Posted on 04/29/2015 12:45:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The thing that always irks me about their "water the tree of liberty" types is their sheer stupidity. Seriously, you think you and your buddies are going to play Red Dawn against the full might of the U.S. government? Where do you suppose all that defense budget money went, folks?
And now we have Ted Cruz, egging them on. Dear sweet Jesus, this man has no conscience. Via Talking Points Memo:
WASHINGTON — It's a given that every Republican presidential candidate will run for president as a strong supporter of gun rights.
But Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is arguing that the Second Amendment includes a right to revolt against government tyranny, a point of emphasis uncommon for mainstream presidential candidates.
"The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution isn't for just protecting hunting rights, and it's not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny -- for the protection of liberty," Cruz wrote to supporters in a fundraising email on Thursday, under the subject line "2nd Amendment against tyranny."
This "insurrectionist" argument, as Second Amendment expert and UCLA law professor Adam Winkler calls it, is popular among passionate gun owners and members of the National Rifle Association. But major party candidates for president don't often venture there.
"Most presidential candidates who support Second Amendment rights focus on self defense. In the past many have also emphasized hunting," said Winkler, author of the 2011 book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. "It's pretty rare for a presidential candidate to support the right of the people to revolt against the government."
Nor has the Supreme Court recognized a Second Amendment right to revolt against the government, Winkler said. In the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court established an individual's right to possess a gun for lawful purposes like self-defense.
Fiery rhetoric is a trademark for Cruz, who is battling to win over Republican voters in a crowded primary field where he has trailed Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor, and Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, so far in early polls.
Cruz declared that he's "the only candidate running for President who not only believes in the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms -- but has the record of fighting for it, tooth and nail."
Now THAT looks like a low-information Liberal!!!!
>> You also had to OWN PROPERTY to vote, if you have No Skin in the Game you have NO RIGHT to vote against those that do.
I wish we had that one back. As well, you should have to be a taxpayer (not an EIC whore) to vote. Or at least, everyone gets one vote, but those who own property and pay taxes get *extra* votes.
That is a fairly recent development. Just peruse Thomas Jefferson's writings to discover such.
As a woman, I grieve for the wussification of America. I call it the “soccer syndrome.” where nobody gets hurt, because it is a non-contact sport, nobody seems to score, so there are no loosers, or winners to make anyone feel bad, and everyone goes home with some sort of ribbon because they participated, however marginally. It’s a girls’ game that is popular, I think because you get to wear knee socks.
It was also enforced as a de facto one vote per family, as well.
The property owner was the head of the house, and only he could vote.
You don't know soccer, then.
I called her “sweetie”. I’d like that stricken from the record. Stricken... with extreme prejudice.
Not the first middle-aged leftie broad with the hornrims & goofy-tooth grin topped with age-inappropriate hair that I’ve ever seen. Not the first such named “Susie”, either.
They’re all over the place in our behemoth universities.
“Judge a man by his enemies” - Ted Cruz looks more & more like the real deal as these fevered moonbat denunciations continue to pile up.
CRUZ or lose!
Soccer moms do not put their boys in football because they are afraid of injuries. One can complete an Xlarge pizza and a chest of soft drinks and never see two girls on a soccer field mix it up.
You must mean international men’s soccer.
Here are some more:
“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. “
Thomas Jefferson
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.”
Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861
“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of...”
James Madison,The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
Do they seriously believe that the United States military works for a bunch of communist-loving, America-hating, fag-embracing, godless pukes? And that all the lefties have to do is snap their fingers and the troops are going to bomb, shoot, and blast their fellow citizens — most of whom believe as they do — into oblivion?
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The military works for whoever pays them.
How far the dem party has come from JFK and HHH, hey?
You are aware of the recent (past 5-6 years) Christian purge from the military, no?
As a woman, I agree with you.
Yep, that is why I wrote what I wrote.
Thanks! I know I hate to compete, but I am sure glad that my husband, the developer of my neighborhood, the businesses in my town, and the professionals who services I seek, thrive on competing and being the best.
I am the beneficiary of a strong American competitive society.
WTF!? Its Miss Piggy!
I wrote what was below the line
No score games, giving awards to kids just for showing up, capping how many points a team can win by (if they are allowed to keep score), this generation will not make it in the real world. It is sad. I teach my grandkids common sense whenever I can.
Know Tyranny!
JD Outrider said that!
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