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To: Helen
Are you saying that civil unrest taken to the streets takes precedence over civil unrest taken through the judicial system?

What I am saying is that the courts will take the [private] view that an illegitimate President is more palatable than blacks rioting in LA or Philly. He is going to be "legit" whether he is or not.

It is very disgusting, but that is how it is going to play out.

146 posted on 11/20/2008 11:31:28 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I understand what you are saying. I also understand that if an illegitimate president is allowed to take over the awesome powers that are the United States of America, then the United States of America, and its Constitution, ceases to exist. You cannot pick and choose which part of that great document you decide arbitrarily to discard.

An illegitimate president is just that. Any action taken by that person is illegitimate. There is no way we can sit back and let the damage be done if this person does not, in fact, meet the requirements of the Constitution to hold that office.

I have faith that the Supreme Court will look at the law and will not look at the possibility of rioting in LA or Philly. From a personal standpoint, I cannot handle thinking Chief Justice Roberts will swear in a president who is an imposter.

From Thomas Jefferson:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

157 posted on 11/20/2008 12:09:14 PM PST by Helen
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