Posted on 06/27/2005 1:45:48 PM PDT by kpp_kpp
How do we get attention over the Supreme Court decisions?
Lots of people talk about their gun collection and the 2nd amendment "if they ever come for my property"... but seriously, this isn't about them coming for YOUR property it is about the constitution and basis of law. (And if they did come after your property your gun collection will do about as good as your kid's toy gun collection.) To people that talk like this: are you really considering forming a militia to go around and defend other people's property for them?
Corporate America funds the politicians, the media is part of corporate America -- and along with their already socialist leanings, with the exception of a John Stossil report we'll probably never hear from them.
So, in light of all the rhetoric on the internet how do American's get their voices heard?
Voting? Yeah, right. Any other answers?
You can still vote for your RINOs if you want (they all are over this issue of the Constitution), but if the GOP all of a sudden (whatever the time period) lost a noticable percentage of its base they might perk up their ears.
Another piece of this idea is that it would work with those want to coordinate with Dems on getting their voices heard (by them leaving their party too)... if our two party system got the rug pulled out from under it in the next little while some true progress on "government by the people" could be made.
(Maybe that idea is as unlikely as trying to get a justice impeached but it is at least something an individual can do.) FWIW, I am not an (R)
Have you actually CALLED your Congresscritters?
Just tell Congress to grow some balls and ignore the decisions.
It is starting to look like we may not get any retirements.
If nobody announces by tomorrow, it looks like yet ANOTHER year will pass with no retirements.
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/declaration_zoom_2.html ....
We need to read this and get back to fundementals:
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IMHO, the "Supremes" have given the GOP two excellent reasons to support GWB's selection of conservatives to the Supreme Court:
"A vote for Lieberman is a vote to let the government seize your home and give it to someone who is "better connected"...
"A vote for Reid is a vote to prohibit religious expression from all public life and, in due course, from private life as well..."
Tyrants NEVER voluntarily relinquish power - it is against their nature.
Yea, good idea, but it won't work like most good ideas. Why? Republican primary voters for years have just routinely ratified the choices recommended to them by the top leadership. Many of our voters, I suspect, are so grossly informed that they barely recognize familiar names and go with those. Nothing arouses the "grass roots" any more, if indeed there are any "grass roots" left.
great, but...
a) someone has to retire
b) that someone could be a conservative
how is congress ignoring the decision going to help those losing property to local municipalities over the next X years?
write a declaration and sign it?
ok, now what?
ok great... uh, so "leave the country" is your suggestion? or do you want me to join a militia?
Perhaps you didn't hear - in one opinion today the SCOTUS explicitly upheld a religious display on government property.
But I know it is so much easier to speak in extremes and warn of consequences that no American - politician, scoundrel, or otherwise - has endorsed.
My suggestion is to be prepared for anything. All I am certain of is that the status quo is not sustainable.
Don't forget your state and local representatives. I've called or written my state senators and representatives, my city councilperson, my future mayor, and the local reporter who covers the eminent domain issue. I got a response back from my state senator -- he will be proposing legislation to limit eminent domain to bona fide public use. My local reporter also wrote back and said he would keep the heat on the issue.
There are many fronts on which this battle can and should be waged. For one, Id like to see the Republican Party senators and senatorial candidates emphasize the imminent threat this decision posses to property rights of minorities in poor communities. Coupled with a pledge to confirm judges who will preserve constitutional protections, this might serve the dual purpose of winning minority support for republican candidates and gaining support for the presidents future nominees.
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agreed. and that is my question, how? they're mum on the issue.
...many things :-)
yes.
Where are you when circumstance demands that a new revolution is justified to save the purpose of the original nation?
The same reason the Dems are.
Time to jump ship folks, thus my suggestion.
(does not apply to you, jasoncamm, assuming your tagline is correctly representative of your registration)
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