America's Code Of Slience (Chuck Norris: Its Time To Bring The Ten Commandments Back Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 11/20/2006 | Chuck Norris

[goldstategop]

We can't be a law-abiding and virtuous society for long without a knowledge of The Decalogue. Yet its that knowledge the Left is systematically erasing from our history, from our monuments and from our consciousness. That's why we need moral absolutes. Its a self-evident truth.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Lurker]

What's the Code Of Slience?

Is that like the Cone of Slience?

L

[goldstategop]

Sorry.... I meant Silence! I wish FR gave us an edit button. I keep waiting for them to deliver that software upgrade.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[steve8714]

Code of Silence is the peak of Mr. Norris' film career, a truly entertaining cop movie; gritty, great casting, superb score, pacing like you never see. Rent it if you can find it on DVD. This is not to belittle any of his points, but to provide cultural reference for younger freepers.

[the invisib1e hand]

highlights the foolishness of that response in light of the thread.

Or maybe my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

Anyway, great thread.

[Lurker]

I've been an admirer of Chucks for years. He's as quick with his head as he is with his feet.

I actually saw him fight once years ago before his movie career. He moved like nothing I'd ever seen.

Thanks for the thread. Mr. Norris makes some very, very good points.

L

[Mo1]

John Witherspoon, president of Princeton and signer of the Declaration, and one who served on over one hundred committees while in Congress, declared: ''The Ten Commandments .. are the sum of the moral law.''

I think the keyword would be "moral"

I use to think the reason some hated the Ten Commandments was because they hated God ... I'm now of the thinking it is more because they fear God ... and what might come in the after life when they have to answer for their deeds

Those that want to do away with the Ten Commandments, kind of remind me of a 2 or 3 year old that think that when they covers their eyes, no one can see them and what they are doing

[Tax-chick]

Thanks! I'll try the library.

[Nextrush]

Demoralization leads to anarchy and that's when the left steps in with their humanistic rules and goofy ideas,
(No pocket knives or aspirins in school, gun buyback programs, zero tolerance for bullies or hate).

The list is long I invite all to add in but let me say the basic laws as in the Ten Commandments are the ones we need with all the other ones (hate crimes, no smoking, trans fat bans, etc.) taking a hike.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

That 'democracy is the rule of fools by fools' shouldn't degenerate into an argument of men vs law but to the realization that conservatives are guided and taught by law and principle but not ruled by law. What is the last time you reconsidered an action because it was illegal? Or, do you obey the speed-limit because of law or good sense.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns. KMA NRA

[Ragnorak]

I'm now of the thinking it is more because they fear God ... and what might come in the after life when they have to answer for their deeds

Do they fear God's judgement-- alone at night possibly, when faced with something like cancer or any of the countless reminders of how we are powerless, of how depite being like God we are definitively not God, almost certainly.

The real fear of God is not their own but yours. They fear your belief in God and how it will interfere with you believing in the supremacy of the State-- a State they control. If nothing is God's then all is rendered onto Caesar.

[armymarinemom]

My father in-law who lives in Memphis help distribute yard signs of the ten commandments. He himself has had two of the signs in his front yard. The first sign that he put up was stolen.

[Ragnorak]

I would just like to note how refreshing it is to see something from a celebrity that is actually cogent. Today, in 21st Century America, a Hollywood celebrity actually wrote a well researched, factually accurate, intelligent, thought provoking article.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Awesome Article.
I couldn't agree more with Chuck.

[loboinok]

That was taken from Barton's "Affidavit in Support of the Ten Commandments" in SARAH DOE and THOMAS DOE v. HARLAN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

8. The Decalogue addresses what were long considered to be man’s vertical and horizontal duties. Noah Webster, the man personally responsible for Art. I, Sec. 8, ¶ 8, of the U. S.Constitution, explained two centuries ago:

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

9. Modern critics, while conceding “six or five Commandments are moral and ethical rules governing behavior,” also point out that because the remaining “four of the Ten Commandments are specifically religious in nature,” that this fact alone should disqualify their display. They assert that only one of the two “tablets” of the Ten Commandments is appropriate for public display.

10. In an effort to substantiate this position historically, critics often point to the Rhode Island Colony under Roger Williams and its lack of civil laws on the first four commandments to “prove” that American society was traditionally governed without the first “tablet.” However, they fail to mention that the Rhode Island Colony was the only one of the thirteen colonies that did not have civil laws derived from the first four divine laws -the so-called first “tablet.” Significantly, every other early American colony incorporated the entire Decalogue into its own civil code of laws.

11. This affidavit will demonstrate that, historically speaking, neither courts nor civil officers were confused or distracted by the so-called “various versions” of the Decalogue and that each of the Ten Commandments became deeply embedded in both American law and jurisprudence. This affidavit will establish that a contemporary display of the Ten Commandments is the display of a legal and historical document that dramatically impacted American law and culture with a force similar only to that of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

THE INCORPORATION OF DIVINE LAW INTO AMERICAN COLONIAL LAW

12. The Ten Commandments are a smaller part of the larger body of divine law recognized and early incorporated into America’s civil documents. For example, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut-established in 1638-39 as the first written constitution in America and considered as the direct predecessor of the U. S. Constitution -declared that the Governor and his council of six elected officials would “have power to administer justice according to the laws here established; and for want thereof according to the rule of the word of God.”

13. Also in 1638, the Rhode Island government adopted “all those perfect and most absolute laws of His, given us in His holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby. Exod. 24. 3, 4; 2 Chron. II. 3; 2 Kings. II. 17.”

14. The following year, 1639, the New Haven Colony adopted its “Fundamental Articles” for the governance of that Colony, and when the question was placed before the colonists:

Whether the Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of all men in all dut[ies] which they are to perform to God and men as well in the government of families and commonwealths as in matters of the church, this was assented unto by all, no man dissenting as was expressed by holding up of hands.

(Excerpted)

wallbuilders.com

Good post!

[Labyrinthos]

John Quincy Adams, who fought during the Revolution...

Chuck needs to study his history. JQA was only seven years old at the start of the Amercian Revolution and he spend most of the war in Europe with his father.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Um,Chuck knows his history.He just confused the names of the Father and son.
He was talking about John Adams not his son John Quincy.

[M. Espinola]

[Labyrinthos]

Um,Chuck knows his history.He just confused the names of the Father and son. He was talking about John Adams not his son John Quincy.

John Adams didn't fight in the American Revolution either. He spend nearly the entire time in Europe as a diplomat. Also, John Adams obviously did not serve "under four presidents before becoming one," given the undisputed fact that he served as our second president. I like Chick Norris, but a historian he is not. I would also perfer if he left religion, including the teaching of the Ten Commandments, to family, friends, and Sunday school teachers, and not to the government at any level.

[Chewie84]

Chuck Norris is the man. I've been a 'Walker' fan for years. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders. I'll probably have to check out "Code of Silence" when I get the chance.