Posted on 09/21/2016 9:09:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama affirmed this week that the Declaration of Independence recognizes that “individual human beings” have “God-given rights.” Yet, he insisted this was a “radical idea” at the time of the founding. […]
“So I recognize a traditional society may value unity and cohesion more than a diverse country like my own,” he said, “which was founded upon what, at the time, was a radical idea — the idea of the liberty of individual human beings endowed with certain God-given rights.”
What would Alexander Hamilton say to that? Or Thomas Jefferson? Or Cicero? Writing in February 1775, a young Hamilton argued that God-given rights and natural law were anciently recognized truths. […] “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records,” he wrote. “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.” …
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Huh? This guy is going full blown loon.. He is seriesly deranged.
He’s making here the same argument the GOP-e makes:
Unity and cohesion as a people don’t apply to America, because it is a proposition not a nation, therefore open borders and cheap foreign labor for the GOP-e and permanent third world voting majority for the Left.
The Founding Fathers understood themselves to be creatures, each one infinitely blessed by their Creator.
Sadly, that deontological tenet has increasingly been usurped by the social doctrines of our times; and this more than any other single factor has caused the incremental destruction we witness daily in our beloved ‘Nation under God’.
Liberty and justice for all cannot possibly be achieved by man. The Founders knew that man is utterly incapable of governing his fellow man justly, without adhering to God’s law. They all understood that the foundations for governmental justice and liberty must stem from the ultimate source of all justice and liberties, id est, Almighty God. A quote from James Madison expressed their beliefs succinctly, “Any country not ruled by the Ten Commandments will be ruled by tyrants.”
June 25, 1962 Engle v. Vitale – The Supreme Court of The United States; led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, officially decided, “Prayer in school breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State.” How I wish we still had patriotic men like James Madison in our Nation’s Capital to bitchslap imbeciles like Justice Warren when necessary! Church and State were to coexist in a nation ruled by Judeo-Christian principles. The erroneous phrasing of ‘separation between Church and State’ altogether subverts the Founders declared purpose - Church was to be separated and exempted from governmental authority, as the Founders simply wanted to prohibit the government from imposing any religion on its citizens. They clearly intended a separation between Church FROM State, and not strictly Church and State.
The Founders envisioned a free republic, and they understood the arbitrary nature and travesty of King James establishing himself by law as de facto caliph in A.D. 1611. The Anglican Church was founded as a State Institution and as such, all subordinates of the King in all his territories were then members of the Church of England, not by choice; but by royal ordinance.
Being visionaries, the Founders recognized the need to guarantee our freedom to worship our Creator independently, and they were also men who publicly invoked God’s help every time they assembled. They did not foresee, nor would they have allowed, the formation of a society that might possibly enact laws forbidding Bibles and prayer.
The Warren court egregiously overstepped their authority by making a mockery of both the balance and scale of their constitutional powers; as well as the Founders’ intent, while disregarding the will of the majority of the American electorate.
The Warren court’s ineptitude (or was it sabotage?) inevitably led the way to future high crimes and misdemeanors. Another flagrant example of judicial treason that has been equally destructive to our Republic was decided just one year later:
June 17, 1963 Murray v. Curlett - “ No State or school board may require passages be read from the Bible or that the Lord’s Prayer be recited in public schools of a State.” Such misinterpretations of law are contradictory to the obvious intent of the Founders, who wanted only to establish a nation under God; a free country governed with common sense, and ruled in accordance with God’s law.
Go, Trump, GO!
Heck.. I am surprised he even admitted that “God” might exist at all!
(Now, there ain’t no doubt in my little head that he believes Allah exists ... Or is at least a useful fiction in controlling and motivating ignorant Muslims into doing what the communists ultimately want. )
To have “God-given rights” it follows that you must first accept the existence of God, something not very popular in intellectual circles nowadays...
Obama, like all good little commies, doesn’t believe in God, so, in his eyes, how could a God give you rights?
Quote:
“Huh? This guy is going full blown loon.. He is seriesly deranged.”
He’s a Marxist tyrant. Of course he’s a loon. And America doesn’t have the guts to impeach him simply because of the color of his skin.
Reduced to a sort of syllogism:
A The Declaration of Independence was good and right.
B The Declaration was radical.
Therefore,
C Radical is good and right.
Did he go to Harvard for that?
What was radical was the notion that governments' only excuse for existence was to secure those rights, and that when they failed to do so their peoples were justified in altering or abolishing them. Totalitarian progressives today find that as uncomfortable as aristocrats did in the late 18th century. They should.
Obama has confused what the Founder believed self-evident, with their purpose, which is stated but ignored by the Leftists, and completely antagonistic to what Obama is advocating at the UN.
[[Obama fails on both counts.]]
Obama fails on all counts expect causing mischief.
Causing mischief is the only thing he does not fail at.
He excels at it.
Actually it was a radical idea.
As was the idea that the government should serve the people rather then the people serve the government.
One ought not omit St. Thomas Aquinas, whose treatises on Natural Law, including in the political realm, are still standard reference works.
He is the sickest, misfit human being, outside of the Clintons and Bushes that I have ever seen set foot on our soil...
There is NOTHING good you can say about this asshat, NOTHING!!!
He also said we will have to surrender freedoms in favor of the global good.
He wants our national sovereignty degraded so that when he job-hops over to the UN he can continue to run American infidels into the ground until we’re a 3rd world ****hole caliphate.
Did he go to Harvard? Yes. But there's evidence that his Saudi benefactors hired people to take his tests and write his papers, so it's not quite sure whether he actually learned anything.
Did he go to Harvard? Yes. But there’s evidence that his Saudi benefactors hired people to take his tests and write his papers, so it’s not quite sure whether he actually learned anything.
Speaking of domestic enemies here’s Barack Obama!
Bull crap you limp-wristed, jug-eared moron... it was not a radical idea idea you POS, it was a GENERALLY ACCEPTED FACT of are Founding Fathers. This POS can not be gone fast enough...
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