Posted on 06/29/2012 10:19:24 AM PDT by listenhillary
Three months ago, I quoted George Jonas on the 30th anniversary of Canada's ghastly "Charter of Rights and Freedoms": "There seems to be an inverse relationship between written instruments of freedom, such as a Charter, and freedom itself," wrote Jonas. "It's as if freedom were too fragile to be put into words: If you write down your rights and freedoms, you lose them."
For longer than one might have expected, the U.S. Constitution was a happy exception to that general rule – until, that is, the contortions required to reconcile a republic of limited government with the ambitions of statism rendered U.S. constitutionalism increasingly absurd.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
A lot of people on testosterone commit crimes! The govt could easily make the case against it and declare it a controlled substance.
(Do I need the sarky? /s )
Just wondering at what point citizen anger will flash....
Brilliant analysis as usual from Mr. Stein.
John Roberts screwed this country over so royally we will likely never recover from his idiocy.
I was in a group once where the speaker asked people to name the person they thought may have been the most intelligent of all recorded in history. At the end he said Da Vinci was generally considered tops but I voted for Ben Franklin and I am still not sure I was wrong. Certainly when it comes to the understanding of human nature he must be very near the top.
(Do I need the sarky? /s )
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Not only do you not need it, in the current corrupt condition of our “government” that does not even qualify as sarcasm but rather should be considered a reasonable observation on future possibilities.
Love Steyn but he must be kidding. It’s never been clearer to me that it is not “down to the people”, it never has been.
Other than electing conservatives to the lower offices. All we have is a inkling of hope we can make Romney do the right thing.
Really? Who is gonna do that..Boehner? McCain? Rove?
I’m encouraging everyone to go on Welfare as a stategic move. Overwhelm the system. If they insist on BIG G’mint than lets all get some!
Up is sideways and green is red, the sky is underground and tomorrow is yesterday......That statement should qualify me to be a Supreme
Up is sideways and green is red, the sky is underground and tomorrow is yesterday......That statement should qualify me to be a Supreme
Here is another excerpt from the same volume as the ". . . Living Constitution" essay cited above:
"It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
"The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?" Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant."
"Herein lies the answer to the question, "Will the Experiment Succeed?"
"It can and will succeed IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people" is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based."
Romney and the Republican had better get on board quickly with providing voters a sharp and distinct set of IDEAS of LIBERTY, and how those ideas contrast with Obama and the Dem's COUNTERFEIT ideas of SLAVERY TO GOVERNMENT AND LOSS OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
The "jobs" argument is the one the Dems want, because it keeps attention off the underlying cause of job loss, which is loss of individual freedom under a cadre of power-hungry political hacks.
You know there is a big disadvantage we have on our side. We attempt to fight fair and over the board.
We are doing battle against people who lie, cheat, steal, propagandize 80% of the media “news” ..Not to mention encourage dead people and illegals to vote and use our system against us.
Hide your money if you have any and go on the g’mint dole and then give the money away to conservative causes...:)
There is no other way, short of a violent over re-taking of our country. I’m saying if Obama gets re-elected or Romney is a Herbert (Star Trek reference).
I did not get a chance to vote against Romney until May. How come Kentucky has to vote last while states that go to the Democrats get to vote first? Put the blame on me. It won't make me care any less.
The TEA Party voting for Romney is like the Sons of Liberty voting for Benedict Arnold because they lost the Revolution.
Our primary is in May, too. Santorum was still on my ballot, so I voted for him, even though he wasn’t in the race anymore. He got quite a few votes in this area, actually, and so did Gingrich.
Not just any Supreme, you could be Diana Ross herself, the chief Supreme. She makes more sense than Roberts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GtyMeEcPPE
There is no legal authority for Congress or USG to direct tax on this manner.
“The present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.”
— Alexander Hamilton (letter to James Bayard, April 1802)
“You know there is a big disadvantage we have on our side. We attempt to fight fair and over the board.
We are doing battle against people who lie, cheat, steal, propagandize 80% of the media “news” ..Not to mention encourage dead people and illegals to vote and use our system against us.”
I couldn’t agree more. I heard a pundit on FOX last night saying how Americans hate a divided govt. and will look at Repubs going after Holder as causing the divide, the old can’t everyone get a long mantra. I say fight fire with fire, no more Mr. Nice Guy mambie-pambie crap a la McCain, that worked out ducky didn’t it? GROW A PAIR ALREADY!!!
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