Birth of Big Brother: How the Court deep-sixed the Tenth (Amendment)

Capitalism Magazine ^ | Mar 2, 2001 | George F. Smith

[The Raven]

Allow me to repeat [this is good!]

..This is grotesquely at odds with our founding philosophy of man's inalienable rights, that each man is an end in himself and not a sacrificial object of society. If we let self-sacrifice be our moral ideal, we've given government the means of enslaving us, and liberty, to the extent it exists, will be by permission, rather than right.

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[Free the USA]

Great post
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[Dawgsquat]

"Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power.... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitutions." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1799

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791.

"[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people." -- Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776. Papers, 1:338

[AAABEST]

This is grotesquely at odds with our founding philosophy of man's inalienable rights, that each man is an end in himself and not a sacrificial object of society. If we let self-sacrifice be our moral ideal, we've given government the means of enslaving us, and liberty, to the extent it exists, will be by permission, rather than right.

Quote of the week. People (even many on this forum), have become "freedom challenged".

The very meaning of pathetic is when people will work literally half their lives for the government and still be happy as a pig in a mudhole.

I'd be shocked if this thread got anyhwhere near 50 responses.

[Free the USA]

bttt

[Leisler]

Oik, oik.

[jimkress]

Excellent article!

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[jimkress]

Excellent article!

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[Khepera]

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Used to indoctrinate the young into their immoral causes.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

good post

[headsonpikes]

"I'd be shocked if this thread got anywhere near 50 responses."

The world and its people have been in the clutches of war-states for over half a century.

Some sort of socialist rhetoric is essential in each instance to numb the mind and condition behavior.

In America this rhetoric is styled 'progressive'. Or sometimes,'politically correct'.

Only 'reactionaries';i.e., enemies of the modern state, will bump this thread. But there may be more than 50. ;^)

[damnlimey]

Good stuff
Bump.

Quote: "So long as Americans can be convinced that they need to apply for
a privilege to exercise a right they can expect to be denied their rights"

[wcbtinman]

"But there may be more than 50."

I suspect that there are many more, who choose to remain quet and wait. If we should not underestimate the govt., then they had better not underestimate the aroused anger of the American people. It's coming.

[Ken522]

BTTT

[breakem]

I might add that the dems and the repubs both are part of this problem.

[LarryLied]

In Slouching Toward Gommorah, Robert Bork wrote that George Washington made the 10th amendment a dead letter. But he wasn't specific. Anyone know to which action(s) of Washington Bork referred?

[Waco Uppo]

bttt

[Dawgsquat]

I'm not sure, but I know he said this:

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force." -- George Washington

[Hoosier Patriot]

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