Posted on 06/24/2005 2:23:15 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
I say we form a property rights militia and go protect these people's homes!!! Sign me up!
We don't have the man power to stem the invasion of illegals on the border, but just wait till an 80 year old couple doesn't want to leave their ancestral home because the local politicians want to buy more votes. We'll see 24 hr. coverage of dozens of SWAT teams in their ninja outfits swarming over the scene with weapons drawn until the pitiful octogenarians are trundled away to the court. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are weeping in their graves.
We should point out that this guy "from" Texas was born in Conneticut to an elite family, raised in elite boarding schools in New England, and is about as much a Texan as I am. Also that he is obviously a corporate puppethead designed to make the religious types feel warm and fuzzy.
Having the Witch Queen in the White House will make no difference. The same people will be in charge. The only difference, instead of listening to W's scripted crap, we have to look at...urp...It...
I'm not a Christian, but the bible shows, again and again, that some things don't change.
I think that was Jefferson.
Has he picked someone more conservative at the time the Democrat Senators would not have approved it. There was no need for a filibuster since the Dems controlled the Senate back then. All three of the Republican appointed judges that voted for this were approved by a Democrat Senate.
"Bork was a circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982 to 1988, and was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1987. He was strongly opposed by political groups favoring a continuation of the liberal jurisprudence of the Warren court.
I read this article, and I can't believe it. What if this had happened in the 1940's instead of today.
Republicans, supposedly the party of big business, would have been the ones cheering about something like this, right? Supposedly, the D's were the ones thinking about the little people - poor property owners being forced out of their homes by Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller. There would have been insinuations of influence on the Supreme Court - millionaires buying the right to wreck homes to build factories.
Today? It's the liberals fault.
After all the backstabbing by supposed conservatives in the last two weeks, I've come to a conclusion:
There is no such thing as liberal or conservative in this country anymore.
The battle today is different. There are those that believes that the US should lead the world, and there are those that simply don't want the US to lead the world. I think it may be as simple as that.
The two pillars of our strength here in the US has been the right to own property, and the ability to enforce contracts. The rest of the structure was a limited central government, with a Constitution that specified that states retained all powers save only a limited few.
It worked precisely because central government had been a failure since Rome.
From now on, I think I'm going to stop refering to people in terms of consevative and liberal. Now there are only federalists and strict constructionists. Federalists are split into two factions - Socialists and globalists.
Socialist are what they've always been - compassionate about people through the application of somebody elses money. Globalists are socialists with a foreign policy outlook that sees the US's role as leader and proselytizer for liberty as outmoded and even arrogant.
After applying that filter to the Senate, the House, the Press, and the President, EVERYTHING starts making sense again. It is especially apparent in the Senate. Oddly, the house has become a calmer voice of reason than the Senate, even after passing a flag-burning bill.
The Supremes are about 6-3 federalist. The senate is about 56-44 federalist and getting worse by the day. The House is slightly more constructionist than federalist. The Press? Overwhelmingly globalist.
Levin's book has blown the whistle on all of this, and it seems like the Supreme Court has been in overdrive to gut what remains of the Constitution before people start dying off. Problem here is that most of the problem with the current court is still pretty healthy.
As for Red and Blue states, it appears that some decisions have been made on the coasts that the rest of the country hasn't heard about. The Blue States have the gold and want to make the rules. The Red States understand this and realize that if the Blue States had their way there simply wouldn't be states to worry about in the first place.
This is why federalists want the electoral college dismantled immediately. It's the only thing that gives a state like Wyoming any kind of influence in DC.
That comment of yours doesn't make much sense!
I am frustrated after year of voting for the supposed party of limited governemtn, that something like this could happen. I realize the SCOTUS 5 were not all Republican appointees, but enough were to set my teeth on edge.
It can be overturned faster than that.
Yesterday I read a comment somewhere here that many states have stricter rules. Check yours. And do it now while there's attention being paid to the issue.
I live in MA. I may be doomed.
You seem to be very confused. I think your confusion is due to a misunderstanding of the meaning of Federalism.
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We are now officially living in a kleptocracy
Wonder if NYC could say it is for the community good to make the site where the UN is, into a parking lot.
I'd be really curious. Can you find out?
I have an idea.
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