To: Little Ray
I s'pose its like art or porn - I just have to hope I know it when I see it.What do you see in front of you right now? In terms of respecting the Constitution, right now you're camping with the enemy. If you're happy to change sides if it looks like the constitutionalists are winning, then you're simply an opportunist.
200 posted on
08/29/2006 1:48:34 PM PDT by
tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic
Opportunist - Realist. That's fine.
What I see right now the Constitution is pretty much a dead letter that means what various lawyerly types want it to mean. For example "Freedom of Speech" means that porn and treason is is okay, but that whites can't use the "N word" or tell a dirty joke in the office.
The right to keep an bear arms is a collective right of the states, not the right (and DUTY!) of the individual (as was documented in the Federalist Papers - never could figure out why people think we don't what the intents of the Founders really were, when they documented them so carefully...).
The Fifth Amendment, doesn't protect private property, it allows various government entities to seize property to enhance revenue. The doesn't really matter, since the interstate commerce clause, at it has been interpreted in the past, pretty much negates all control you might have over your property, anyway.
The Eighth Amendment protects the guilty from just punishment, but it doesn't protect unborn innocents from being hideously murdered, etc.
Give the circumstances, I'll take what I can get, using any means I can get away with to get it.
387 posted on
08/30/2006 5:50:25 AM PDT by
Little Ray
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