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C'mon, Dan -- you knew that already! $;-)
Let Freedom Ring,
That "final judgement" being the execution order.
If you think the Second Amendment still matters anymore, try carrying a gun from Maine to California and see how many SCOTUS-upheld laws you break along the way. What the hell good is a gun if you can't keep it loaded, have to put a lock on it, have to put it in a safe, can't keep it in your car, can't carry it openly, can't carry it concealed, and when you can be proseucted and sued successfully for its use in self-defense in your own home?
I think the very terminology suggests where we have arrived at the point of selecting people to write a constitution, rather than people to give us the fair meaning of one that has been democratically adopted.”
Exactly, the law that is being handed down by the Supreme Court lately isn't democracy it's tyranny. If we don't do whatever is necessary to stop this, our enslaved offspring will rightfully despise us.
One of the primary reasons I voted for Bush, to appoint conservative Supreme Court judges. It's recently been made quite clear why we cannot have Liberal leftist judges on the supreme court!
Well, it can also be said that they must answer to the special interest groups who financed their candidacies -- and whatever else they provided for them. It's been many years since the 17th was ratified, and the socialists (stealth capitalists) have done very well for themselves. What can be done to make the senators accountable when it is undetermined who they are supposed to be accountable to?
Our political system, which provided for tight control of senators by their respective states became corrupted the day the states destroyed the coral and let the senators roam on their own.
I will not be verbose. The right to own guns is fundamental to our society. They didn't make it #2 for no reason. Once that right is gone, we are a soft-socialist military dictatorship and there is no turning back. Judges and their lawyer minions in Congress who seek to legislate and decide away that right like a legal brief should removed from positions of authority and branded enemies of The Republic.
Just thought I'd throw into the mix that when the famed twentieth century logician Kurt Godel was studying the US founding documents for his naturalization in 1948, he confided to those close to him that he noticed logical flaws that would allow the US to become a dictatorship. Godel was never pressed on the issue, and he noticed this decades before Hillary was accepted to Wesley College.
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C'mon, Dan -- you knew that already! $;-)
Let Freedom Ring,
Conversely, if you want off my ping-list, let me know.
And my apologies for any redundant pings.
Too many judges are running amok. violating their oath of office. For a long time we have been sliding towards a dictatorship of judges.
When I saw the headline, I thought someone was suggesting using the 2nd Amendment right TO reshape the Supreme Court.
The mods haven't been able to catch them all that I've seen.
'Final' judgment? Hardly. When, and if they 'decide' that although we have an individual Right to Keep and Bear [some] Arm's, - that it can be regulated/licensed to the point of prohibition; -- then the real judgment will fall to the people.
Within a short few years, the meaning of the Second Amendment could well be decided by a final edict from nine men and women who sit—unelected and for life terms—on the United States Supreme Court. -- In the normal career of federal judges, there is but one point when they can be held accountable to the people — during the nomination process.
Not true. Under the Founders' unique system of checks and balances, either Congress or the President can refuse to uphold such 'edicts'. -- And if both branches refuse their duty, the people in each State can also refuse to kowtow.
We will have recourse, or we will have revolution.
And it is long past overdue that the NRA stand firm on this issue.
you ain't wrong.
Rhenquist is likely to be the next to retire because of his health, but I look for Stevens (far left liberal) to be next because of his advanced age (85). We must replace BOTH with strict constitutionalists or this country will fall.
Yeah, right. I have a bridge to sell to anyone that believes that.
BTTT
Just don't count on Republicans to thoroughly vet them - look whom they've given us on the current court. A mixed bag at the very least.
Even Scalia went power-mad regarding the Commerce Clause with the medicinal pot ruling.
Screw 'em all; live free of Big Stupid Government.
Hey DfM, I'm very afraid that judges will be the death of us. It seems almost impossible to get a real Constitutionalist mind onto the bench, so foreign decisions are going to become the basis for ruling on law. Bye bye, free, unique country...unless some of our elected Republicans grow some cajones!