Good luck
Vendome wrote:
> He is running against no one and probably has not even sent in the
> required paperwork and monies to run for Congress.
I have filed the Federal Election Commission paperwork even though their website is inconsistent on the need to do so. I have not specified a District since on or before 08/15/2011 every district except possibly #1 & #2 in California is going to change, resulting in a considerable flurry of activity among the present Congressional office holders to try and figure out which District they are going to move to, who they are going to run against, or are they going to stay in the same numbered District regardless of where it winds up - think for instance someone conservative winding up representing Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ District. For specifications on the process for redistricting see the text of Prop 20 on p. 95 in the voters’ pamphlet for the 11/02/2010 election
http://cdn.sos.ca.gov/vig2010/general/pdf/english/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop20 . It should be an interesting scramble.
LaybackLenny wrote:
> Doesn’t even have the b@lls to just say “The Second Amendment to the
> Constitution is hereby repealed.”
Wouldn’t be enough. With the pre-existing right, plus those in the various state constitutions, if those other two legs are not also repealed they remain in effect via the 9th & 10th Amendments.
Best wishes, —Mike Barkley
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PLEASE, DO NOT ZOT THIS FELLOW YET.
I am curious to hear his viewpoint.
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So explain to me your reasoning for wanting to repeal the 2nd again?
IBTZ!
Arms prevent government genocide, it has been shown over and over again. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously wrote:
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests ... people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
This, of course, would have been much more effective with firearms. Do not think Stalinesque purges cannot happen here! No one thought the civilized Germany of the 1930's and 1940's could possibly murder their own.
And to prevent us from becoming weakened, by disarmament, we will fight, by force of arms, to keep our arms.
Then the pograms are much less likely or possible.
Do not doubt our resolve, sir. Do not doubt us.
Be very nice and polite, but let us let him understand.
Recognize the right of women to terminate pregnancies at will and to receive funding for it as for any other medical procedure
Interesting. So, SECONDS before delivery, take out the infant and club it like a baby seal? Perhaps we can expand the right to abortion to, say, the 27th trimester, while we are at it.
Recognize in all jurisdictions the validity of same sex marriage
No home rule allowed? And while we are at it, let us overturn 5000 years of traditional marriage. Marriage should not be something recognized at the political and state level to begin with; that was the source of a lot of issues. It should, of course, be a religious concern, only.
Allow Congress to regulate political campaign funding as it chooses
Golly, what could POSSIBLY go wrong with the suppression of the First Amendment? In politics, exercising your First Amendment rights requires money. Dollars are vowels and consonants in the political free speech sentence. The First Amendment was never about porn or the Westboro Baptist Church -- it was created mostly for political speech. (c.f. Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson).
Provide lifetime voting membership in the House of Representatives for all past Presidents
George Washington would have slapped you for that. Relinquishing power is an important component of the Presidency; lest there be a semi- and shared-Monarchy.
Outlaw the imposition of any requirement for registering to vote other than the unsupported declaration under penalty of perjury that the person registering is eligible to vote
What could POSSIBLY go wrong. Why, no one would abuse that! You have to show ID to get into a porn movie, to buy alcohol, and to drive. The franchise is significantly more important than any of those. You wish this, only so your 'team' may commit more voter fraud than it already does.
Add Public Option health insurance in all jurisdictions, possibly with California's State Compensation Insurance Fund as a model, or possibly one like this one
I have been to Russia, and I have seen the communist and socialist medical model. You guys are intent in delivering medical care with all the compassion and efficiency of the Department of Motor Vehicles. No thank you.
Adopt the Multiple Sclerosis Anti-Discrimination Social Security Act.
My mom has multiple sclerosis, and she would even oppose this. No 'protected classes' based on disease.
Add substantial compensation for women who allow their babies to be put up for adoption rather than terminated by abortion
Funded by charity? Maybe. Funded by government? Get yer freakin mitts off my wallet.
Require seatbelts on intercity buses
Nanny state ninny.
Subsidize Greyhound (or Amtrak) bus service to small towns
This is pure communism. Stalin's model for transportation is of this flavor.
Require collision avoidance and speed control systems on all motor vehicles by 2020
Require, my ass. The market will provide the incentive. Seoondly, speed governing shows you are a Nanny State Ninny -- many times governors cause power-restriction issues that make navigating traffic more difficult and dangerous. Further, you state ALL vehicles should be so-equipped, directly hurting your most vulnerable constituency -- the poor.
Adopt Labor Bill of Rights:
Oh, here we go. In almost all examples, Unions are a vehicle for the furtherance of communism and socialism. I believe that since they are subversive in nature, and violent as demonstrated throughout American history, that they, instead, should be discouraged.
There is so much more. You are a Nanny-State Ninny; an anti-Constitutionalist; and should be promptly and quickly defeated. I will do all I can to make sure you are defeated.
Sooooooooooooooooooooo, you are still here, but refuse to reply. You have this on your about page:
Mr. Barkley, I was wondering if it was your wife who suffered from M.S.? It is a hard thing to watch a loved one suffer and I am truly sorry. I believe the lady I read about was named Jeanne? Was she related to you?
