won’t... be done.


12 posted on 06/28/2012 1:38:43 PM PDT by Keeper of the Turf (Fore!!!)
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To: Bob Ireland

And a mandatory term or retirement age for “justices” and “judges” so they don’t get too comfy or insulated from the practical effects of their decisions


13 posted on 06/28/2012 1:40:37 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (.)
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To: fr_freak

Exactly. Prohibition wasn’t a tyranny, because they actually amended the Constitution to give them the authority to prohibit alcohol.


14 posted on 06/28/2012 1:45:02 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Bob Ireland

Americans want tyranny. Americans vote in big ways and small ways for tyranny. No excusing seat belt laws. No excusing prohibition. No excusing intrusive city ordinances or heavy handed neighborhood associations. Ethanol subsidies, sugar tarrifs, Union laws, the list goes on and on.

Americans want weak States and a powerful Federal Government. Americans want a King.


15 posted on 06/28/2012 1:45:21 PM PDT by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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The Republic is dead.


16 posted on 06/28/2012 1:47:38 PM PDT by Bull Man
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***Americans want weak States and a powerful Federal Government. Americans want a King.***

I agree... let us who do not want that kind of government segregate ourselves before it is too late! Even if we only get Texas! ... and maybe Alaska! ...etc.

17 posted on 06/28/2012 1:49:51 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Bob Ireland
I agree with you for the most part. Thinking we are somehow going to right all that has gone wrong by voting in November is delusional at best. The Supreme Court has finalized the installment of a totalitarian government which has by definition no limits to it's power. Hoping we are going to "Vote" ourselves free in a general election is like planning to solve your financial problems by winning the power ball. It's not likely to happen. Now, November is comming and yes we should certainly try to do it that way but we need a back up plan or maybe even a primary plan with the election being the back up. That plan is a Constitutional Convention. Where we differ is I don't think a breakup of the Republic is the way to go. Simply use the Convention to amend the constitution and strictly limit the federal government as intended by the founders. It's past time to fix the bugs in the system that allowed the disease of government to grow wildly out of control.

Yes it's time to call a Constitutional Convention. The "red" conservative states outnumber the blue by a significant margin. We need to start to the process now as it will take quite a while. First is to decide by discussion amongst conservatives what amendments will be proposed. Obviously libs will have exactly ZERO input in this process.

Then we move to convention where our superior numbers will decide the proposed amendments. Then we put the vote to the states for ratification.

This is the readers digest version but that's it in a nutshell.

We have nothing to fear. We have the numbers. We have the will of the people. We have the blessing of god. We have the duty to take back our freedom. It is this very day that the framers had in mind when they wrote in the option to amend the Constitution by Convention. Now it is time to act.

18 posted on 06/28/2012 1:55:37 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: DariusBane

America wants a king? Well, they sure got what they wanted.

As for secession, obama would not allow it. Talk about troops on the border. There would be troops on state borders readying for an attack. And “we the people” do not have the firepower to fight back. I used to think the army wouldn’t fire on it’s own people. Soldiers know they got “3 hots and a cot”. There are enough of them who want to keep that in this economy.

“They” have destroyed this country by destroying the economy and making half the people dependent upon the state. It’s now 50-50 and their 50 has the firepower.

Oh, and the army has fired on civilians. The Civil War.


19 posted on 06/28/2012 1:59:36 PM PDT by Terry Mross ( To all my kin: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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To: Bob Ireland

I used to believe that it would be impossible to roll back the gun laws, but we have made incredible gains over the last 15 years or so.


20 posted on 06/28/2012 1:59:50 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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