Posted on 06/23/2011 3:19:16 PM PDT by mandaladon
Provocative? Perhaps, but thats nothing new for Time magazine with a history of taking iconic American symbols and using them to make political statements.
On Thursday on MSNBCs Morning Joe, Time magazine editor Richard Stengel presented the cover of his new July 4 issue, which features the U.S. Constitution going through a paper shredder and asks does the document still matter. According to Stengel, it does, but not as much anymore.
Yes, of course it still matters but in some ways it matters less than people think, Stengel said on Morning Joe. People all the time are debating whats constitutional and whats unconstitutional. To me the Constitution is a guardrail. Its for when we are going off the road and it gets us back on. Its not a traffic cop that keeps us going down the center. And what our politics are about politics are about conflict. There was no people who argued more about defining principles of America than the framers of the Constitution. They argued both sides of the most powerful issues in American history slavery, states rights, central government. So to say that what did the framers want is kind of a crazy question, I have to say. I write about that in the piece.
The cover is about a story Stengel authored dated June 23 and tackles issues of the day as they related to the Constitution, including Libya, the debt ceiling, ObamaCare, immigration and Libya.
Stengel concludes his article by saying it isnt the document that is the U.S. Constitution that plays the prominent role in American society, but the people instead.
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Is he dead or just heavily made-up?
And these idiots actually pay Ivy league schools hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn nothing?
Dems HATE the Constitution. Obama, in an interview before he was elected, actually says that the “Constitution is too limiting” and “didn’t go far enough” in giving the government the power to rule us.
DUH! On purpose you left wing a-holes.
Can we just hurry up and fight the next civil war and be done with these morons?
Time magazine should feature a picture of a shredded Time magazine. The contents of that rag are worthless.
What doesn’t seem to “matter” any more is the OATH that SOME politicians swear to uphold and defend it.
Mark Levin covering this TIME editorial extensively on his program tonight.
Mark Levin covering this TIME editorial extensively on his program tonight.
Their dream has been realized, and now they shout it from the highest mountain. We have become a lawless nation. What a crying shame.
Yeah, just split it up. They can have the northeast, west coast and Illinois. We’ll take the rest. And when they go bankrupt don’t let them into our part to mess it up.
Dems remind me of locusts Eat, destroy, move on.
Everytime some pinhead liberal comes to my part on TN from Calif or NY they always eventually complain that we don’t have an income tax or we don’t spend enough per pupil on our schools or don’t have enough public libraries, etc.
I politely ask them why they moved here, and as usual, it’s because of jobs, good schools, low taxes, etc. “Oh, unlike where you came from?”
Then if warn them not to get their panites in a wad when they see their first Confederate battle flag sticker on a pickup truck. Then I warn them to have 911 ready on their phone because there is a 50/50 chance the truck owner is black.
If it doesn't, and I'm afraid we're getting very close to that point, then it's time to turn to another of our founding documents:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another . . . We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson could really write. It's a shame the far left needs to have those documents read to them and may need to have their attention drawn to our basic rights more emphatically than has been done since the (first) Civil War.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats H.L. Mencken
The time is now, if it's not already too late.
“Can we just hurry up and fight the next civil war and be done with these morons?”
Amen.
If I make a trip to the store and see this rag on the shelf, I’ll most likely end up in jail for destruction of property.
Good thing that Stengel isn't authorized to make the final decision.
Or Obama either, for that matter.
If the final authority is "the people," we are back to anarchy, which the founders did everything to avoid.
Specially given that half the population lives entirely off the effort, work and wealth of the other half.
Forget the rule of law.
Physical conflict is the only remaining solution.
Glenn Beck posits the question: “Can Man Rule Himself?”
If the left think that Man cannot rule himself, then how can they endorse Men ruling over other men?
This seems to be a paradox on the left.
If Man is not qualified to rule himself then isn’t man also equally unqualified to rule over others, be those men Kings, Dictators, or even Saints?
All the apparatus of government consists of men, but if the left is correct in their assertion that man cannot rule himself then should their goal be to minimize the sins of men ruling over other men?
The rulers Statists would have rule over us are the elite, enlightened academics.
You know, like college presidents who run prostitution rings:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2739205/posts
Just a few examples. Their rags are dying, so they try to be provocative to get you to buy their rags to read it (in order to be outraged, I guess?), thereby allowing them to continue printing their rags.
Don't feed into it. Ignore them and they'll go away.
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