Posted on 09/25/2010 1:04:09 PM PDT by Palter
Thanks for posting this. I was spitting mad when I read it.
“The Washington Post reports that Colonial Williamsburg has been crowded with tea-partiers, asking the actors who play George Washington and his fellow founders for advice on how to cast off a tyrannical government.”
The Washington Post invented the lie, this jerk passed it on, and morons everywhere will believe it.
Who is more contemptible, I wonder. Or does it matter?
Our founders wrestled with the issue of the presidency more than any other part. That is why they saved that fight for last.
It is the president who has the most responsibility in the defense of the Constitution. As Americans we vote for the president to protect, support and defend our mission statement.
The British author of this piece does not understand how important the Constitution really is. It is the personification and the encapsulation of the idea of liberty.
To him the TEA Partiers are just a bunch of dolts and yahoos. But we understand why those words are so important and why they should be honored and protected.
Our problem is that a president was elected who sees no difference between the Constitution and a roll of toilet paper.
Maybe this Brit should really be asking about Obama's ideas of liberty.
But, then again there would be nothing to write about.
The recent "journo-list" scandal calls all these anonymous columns into question.
There was a fiction that they represented the considered sense of the magazine or some experienced old wise man.
But now we know that they're churned out by propagandists.
Britain most certainly DOES NOT have a Constitution.
Why would you even post this pile of dung? It is not “thought-provoking” or “worthy of discussion”. It’s just, plain CRAP.
The UK does have an ‘unwritten’ constitution made up ‘basic laws’ that are less subject to unnoticed change than our ‘written’ constitution, which has become tabula rasa for lefty judges.
I am reminded yet again of why I no longer read “The Economist”.
The yobs and the elites of Merry Olde England have become indistinguishable.
This is high school level gibberish.
How true. It’s hard enough to understand a woman (not saying the author is, but jus sayin...), but a liberal woman...hopeless. I have to deal with two. Pray for me.
Ditto. This reads like a David Cameron-Tory party take on the Tea Party. Talk about irrelevant.
btt
The perils of ignoring it are far worse. You end up with an oligarchy of people who firmly believe that they can do whatever they want regardless of what the mere mortals want or think.
Brussels doesn’t bother with changing Britain’s laws, they merely disregard them.
I kind of like the one that limits the number of terms a president can have and the one that eliminates slavery. But I definitely believe that the 16th and 17th should be repealed.
...kind of like what we have here now...
Yep. It’s kind like wearing blaze orange on opening day of the hunt.
Wouldn’t it be splendid if all human morals could be summed up in 10 commandments?
Brevity does not indicate any unsuitability of purpose.
Atheists often will point out that the bible doesn't address drug use, nuclear weapons or some other modern-day problem, so using it as your guide to life is pointless. They just don't get it. As the bible offers a guide to dealing with all these issues in a general way that can be easily directed into concrete action by the reader so the U.S. constitution is a guide as to how to conduct our representative democracy.
We've gone far afield from those principles in the last 100 years, something the author tacitly admits. The title of the piece "The perils of constitution-worship" pretty much show the author's British bias and render the rest of the article both predictable and relatively useless, except as an example of why leftists will never understand the Tea Party and the U.S. constitution it is based on. Their loss.
The Economist is a Brit rag. They can’t stand that our forefathers won this nation’s Independence from their sorry asses!
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