Posted on 07/03/2011 5:45:40 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Time: Does It Matter? No, not in the least. Completely WRONG; about everything. FAIL.
TIME SUCKS.
Perhaps we should treat the Constitution like the muzzies treat the “Holy Quran”—you mess with it, we keel you!
Another claim to the moral high ground, brought to you by the "new" gnostic generation at Time magazine. After all, THEY know better than you and I.
Yes, TIME truly sucks!
If there were ever a magazine that deserves to go out of business, it is TIME.
That picture is just about every liberal’s fantasy regarding the Constitution (just as long as the 1st Amendment is snipped out and kept).
TIME will probably make that cover photo into a print suitable for hanging—the X-mas gift on every liberal’s list!
The question on the cover page asks, "Does the [constitution} still matter?"
The question is framed in such a way as to presume that the falsehood is correct and you are forced to defend the accusation as if it were true.
In other words, have you stopped beating your wife yet? Typical pinko commie BS!
Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Jeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
The problem we have is that our Constitution was very carefully and effectively designed to create a dysfunctional government, one that would have great trouble doing much of anything. That’s the whole point behind checks and balances and all that.
It works reasonably well as long as what the government is trying to do is limited in scope.
However, in recent decades many if not perhaps most Americans want the government to do much more, similar to the activist governments of Europe and elsewhere.
But the Constitution prevents this from being done efficiently, so the government responds by rewriting the Constitution by judicial fiat or by just ignoring it.
I suggest we either ought to redesign our Constitution to one suited to an activist government (as we are allowed to do by the Constitution itself) or return to a minimalist government role in society. This half and half stuff is quite literally killing us.
Apparently, to Time, and to liberals, the constitution should be completely flexible to allow whatever seems to be the popular and important issue or feeling of the day. That would be a recipe for chaos.
A constitution without meaning, and which can be redrawn according to the latest agenda, is no constitution at all.
If we want to end up a country without laws, or laws that can be bent depending upon the latest wishes of whoever is in power at the moment, then the constitution should be declared without value, and we can declare ourselves Somalia West.
The flag of the U. S. will use cloths of color, red, white and blue, be of a specific dimension and be governed by certain rules of display; but the red, white and blue will each have their own distinct meanings.
You stated that very well.
Over the years our elected leaders have let us down and have flipped the entire document. The Fed has taken all the things they were only suppose to protect.
Time is merely justifying what already is.
“A constitution without meaning, and which can be redrawn according to the latest agenda, is no constitution at all.”
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Exactly and that is what the left insists on, that the constitution be reduced to a list of suggestions, to be followed or disregarded as the occasion warrants, a “living, breathing document” to be quoted and respected when it suits the whim of the left and to be laughed at and scorned when it does not.
What clown is so foolish as to actually believe that the founders of this nation spent day after laborious day haggling over every word and then threw in a clause or two that effectively reduce the whole thing to, “If the above does not suit you then do as you please”. It would truly require an imbecile to believe such.
Of course, to those graduates of latter day schools whose knowledge of history and government is comparable to that of a striped house cat it may seem plausible. He who cannot see a distinction between a state law requiring those who desire to own and operate an automobile to purchase insurance protecting others from the financial costs of their errors and a federal law requiring those who want to live and breath to purchase insurance to protect them from medical bills if they should require a physician, even if they have sworn an oath never to use the services of a physician, cannot distinguish between daylight and darkness.
They care nothing about the first amendment. It is a convenient tool, nothing more.
Ann Coulter said it best when she said “The First Amendment is just a one-way ratchet for liberals and traitors.”
(Who are the "bitter clingers" again? And it was their hero, Mao, who opined that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.")
Cheers!
Yes the constitution still matters...... Time magazine does not matter!!! It was bought for one dollar.
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