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The Supremes: Trashing the Constitution - (Founders would be disheartened, if they knew!)
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| JUNE 24, 2005
| GEORGE C. LANDRITH
Posted on 06/24/2005 2:54:11 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: AdamSelene235
You must have missed SCOTUS's CFR ruling which confirmed that criticizing a Senator on teevee within 60 days of an election is a Speech Crime not protected by the 1st Amendment. Beg to differ. I am well aware of CFR's negative affect on the freedom of speech.
Which is just one of the reasons I wrote, "and the other 2/3 [speech and religion] are under constant, vicious attack from the judiciary."
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:09:51 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: CHARLITE
I don't like the ruling and believe it is a bad turn of events for municipal governments to take property for private development, but.....
It has been the way of America for a very long time, at least 150 years.
The railroads aquired all their right ow ways by the eminent domain process and they were very private corporations. The same is true for the electric power companies. The process has great precedent.
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:13:16 PM PDT
by
bert
(Rename Times Square......... Rudy Square. Just in.... rename the Washington Post March??)
To: Mulch
I called the Republican National Committee - go a hold of a little girl to take a message. My complaint was probably placed in file 13.
Called my senators Cornyn and Hutchinson and got a hold of message machines. Nicely told them of my concerns with absolutely no expectation that they will hear from me or care to hear from me.
It is the constitutional responsibility of the Congress to oversee the Judiciary. It is past time to bring impeachment proceedings against those who flagrantly violate their oath to the Constitution.
To: CHARLITE
Can't you just see all the stories now. Mayor/City Council/City manager ------- you fill in the blank, seizes property of two elderly people as a favor to a wealth political donor. The Donor will build a shopping mall which will help the Mayor solve his budget shortfalls from mismanagement. Oh yes, the two elderly people will be compensated a far amount that will help pay for their nursing home care. The city deemed after gaining access to their private medical records that their life expectancy was well within the settlements parameters.
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:19:25 PM PDT
by
marty60
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Tnx for the reality check. I have trouble recognizing sarcasm in spite of the vast weight of that phrastic on this forum.
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:25:43 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: CHARLITE
I don't think our founded would be "disheartened"... I think they would be outraged and looking for 5 lengths of rope and the nearest tree
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:27:20 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(Advertisments contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper)
To: clamper1797
I don't think our founders would be "disheartened"... I think they would be outraged and looking for 5 lengths of rope and the nearest tree
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:32:18 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(Advertisments contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper)
To: CHARLITE
To ask where is Bush is about as ridiculous as it comes.
Where's everybody when Dems block Bush nominees for up to four years.
Then comes McCain and makes deals to to uphold filibustering.
The same scenario shortly will engulf this country for a Supreme candidate.
Let's look first at who disowned us.
It's the usual suspects:
Stevens wrote the majority opinion, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer voted for it.
Forget blaming Bush, be there when it counts, overcome this MSM, Harry and his troops while attempting to institutionalise secularism, gay marriages, unlimited abortion, rescind your tax cuts.
Stand up, be heard, be counted. Make a contribution to those that represent you.
After the fact blaming is for the birds.
This ruling of disowning property is your wake up call.
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:37:57 PM PDT
by
hermgem
To: clamper1797
I don't think our founded would be "disheartened"... I think they would be outraged and looking for 5 lengths of rope and the nearest tree
Unfortunately, that's the difference between the 1770s and the 2000s.
1770s: There was a problem, they did something about it.
2000s: Too many look to President Bush and think he will appoint somebody to save the day! (never mind the fact that President Bush doesn't care, that he's been in office for several years, that Congress has been controlled by Republicans for several years, that Republicans appointed the majority of USSC Justices over the past 50 years or so and yet we just keep sliding left more and more.).
What will it take, to spur people into action?
I'm going to make a trip to my state capitol tonight (just a few miles from my home) to see if there is anybody outside making noise about this issue, but going by my Senators, and going by my Representative, I don't expect much.
My Senators, Cornyn and Hutchinson, don't appear to be concerned about this (and why should they be - Texas has a lot of development going on and I expect more than a few dollars to flow their way).
To: CHARLITE
Hi Char. Don't know how many times I've posted this today on the same subject but here I go again....
I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology.
I do not advocate revolution. I only think of what I foresee.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
06/24/2005 4:49:59 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Ladysmith
Ahhh...another Quinn lstener. I only can listen on archives, which I do daily. I think he does as good a job as Rush, only earlier and with more humor. He's on top of all the good stuff...if he didn't need Rose for prep, well...
"Cultural Marxism" is all that this is about and he nailed that years ago.
www.warroom.com BUMP.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:07:55 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: CHARLITE
Next time some well-healed developer thinks he'd like to build himself a bigger house on your property and you won't sell it to him, he can just ask the city council - with whom he plays golf and to whose campaign he contributes - to force you sell your home to him. Well-healed? Can't anyone spell anymore?
Homophone difficulties aside, it's a good column.
To: CHARLITE; All
Founders would be "disheartened?"
I think they would be kicking arse and taking names.
Or
locking up and throwing away the key.
Or something with more punch than whining disheartedly on Oprah.
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:17:46 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LOVE NEVER FAILS.)
To: spyone
The justices who voted for this (and who trashed the Constitution) are: Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer.
The Justices who dissented (and upheld the Constitution) are: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas.
To: Euroam; Ladysmith; All
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:29:00 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
(I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
To: kpp_kpp
all the 'little guys' were hoping this would be the case to overturn decades of property rights infringement by local governments. The south was wrong, the states suck, more power to the Federal Government!
Not.
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:30:18 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: CHARLITE
From your link:
So, in just two weeks, the Supreme Court has rendered two major decisions on the limits of government. In Raich v. Gonzales the Court said there are effectively no limits on what the federal government can do using the Commerce Clause as a justification. In Kelo, it's now ruled that there are effectively no limits on the predations of local governments against private property.
These kinds of judicial encroachments on liberty are precisely why Supreme Court nominations have become such high-stakes battles. If President Bush is truly the "strict constructionist" he professes to be, he will take note of the need to check this disturbing trend should he be presented with a High Court vacancy.
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:37:01 PM PDT
by
Ladysmith
((NRA) Wisconsin Hunter Shootings: If you want on/off the WI Hunters ping list, please let me know.)
To: Texas Songwriter
"It is past time to bring impeachment proceedings against those who flagrantly violate their oath to the Constitution."
Bwahahaha.....fat chance!! We the Sheeple can stomp and yell all we want, but the elites in washington don't give a sh*t.
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:44:35 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
(Saddam: $25k to suicide bombers = BAD --- Bush: 50 mil to terrorist scum = "GOOD")
To: nothingnew
"Cultural Marxism" is all that this is about and he nailed that years ago.Man, you know it.
Quinn nailed it big time right in the beginning of the show, too. First the government taxes and regulates businesses to a point that the economy in cities die and no tax revenue can come in, and now they're going to allow our homes to be taken to "fix" that problem.
The Marxists who engineered and guided this over the decades have done their jobs well.
"...and as the rest of the Nation is still sleeping, we'll be bidding America good-bye."
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:49:40 PM PDT
by
Ladysmith
((NRA) Wisconsin Hunter Shootings: If you want on/off the WI Hunters ping list, please let me know.)
To: Ladysmith; nothingnew
""...and as the rest of the Nation is still sleeping, we'll be bidding America good-bye."
........which brings me to an uncomfortable feeling that I've had for about a year now, and which I actually articulated yesterday on another thread.
I think that we could be heading for Civil War II in America, although I can't visualize how it might be fought. For instance, how would our massive military handle a true outbreak of civil war? Which episode would constitute the "firing on Ft. Sumter" which would be the trigger to conflict?
Char
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posted on
06/24/2005 5:56:42 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
(I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
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