Posted on 12/23/2001 7:32:51 PM PST by dcwusmc
I am a RESTORATIONIST and I thank FReeper CHUCKSTER for the use of the term. I came to this position as a libertarian but others have come to it via conservatism and liberalism. At its essence the Restorationist philosophy holds that the United States live as part of a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC and that we have strayed FAR from our Constitutional roots. We hold that this situation is untenable to our survival as a nation and that we must restore our Constitution as the SUPREME law of the land. We must go back to our roots or we will DIE as a free nation.
This is NOT an issue of the WOD, though I still oppose it on Constitutional grounds. It is NOT an issue on RKBA though I support it unconditionally on Constitutional grounds. It is an issue of National SURVIVAL.
For those of you who are in favor of the WOD, let's agree that we need to get our Constitution restored FIRST, then we can see if the WOD can ever be Constitutional. First things FIRST, in other words. We must stop politicians and bureaucraps of ALL persuasions from using the Constitution as toilet paper. Hence RESTORATIONIST.
Your comments and suggestions are invited.
Some people struggle to understand clearly stated quesyions, and try to twist what others have said.
Other people have difficulty writting cogently, which engenders needful questiosns, in order to decipher the TRUE meaning , of a blizzard of written words.
Since both are the flip side of the same coin, each is doomed to failure.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, my dear !
In sum, I think that "restoration" -- large or small "r" -- is simply a facet of conservatism, in fact, one of its defining characteristics.
Yes ma'am, you have indeed recognized and eloquently described the Principle involved in demanding that Justice be pursued and achieved vis a vis Bill Clinton and the Treasonous Scumbag DemonRATS.
"...do NOT put in the TO part with Inspector Harry Callahan. Anyone that thinks we did not land on the moon has no credibility."
OK, my FRiend, and please, I would prefer it if you never again addressed sinkspur, who I sincerely believe is a gutless PUNK and an embarrassment to the GOP and George Dubyuh...IMHO, of course.
FReegards...MUD
Yep...and those who refuse to toe the GOP Party line are not our adversaries, IMHO.
FReegards...MUD
That's because there is only one party,and it has two branches.
with the cheerleaders for each hollering down violations committed by the OTHER side but deflecting criticism, sometimes with real NASTY language, when THEIR guy does the same.
Think "WWF fan" and you won't be far off the mark.
Why would Bubba Bush try to kick over a dung heap he is at the top of? He benifits from the system in place now,and celebrates in it. It wasn't Clinton who created the Office of Reich Security or the so-called Patriots Act. It was his alter-ego and protector,Bubba Bush.
Thanks for the ping, Bill.
The sheeple that make up this country are for the most part ignorant of the meaning and wisdom contained in the Constitution, and are too socialistic to even consider going back to the original intent.
Then they came for the guns,
and I didnt speak up,
because I was not a shooter.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no way
to defend myself.
It's an original, though I imagine someone has probably already done it. (That's OK as long as no turkey replys, That's the most over-used and abused innuendo in existence in our political lexicon. Remember that one?)
Very well put, and exactly on the mark.
I was going to respond similiarly, but thought I better read the thread first...glad I did, because you expressed my thoughts perfectly.
I often make reference in my FR posts to those of us who endeavor to 'restore and defend the Constitution'...because a large amount of erosion has occurred (hence the need for 'restoration')...but there is still much intact which needs defending.
As an aside, but still very much in keeping with the intent of this thread...the best thing we could do to put the governmental monstrosity back into its constitutionally mandated box would be to repeal the 16th Amendment...and while we're at it, let's do the 17th as well.
Regards...EV
What the court will do is order the charter amended. So far, so good. Perhaps it will repremand those officials whom Expo has alerted because they have not acted in accord with their duty. OK. In the absence of an actual, articulable wrong, however, that is as far as the matter will go. All laws voted on by the representatives of that presumptive state will stand as law because all interested parties acted under the presumption that the paperwork was in order, and that a state did exist, as intended.
My wife and I are still married even if the clerk forgot to sign the documentation. The suit, in that it will amend the charter, is a good thing; beyond that the whole matter gets silly, unless there was some damage done by a knowing bad guy using the flaw to unlawful advantage.
The sky is not falling.
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