Posted on 07/20/2012 8:16:16 PM PDT by neverdem
We have moved from the “Giant sucking sound” to the “Giant gang bang thump sound”. It is incredible how everyday pundits keep acting like the characters in the chainsaw massacre, not minding a bit about what is happening right before their eyes, as if nothing was happening or was about to happen. It’s like the girl who is ignoring she is being lured in the back alley.
Rule of Law-—was eloquently elaborated on by Cicero. The idea that there is a Higher Power—God—is the basis of Rule of Law—so no one is above the Law.
Higher Power was evoked by Martin Luther King, Jr. and at the Nuremberg Trials. What makes Laws “Just”—they HAVE to promote Virtue—as understood by the Nicomachean Ethics—later, in Western Civilization, by Judeo-Christian Ethics. Common Law was created by Christians and it became the basis of our jurisprudence—which eventually became the most perfect legal system in the history of mankind.
John Austin and his ideology ruined American Law. It is promoted in almost all law schools. It now has completely infiltrated our legal system so we get judges who rule by irrational urges—and feelings—and say there is a right to Sodomy-—a VICE!!!! This is absurd, because Higher Law is from God—not Satan. The idea that morality can be separated from law destroys justice and now permeates our legal system.
When Rule of Law is destroyed——by unjust laws—(Laws posited without regard to the Laws of Nature and Reason and Logic) —then tyranny will always result. Cicero witnessed it in Rome and wrote about the injustice which was destroying the civil society. He died for noting the truth.
We should eject all laws that were written after 1912 and return to the philosophy of our Founders and John Marshall and reject the Marxist/Austinian philosophy of the Postmodernists that destroy the meaning and intent of our Constitution. Socialism has to be eliminated. It is fascism and slavery.
Napolitano might be as close as we have to a modern day George Washington.
It may seem quixiotic to propose a constitutional convention, but in the 60s, an effort was made came close to obtaining the permission of two-thirds of the states to command the calling of such permission. I think it was the scotus decision forcing the states to base representation in its upper chambers on population. IAC, it CAN be done if the political will is there. My doubts arise from the complacency in in the reddest of states.
Liberals are blind to the fact that their success is builded on pre-liberal and even anti-liberal foundations. They think that progression” entails the destruction of these foundations. The French Revolution showed what happens if one succeeds in doing this. Church, throne, nobility: the ancient provinces that were virtual countries in themselves, and in their place new foundations built on air, water, fire, but not on earth.
Part of the problem is that even though conservatives are on the right side of every issue, most of the time we concede to liberals.
In retrospect, it really is quite shocking how much personal freedom we have abdicated to the bureaucracy.
The United States really isn’t a free country anymore, and even though some states are more free than others, the federal government still reigns supreme.
It always fascinates me that conservatives can go abroad and have the fortitude to fight Communists and terrorists, but don’t have that same courage and fortitude to fight the Commies and terrorists AKA liberals in own backyard.
In any case, his thinking is antithetical to that of Obama, Pelosi, Reid and —sadly— John Roberts.
The safest would be to start a new third party with truth as its foundation. No more lying to the people. Call it the Tea Party or Truth Party. Unfortunately, running anew political party would not fix the core corruption problem within the US government. And any new party might get corrupted itself while enduring the process.
The next option which I think is less safe then the prior option, would be an orderly secession. Not a historian on the topic, but the south had for all intents and purposes seceded from the north. It was only the attack on a left over still occupied Union fort that started the war. Although I could be wrong on that. At any rate, an orderly secession as the federal government collapses fiscally (ie - runaway monetary inflation) would be theoretically possible.
The next option of course involves more danger. That would be a civil war. Now Civil Wars themselves have been quite common over historic times. In fact, there is one occurring right now in Syria. And it happens to be against a state possessing WMD. Oddly enough the current US leadership supports the rebels in that civil war. This procedure however has always included lots of casualties for both rebels and state defenders. It is the last option that should be chosen - IMHO. Unless of course excitement and payback is what you want.
X2 Ya beat me.
And read this, too
The Communist by Paul Kengor
Agreed ... and he doesn't *think* like them, either! :)
Well, yes, Liberals are quite blind. They are ideologues and devoid of reason.
But they did twist the word Liberal—to mean slavery to the State—like all good Marxists do—they destroy the language—change and twist words so they become devoid of meaning-—like homosexual “marriage”.
Liberals made the words “Patriarchy” and “Hierarchy” evil words, when those two systems of organization are responsible for greatness and power and excellence beyond belief. Such natural and efficient way to set up a civil society.
Marxism creates artificial constructs to organize society which needs totalitarian rule because it is not natural—goes against the nature of man—like their radical egalitarianism which states man is woman is dog is horse. There is no reason.
Political Correctness was established by Mao to control the ideas that the masses were permitted to have.
We need to regain freedom and learn about the true greatness of Western Civ and the goodness of hierarchy and order and nobility and Virtue. The genius of Western Civilization and Christianity was to learn from the past......Liberals/Marxists destroy the past—all knowledge of the greatness. Marxist erase history from the schools, so they can create their ignorant drones who have never heard of Adam Smith and Plato, so believe their lies.
It is a compund government created through a compound process. The state legislatures did not create the federal government. There were special constitutional conventions with representative chosen by the people of each state for that task. That is so that the people would remain the prime authority for the delegation of power. They removed a portion of the power they had delegated to the sovereign states under the Confederation and revested that power with the new federal government.
Charge them with treason.
Our ancestors would have started shooting by now.
As the old DI used to command,"With ball ammunition, lock and load".
As to what I will or will not do is known only by me. I do know from life's experiences that sitting in the stands never won a game.
I can not fault your conclusion because it is an accurate observation of the super majority of today's Americans.
I suggest Andrew start by going over and beating some sense into his evil sister.
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