Posted on 05/03/2012 3:05:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I grew so weary of people trying to sway FReepers that they were throwing their vote away if they didn't vote for Arnold Schwartzenegger in CA's historic gubernatorial Recall Election.
Why do so many wish to become king makers and try to stampede people into climbing on to their bandwagon, instead of voting on principle for someone who is principled???
So many have died defending our right to express our political preferences as individuals see fit, not as some supposed hot-to-trot political operative sheepherder tries to shame/indimidate one to do!!!
Sorry I had to truncate the quote to make it fit my tagline and wish I'd known about it some years ago. Bless you heart for bringing it to everyone's attention!!!
I don’t even want to talk about light bulbs, Fred Upton is the next district over from mine. Hopefully the little emperor will be primaried by the candidate with the funny name. (Jack Hoogendyk)
We may never see all of it turned back in our lifetimes but I would bet that we see Consitutional reforms take hold in our lifetimes... one way or the other... it will happen... and I pray for it daily.
LLS
We three are of like minds.
LLS
How about tossing out any law that has used the so called “commerce clause” to justify it’s constiutionality?
Absolutely. Especially any written in the last 100 years or so anyway.
Thank You SierraWasp for your Kind words
I would be happy if there was a general consensus within the population that “more freedom means you need more personal responsibility”.
Instead we (as a society) seem to think that “freedom MEANS freedom FROM responsibility”.
Take the Drug War. There is a reason we HAD to have a constitutional amendment to ban the sale of alcohol because back when it was passed enough people realized that just any old law passed in congress to ban alcohol nationwide would be un-constitutional and thus they had to MAKE IT PART OF THE CONSTITUTION to make it have effect. Of course it even violated the “Spirit of the Constitution” in that it was an Amendment that limited what the citizens could do and not the government like many other “Progressive Amendments passed around the same time”.
Because of the screwball intepretation of the “Commerce Clause” by the seditious FDR surepeme court over the decision of a farmer to raise wheat in the 70’s they were able to justify the “war on drugs” which while “having good intentions” has done a lot to erode the personal liberty of the large percentage of american who do no use drugs in the first place in the name of the “public good”.
I do not think drugs are good, but I think it is the states responsiblity to deal with it and not the federal governments.
I would be happy if we took the what the average person pays to the state government and what they pay to the federal government and “Flip it around” and then split every federal program except the millitary and national security into 50 pieces and hand them back to the states.
Bring the federal government back to what is prescribed in the constitution and only use Federal millitary assets against foreign powers and NEVER use the Federal millitary against ANY United States citizen.
Also make funding the newly limited federal government on a limited tarif of no more than 10%like it used to be in the “good olde days” before there was the horrible class warfare inciting thing called a “federal progressive income tax”.
Then the liberal states can choke on all their wonderful programs while the states with common sense lead the way in growth and prosperity by cutting all they would like.
I would also give back over 95% of the “federal land” in the western states back to the states themselves. (Federal Millitary bases can stay owned by the Fed, or even better reneted from the states by the federal government in some sorta arrangement).
::::::applause::::::
This is no passing fling. This is a once-in-a-lifetime love.
I am SPEECHLESS with this honor.
Love you, Laz!
Here is what it means to me: Leave me alone. I have work to do, a family to raise, and a G_d to worship. I manage my affairs with justice and forbearance. I don’t need a blasted government except to execute real criminals and control our borders. Go away.
(Best Antonio Bandares accent) No no no.... do not speak... do not spoil this moment.... just kiss me....
That would be terrible! The Declaration of Independence guarantees us free stuff and more. It is our Human Right not to have to work to enjoy our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. How can we pursue happiness if we have to work for stuff?
Catherine, Laz will love you and then leave you. I know of some of his conquests. You should see all the dead bodies he's left behind over these years.
Run Catherine, run!
5.56mm
Yup. The inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, free of government interference or intervention. Self-governance.
In The Rights Of Man, Paine begins his discussion on the creation of the United States Constitution by examining the process that Pennsylvania followed for creating their state constitution.
Paine concludes his review with this description of the behaviors that followed.
From Chapter 4 Of Constitutions:
Here we see a regular process a government issuing out of a constitution, formed by the people in their original character; and that constitution serving, not only as an authority, but as a law of control to the government. It was the political bible of the state. Scarcely a family was without it. Every member of the government had a copy; and nothing was more common, when any debate arose on the principle of a bill, or on the extent of any species of authority, than for the members to take the printed constitution out of their pocket, and read the chapter with which such matter in debate was connected.
That was in 1791. In 2010, we have Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi incredulously questioning "Are you serious? Are you serious?"
-PJ
You had to do Antonio, right? Because I love him.
Well, at least I did before he went all saggy.....
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