I took the oath to “support and defend” our Constitution the first time back in 1983. I’ve taken it several times since then (each time I re-enlisted). Now that I am retired I continue to carry a copy of the Constitution in my pocket everywhere I go. I also carry additional copies and give them to others when any subject comes up about the government’s power to do something. I then ask them to find just where in the Constitution it states that the fed has that power.
I’m not sure how many actually read it. I doubt many do as too often people just believe what they are told and are too lazy to find out the facts for themselves. But I know that my children are aware and are not happy with the current states of affairs. I’m proud to say that my father raised me as a patriot and I’ve past it along to my kids.
How quaint.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court even can do much to help it." - Judge Learned Hand
After Thomas Jefferson, in his First Inaugural, had enumerated the principles which would guide his Administration in his First Inaugural, he added:
"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
So-called "progressives" of the 20th and 21st Centuries, in their arrogance, have removed (censored) the Founders' ideas of liberty from America's textbooks, but technology has outstripped their efforts. Every American school child and adult now has potential access to almost every word the Founders' spoke and wrote, and their ideas are being rediscovered and circulated in a manner unheard of even 10 years ago, as if by the hand of Divine Providence. How else can one account for the events of 2010?
Enduring principles, according to the Founders were just that--enduring and "self-evident."
The sacred Rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. - Alexander Hamilton
"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness, as you confess those invaded by the Stamp Act to be. We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us, exist with us, and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives. In short, they are founded on the immutable maxims of reason and justice." - John Dickinson (Signer of the Constitution of the U. S., as quoted in "Our Ageless Constitution, p. 286)
Of the Constitution, and of its own provisions for Amendment in Article V involving actions of "the People" themselves prior to any changes or alterations, Hamilton stated:
"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives [the executive, judiciary, or legislature]; in a departure from it prior to such an act." - Alexander Hamilton
Nothing will change until the party is destroyed.
Tim Dunkin, and a lot of other people are wasting their time.
One either already believes that, or not. Yes, it is that simple.
But the assault on The Constitution has gotten out of hand the last few years, and my deepest fears are now a reality. Seven years ago, I began asking the question: How do we deal with a president gone rogue? Specially if the Congress is either unable or unwilling to impeach him?
We now have the answer to that.
When the Great racial and societal Uniter said "fundamental transformation of the United States of America," I knew he meant ignoring the Constitution (as opposed to amending it.)
If nothing has been done to date to arrest the progress of the totalitarians, it's quite unlikely to happen in the near future.
We are living in interesting times.