Posted on 05/21/2010 8:21:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While you were distracted by the economy, they fixed your health care system. While you were distracted by your health care system, they worked on cap-and-trade plus immigration "reform."
Under the continued distraction of the last two items above, surely you will never see the pre-planning to remove guns from your home. Surely the man whose agenda has become a substitute for the United States Constitution will not think twice about a nation safer from firearms.
"It's for your own good" will be the rallying cry, but where have we heard that one before?
Notice the man in the Oval Office flinch noticeably when pressed on the Constitution, his specialty. Expect that he believes that our laws emanate from our government, and not from a higher power.
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America (can I still say that in print?) foresaw a time when our federal government would become so large that it would become unresponsive to the people and disconnected. A time when power of the individual citizen was diminished and discounted.
The Founding Fathers saw that the tyranny of top-down power by a government over a population was possible, so they designed a multiple-tier government with separation of powers. Checks and balances were made needfully cumbersome to retard a potential stranglehold over our people.
The Constitution of the land gave us freedom of speech as our First Amendment, even protecting the Westboro Baptist Church, desecraters of soldiers' funerals, as a necessary evil to protect a greater good for the nation.
The Constitution of the land provided for a Second Amendment in order to protect our First Amendment. As noted author Robert A. Heinlein has stated: "An armed society is a polite society."
The Second Amendment of the Constitution of these United States pronounces with crystal clarity that:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
... And spare me the argument about this intent only being for the "Militia." During the day of this writing, the Militia already had guns.
America has a proud heritage of hunting, self-reliance, independence and home protection. Firearms enabled the very founding of our nation.
Also, a nation with longevity must be prepared to "take it back" in a worst-case scenario.
But could a modern Western society capable of producing an Albert Einstein or a Sigmund Freud be capable of running amok to the degree that freedom and liberty are snatched up for a "national good"?
Another period of economic despair during the 1930s allowed just that to occur in Nazi Germany, taking away the guns before burning the books!
You say you have heard this before? Good for you, but I believe that eternal vigilance is in order during our current financial dire straits, where "they never let a good crisis go to waste," and I will risk that response. If just one citizen becomes enlightened, then I am satisfied.
Beware that there are current efforts under way in the guise of U.N. treaty and "globalism" to remove your rights.
Join organizations like the NRA and the Izaak Walton League, support them, and do not let anyone remove your lawful gun rights. And pass this on.
My take on guns is that you should not let them take yours!
NFA ‘34, CGA ‘68, FOPA ‘86, AWB ‘94 were allowed to happen because those before us did nothing.
>> “A minor point, but worth arguing, is that the Constitution does not GIVE rights, it ACKNOWLEDGES them.”
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>This is not a minor point it is the only point.
Ah, you misunderstand; I was talking from a critique-the-article point of view. In that sense, it is a minor point.
However, implementationally, there s a BIG difference; much like the difference between “pray for” and “pray to,” the little change impacts the whole of the idea.
>The point you raised is critical, not minor.
Agreed, see above.
>Our rights supersede any form of government. The power rests not with the State, but the individual.
I’ve written about that, from the “state official’s” point-of-view, in a Screwtape Letters style over here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2513906/posts
> Articles that inadvertantly suggest otherwise, even well intentioned ones, only reinforce the misnomer that the government is arbitor of our rights, or that rights are constructs of the state instead of an integral, inherent, inalienable component of our humanity.
Quite Agreed.
>Therein lies the essential difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives recognize this truth; liberals presume otherwise.
There is something we CAN do about it though; apply reasoning to the laws, especially Constitutional laws.
Here’s a letter I recently sent my Representative in the State Legislature which, I hope, illustrates what I’m trying to say:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2517136/posts?page=12#12
And finally, I share with you all some humor:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2518539/posts
...ok? That seems about it.
DISCLAIMER/WARNING: I’ve been accused of having a weird sense of humor at times.
Obama is done. There is no chance of a second term for him.
Just a quick heads up, better not let the participant on this website named “Dem Guard” see this...(they don’t even rate the term “FReeper”)
They would believe folks like us to be inciting violence or something...
They are an entertaining speck of the “troll brigade” that seem to be following me around this website for some fool of a reason...FYI...
But as usual, I like your comments here JB...
But his legacy will last for decades. I don’t see the Republican establishment having the backbone to turn back his programs and adopt sound budget policies.
Stevie you are really dumb as rocks!
Dem Guard has been on this site for quite a while and he sure is no troll. What did you do to piss him off?
I pray you are right.
Lordy, now you have a dual personality...
I’m not much into longevity, or seniority, but since “you” brought it up...
Care to take a gander at yours and dipsticks “joined” date??? I mean really, and how do you know its a him??? Or you, are a you???
Trolls with multiple handles are easy pickings, and I can go at this all day long, you just do not know how to disengage, and y’alls (ehem), pursuit of me proves that...
This keeps getting better and better...
"Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common type of schizophrenia in most parts of the world. The clinical picture is dominated by relatively stable, often paranoid, delusions, usually accompanied by hallucinations, particularly of the auditory variety, and perceptual disturbances. Disturbances of affect, volition, and speech, and catatonic symptoms, are not prominent."
Looks like they let you into the asylum library early today...And they actually opened the big people book cabinet instead of the coloring book section...
You two (ehem), make a great team...Bunkmates???
No, it wouldn't. The federal government is one of limited, enumerated powers, and none of the enumerated powers is to disarm the populace. The entire BOR is a belt-and-suspenders arrangement, to emphasize the limit of the grant of power to the federal government, in particular aspects.
Separately, I get a laugh out of "only" the militia. The militia is ALL people capable of bearing arms. When the populace is armed, and knows how to use the arms, then the populace comprises a free state.
I gave up on the Republican party after this last elecction. I very nearly joined in 06,...no, nay, never.
I’ll vote for the most conservative and electable candidate in general elections ~ and I hope the Tea Party keeps them honest ~ but I will not be joining the GOP unless folks like Pence, Palin and Bachmann are at the helm.
Now that I think about it, I think you are right. There was a heated discussion about the inclusion of the BOR because many believed it could be construed that rights not included were excluded. Rights are inherent in the individual.
I agree with you on the party. The establishment gave us the two Bushes, Dole and McCain. The Democrats have become hard core leftists and no longer hide being socialist/Marxists. They stand for something and now govern true to their core principles. Unfortunately the Republican establishment continues to call themselves conservative but in reality they are political pragmatists who falsely believe in compromising principles when governing.
The Rinos need to be removed from the party.
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