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To: Olog-hai

If you have read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, it is interesting that he said the Soviet Constitution was the most perfect document imaginable, protected the rights of the citizen down to the nth degree, and fastidiously had to be available to any citizen at any time to view and consult (by government order0.

Except that it was simply a piece of paper that the government interpreted in a way to be able to do whatever they wanted to do.

That is, I fear what has been happening to us for some time now.


12 posted on 09/21/2020 12:55:00 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

When you actually read that constitution, it’s actually clear that it’s self-nullifying and construes all rights as granted by the government alone rather than inherent with the people for no government to ever be able to take away.

Obama’s “negative liberties” accusation with respect to our Bill of Rights is rooted in satanism; for the Ten Commandments are in “negative liberty” format too.


13 posted on 09/21/2020 1:15:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: rlmorel
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […]

In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party that will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat—that is, with the agrarian National Reformers. …

— The Principles of Communism, 1847
Took maybe thirteen or so amendments and a pile of legislative and judicial fiat, but although things point leftward now, there is still a lot holding things back and even reversing it.
14 posted on 09/21/2020 2:05:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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