The District of Columbia v. Heller

The Prometheus Institute ^ | 3/19/2008 | Joe Holmes

[tang0r]

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson

The Bill of Rights clearly articulates rights guaranteed to all citizens of the United States. Rights are largely a moral concept – the concept that facilitates individuals living within a larger society. The Bill of Rights essentially gives legal meaning to the moral rights expected of a free society. Stated another way, individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Since it cannot rightly be said that “society” is a tangible entity capable of coherent, singular action, rights can only apply to individuals.

But many government officials seem to disagree. A case currently before the United States Supreme Court may change this conception of individual rights altogether. District of Columbia v. Heller, a case disputing the constitutionality of a Washington DC law banning handgun ownership, seeks to undermine the right to bear arms and the nature of Constitutional rights in general.

[mnehring]

Trying to make up for the cut and run crap you just posted from The Prometheus Institute?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988190/posts

[mnehring]

Ping
Promethus is hiding behind this one hoping to bury the surrender monkey crud posted earlier.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Prometheus Institute Secret Clubhouse

Stay Out!!

[mnehring]

Like a lot of Bircher-Libertarian groups, they hide behind the few things they are right on (like this) and hope you don’t see the crap below the surface.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"The Prometheus Institute" "Ron Paul Results 1 - 10 of about 1,550"

Young Moonbats!

[mnehring]

Just to put these Bircher Libertarians in their place; the author of this is the perfect sign of a Bircher-Libertarian- narcissism fed off overinflated vision of moral superiority. I believe Ayn Rand put it perfectly when she stated Libertarians (capital L- Bircher Party versus Objectivist libertarian (lowercase l)) were all theory with no teeth. To quote Mrs Rand: Above all, do not join the wrong ideological groups or movements, in order to 'do something.' By 'ideological' (in this context), I mean groups or movements proclaiming some vaguely generalized, undefined (and, usually, contradictory) political goals. (E.g., the Conservative Party, which subordinates reason to faith, and substitutes theocracy for capitalism; or the 'libertarian' hippies, who subordinate reason to whims, and substitute anarchism for capitalism.) To join such groups means to reverse the philosophical hierarchy and to sell out fundamental principles for the sake of some superficial political action which is bound to fail. It means that you help the defeat of your ideas and (hand) the victory to your enemies.

For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement. More specifically, I disapprove of, disagree with and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called 'hippies of the right,' who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultaneously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either. Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement, where it properly belongs.

[mnehring]

Tang0r, back to the original article, and this is a serious question. Do you feel neocons should be disarmed?

[Anti-Bubba182]

These are youngsters. They should be cruising and chasing girls with their "Mr. Microphones".

[jmc813]

Like a lot of Bircher-Libertarian groups, they hide behind the few things they are right on

I just looked over the various positions on their site, and other than the war and the environment, I don't see much that disagreeable. Can you shoot me some examples?

[Darksheare]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988190/posts

[jmc813]

You must have missed the and other than the war part of my post.

[Darksheare]

Just linking you to his other thread.
That’s all.

[mnehring]

Some of those Prometheus articles are just plain nutter, they have long ago crossed the line to anarchist in many ways, and there are even some Marxists there who claim to be Libertarian.

I had an argument this past weekend with a student from UT Arlington who swore up and down that Ayn Rand's Objectivism is actually a ‘Communist’ ideal. LOL..