[45Auto]

Long rant, sometimes off the wall , but overall an interesting assessment.

[Teacher317]

worthy read bump

[45Auto]

Nice quote from above:

"We live in a perverted, disingenuous nation full of callous, cavalier, self-righteous, constitutional illiterates, in and out of government, who are dangerous and oppressive. Despite the best efforts of some of the best people I know (their passion, sustained commitment, critical, cerebral energy, delayed gratification, sacrifice, etc., ) I have serious reservations if any of us, including myself, individually or in the aggregate, have accomplished anything meaningful in terms of “the big picture” or of delaying open armed conflict with our own governments."

[OXENinFLA]

for later.................Long is right....

[agitator]

 

"...the American Judiciary, which is supposed to function as “the Guardian of Liberty.”

[Blood of Tyrants]

Who would sign a contract with another person when the contract said that the other person gets to determine what the rules are, gets to change the rules arbitrarily, without being held accountable, gets to unilaterally interpret and apply the rules, and gets to force you to obey his rules, and you must obey his unilateral interpretation of his rules because that is one of his rules? And he has a monopoly on force?

Well said and worthy of remembrance

[coloradan]

A long but good rant at the denial of cert for Silveira.

[Joe Brower]

[Eastbound]

" . . . life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . "

Without the means of personal self-defense, attempting to exercise liberty and pursue happiness are exercises in futility. Any government that denies its Citizens the right to self-defense is a government that begs to be dis-embowelled. First and foremost, our peculiar form of government was established to protect rights and to promote an environment for exercising them. If it fails that task, what We the People have created, We the People will dis-assemble and repair in a 'well-regulated' manner.

[Feiny]

I got into the 2A battle long after my man and his friends gave up. They were fighting the good fight 15 years ago. Most have given up on writing letters & making phone calls due to the complete lack of response. After just a few years at it, I am disillusioned. I no longer write my reps....with reps like Boxer, Feinstein & Waxman....why bother?

There will come a time in the future when this country goes to war with itself. We are a nation divided right now. Half of the country thinks the government is & should be the provider of everything. Those people want a free ride. The rest of us are the victims of these society leeches. How many will fight when the time comes? There is trouble brewing....we have been likes frogs in a pot of warm water. The temperature is increasing daily & we either need to jump out of the pot or we'll get boiled alive.

[Mat_Helm]

I can only say that I agree with the majority of his comments. I have placed my trust that eventaully the highest court would affirm the constitution and guard and protect our rights. This is no longer true. At some point because they failed to protect our freedom a local jurisdiction is going to go to far feeling safe to do so and blood will spill as a result. The second amendment has been in free fall in the last 50 years and unless the SCOTUS pulls the rip cord and opens the parashoot for a soft and safe landing the nation is going to bounce with pain and death.

[Badray]

Just curious. What parts did you consider to 'off the wall?'

[El Gato]

While the priveleges and immunities statement in Art. IV sec. 2, may be the only mention of "imunities" in the original Constitution, there is another example of what they meant by a "privelege", and it wasn't a government issued permission. Sec. 9 of Art. II, which is a series of limitations on federal governmental power, most especially the power of Congress to pass laws, says:

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspened, unless when in cases of Rebellion or Invasion, the public Safety may require it.

The Writ of Habeas Corpus has been called the "Great Writ", and "the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action." Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 290-91 (1969).

[El Gato]

The U.S. Supreme Court, by rejecting the excellent Silveira petition, has, in effect, functioned somewhat like "the three monkeys—see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." but, they read the Silveira petition.

Are we really certain that they even read it? How do we know? The answer of course is we don't, because as Angel Shamaya points out in his introduction to the article on the linked page, they conduct their deliberations in secret, and only if they, even only one of them, stoop to inform us, can we know on what basis they decided not to hear the case.

[ZULU]

The Founding Document of this Republic is NOT the Constitution. It is the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration for the first time in history stated that the basic rights of man come NOT from the State, but from God.

What God has given, the State may NOT take away. It further stated that ALL governments derive their just power from the people, not from the majesty of any ruler. This is thinking derived from the Age of Enlightenment - one of the greatest periods of human political thought in history.


The Bill of Rights in effect recognizes those God-given Rights which NO government may abridge or take away - the right to say what you want, to worship and pray to your Creator as you choose, to assemble and petition the government, to defend yourself, your family and your country, etc. Implicit in the wording of the Declaration of Independence and the 2nd Amendment is the Right of the people to change or alter their government if it becomes oppressive, and to use arms to do so when alternative methods have failed. ".. that governmetns are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever a governmnet becomes abusive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it..." (Declaration of Independence.)

Incrementally, we have allowed a monster to grow in our midst. Every day, the appointed judges, professional politicians, appointed beaurocrats become more and more entrenched, more and more arrogant, more and more self-righteous. They no longer respond to the wishes or concerns of the people at large, and impose their OWN views on issues of major concern, deaf to the opinions of the majority of us. The most egregious of these offenders are the Courts.

The Courts were established to apply the laws enacted by the legislature and assure that our God-given rights - guarenteed, NOT GRANTED - by the State, are protected. The Courts no longer do so. They disregard the very founding documents they are sworn to uphold and protect, and substitute instead a new agenda - an agenda based NOT on the founding principles of this Republic, but on their own personal views, and the OPINIONS OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS on social issues.

Most of the Justices of the Supreme Court are not Judges - they are public enemies. Sandra Day O'Connor, drifing into senility, is on record as stating that our laws should take into account world opinion. Similar mouthings have also come from Kennedy. Souter is a freak - an unmarried recluse living in relative isolation, he was thrust upon the nation as a dark horse candidate who evolved into a manifest idiot. Breyer, Stevens and Bader-Ginsburg are doctrinaire leftists who believe the Constitution means whatever the majority on the Court feels it means at the moment, rather than what the Founding Fathers CLEARLY intended.

We need a President and a Congress which will either IGNORE
their decisions, impeach them for the high crime and misdemnor of refusing to apply the very document they are sworn to uphold, or who will "pack" that Court with additional judges who will apply the Constitution as the Founding Fathers originally intended, or to the very best that that intention may be discerned.

Even more, we need an educated, intelligent electorate who is aware that polticians and judges are stealing their Country, their Rights, and the heritage of their own children and grandchildren, and who are willing to do something about it.

Democracy only works if the people care.

May God D@mn that Court.

But may God protect and defend the United States of America from His Righteous Wrath for having forgotten the God which made us great.

[Lurker]

For later.

L

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

Most of the Supreme Court Justices are elitist pigs. Their whimsical opinions are what they term to be Constitutional. There are many other elitist judges in the United States which do the same.

I will never give up my guns no matter what a judge rules or a hypocritical politician says.

The Second Amendment is an individual right just as are all the other rights listed in the Bill of Rights. God has given us our rights and they cannot be trampled on by those in authority without offending our Creator.

[enots]

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[tet68]

You'll like this.

"To take the slap in the face once one is disarmed and rendered a pissant, forced to kiss, lick, and polish the statists’ boots?
".

Pretty kinky.
How do you render a pissant anyway?

[XR7]

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