The terrorism that took place in Paris and Mr. Obama’s response handed next year’s election to Donald Trump.
The West, and America particularly, are being dragged back to school, to re-learn all the lessons of political chess, that were tossed too quickly into the galactic bit-bucket of eternal forgetfulness when the Soviet Union became no more.
Let me guess, those Saudis want somebody else to have the bombings and 100+ body count gun massacres in their home country?
In times like these, as Americans turn to mere mortal candidates for new leadership of the nations, we need understand that America's protection or security is never safe when it is entrusted to a person, or several persons, whether that person or persons is, at the time, on the political "left" or "right."
As the Founders and Framers of the Constitution acknowledged, our "sheet anchor" against tyranny is in a written constitution.
"Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service, when it is violating all His laws. - John Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson, Feb. 2, 1816The semantics of the current President and "progressivss" define the Constitution's limitations on their power differently than did the Founders and Framers of America's Constitution, which, by its own provisions, limits government and the coercive power which future elected individuals might wish to wield.
From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," here are excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."
The only path to making America "great again" begins and ends with understanding of, and adherence to, the ideas and principles underlying the Constitution of the United States of America, as they were explained in the 85 essays of THE FEDERALIST, newspaper essays addressed directly to "the People" in the States prior to their ratification of that Constitution by the people in the states.-------------------------
"On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322.
"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Thomas Jefferson to W, Nicholas, 1803.
In his own 1801 Inaugural Address, after listing what he called the "essential principles" to guide his Administration, Jefferson added:
"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural, 1801
"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives [the executive, judiciary, or legislature]; in a departure from it prior to such an act." - Alexander Hamilton
I am still waiting for the “true Scotsman’ response to the “Syrian Refugee Crisis”.
The objective in the get the true refugees to a safe place...correct?..
and the place should be some ISIS or other Muslim extremist would not want to or would not attack..correct?
so two simple criteria to meet ...a safe for refugees and something ISIS would not attack....
So a Muslim country like Turkey or Pakistan or Indonesia .. doesn't that fit the bill for better than the United States or any of Western Europe...
the point is safety for all concerned both for the refugees in the host country....
it's bringing them to the US is simply political grandstanding that's not even to the refugees true safety concerns
President Hussein’s lectures are like those big balloons
filled with dialog in the comic strips. Dogs hear, “Blah,
Blah,Blah,Blah,Blah”. To me, the dialog balloons are
empty. Pretty much like the cat hears him when he talks.
bfl