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A Backdoor Approach to Calling an Article V Convention By David Super
Proponents of calling an Article V
convention certainly have hit a rough stretch.
In 2017, the most prominent of these groups, the Balanced Budget
Amendment (BBA) Task Force, secured three new state resolutions asking Congress
to call a convention under Article V, but three other states rescinded old
resolutions seeking a convention. In 2018,
neither the BBA Task Force nor the Convention of the States Project (COSP)
secured a single new state resolution calling for an Article V convention. Several states with Republican majorities in both
chambers of their legislatures buried or voted down convention resolutions.
In addition, a third group seeking
an Article V convention to reduce federal powers, the Compact for America,
released a legal analysis showing that many of the state resolutions from the 1970s and 1980s,
which the Task Force includes in its optimistic count of states, have divergent
and often inconsistent language from the BBA Task Force’s newer
resolutions. The American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC), which has heavily supported the BBA Task Force and COSP, ejected
the Compact from its meetings, but with a pro-convention group admitting the
validity of arguments that liberal and conservative Article V opponents have
long made, the BBA Task Force’s claims are increasingly difficult to defend to
serious observers.
One might imagine that this would
cause funders to flee and leaders of these groups to engage in some
introspection. Instead, the pro-Article V
groups are responding to these setbacks by trying to move the goalposts. This suggests that, if next week’s elections yield
pro-Article V majorities in both houses, we could easily see an Article V
convention without Article V’s prerequisites being met.
Former law professor Rob Natelson,
a long-time spokesperson for those advocating an Article V convention to limit
federal powers, wrote for the Federalist Society this Spring claiming that the BBA Task Force has understated the number of resolutions in
force. Offering little explanation for why he
has not made this claim over the many years he has been working with the BBA
Task Force, Prof. Natelson identified some old state resolutions seeking an
Article V convention and argued that, because he believes they are not facially
inconsistent with considering a balanced budget amendment, they should be
aggregated with the old and new BBA resolutions that the Task Force has been
counting.
This methodology led Professor
Natelson to conclude that 33 states have active resolutions, one short of the 34
that would trigger the calling of a convention.
This creates the prospect that if a single additional state passes an
Article V resolution, the BBA Task Force will demand that its allies in Congress
convene an Article V convention. Given the BBA
Task Force’s strong ties to ALEC and major Republican donors, Republican
senators and representatives would find these demands would difficult to brush
aside. Although a few Republicans – notably
Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, one of the most conservative in Congress – staunchly oppose
calling an Article V convention, proponents would only have to pick up a handful
of naïve
Democrats to open up the Constitution to moneyed special interest groups’
wildest fantasies. Even if Democrats retake
one or both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, a coalition of pro-convention
Democrats and Republicans could bring a resolution to call an Article V
convention to the floor with a discharge
petition.
Professor Natelson’s idea for
adding five states to the Article V tally without any state legislative action
would be alarming enough by itself, but it turned out that he was not
finished. A few months, later, he went further
and claimed that several states’ rescissions of previous Article V resolutions are
not valid. He disagrees with statements made
in the preambles to the rescissions and suggests that these “errors” might
render the resolutions invalid on the grounds of “mistake.” He urges Congress “to weigh whether or not to count
purported rescissions flawed by material mistakes.”
It appears that in Prof. Natelson’s
view, a state legislature commits a mistake almost any time it departs from
Article V advocates’ talking points. For
example, he criticizes six states for referring to an Article V convention as a
“constitutional convention”. Article V
advocates prefer the euphemistic “convention of the states”. Neither term is in Article V, but as
“constitutional” is an adjective defined as “of
or relating to the constitution,” it is difficult to see why a convention whose
business is changing the Constitution is not a “constitutional convention”. He similarly faults five states for preambles
expressing concern that an Article V convention could stray to topics
far-removed from those motivating states to ask that it could be called. Article V advocates strenuously insist that such a
“runaway” convention would not occur, but nothing in the Constitution imposes
any limits on such a convention and it is unlikely that the Supreme Court would enforce such limits even if they
existed.
Needless to say, Prof. Natelson’s
theory of mistake would destabilize the entire legislative process. By this logic, a future president could disregard
the December 2017 tax cut legislation because Congress mistakenly believed that the tax cuts would pay for themselves and not add to the deficit. Congress certainly operated under
plenty of misconceptions when it passed the USA PATRIOT Act; do those mistakes
render that legislation invalid?
Prof. Natelson apparently sees no
irony in claiming to champion returning power to the states while suggesting
that Congress may disregard state legislatures’ actions when it regards those
legislatures as misinformed. If Congress was
empowered to “correct” state legislatures’ discharge of matters clearly within
their purview, states would no longer be sovereign.
It would be easy to dismiss Prof.
Natelson were he not so central to the efforts of both the BBA Task Force and COSP
as well as the enormously powerful ALEC. It seems unlikely that he would be
undermining his credibility with these extreme positions were those groups not
seriously contemplating an attempt to get Congress to make an end run around
state legislatures without the required 34 valid resolutions. None of these groups appears to have made any effort
to distance themselves from Prof. Natelson’s views.
This also puts to rest, once and
for all, the notion that advocates of an Article V convention somehow represent
a principled departure from politics as usual.
If they are open to disregarding the constitutional prerequisite of 34
state resolutions prior to the calling of an Article V convention, no one should
expect that they will respect Article V’s requirement that 38 states ratify any
proposed constitutional amendments before they take effect. And they certainly will not respect state
resolutions purporting to control convention delegates or their own promises
about limiting the scope of an Article V convention.
The effort to call an Article V
convention is not about aspirations for a better country. Instead, it is very much an extension of the
single-minded, bare-knuckles, brand of interest-group politics that has
dominated in recent years. The only difference
is that the stakes are even greater.
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Inconvenient Truth #1336: by Michael G.
Here's a saying you don't hear anymore: "Okay, let's keep an open mind while we discuss and evaluate this....."
What exactly is an "open mind"? I suspect it used to mean not "jumping to conclusions" before all sides of the situation are exposed, kicked around, reviewed, discussed, evaluated, filtered, and titrated down to reasonable truths before deriving at a clearly identified problem and potential solutions. Kind of like upon what the judicial system was originally predicated.
I'm pretty sure that's NOT what it means today and that's why it's no longer used. Think about how many processes we no longer employ in our current society. How about "the scientific method"? It has been abandoned simply because it does not support the theory that if the empirical data and outcome do not fit the theory, contrive a new theory and test again until theory and outcome match. Instead, today we change the process so that theory and data match the desired outcome - the means justify the end.
What happened to the "open mind"? We no longer observe with peripheral vision, we use a myopic Kaleidoscope. We view our world using the center cardboard tube in a paper towel roll; if it's not in our field of view, it doesn't exist. THESE are the meek who are inheriting the earth. If it can't be based on MY emotional understanding, it's unnecessary, untrue and must be ignored or destroyed. How's that going for us?
We watched a college football game yesterday. Actually, I watched the crowd of spectators in the stands. What is it about humanity that says wildly yelling and screaming, hooting and hollering, at a "sporting event" is acceptable behavior for sentient beings? We go into a "board meeting" or a courtroom or stand in line at the grocery store and are expected to act dignified and orderly and civil and then we put on outrageous clothing and costumes and act with total abandon while other people perform acts of, shit, I don't know what, in front of us. I literally, and perfectly, don't get it. We raise and praise there adeptness at physical stunts practiced over and over with mindless repetition while other people literally starve or are kidnapped for sex slave rings or crap on the streets we walk. We pay homage to the gods of sport with hard earned currency, anointing them with "celebrity" status while our world crumbles around us, reducing itself to the primordial bog from which many believe we came.
We listen to these celebrity's of insanity that we've created as though they are sages on the mount. We raise and praise them for their cosmic understanding. We are the crowds of spectators in the stands of life. We go to Home Depot and ask for advice from the same guys who flip burgers at Mickey D's and are working at Home Depot as a second job. How insane is that? Seeking construction advise from the guy who wants to know if you want cheese on that burger. Celebrity's.
Now, think about our professional "politicians". You know, like Maxine Waters, or Diane Feinstein, or Nancy Pelosi, or any of the other multitude of useless bog crawlers who couldn't boil water but have figured out how to bleed our society dry. How does it make you feel to know that you belong to the team of enablers that keep these people in power? The team of We The People of the United States of America. We are now electing people into our governing bodies who operate by Sharia Law, not the U.S. Constitution. I think Obama's "Hope and Change" thingy is finally coming to pass.
It's going to get a whole lot more ugly before "a change is gunna come"......a change of any significance.
- Michael G.
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Clinton Foundation
Credit Doreen Appugliese Piro for compiling this:
Read this. It explains all.
“From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been empaneled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared.
Hmmm, now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Guess who took over this investigation in 2002?
Bet you can’t guess.
No other than James “Wassup Homey” Comey.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was transferred in to the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS?
Your friend and mine, our favorite person in the whole world if you are a Tea Party Member, Pro-Life or a True the Vote supporter……. ding, ding, ding, ding Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
It gets better, well not really, but I am sure this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this timeframe???
I know, it’s a miracle, just a coincidence, just an anomaly in statistics and chances, Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Now that’s just a coincidence, right?
Ok, lets chalk the last one up to mere chance.
Let’s fast forward to 2009, shall we?
James “Wassup Homey” Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, on her own personal email server by the way.
The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hildabeast.
Like all good public servants do, you know looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.
Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, the People got absolutely nothing out of it.
However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Arkansas Bill goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.
Ok, no big deal right?
Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.
Guess who was the FBI Director during this timeframe?
Yep, Robert Mueller.
He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.
Guess who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland.
No other than, Rod Rosenstein.
Guess what happened to the informant?
The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.
Interesting, huh?
How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?
Guess what happened soon after the sale was approved?
~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal.
Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division?
No other than, Lois “BOLO” Lerner.
Interesting, huh?
Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?
Let’s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hildabeast ran the State Department on a unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.
He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law.
He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.
I will spare you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for the Hildabeast.
Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013?
Guess who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer.
No other than James “Wassup Homey” Comey.
Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh?
Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and exonerates her.
Nope couldn’t find any crimes there.
Can you guess what happened next?
In April 2016, James “Wassup Homey” Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy.
They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury.
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Homey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hildabeast from any wrongdoing.
Can you see the pattern?
I could go on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.
FISA Abuse, political espionage..... pick a crime, any crime, chances are...... this group and a few others did it.
Rosensteins wife represented these criminals mueller 3
Comey 5
Bill40
Hillary 17
Obama 45
All the same players.
All compromised and conflicted.
All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves.
All connected in one way or another to the Clinton's.
They are like battery acid, they corrode and corrupt everything they touch.
How many lives have these two destroyed?
It cannot be numbered.
As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the IRS.
Read this. It explains all.
“From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been empaneled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared.
Hmmm, now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Guess who took over this investigation in 2002?
Bet you can’t guess.
No other than James “Wassup Homey” Comey.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was transferred in to the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS?
Your friend and mine, our favorite person in the whole world if you are a Tea Party Member, Pro-Life or a True the Vote supporter……. ding, ding, ding, ding Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
It gets better, well not really, but I am sure this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this timeframe???
I know, it’s a miracle, just a coincidence, just an anomaly in statistics and chances, Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Now that’s just a coincidence, right?
Ok, lets chalk the last one up to mere chance.
Let’s fast forward to 2009, shall we?
James “Wassup Homey” Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, on her own personal email server by the way.
The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hildabeast.
Like all good public servants do, you know looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.
Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, the People got absolutely nothing out of it.
However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Arkansas Bill goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.
Ok, no big deal right?
Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.
Guess who was the FBI Director during this timeframe?
Yep, Robert Mueller.
He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.
Guess who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland.
No other than, Rod Rosenstein.
Guess what happened to the informant?
The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.
Interesting, huh?
How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?
Guess what happened soon after the sale was approved?
~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal.
Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division?
No other than, Lois “BOLO” Lerner.
Interesting, huh?
Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?
Let’s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hildabeast ran the State Department on a unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.
He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law.
He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.
I will spare you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for the Hildabeast.
Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013?
Guess who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer.
No other than James “Wassup Homey” Comey.
Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh?
Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and exonerates her.
Nope couldn’t find any crimes there.
Can you guess what happened next?
In April 2016, James “Wassup Homey” Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy.
They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury.
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Homey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hildabeast from any wrongdoing.
Can you see the pattern?
I could go on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.
FISA Abuse, political espionage..... pick a crime, any crime, chances are...... this group and a few others did it.
Rosensteins wife represented these criminals mueller 3
Comey 5
Bill40
Hillary 17
Obama 45
All the same players.
All compromised and conflicted.
All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves.
All connected in one way or another to the Clinton's.
They are like battery acid, they corrode and corrupt everything they touch.
How many lives have these two destroyed?
It cannot be numbered.
As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the IRS.
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Something’s been lost in the translation…
In our Constitutional
Representative Republic United States
We send, via election, representatives to our State
Legislatures and Congress to uphold and defend the Constitution because we hard
working everyday citizens can’t be there to do it ourselves. That is the
purpose of this representational republic, to avoid a Mob Rule, which is what a
democracy certainly is; the domination of the 51% over the 49%.
Over time that concept and oath mandate has been diluted by
partisan representatives vowing to ‘fight for’ their constituents, or
‘represent all views’, and other silly pandering. Some might say that the 1%
[super wealthy] have bought and paid for those who voters send to represent us
in to task of defending our rights from legislative misemploy.
Party politics has long been responsible for polarization
and skewed expectations of what our form of government is established to
secure; as inscribed in the Preamble to the US Constitution “… justice, insure
domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,… ”.
President George Washington made it clear in his farewell address that Party
Politics is corrosive to the representational republic the founders envisioned
and escribed.
Simply put: justice [not social justice], peace, safety,
security and protection of personal and private property rights as further
iterated in the Bill of Rights are the things that our central/federal
government is obligated to protect. Yet every session of Congress chips away,
gradually extinguishing the flame of freedom and self determination that is the
promise of our Constitution.
Today we have a large part of our populace that have not been
taught or understand these tenets. Self determination is the core of this
republic. Opportunity to personally pursue
wealth and success is a personal right and responsibility, not the duty of
government to neither ensure nor mandate. People selfishly demand that
government bestow on them their perception of plenty via minimum wage,
unemployment benefits, pension and disability payments, government subsidies and
government protections of all stripe; which ultimately translates to theft from
others and enslavement of themselves.
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Forefathers Face-off with Modern Politicians – 2nd Amendment is a God-Given RIGHT, Americans, not a Privilege
by: Bradlee
Dean in Gun News, Trending Commentary March 16, 2018
"To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
– George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788
Therefore, it might be well for you to take a couple of minutes and read what our forefathers had said in their writings during the ratifications to establish gun rights to Americans as a whole, namely the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. Who knows better what the Second Amendment means than the Founding Fathers that established our God-given rights?
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
First, who are the militia?
"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." – George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
– James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789
"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
– Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788
"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty …. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
– Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789
Second, look to our American forefathers and how what they established contradicts the corruptions in the face of the present day criminal politicians (Psalm 94:20; Luke 22:48; John 8:44).
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." – Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…"
– George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
– Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." – Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824
"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." – James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788
"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty…. The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." – St. George Tucker, Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803
"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance ofpower is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
– Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
– Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833
"For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, December 21, 1787
"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."
– Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
– Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." – Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
We have heard over and over from criminal anti-gunner politicians that we do not need 30 round magazines when it comes to our ability to protect ourselves.
Just a reminder to all, we do not need 30 rounds to hunt with, correct, but the Second Amendment was not written in case the deer turn against us, it was given in case our government does.
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it!"
I WILL NOT be disarmed - that I guarantee to my Nation. When government makes me a criminal by the Pen then criminal to THAT government I shall be. There is NO authority within the Constitution nor Natural Law for ANY government to be armed (only by implication thru a perpetual Navy - Article I, Section 8 - is there any form of perpetual government arms.) There IS NO authority for National Police or Perpetual Army. Usurpation by the elected or appointed government is TREASON AGAINST THE PEOPLE!
"To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
– George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788
Therefore, it might be well for you to take a couple of minutes and read what our forefathers had said in their writings during the ratifications to establish gun rights to Americans as a whole, namely the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. Who knows better what the Second Amendment means than the Founding Fathers that established our God-given rights?
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
First, who are the militia?
"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." – George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
– James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789
"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
– Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788
"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty …. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
– Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789
Second, look to our American forefathers and how what they established contradicts the corruptions in the face of the present day criminal politicians (Psalm 94:20; Luke 22:48; John 8:44).
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." – Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…"
– George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
– Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." – Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824
"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." – James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788
"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty…. The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." – St. George Tucker, Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803
"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance ofpower is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
– Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
– Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833
"For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, December 21, 1787
"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."
– Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
– Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." – Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
We have heard over and over from criminal anti-gunner politicians that we do not need 30 round magazines when it comes to our ability to protect ourselves.
Just a reminder to all, we do not need 30 rounds to hunt with, correct, but the Second Amendment was not written in case the deer turn against us, it was given in case our government does.
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it!"
I WILL NOT be disarmed - that I guarantee to my Nation. When government makes me a criminal by the Pen then criminal to THAT government I shall be. There is NO authority within the Constitution nor Natural Law for ANY government to be armed (only by implication thru a perpetual Navy - Article I, Section 8 - is there any form of perpetual government arms.) There IS NO authority for National Police or Perpetual Army. Usurpation by the elected or appointed government is TREASON AGAINST THE PEOPLE!
Thursday, March 8, 2018
The Law has been stolen from us
The Law has been stolen from us at every level in this Nation. Was it Ben
Franklin who warned never to allow Lawyers to control the government? Men love
darkness (confusion) rather than light because their deeds are EVIL! The Truth
is simple - Black and White with enough information. They, the co-optors of the
law have Stolen the escential (first) Law; We have the God given right to
protect our lives and our property, and the primus that; the only JUST purpose
of government is to provide the LAW that gives force to the excercise of that
RIGHT!!
But left wing progressives - who believe with all their "Naturally Superior", colledge educated, pea brains have made merchandise out of the law at EVERY conceivable point! Now they attempt to use THEIR convoluted "Law" to take away our First RIGHT!
The people who fall for the lie; that Government is the answer to all their fears - where, every time something makes them feel ikky, they run screaming to their father - THEIR GOD - Government, to make it all better! Just what those politician/lawyer/liars WANT! America is full of SHAMEFUL COWARDS!
WAKE UP. The Truth is simple. Government cannot protect you - it can ONLY; a) stay out of your way to protect yourself (and give the force of the law to justify that protection) or b) enslave you and do with you at its pleasure, whether you like it or not.
But left wing progressives - who believe with all their "Naturally Superior", colledge educated, pea brains have made merchandise out of the law at EVERY conceivable point! Now they attempt to use THEIR convoluted "Law" to take away our First RIGHT!
The people who fall for the lie; that Government is the answer to all their fears - where, every time something makes them feel ikky, they run screaming to their father - THEIR GOD - Government, to make it all better! Just what those politician/lawyer/liars WANT! America is full of SHAMEFUL COWARDS!
WAKE UP. The Truth is simple. Government cannot protect you - it can ONLY; a) stay out of your way to protect yourself (and give the force of the law to justify that protection) or b) enslave you and do with you at its pleasure, whether you like it or not.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Inconvenient Truth #1153: Just having fun is more difficult than it looks anymore, unlike the "good old days".
We spend entirely too much time following orders to pay particular attention to how our actions are interpreted by others. We forget that "I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you." Everything today has to go through some imaginary PC filters that don't really exist. I was told recently, by someone who obviously doesn't know me, that if I was trying to be sarcastic, it was not appropriate. Like I said, he didn't know me. If I was being sarcastic, he wouldn't have to guess, he'd know. I asked "who decides appropriate, him?" I'm pretty certain no one died and left him in charge of me. I had simply presented the facts and truths of an incident. He ignored them and attacked the messenger. Bad choice.
I love to use inappropriate words at inappropriate moments to illicit reaction. It's part of the game of life with Mikey. Our culture has gone waaaay overboard with the pretend "power" of language. "You hurt my feelings." Really? It was that easy? Hold my beer and watch this.....
I assume you've read or heard that some of our snowflakes want to remove the phrase "man" from every occurrence in our American-English language because it is gender offensive. OMG, how demeaning. What are they going to call females now, Wo or Fe?
Like I said, the meek have come out of the closet and are demanding respect. For what, I have no clue, but they are certainly demanding recognition of their existence. Since our constitutional government has morphed into something it was not (c'mon man, you know that presidential executive orders are not law and the Supreme Court is not allowed to legislate (create law) from the bench), guerrilla warfare is on the horizon. Insurgent resistance to a completely new form of slavery and servitude, under color of law, cannot be ruled out as unthinkable.
We are no longer allowed to have fun. Everything today is serious business, like the minefields leftover in Cambodia after Pol Pot had his fun.
M - Old age is coming at a really bad time.
I love to use inappropriate words at inappropriate moments to illicit reaction. It's part of the game of life with Mikey. Our culture has gone waaaay overboard with the pretend "power" of language. "You hurt my feelings." Really? It was that easy? Hold my beer and watch this.....
I assume you've read or heard that some of our snowflakes want to remove the phrase "man" from every occurrence in our American-English language because it is gender offensive. OMG, how demeaning. What are they going to call females now, Wo or Fe?
Like I said, the meek have come out of the closet and are demanding respect. For what, I have no clue, but they are certainly demanding recognition of their existence. Since our constitutional government has morphed into something it was not (c'mon man, you know that presidential executive orders are not law and the Supreme Court is not allowed to legislate (create law) from the bench), guerrilla warfare is on the horizon. Insurgent resistance to a completely new form of slavery and servitude, under color of law, cannot be ruled out as unthinkable.
We are no longer allowed to have fun. Everything today is serious business, like the minefields leftover in Cambodia after Pol Pot had his fun.
M - Old age is coming at a really bad time.
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