Posted on 08/03/2015 9:09:29 AM PDT by jazusamo
Have we come to expect this now of our United States attorneys general?
The image is still emblazoned on my mind: those Black Panthers with billy clubs and paramilitary outfits confronting voters at a voting station. Video, proof, and no action from then-attorney general Eric Holder.
Now we have Loretta Lynch, a family friend of Eric Holder and his wife, and also a person who received her big career break from Bill Clinton.
Eric Holder, who was held in contempt of Congress, who sued states that attempted to enforce purposely unenforced federal law, never provided all Fast and Furious documents requested, and hid behind heavily redacted papers as well as presidential “executive privilege,” bent downward the justice curve of the office of attorney general.
Loretta Lynch seems to be of the same ilk. Presented by inspectors general with stark and clear evidence of classified documents on the private server of Mrs. Clinton, the silence from AG Lynch’s office is deafening. Add in the discovery of a cover-up at the IRS and the as yet non-action by Lynch, and we begin to wonder if there is a serious flaw in our three-branch system.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Correct.
Thanks, jazusamo. I know it’s a nit picking point but I wanted to be sure I had that right.
Other than that the article is spot on!
I hear you. That jumped out at me too when I first read it.
Boehner is joined at the hip with the rest of them. Either that or he’s being blackmailed like Roberts.
Black Panthers = KKK
Just different color...
The Founders did not imagine an electorate as profoundly ignorant as the one we now have.
starting back when perot and his jerk supporters giving us Clinton even though we KNEW he was a grafter of major proportions....
and now Trump is doing the same thing to give us Hitlery....
Rush was right....we can withstand bammy for these four years but can we withstand the idiots and numbnuts who voted him in?.....no, we can not....and sadly to report, freepers voted for bammy and allowed him to win....
can we also come up with the list of bammy votes who are also freepers?....the ones who voted for him, the ones who didn’t vote at all, giving him the election, and the ones who voted third party, also giving bammy the win....
Three branches? Two parties?
Uni-party. Uni-branch.
Apparently, a few things were left out in my JrHi & HS Civics classes. And I don't remember any mention of this when I tested for my Citizenship Merit Badges. Maybe I just missed those classes...
How far we've fallen...
It’s not so much that the electorate has become so much more ignorant but that who is allowed to vote (who is included in the electorate) has changed so drastically from the time of the founding.
From Wikipedia...
“The United States Constitution did not originally define who was eligible to vote, allowing each state to determine who was eligible. In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only white male adult property owners to vote.[1][2][3] Women could vote in New Jersey (provided they could meet the property requirement) and in some local jurisdictions in other northern states. Non-white Americans could also vote in these jurisdictions, provided they could meet the property requirement. Freed slaves could vote in four states. Initially, men without property and women were largely prohibited from voting.”
Think what a different country we would have today if those rules still applied, i.e. if the “system” hadn’t been changed.
Because they didn’t see America as a democracy, but as a republic and limited the vote. Those ‘elevator brakes’ have been removed and we’re plunging.
The invertebrate GOPE are the symptom of a senate corrupted from its founding purpose by the 17th Amendment. We can vote conservative into eternity and it will not reverse our course.
To aquila48, no living person today was around to transform the Framers’ federal republic into a democratic republic. Democratic republics, either direct or representative are guaranteed to slip into tyranny. The wonder is that it took America almost a hundred years to do so.
A senate of the states was designed to not only represent the states, but to keep a lid on the mob over in the House.
Instead, we've been subjected to the equivalent of three-term congressmen with enormous egos whose interest begins and ends with popular reelection instead of looking out for their states.
It’s not a flaw
It’s a pathway to DICTATORSHIP!
“Instead, we’ve been subjected to the equivalent of three-term congressmen with enormous egos whose interest begins and ends with popular reelection instead of looking out for their states.”
And you can blame the states themselves for that - at least 38 states (3/4) ratified the 17th amendment, so perhaps they were not so concerned about safeguarding their own powers.
Personally the amendment that I consider by far the most damaging and the one that has directly led to the unbridled tyrannical growth of government and to it controlling every aspect of our lives is the 16th - when it gave itself the right to every penny that we earn, and as a consequence the right to know and control every aspect of our lives.
Making a mistake is one thing. Letting it go uncorrected for so long after the damage is so evident, is worse.
I’m much more eager to repeal the 16th than the 17th, though I would have no problem with getting rid of both.
But I’m not holding my breath - we would need a popular uprising for that to happen.
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