Whatcha gonna DO about it??
Posted on 03/12/2023 9:57:56 AM PDT by artichokegrower
"Parents livid over California school's 'mandatory' drag show"
Regarding understandably angry parents, the question of the century is this. Why aren't House majority, so-called "MAGA Republicans" doing their constitutionally enumerated duty to guarantee each state a republican form of government by introducing legislation to protect the voting power of parents paying to run public schools?
The legislation will do this by enforcing the due process of the wrongly ignored 12th Amendment (12A) and Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A) which was drafted specifically to protect ordinary qualified citizen voters from vote-counting fraud.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
Excerpted from 12A:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added], ..."
"14th Amendment, Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Apportionment of Representatives]
Regarding Section 2 of 14A above, consider that the post-Civil War congressional Republicans who drafted Section 2 made it to discourage Southern Democrats (my words) from rigging the ballot boxes that Democrats are now alleged to have done for 2020, 2022 and possibly earlier elections!
"Because slavery (except as punishment for crime) had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, the freed slaves would henceforth be given full weight for purposes of apportionment. This situation was a concern to the Republican leadership of Congress, who worried that it would increase the political power of the former slave states, even as such states continued to deny freed slaves the right to vote." —Apportionment of Representatives
Trump's primarying of career state and federal lawmakers in 2022 was hopefully just for practice. He needs to do it again in 2024 so he can hopefully win Oval Office with new round of MAGA Republicans in Congress.
Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people under their boots?
The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...
All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.
If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.
In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.
Again, Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.
The US has collapsed.
My first question is what party does she vote for? If it’s Democrat she really needs to sit down and STFU.........
Yeah, no bias, there.
Whatcha gonna DO about it??
...and lost luggage; too!
Can't, we're all transgender now.....and our enemy's know it.
Asking people to pledge allegiance to a flag is ridiculous. I took a much more meaningful Oath, and it never mentioned a flag.
Dream on. It will take a shooting civil war to set things aright. That will never happen. All they need to do is take their time, and let the old folks die. All of the young ones have been fully indoctrinated already. They are the ones who will work against your every peaceful move.
I think so too. It will never be like it once was.
isn’t this the veritable definition of shoving it down their throat?
The parents do not need to send their kids to this.
The predators must be forced back into their respective lanes.
"Dream on. It will take a shooting civil war to set things aright. That will never happen. [...]"
All it will take for 16&17A to be repealed is for concerned citizens to do the following.
Citizens need to get their constitutionally clueless state government leaders up to speed with the constitutional reality that most of the federal taxes that people pay are constitutionally indefensible imo, taxes that post-17A ratification Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Repealing 16&17A will eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues.
Once 16&17A are gone, the states will ultimately find new revenues to raise teacher salaries for starters, same for police and firefighters for example.
The states will also no longer need to beg feds for funding (stolen state revenues) for infrastructure or repair of infrastructure.
In fact, consider that Justice Louis Brandeis had reflected on Bingham's words from congressional record (above) when he introduced his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to emphasize the 10A-protected power of the states to serve the people, ultimately depending on what state-based social spending programs the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
Sue them, parents!!!!
When I was a kid I had terrorizing fear of clowns, if I saw a clown even on TV I would freak out and let me say, if I was in school and that thing in the photo stepped into my class, I would have absolutely lost it. Even now it looks like a monster to me.
These are great.
How can any sane person think this stuff is O.K.?
There’s still a line some won’t cross.
To government indoctrination centers (aka GICs)? Yes. Boycott them!
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