Posted on 11/19/2002 8:36:24 AM PST by Dallas
You gotta love this guy....
Christmas is a christian holiday....period
Your tax dollars pay for the National (gasp) Christmas Tree, and the paid holidays of state, and federal workers. And those darn christmas stamps the post office issues...I bet that really chaps your butt.
Please provide me with a citation.
The Diversity Nazis need a lesson in Americanism.
In the instant case, whether or not to post the commandments, I can tolerate an alternate point of view. In the case of Gore, however, what we had was an attempted coup. Free men would have been derelict to have allowed it. I credit the freepers who pounded on the doors and demanded to be let in when they attempted to count the votes in private for, in part, saving the republic and I credit the supreme court for honoring the constitution.
I agree that we can't have anarchy and vigilanties running all over the place, but when the constitution is clearly ignored, that's what we have. "If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy," - Justice Louis Brandeis -So people make mistakes. Fine. Then again,tell that to the innocent guy who spent ten years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Ok, so things happen. On the other hand, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Reasonable people can disagree. A bad judge can be removed. Tyrants, however, need to be killed. I may not consider my myself qualified to second guess a judge in most cases, but I do know how to read. Sometimes even I know when my rights as a free man are being trampled by tyrants posing as legitimate government officials. When that happens, to ignore an illegitimate command from a tyrant is proper.
Example: All federal laws which infringe upon a free man's right to bear arms have zero legitimacy, period. Those who have passed, ruled in favor of, and enforced such laws while pretending to be loyal to the constitution have betrayed their oaths, the constitution and their fellow men. Those who ignore such laws in no way blemish their record as good citizens. Its as simple as that.
If you want to pass a legitimate federal gun law, you need to start a new government. The constitution of the present one cannot be amended in such a way as to allow them. Perhaps that is why no one has bothered to try. The bill of rights cannot be amended. It trumps the constitution and any attempt to amend it.
Finally, regardless of the above, even in cases where the constitution can be properly amended, some laws can never be legitimate, as certain rights of men are inalienable. Laws allowing for slavery or murder, for example, will never have legitimacy even if we were to amend the constitution to explicitly allow for them. Any effort to enforce them would never be anything other than tyranny of the majority and would be inconsistent with the founding principles of our government.
You are correct that we can't simply ignore laws just because we don't agree with them. That same rule applies, however, to our servants and their observance of the constitution that gives them their authority to begin with. When this does not happen, I submit that it is our right, prerogative and our duty as good citizens and as free men to ignore clearly unconstitutional laws and rulings and, if nessecary, to remove or eliminate those who would tyrannize us.
* "History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline." (General Douglas MacArthur)
* "All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship." (President Grover Cleveland)
* "Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again." (George Washington Carver)
* "Education is useless without the Bible." (Noah Webster)
* "But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." (President Abraham Lincoln)
* "These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation." (United States Supreme Court, 1892, Church of the Holy Trinity v. The United States)
* "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." (Alexis de Tocqueville)
* "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." (President Ronald Reagan)
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??? source???
"America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations" (by William Federer)
If you're really curious about it...
I was looking for a statutory citation as per #565. Any one of the fifty states or the federal code will do.
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