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CBS's Charles Osgood: 'Is Constitution Truly Worthy of Reverence in Which Most Americans Hold It?'
http://newsbusters.org ^ | January 27, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 01/28/2013 5:25:12 AM PST by servo1969

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To: servo1969
To be clear, I don't think we should give up on everything in the Constitution. The Constitution has many important and inspiring provisions, but we should obey these because they are important and inspiring, not because a bunch of people who are now long-dead favored them two centuries ago.

Well see, the problem is that this jackboot wannabee thinks that the abortion and gay marriage clauses that are nowhere to be found are the most inspiring provisions, whereas normal people think that our God given rights to speak, pray, and defend ourselves in order to freely speak and pray are the most inspiring.

The Declaration of Independence provides for a means to rend the Constitution asunder and start over. It also provides for the means of overturning the government that has strayed so far from it.

I don't see any alternatives at this point other than peaceful secession red vs blue states, or a bloody civil war. The government and the people are far too corrupt at this point for any kind of accord with those of us Americans who would be Citizens rather than subjects.

It's late in the empire and the Caligulas are everywhere, the media is acting as the Praetorian Guard and Monsanto is running the latifundia.

21 posted on 01/28/2013 6:03:26 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: servo1969

CBS’s Charles Osgood - Neo-commies can’t abide their subjects having any kind of control in the Rodina. The party aparachiks know what is best ... shut up about the Constitution and eat your peas.


22 posted on 01/28/2013 6:03:58 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: servo1969

Evidently ole Charles failed his high School Civics classes.

Note to charles. Those Dead People were smarter than you think. They left a way to change the Constitution, it’s called AMENDING IT.

Of course your real agenda is more communist than Constitutional so why bother with that.


23 posted on 01/28/2013 6:05:32 AM PST by VRWCarea51
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To: servo1969

Nobody is forcing Chuckie to stay here.


24 posted on 01/28/2013 6:06:00 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: VRWCarea51

They don’t hate the Constitution because it’s unchangeable.
They hate it because it is a fixed set of rules that (intentionally) thwarts the ability of “elites” (humans that think they know/are better than their fellow man) to make arbitrary decisions based on their superior knowledge.

The amendment process, being part of the Constitution, is despised just as much as the Constitution as a concept.


25 posted on 01/28/2013 6:07:51 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: servo1969

Constitution bump for later........


26 posted on 01/28/2013 6:13:59 AM PST by indthkr
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To: HogsBreath

It’s come to it now. Our generation will be remembered (by those who aren’t brainwashed) as the one who could have done something.


27 posted on 01/28/2013 6:14:53 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: servo1969
What they don't seem to understand is that when the Constitution is torn up the first victim will be freedom of the press closely followed by an atheistic pogrom against the intellectual elite. For most in the media, that would erroneously be considered “double jeopardy”
28 posted on 01/28/2013 6:16:21 AM PST by immadashell
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To: servo1969

This is directly related to the gun owners backlash. I think they are a little surprised at the strength & depth of our willingness to defend the 2nd amendment.

Thus, they double down and openly attack the entire Constitution.

This a serious escalation & IMO indicates they are going for all the marbles in the next 4 years with Herr Leader. This is all going to come to a head in that time.

Be prepared patriots. Two choices. capitulate or fight back. No more middle ground. When you compromise with evil, evil always wins.


29 posted on 01/28/2013 6:19:03 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: servo1969
'Is Constitution Truly Worthy of Reverence in Which Most Americans Hold It?'

You bet your ass it is Charley.

30 posted on 01/28/2013 6:21:10 AM PST by MosesKnows
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To: servo1969

Why should Obama care about the Constitution when he’s not a natural-born citizen. He’s violated the oath over and over again and no one in the adoring press will call him on it.


31 posted on 01/28/2013 6:22:46 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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32 posted on 01/28/2013 6:25:41 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Daveinyork

>>They don’t want to be restrained by ANY constitution. (I put drug warriors in the same category.)<<

Why? The USC neither speaks to nor implies anything about drugs.


33 posted on 01/28/2013 6:31:04 AM PST by freedumb2003 (I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I was wonderin if this guy is the one they named that movie after; Charly?


34 posted on 01/28/2013 6:33:46 AM PST by biff (WAS)
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To: servo1969

Just another example of the unprincipled mentality underlying Liberalism. At the risk of stating the obvious, liberalism is a destructive and corrosive ideology; it is simply incompatible with the tenants of living in a free republic. More and more we are a divided nation. Eventually this will have to be resolved in some fashion, probably through fragmentation or a form of virtual secession.


35 posted on 01/28/2013 6:37:10 AM PST by Starboard
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To: servo1969

This would be far more entertaining if someone did a rewrite. Imagine the outrage:

“Imagine you’re getting ready to head to a bar one fine Sunday morning and on your television you hear a man say, “Let’s give up on socialism.”

Such actually happened when CBS News Sunday Morning aired a rather inflammatory commentary by a Georgetown University law professor teased by host Charles Osgood asking, “Is socialism truly worthy of the reverence in which some Americans hold it?”


36 posted on 01/28/2013 6:38:40 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: servo1969

LOUIS MICHAEL SEIDMAN, PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

“Constitutional disobedience is as American as apple pie.”
...”Suppose that Barack Obama really wasn’t a natural-born citizen.”
“So what?”
...
“This is our country. We live in it, and we have a right to the kind of country we want. We would not allow the French or the United Nations to rule us, and neither should we allow people who died over two centuries ago and knew nothing of our country as it exists today.

If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and outdated document.”

...
So basically this Commie knows we have a Usurper in office and his opinion is SO WHAT?
Those are dead white guy rules.


37 posted on 01/28/2013 6:40:25 AM PST by Herbster
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To: MosesKnows

I screamed at the TV when I seen that! Scared the crap out of my Mother in Law.


38 posted on 01/28/2013 6:42:01 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Very good post. The Constitution is an inconvenient road block for the liberals. They don’t want anything that imposes constraints on their utopian designs and statist schemes.


39 posted on 01/28/2013 6:43:30 AM PST by Starboard
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To: servo1969

God help us if this guy is actually teaching lawyers. Then again, they most likely won’t find jobs waiting for them.

This guy either doesn’t know, doesn’t care or never read the Federalist Papers. EVERYTHING that is in the Constitution is explained, in clear terms. Perhaps that’s the problem. His head is so far up his butt that he can’t see anything.

I would ask him what his viewpoint was when GW was in the White House, or a future Whig president.


40 posted on 01/28/2013 6:56:47 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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