Posted on 05/07/2020 5:53:00 AM PDT by knighthawk
I have been taking some heat from friends and colleagues for my steadfast defense of personal liberties and my arguments that the Constitution -- when interpreted in accordance with the plain meaning of its words, and informed by history -- does not permit the government to infringe upon personal freedoms, no matter the emergency or pandemic.
For those who agree with me, worry not. We will persevere. For those who trust the government, worry a lot. You are not in good hands.
The purpose of the Constitution is to establish the government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are written in the Constitution itself. Most of the limitations that pertain to personal freedoms are found in the Bill of Rights -- the first 10 amendments.
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Did the US still have a constitution in 1918 when similar quarantines were impossed? There were similar protest then too.
We have taxation without representation, too!
“For those who trust the government, worry a lot. You are not in good hands.”
Good line.
China may be responsible for the virus, but they are not responsible for the way America reacted. For many Americans, surprisingly fewer than I imagined, being placed under house arrest, stripped of most basic rights, told to go broke, lose your savings... are fighting words. If they had treated us like adults and asked us to pull together to fight this virus, America would have pulled together like we always do, and it would have been as great as always.
I think that is debatable. If China, the Globalists and the Deep State are all on one team, then you can see coordination of Fauci paying China for the virus, China releasing the virus, and Fauci advising President Trump that the best course of action would be to cancel his campaign rallies and cripple the Trump economy.
A couple of thoughts:
1 - Abe Lincoln suspended the First Amendment in the Civil War.
2 - Judge Nap never once mentioned the continuous onslaught against the Second Amendment.
Your handle may be fuzzylogic; your logic is anything but. One of the best, most cogent posts I’ve read in quite a while.
Amen, brother. These power mad governors have zero legitimacy when they issue these “emergency “ orders.
They should be ignored.
The constitution has long been interpreted out of effect. It is still there in form.
Is it there? You decide.
Where are all of the ‘Trump Judges’ stopping this madness with a million injunctions? Hmmmm?
The US Constitution has caught COVID.
The federal courts are all supporting governors' orders.
.. during public health crises, new considerations come to bear, and government officials must ask whether even fundamental rights must give way to a deeper need to control the spread of infectious disease and protect the lives of society's most vulnerable.Federal Judge Mendez, May 2020
"Fundamental" doesn't mean what you thought. NOTHING in the law means what you thought. It is ALL a sham and a scam. Lawyers protection racket. I know, ahem, being allowed to peek inside.
The US Constitution is actually a fig leaf for the Deep State™ to hide behind during their numerous power grabs.
Does America still have a population that can live under the Constitution? That even cares about such things? That’s trending toward “no”. That’s by design. But hey, we have cheap stuff in stores and porn on our phones, so who cares? Right?
Just say no
Bingo. I think we made a fatal mistake around the Civil War, when we started transitioning from a bottom-up to a top-down system, with a strong federal government dominating the states instead of strong states restraining the federal government.
By the time the progressive era rolled around 50 years later, the federal government just started taking whatever it wanted and nobody could stop it.
Still there, but must be interpreted RIGHT.
Trial run for socialism. Get used to it.
And it's not just about jobs and economic opportunity. It's about freedom, exercise of "Creator-endowed rights and liberties," and opportunity for each citizen, not just self-appointed elitists who fancy themselves as entitled to make decisions for all.
See this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" may be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
Thomas Jefferson wrote to Roger Weightman on June 24, 1826:
" I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. may it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. all eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. these are grounds of hope for others. for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
107 years by my count (ratification of the 17th amendment)
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