Posted on 04/10/2019 10:15:46 AM PDT by blam
The right to hold one's own views, and to think and to decide for oneself on any question, is an essential right for a free people. A person is free to believe anything he wishes, even if in error, and may not be persecuted nor denied the right to hold public office for those beliefs. The First Amendment protections for freedom of religion, of speech, of the press and of assembly, all together protect the Freedom of Conscience.
"That form [of self-government] which we have substituted [for that which bound men under the chains of monkish ignorance and superstition] restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion." --Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman, 1826. ME 16:182
"A right to take the side which every man's conscience approves in a civil contest is too precious a right, and too favorable to the preservation of liberty, not to be protected by all its well-informed friends." --Thomas Jefferson to Katherine Sprowle Douglas, 1785. FE 4:66, Papers 8:260
"Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men, governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity? But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782. ME 2:223
"The freedom of opinion and the reasonable maintenance of it is not a crime and ought not to occasion injury." --Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1801.
"The legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions." --Thomas Jefferson to Danbury Baptists, 1802.
"This country, which has given to the world the example of physical liberty, owes to it that of moral emancipation also. For as yet, it is but nominal with us. The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821. ME 15:308
"It is inconsistent with the spirit of our laws and Constitution to force tender consciences." --Thomas Jefferson: Proclamation Concerning Paroles, 1781. FE 2:430, Papers 4:404
"The error seems not sufficiently eradicated that the operations of the mind as well as the acts of the body are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia
Bump for later clarity!
All you said: Barr is hilarious. A high-IQ comedian playing to an audience of mouth breathers. They don’t even know when they’re being played.
The winds of change.
The rat party is about to be fundamentally transformed, from inside and outside.
Now, we must transform the R party, from within, at our local levels.
“They don’t even know when they’re being played.”
Nope. No sense of perspective, humor, irony or humility. Ridicule shreds them. Can’t do effective memes, either.
Prove him wrong!
Great movie reference....and Bluto became a senator.
The real problem we have is the media lets democrats act like spoiled brats and run their mouths, so they will cause trouble no matter what happens.
Just because a stupid democrats says something doesn’t mean it has any validity. In this case they are showing zero respect for the Attorney General and that’s not appropriate.
FAKE news
Thanks blam. Stolen valor Blumenthal regurg’ed the same partisan talking points of the DNC.
Blumenthal Demands AG Barr Recant Belief That FBI Spied On Trump
Daily Caller | 04/11/2019 | David Krayden
Posted on 04/11/2019 7:38:12 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3741247/posts
There is no wikipedia page on Crossfire Hurricane. How pathetic is that?
"Top Democrats" aren't fit to clean the shoes even of the Republicans.
Whatever goes around, comes around!!! Folks get ready foe the loud singing & blabber of the Obama, DOJ & FBI Traitors & Turncoats, that will drop dime on Obama, Clinton and their cohorts in Treason!!!
As for Nadler & Schiff...they are empty suits and it shows so brightly. Their fifteen minutes of fame was fleeting, if not alive at all. Goodbye...deadbeats!!!
what democratic institutions the ones Obamma weaponized against America
It’s been fun watching them squirm.
This morning, Norah O’Donnel looked like she wanted to vomit after reporting on SPY GATE.
They will have to eat this crap for another year.
SPY GATE
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