Senior Citizen Activist Jailed For Internet Rant

Newsbytes via Rense ^ | Michael Bartlett

[Kerberos]

“There will always be disputes over what it means, because it often serves someone's agenda that it mean something different.”

True, and that is the nature of law and courts. It is an adversarial process of two people with different opinions as to what a particular piece of law means, and one side convincing a third party that their interpretation is correct.

So the question becomes how did we get to the point where today the law says that there is a question as to weather a person has a right to own a firearm, and get back to the point where it is a given truism that an individual has a right to own a firearm? It certainly will take a lot more than reading a piece of text from the Constitution and proclaiming this is what it means.

The Court should confirm the obvious instead of splitting hairs similar to Clinton's depending what "is" is,”

Unfortunately, with language not being a real precise tool, what may seem obvious to one person, may not be so obvious to another. Or as some people like to employ, the “common sense” argument, which in essence means you have no argument.

And let’s not get too critically of Bill’s ability to parse words, and don’t get me wrong, I think the boy should be tried for treason against his country, but am resigned to the fact that it will never happen. But he had that skill very highly developed and made it work well for him. We could stand to get better at it ourselves to advance our objectives.

[MadameAxe]

Here in California, the Libertarian Party opposed Proposition 187, which would have discontinued most state benefits to illegal aliens.

I didn't say "all". And, since I don't know the particulars of the bill as I do not live in your state, I don't know why they opposed it, but I doubt if the explanation is as simple as you claim.

How many Libertarians on this thread have expressed opposition to this British foreign national's attempt to coerce his way back into federally subsidized housing?

I don't really know. I just came in on flags and haven't read the rest of the posts. I didn't notice anywhere in the article that said anything about the housing being federally subsidized. And, the guy sounds like a jerk. I don't see the point of throwing him in jail based on the details of this story though.