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The utterly moronic "Peoples Rights Amendment"
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| 4-20-2012
| Stephen Bainbridge
Posted on 04/21/2012 7:07:38 AM PDT by SumProVita
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These people absolutely hate the notion of freedom of speech. What they seek is state CONTROL.
To: SumProVita
All they have to do is utter the magic words "the people" and Chrissy Mattthews pees his pants again.
The idea is that "the people" shouldn't have to worry about an old dusty constitution and can have anything they want.
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:15:27 AM PDT
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SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
What is so amazing is that this is all blatantly OBVIOUS...and the general public seems unaware.
Sheeeeeesh....
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:25:16 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Nancy Pelousy ping. Thanks SumProVita.
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:29:22 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SumProVita
What they seek is state CONTROL. Only if THEY control the state.
It is about power.
They wish to deny free speech to people who run companies because they do not want free and open debate concerning the legislation they propose that would force these corporations to do their bidding.
Free and open debate exposes the costly non-sense that is all of this environmental controls that the left continues to impose in violation of the law and common sense.
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:33:28 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Pontiac
And let’s not forget churches. They would REALLY like to control speech connected with authentic Christians (many of which are generally organized as corporations).
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:42:53 AM PDT
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SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: SumProVita
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:45:02 AM PDT
by
tomkat
(...shall NOT be abridged)
To: SumProVita
“The public” remains in rectal defilade most of the time.
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:45:34 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SumProVita
I walked out of a local Methodist Church about 50 years ago when the preacher started raising funds to build a field hospital for the Viet Cong.
The Sunday before that he was raising funds for Handgun Control Inc.
The commies have been highly influential in mainstream religion for decades.
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:50:00 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SumProVita
These are the issues and opportunities that the spineless GOP refuses to seize and demagogue with the efficiency and effectiveness that the DNC and media did with the SS reform (Robbing S from old people), The contraceptive mandate (War on women), the Bush tax cuts (Tax cuts for the rich) etc.
This is another golden opportunity to show the tyranny and control inherent in the socialist ideology of democrat control.
The GOP will punt. They’ll make a few shallow comments and then reach across the isle and pet someone.
To: SWAMPSNIPER
For the enemies of religion cannot leave it alone. They laboriously attempt to smash religion. They cannot smash religion; but they do smash everything else. ...GK Chesterton
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posted on
04/21/2012 7:51:44 AM PDT
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SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: SumProVita
This for all practical purposes would nationalize the media. Also, as noted, it would censor churches because most churches are big bad corporations. So the right of free speech is atomized - you as an individual may privately speak but people joined together in an organization or corporation have no freedom of speech. But the people are supposed to have the right to “peaceably assemble” and speak. Here our communists want to make it so only you as an isolated individual can speak and you can speak only in ways that would be ineffective. Four more years of Obama - no more First Amendment.
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:09:33 AM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
the preacher started raising funds to build a field hospital for the Viet Cong.
I think I'd like to hear a few details before I believe that.
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:12:59 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
I heard it clearly.
The Methodist Church took part in the founding of handgun Control Inc.
Much earlier I can recall sitting in Sunday School with literature praising leaders of the Chinese Revolution.
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:20:46 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SumProVita
They fear churches because churches sowed the seeds of the American Revolution.
"It was Sunday morning early in the year 1776. In the church where Pastor Muhlenberg preached, it was a regular service for his congregation, but a quite different affair for Muhlenberg himself. Muhlenberg's text for the day was Ecclesiastes 3 where it explains, 'To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted...'"
"Coming to the end of his sermon, Peter Muhlenberg turned to his congregation and said, 'In the language of the holy writ, there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.' As those assembled looked on, Pastor Muhlenberg declared, 'There is a time to fight, and that time is now coming!' Muhlenberg then proceeded to remove his robes revealing, to the shock of his congregation, a military uniform."
"Marching to the back of the church he declared, 'Who among you is with me?' On that day 300 men from his church stood up and joined Peter Muhlenberg. They eventually became the 8th Virginia Brigade fighting for liberty."
"Frederick Muhlenberg, Peter's brother, was against Peter's level of involvement in the war. Peter responded to Frederick writing, 'I am a Clergyman it is true, but I am a member of the Society as well as the poorest Layman, and my Liberty is as dear to me as any man, shall I then sit still and enjoy myself at Home when the best Blood of the Covenant is spilling? ...So far am I from thinking that I act wrong, I am convinced it is my duty to do so and duly I owe to God and my country."
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:31:42 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: SumProVita
Congress could also ban the speech and religious practice of most churches, which are generally organized as corporation. It could ban the speech of nonprofit organizations that are organized as corporations." First thing that comes to mind is The Heritage Foundation.
Governed by an independent Board of Trustees, The Heritage Foundation is an independent, tax-exempt institution. Heritage relies on the private financial support of the general publicindividuals, foundations, and corporationsfor its income, and accepts no government funds and performs no contract work. Heritage is one of the nations largest public policy research organizations. More than 710,000 individual members make it the most broadly supported think tank in America.
The Heritage Foundation is the nations most broadly supported public policy research institute, with nearly 700,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors. Heritage, founded in February 1973, has a staff of 255 and an annual expense budget of $75.3 million.
Our mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:35:32 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: cripplecreek
“Men have forgotten God; thats why all this has happened.” ...Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:36:19 AM PDT
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SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: SumProVita
Even among conservatives.
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:38:42 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: TLI
Yes, the repercussions of such an amendment are compelling.
By the way, I love this from your home page:
“How do you tell a communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
Ronald Reagan
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:39:27 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: cripplecreek
Unfortunately, you are correct...but this is not nearly to the extent that you find among liberals.
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posted on
04/21/2012 8:40:50 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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