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Elizabeth Warren: First Amendment Right 'Scares Me', Needs 'Dialing Back'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/23/2010 5:40:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Remember the MSM brouhaha when some conservatives suggested reconsidering the automatic granting of citizenship to children born in the US to illegal immigrants? Suddenly, the sanctity of the 14th Amendment became the single most precious thing to liberals—even though no amendment of it, let alone its abolition, would have been necessary to revise the policy on birthright citizenship.

So should we expect the liberal media to take up its constitutional cudgel against Elizabeth Warren? After all, Pres. Obama's newly appointed [not nominated] head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau went on Morning Joe today and in effect proclaimed that the right to petition government for the redress of government "scares" her. More disturbingly, Warren suggested we need to work on "dialing back" that right.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elizabethwarren; firstamendment; morningjoe
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To: Ditter

“Where does he find these people???????”

Aisle 12, Commies-R-Us.


21 posted on 09/23/2010 5:56:14 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Beck needs to do a Van Jones on her


22 posted on 09/23/2010 5:58:34 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
More disturbingly, Warren suggested we need to work on "dialing back" that right.

She's right, scale it back to where it is less complicated, there's way too many rights to try and keep track of anyway. /ms

23 posted on 09/23/2010 6:00:20 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Pravious

Very good - you get an A+


24 posted on 09/23/2010 6:01:25 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: Celtic Cross

I think we should have a firing squad set up when these people take their oath of office, you know, when the say they will defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. When they something like dialing back the force of a constitutional amendment we have a prima facia case of treason: BANG.


25 posted on 09/23/2010 6:01:57 AM PDT by Mouton
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I was listening to a teleconference yesterday where one of the presenters was from Mass General. I’m now convinced that a large percentage of the Harvard faculty are nuts, and this was a medicine conference, so she’s no surprises since she’s a lawyer.


26 posted on 09/23/2010 6:06:45 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Oligarchy...never vote for the Ivy League candidate.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

RESIGN!!!!!!!!!!!


27 posted on 09/23/2010 6:09:52 AM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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To: ozark hilljilly
Every one can be free,
But they have to agree to be free.
They have to agree to be less free than me.
Because I rule the world, you see.

Nice job...I don't see 10cc quoted everyday!!
'hack

28 posted on 09/23/2010 6:10:25 AM PDT by dynamitehack (Public employee unions should be abolished!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
After all, Pres. Obama's newly appointed [not nominated] head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau went on Morning Joe today and in effect proclaimed that the right to petition government for the redress of government "scares" her. More disturbingly, Warren suggested we need to work on "dialing back" that right.

Claire Wolfe just called me.

She said it's time now.

29 posted on 09/23/2010 6:11:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: Travis McGee; Squantos; Southack
After all, Pres. Obama's newly appointed [not nominated] head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau went on Morning Joe today and in effect proclaimed that the right to petition government for the redress of government "scares" her. More disturbingly, Warren suggested we need to work on "dialing back" that right.

Claire Wolfe just called me.

She said it's time now.

30 posted on 09/23/2010 6:14:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
As egregious as Elizabeth Warren's lack of knowledge of rights is, the writer of this piece has his own misunderstanding as well. And it is of the same sort.
 
He writes:
the First Amendment or the right it established to "petition government for a redress of grievances."
The First Amendment didn't establish rights. It simply recognizes them and protects them. Or it's supposed to anyhow.
 
This is not a minor quibble. The first principle of this republic is that our rights come from God, not from any man, and that those rights are therefore unalienable.
 
What man arbitrarily gives, he can arbitrarily take away.
 

31 posted on 09/23/2010 6:15:12 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. -GW)
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To: EternalVigilance

All of these socialist monsters are afraid of the 1st amendment. There is a reason. They fear jail time or worse. Hunt them down. Ridicule them. Get in their face. Show them the exit door.


32 posted on 09/23/2010 6:19:25 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Enemy of the STATE.

These people should be stripped of there citizenship and sent to Iran

33 posted on 09/23/2010 6:20:49 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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To: hal ogen

The left fears and despises ANY freedom of information and speech,

because their ideology is inherently based on LIES,

and the truth is irrefutable.


34 posted on 09/23/2010 6:22:12 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: ozark hilljilly

Animal Farm: We are all equal.....only “we’ are more equal than you. Get used to it peons


35 posted on 09/23/2010 6:22:12 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just another loon being put in charge of our society.


36 posted on 09/23/2010 6:22:20 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Don’t fear our inalienable rights Elizabeth. Fear The Creator who endowed us with them!


37 posted on 09/23/2010 6:24:44 AM PDT by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
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To: Ditter

It’s a pure coincidence that virtually every high level position in the Obama regime is filled with a Marxist, Socialist, or totalitarian sympathizer.


38 posted on 09/23/2010 6:24:59 AM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: EternalVigilance

“As egregious as Elizabeth Warren’s lack of knowledge of rights is, the writer of this piece has his own misunderstanding as well. And it is of the same sort.
He writes: the First Amendment or the right it established to “petition government for a redress of grievances.”
The First Amendment didn’t establish rights. It simply recognizes them and protects them. Or it’s supposed to anyhow.”

As the writer of the original article, let me respond. I considered your point in writing the article. But whereas the Declaration states that we were “endowed by our Creator” with certain rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it’s not clear to me that the right to petition government for the redress of grievances was considered to rise to the level of a God-given right.


39 posted on 09/23/2010 6:26:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: dynamitehack

“I don’t see 10cc quoted everyday!!”

You don’t run into someone who even remembers or knows who they were every day either!
: )


40 posted on 09/23/2010 6:34:57 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly
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