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Justice Kennedy compares gay marriage uproar to flag burning
U.S. News and World Report ^ | July 15, 2015 | ELLIOT SPAGAT

Posted on 07/16/2015 1:42:26 PM PDT by fifedom

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To: fifedom

He should be retired. His brain is compromised.


41 posted on 07/16/2015 4:14:27 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Justice Kennedy had “help” with legalizing gay marriage imo.

More specifically, not only are activist justices indirectly protected by the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, corrupt senators not only confirming such justices to the bench, but also not willing to remove them for perverting the Constitution, but also consider the following.

If parents were making sure that their children were being taught the Constitution as constitutional lawmakers had intended for it to be understood, then pro-gay activist justices possibly wouldn’t have tried to legalize gay marriage outside the framework of the Constitution.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and activist justices along with it.


42 posted on 07/16/2015 5:00:40 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: fifedom
Kennedy is delusional if he thinks the conservative half of America has any trust in the Supremes.

These are the only Supremes I'm willing to trust...


43 posted on 07/16/2015 5:03:47 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Amendment10

Justice Kennedy also reminds me of Ronald Reagan chopping wood (a great past-time for him) and not doing his judicial homework.


44 posted on 07/16/2015 5:06:26 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: fifedom

Hold onto your hat, “justice” Kennedy. You may lose your head as fed-up Americans go full-bore French-style revolution on your worthless, fascist a$$.


45 posted on 07/16/2015 5:07:34 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: fifedom

Justice Kennedy: Does this black robe make me look more intelligent?


46 posted on 07/16/2015 5:10:22 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: DoughtyOne

I stopped thinking a long time ago that some of them are stupid, liberal, incompetent, statists.

I realized I was giving them way too much credit.


47 posted on 07/16/2015 5:14:52 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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To: fifedom

I would not trust Kennedy with the sense to take care of my cats.

He wrecked our society and now wants the trust and respect the Supreme Court once had back again? Wait until Americans get a load of the huge pedo faction in the special rights crowd Kennedy has unleashed on Americans.

God will decide how much trust this supreme pervert will receive. As a human, I don’t trust him and don’t have a pin head of respect for him. He betrayed our country to please mentally ill sex perverts and turned them loose on us, our families and our children.


48 posted on 07/16/2015 5:16:53 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: fifedom

Trust? Trust a branch of government that effectively reversed the relationship between the government and the governed? In our system, power is supposed to flow from the people to the state and federal governments, not flow from the federal government down onto the heads of the the governed. When the Supreme Court presumes to overturn the will of the people it is rendering our form of government illegitimate, period. As far spending trust, they went bankrupt at the Roe decision, and have done naught but deficit spend since. The judicial branch at this point is properly characterized as a disguised legislative branch that currently is accountable to no one, and the idea of a disinterested independent judiciary is a myth.


49 posted on 07/16/2015 5:56:47 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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Trust a branch of government that effectively reversed the relationship between the government and the governed? In our system, power is supposed to flow from the people to the state and federal governments, not flow from the federal government down onto the heads of the the governed.

That reversal happened with the 14th Amendment.

50 posted on 07/16/2015 7:42:06 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: fifedom

Kennedy really makes me wish Doug Ginsberg had given up pot in the 1970’s.


51 posted on 07/16/2015 7:44:38 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: fifedom

i wonder how he feels about lynch mobs.


52 posted on 07/16/2015 8:00:01 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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To: fifedom

It would be interesting to go back into Kennedy’s background, to include family background, and guess what drives this. My guess to begin with is that military service within the family is shallow or nonexistent.


53 posted on 07/17/2015 3:39:35 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: fifedom
Wait. Flag burning is a good thing. Right?

I mean, as long as it's an American flag, Comrade Kennedy?

54 posted on 07/17/2015 6:07:53 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: fifedom

Don’t you mean hes bankrupt of morality and legitimacy.

You don’t spend trust by caring out clearly illegal usurpation in the name of ideology. you destroy such trust and legitimacy by demonstrating your compete disregard for the Text and history of the law as practiced for 200 years.

You can’t rebuild trust while retaining such a lawless habit practice. The law is not a bank account it either means what it says and has been practiced as for 200 years or it is just a piece of paper. Kennedy must be removed from the court as a lawless oligarch. There is No law while he sits on that bench.


55 posted on 07/17/2015 5:57:06 PM PDT by Monorprise
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“That reversal happened with the 14th Amendment.”

The 14th Amendment has proven deasterous to federalism as many of its oppoents feared and supporters argued. But were it upheld as those who radifed it understood it would pose no such debasing of our Federal Constitutional republic.

Instead it’s clauses have been rewritten as a source of limitless power by the Federal employees in black robes. To be honest can you really blame the Amendment or the self-serving Federal employees who rewrote it?

Either way the practical fact is the Federal Constitution is meaningless paper and the Federal Constitutional republic is dead as a result. We need to find away to break free of this tyranny, for the survival and freedom of ourselfs and our posterity not continue to fight over how and why it fell. Althou that is important to building a new republic to replace the tyranny that now exist in the ashes of the Constitution.


56 posted on 07/17/2015 6:01:54 PM PDT by Monorprise
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>>>We spend that capital of trust, and we have to rebuild that capital. We have to put new deposits, new substance into this reservoir of trust<<<

Sounds like something Chauncey Gardiner would say in Being There.


57 posted on 07/17/2015 6:02:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (I know I left my Tagline around here somewhere...)
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“It would be interesting to go back into Kennedy’s background, to include family background, and guess what drives this. My guess to begin with is that military service within the family is shallow or nonexistent.”

My guess is its the corruption of power and the “new friends” that come with such power in Washington D.C.

Kennedy looks to me like a irresponsible liberal who on constitution issues sees the temptation to express his imagination driven by leftist around him upon a blank canvas.

That of course that is exactly the problem that ‘canvass’ on which he draws his imaginary world is our 200 year old Constitution, and the lives of every one who lives under it. He is as such acting as a dictator in redrawing the map not a judge, and must be stoped.


58 posted on 07/17/2015 6:07:35 PM PDT by Monorprise
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The 14th Amendment has proven deasterous to federalism as many of its oppoents feared and supporters argued. But were it upheld as those who radifed it understood it would pose no such debasing of our Federal Constitutional republic. ...To be honest can you really blame the Amendment or the self-serving Federal employees who rewrote it?

I definitely blame the Amendment and those who wrote and ratified it - although in fact it was never legally ratified.

In any event, it set up conditions contrary to the jurisdictional structure of the original constitution. Directly opposite, in fact, as the only way it can be interpreted is as positive law. However, the Constitution in its original form is negative law. Therefore, the Supreme Court was tasked to rule on its legitimacy, because it could not contradict the jurisdiction of the original Constitutional.

What they did, therefore, is state that the "person" of the 14th Amendment was either a contradiction of "the People," or it was something else altogether. And, as another legal structure did in fact exist, that of the corporation, they ruled that the "person" of the 14th Amendment must therefore be a "corporate person." And such a person, being corporate, was therefore in possession of limited privileges specified by the government through positive law, just as corporations are.

The vileness, however, was in the used of the word "person," because it caused an absolutely demonic level of confusion between a non-corporate human being of the original Constitution in possession of God-given rights under common law, and a corporate "person" of limited government-granted privilege under statutory law.

Hiding that difference, and the vastly different worlds of law that apply to each, has been the fundamental, abiding, maniacal, and evil effort of law professor, every lawyer, every judge, every politician, every bureaucrat, and every cop since it was developed. That ALL know this difference. They have to, to do their jobs. But they live in a world split cleanly in tow - those who know, and those who don't. And as far as they're concerned, never the twain shall meet.

And by the way, EVERY "law" passed that is destroying this country is based on corporate law, positive law, against corporate persons under the 14th Amendment. Every. Single. One.

Which means all the American People have to do is address this issue, demand Congress create a way to force the Courts to acknowledge the difference, and stop the government from applying corporate laws to the non-corporate People against whom they don't apply.

Only problem? The American People can't be bothered to learn any of this. It doesn't even have to be hidden anymore - everyone's sold out. They simply don't give a damn - at all.

That's why Benjamin Franklin said they had created "a Republic - if you can keep it." And Linclon called America the "great experiment." Because they knew freedom might NOT be what everyone really wanted, and as a result, when it came right down to it, they might throw it away of their own free will.

And that's exactly what's happening today all around us.

59 posted on 07/17/2015 7:25:32 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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