Posted on 05/27/2020 11:03:03 PM PDT by knighthawk
“Every single one of the Bill or Rights has been abridged.”
The Patriot Act was the creation of a Republican President, passed by a Republican Congress, and upheld by a Supreme Court with a majority of the justices appointed by Republican presidents.
The Kelo decision by the Supreme Court, which gutted protections for private property, was made possible by two justices appointed by Republican presidents — Kennedy and Souter.
Obamacare and its mandate forcing people to pay a “tax” (construed by Chief Justice Roberts) to big corporate medical insurance companies, was enshrined into law by a Chief Justice appointed by a Republican president. The failure to repeal Obamacare in Congress was made possible by the no votes of GOP Senators McCain, Collins and Murkowski.
Legalized abortion on demand was the gift of Supreme Court Justice Blackman, appointed by GOP President Richard Nixon.
Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney. The duo picked by the GOP to run for VP and president in 2012 actively worked to thwart real conservative legislation in Congress after 2012.
One sided free trade legislation, that gutted American industry, was the primary achievement of GOP President George H W Bush and supported strongly, for decades, by GOP members of Congress.
Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee GOP Senator Richard Burr led an oversight investigation of the intelligence community. The recent report was an almost complete whitewash. But it was “bipartisan.
GOP Senator Lindsay Graham insists his committee is going to investigate many troubling issues. Count on it.
When Republicans have held the executive branch, and both houses of Congress, how many pieces of meaningful legislation were passed and signed to roll back the oppressive state?
How many times has GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate in the past 3 1/2 years so President Trump could make recess appointments of qualified candidates for appointed office being blocked by Democrats?
Democrats bad, Republicans good. Vote GOP. Republicans will protect and preserve your liberty.
III Amendment, maybe?
Our county sheriff here in Riverside County Ca stated a few weeks ago that he was not going to be enforcing any of the state ordered shutdown mandates. He said he feels they violate our constitutional rights. America needs to elect more sheriffs like him.
Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut
Well duh.
Where the hell is Barr?
He wrote a "memo" to his beloved "Justice" Dept heroes, telling them to "be on the lookout" for violations of our rights.
Have the "Justice" Dept warriors found anything yet? Perhaps they could start by reading the news.
But this is what I expect from Bagpipes Barr - the man who said that Epstein committed "suicide" in his cell, and concluded that the multiple cameras in Epstein's cell all must have failed simultaneously.
I am waiting for the President to do something to put a stop to this madness. I sure hope he has some sort of plan, because right now I don't see it.
Well we are open here. You guys ought to try it.
Seems like we are getting a fair number of Chinese on FR.
Part of the problem is the time it takes to get things before any court. In this covid situation governors know that it takes way more than 120 days to get a case before any court. So by that time all these cases become moot because they will remove the restrictions thus opening society in their state. So they get away with it. Even if they charge and fine someone they will vacate those actions before the supreme court can make a ruling . So the next time this same thing will happen again. The second go round may well trigger more forceful resistance as it should.
There are many things that government has no right to do, but it does. Most of the sheepish public doesn’t see a problem.
It has no right to close businesses or to arrest people for walking “too close.” It has no right to set a minimum or maximum hourly rate of pay. And many others.
Are you in MA.? I just told my husband that I’m amazed at how the people in this state have blindly followed the edicts of Baker and Walsh. Friends of mine ,that are so called Conservatives, say to me “but haven’t you seen how many deaths and cases we have in the state”. They’re all scared to death. Meanwhile the Lt. Governor parties at her estate and nothing in the state is moving.
Not me. I helped organize a ReOpen rally in my hometown last weekend. I was even on stage calling for the state to reopen. My wife and I knew the if the state police arrived, she’d have to bail me out.
(no worries with local police. There was one assigned to our rally and she told me she completely supported us)
Constitutionally, this is our hill to die on.
Our Governor (Larry Hogan) has devolved into being a pure idiot. He’s ruling from fear rather than governing from confidence. He had another speech on TV yesterday talking about the next stage of freedom he’s allowing us. It sounded OK, but then we read the fine print in the actual order. What an absolute joke.
Our Sheriff said about the same thing. They have only cited one person for breaking the Stay at Home order.
They added it to his felony burglary charge just because.
The problem is the small businesses and restaurants. They are being strangled and people life savings are squandered by force.
40,000,000 unemployed for a disease with a toll of 100,000?
The governor gave authority to County Executives to open as they see fit (the fine print said they couldn’t go beyond the governors limits)
Our County Executive is showing himself to be a man of limited character. “The Governor said I can’t do that.” “It’s a state road, I can’t block it to have outdoor street seating.”
Our response to him in writing has been “Do it anyway.” Make the Governor arrest you. Guess what? you’ll be seen as a hero and get more votes.
But he’s another one whos afraid of the power of the state.
Republicans AND Democrats are at fault for the government over reach.
Republicans will rationalize their big centralized government and usurping of the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism, spies or foreign nation states.
Democrats will rationalize their big centralized government and usurping of the Constitution in the name social justice (egalitarianism) and the environment.
Slavery died in December 1865.
Federalism died in April 1913.
Neither are fantasies; they just no longer exist in the US.
Not one.
Warrantless searches. Trials without jury. Secret courts. De facto gun control. Free speech zones. No privacy.
Let me ask you this, when the government by decree decides to close all the churches and enforce social distancing rules, what Constitutional tenet was that based on? The right to assemble? Freedom of religion?
Not one.
When there were toilet paper shortages, the national archives should have allowed some lucky person to use the Constitution to wipe their ass with, it would have at least then served a purpose and been relevant today.
The Senate no longer represented the states after the 17th.
Nope. I lived in Hawaii. The conservatives here are not that aggressive compare to mainland. I feel for you though. Hawaii has one of the most obedient people in U.S.
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