Posted on 05/07/2007 2:18:42 PM PDT by enough_idiocy
Thanks for the head’s up. I sent FReepmail to Mark Levin as well.
Ah, but the dems are working on that too.
Democrats’ Unconstitutional Power Grab
by Rep. Tom Price (More by this author)
Posted: 01/23/2007
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will be considering a rule change (H. Res. 78) to allow delegates and non-members of the Houseof which four of five are Democratsto vote in the House of Representatives.
Fresh off a 100-hour agenda that was full of loopholes, fine print, and geared more toward sound bites than sound policy, Democrats are planning to further stack the deck in their favor in the House of Representatives. Tomorrow, House Democrats will change the rules of the House to allow non-members of Congress (serving as delegates from American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the District of Columbia and the resident commissioner from Puerto Rico), the right to vote.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19093
Well, that ties it all together!!!
And it did pass the House.
Who wants to bet that Steny Hoyer and/or his cronies have Guamianian relatives?
I don’t ever want to hear another liberal complain that we don’t have the money for this or that program.
This is so stupid, so incompetent, so ridiculous it will (and should) define congress for decades to come. I would rather dine on hay with horses than sit down at a dinner table with a single member of congress.
When do we start kicking their doors in?
Are you for real?
What the status now?
but wasnt it FDR, their hallowed DEMOCRAT who allegedly KNEW about the pending attack but let it happen so he could have an excuse to enter the war.
If it didn’t, the bill is clearly unconstitutional. As written, it’s probably unconstitutional, but likely can’t be brought to court.
In that case, mention this too: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829795/posts
Oh, nice twist. Good job.
You are right.
Using ‘democrat-logic’ the presence of US forces in Guam mad Guam a ‘target’ for the Japanese. You see? It’s the same thinking that says that Iraq would be a rose garden if only the US forces currently there would just... leave.
Bullsh!t.
Pure and simple bullsh!t.
Please tell me this is some sort of parody, or joke. Please.
You can find the text here:
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/ostasiatische_geschichte/texte/japan/dokumente/19/19510908_treaty.htm
I draw your attention to Article XIV. To make a long story short, the signers of the treaty agreed that Japan would turn over certain assets to the Allied Powers, and that all further claims against Japan would be waived. The details are in the treay.
Why did we do that? Because demanding massive war reparations from Germany under the Treaty of Versailles worked out so well. You may remember the consequences of that brilliant idea by Woodrow Wilson. If not, you can look it up. The United States wanted a free Japan that could be an American ally, not a country burdened by economic troubles that would probably wind up having a revolution and going over to the Communists.
So, among other peoples, Guamians cannot claim compensation for losses from Japan. So the only country that can compensate the Guamians for their WWII losses is the United States, which has somewhat of a moral obligation, since the U.S. signed away the Guamians rights to get compensation from Japan.
That is why this is happening this way. You can agree or disagree that the U.S. should pay this compensation. I'm not interested in arguing either way. So nobody complain to me about it.
I refer you to The Guam Meritorious Claims Act of 1945. I especially draw your attention to the final sentence of Sec. 1 - "Provided further, That any such settlements made by such commissions under the authority of this Act shall be final and conclusive for all purposes, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary."
In short, they already got their money. Why do we need to toss another $162,000,000 at them?
Thanks for this enlightening post. What say you to the post below yours?
“the vote on H.R. 1595 has been postponed until tomorrow.”
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