By Semperpapa
Signs of a American social values gone astray are evident across our Nation. The hard part to accept is that it is not just at the people level that the decline is manifesting itself, but at the leadership level.
The United States is fast making the step from the ideals of inclusion, of tolerance, across the line dividing freedom and reversed discrimination.
No Media coverage, for example, alerted the people of an incident that took place in Dearborn, Michigan, on June 18 2010, where the local Arab community organizers held the Dearborn Arab International Festival. During the festival, which by its name does not imply that it was a Muslim occasion only, four members of a local Christian assembly were arrested for engaging in conversations about Christianity.
The four were handcuffed and led away by police as some in the crowd witnessing the arrest cheered “Allah Akbar”, just another example of authorities willing to violate the Costitutional rights of certain Americans in favor of others.
So much is wrong about this incident as the four were arrested for exercising their First Amendment right. And even the police excuse of wanting to prevent any potential confrontation does not hold water, because there was no indication of any sort of escalation of tempers and the festival was not labeled as a strict Muslim event. Even then, the detention and removal of the four individuals was a clear violation of their rights.
Surely the ACLU will come out any day condemning the incident. Or maybe not.
But we are seeing this type of travesty from the highest level of authority in the Nation, as amply demonstrated by the much publicized case of the Black Panthers member who exercised their will to intimidate voters at the Philadelphia voting poll in 2008, a case that thanks to the intervention of the new racist regime, went from being an open-shut case to one of the biggest travesties of justice in recent times.
The worst aspect of this case is not the level of crime that took place, after all the two black Panther thugs did not actually attacked anyone phisically, but the fact that the Department of Justice and its leader AG Eric Holder have made it clear that the case was not going to be prosecuted on the basis that they black.
It would be iteresting to see if the same development would have occurred if it would have been two KKK in white sheets at a voting poll in Alabama.
To make things even more indicative of the decline of our society, we witness a political leadership in Washington, from Obama on down, that has no qualms about protecting people like these Black Panthers, especially one Samir Shabbazz, the one who in the Philadelphia video was holding the baton, and who has been filmed inciting black people to kill the white folks and their babies, addressing white women with black men as “white whores”, professing his hate for white people.
What happened to the laws governing Hate Speech? Oh, I forgot. They only apply to those who dissent from Obama. Not a word of condemnation can be heard by people like Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durbin as they are too busy calling Tea Party members ‘Nazis’ and ‘racists’.
Yes we are a society in decline, and have been for some time now. Obama and his minions just stepped on the accelerator.
Just my thoughts!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The Spin Zone Called DoJ
By Semperpapa
There are several spin zones in Washington these days, more like thousands, but none more blatantly disturbing that the Department of Justice.
Attorney General Eric Holder, on July 6, declared that the United States government has filed a law suit against the State of Arizona and its Governor Jan Brewer in order to stop the implementation of SB 1070, the anti-illegal immigration bill passed by the south-western state to combat the scourge of illegal immigration.
AG Holder urges the U.S. District Court of Arizona to permanently stop the law from taking effect at the end of July.
The legal basis used by Holder to back his law suit is that the enforcement of immigration laws is the sole jurisdiction of the federal government and therefore the Arizona law is invalid and actually a disruption of the efforts made at the federal level. Holder stated that the Arizona law must be “struck down” so that the efforts of the federal government in combating the entry of dangerous illegals, like terrorists, would not be impeded.
In a written statement, Holder said that
"Arizonans are understandably frustrated with illegal immigration, and the federal government has a responsibility to comprehensively address those concerns. But diverting federal resources away from dangerous aliens such as terrorism suspects and aliens with criminal records will impact the entire country's safety."
At the news of the law suit filing, Gov. Jan Brewer expressed her disappointment with the turn of events and complained of the enormous waste of taxpayers’ money that the legal action will represent. In a statement released from her office, Gov. Brewer said, among other things, that
"It is wrong that our own federal government is suing the people of Arizona for helping to enforce federal immigration law. As a direct result of failed and inconsistent federal enforcement, Arizona is under attack from violent Mexican drug and immigrant smuggling cartels. Now, Arizona is under attack in federal court from President Obama and his Department of Justice."
Gov. Brewer also stated that it was ironic that the government would attack a piece of legislation legally passed in the state legislature, aimed at re-enforcing the federal immigration laws (as the official illegal immigration law of the Nation is pretty much the same as the one passed in Arizona), while the government has never brought any legal action against municipalities that openly violated federal immigration laws with their “sanctuary” self definition.
Protest against the suit were raised by other Arizona politicians, including the state’s two senators, McCain and Kyl, while lauding of the Department of Justice actions came from the usual suspects, like the American Civil Liberty Union.
So here we have it. The federal government going against the will of the people once again, as this administration has been accustomed to do since day one.
For years now the United States government has failed miserably to provide the American people with a security apparatus at the southern border that would insure the end of literally an invasion of illegal immigrants into our territory. And the problem is not only of Mexican illegals, but also of uncounted and undisturbed OTM (Other than Mexicans) illegals that evidences have shown to have entered the country via the Mexican border, potential terrorists who are now roaming the streets of our Nation.
But this is just another crisis that the Obama administration cannot allow to go to waste. In fact, the man talks about “comprehensive immigration reform” of a system that, he says, is utterly broken.
So just like the “financial reform” and the “healthcare reform”, Obama is only interested in totally changing the posture of the United States to best fit his personal agenda, regardless of the damage he and his Obamadroids cause the Nation.
The true reason behind the law suit is not the interference that the Arizona law may create with federal resources, because, after all, the federal government has miserably failed at that effort for decades.
The true reason is that the striking down of the Arizona law would give him greater leverage in his pushing for the reform of the system, which is, in reality, amnesty.
Obama has to get the amnesty for the 30 millions illegals done, because he surely needs those votes in November.
The amazing part, at least for me, is that the Department of Justice is taking months to put together the case against the author of the massacre at Ft. Hood, dodging and weaving its responsibilities over the reasons behind Hasan’s killing spree, with dozens of eye witnesses, claiming the need for time in the discovery of all evidences. And yet, they are already able to file a law suit against one of the states in such a short time. I guess when it fits Obama’s agenda bureaucratic red tape is not a hindrance. Amazingly, this law suit has been spoken of since the day the law was passed, even by those, like Eric Holder, who admitted had never read the law in the first place.
Yes, there are thousands of spin zones in Washington, but Eric Holder has been able to make himself noted on several occasions. Again!
Just my thoughts!
There are several spin zones in Washington these days, more like thousands, but none more blatantly disturbing that the Department of Justice.
Attorney General Eric Holder, on July 6, declared that the United States government has filed a law suit against the State of Arizona and its Governor Jan Brewer in order to stop the implementation of SB 1070, the anti-illegal immigration bill passed by the south-western state to combat the scourge of illegal immigration.
AG Holder urges the U.S. District Court of Arizona to permanently stop the law from taking effect at the end of July.
The legal basis used by Holder to back his law suit is that the enforcement of immigration laws is the sole jurisdiction of the federal government and therefore the Arizona law is invalid and actually a disruption of the efforts made at the federal level. Holder stated that the Arizona law must be “struck down” so that the efforts of the federal government in combating the entry of dangerous illegals, like terrorists, would not be impeded.
In a written statement, Holder said that
"Arizonans are understandably frustrated with illegal immigration, and the federal government has a responsibility to comprehensively address those concerns. But diverting federal resources away from dangerous aliens such as terrorism suspects and aliens with criminal records will impact the entire country's safety."
At the news of the law suit filing, Gov. Jan Brewer expressed her disappointment with the turn of events and complained of the enormous waste of taxpayers’ money that the legal action will represent. In a statement released from her office, Gov. Brewer said, among other things, that
"It is wrong that our own federal government is suing the people of Arizona for helping to enforce federal immigration law. As a direct result of failed and inconsistent federal enforcement, Arizona is under attack from violent Mexican drug and immigrant smuggling cartels. Now, Arizona is under attack in federal court from President Obama and his Department of Justice."
Gov. Brewer also stated that it was ironic that the government would attack a piece of legislation legally passed in the state legislature, aimed at re-enforcing the federal immigration laws (as the official illegal immigration law of the Nation is pretty much the same as the one passed in Arizona), while the government has never brought any legal action against municipalities that openly violated federal immigration laws with their “sanctuary” self definition.
Protest against the suit were raised by other Arizona politicians, including the state’s two senators, McCain and Kyl, while lauding of the Department of Justice actions came from the usual suspects, like the American Civil Liberty Union.
So here we have it. The federal government going against the will of the people once again, as this administration has been accustomed to do since day one.
For years now the United States government has failed miserably to provide the American people with a security apparatus at the southern border that would insure the end of literally an invasion of illegal immigrants into our territory. And the problem is not only of Mexican illegals, but also of uncounted and undisturbed OTM (Other than Mexicans) illegals that evidences have shown to have entered the country via the Mexican border, potential terrorists who are now roaming the streets of our Nation.
But this is just another crisis that the Obama administration cannot allow to go to waste. In fact, the man talks about “comprehensive immigration reform” of a system that, he says, is utterly broken.
So just like the “financial reform” and the “healthcare reform”, Obama is only interested in totally changing the posture of the United States to best fit his personal agenda, regardless of the damage he and his Obamadroids cause the Nation.
The true reason behind the law suit is not the interference that the Arizona law may create with federal resources, because, after all, the federal government has miserably failed at that effort for decades.
The true reason is that the striking down of the Arizona law would give him greater leverage in his pushing for the reform of the system, which is, in reality, amnesty.
Obama has to get the amnesty for the 30 millions illegals done, because he surely needs those votes in November.
The amazing part, at least for me, is that the Department of Justice is taking months to put together the case against the author of the massacre at Ft. Hood, dodging and weaving its responsibilities over the reasons behind Hasan’s killing spree, with dozens of eye witnesses, claiming the need for time in the discovery of all evidences. And yet, they are already able to file a law suit against one of the states in such a short time. I guess when it fits Obama’s agenda bureaucratic red tape is not a hindrance. Amazingly, this law suit has been spoken of since the day the law was passed, even by those, like Eric Holder, who admitted had never read the law in the first place.
Yes, there are thousands of spin zones in Washington, but Eric Holder has been able to make himself noted on several occasions. Again!
Just my thoughts!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Great Article From Nevada
By Semperpapa
I received this article from my sweet daughter-in-law. A great article from Wayne Allyn Root.
Jul. 04, 2010Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama: The great jobs killer
As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, "Obama, there you go again."
The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 -- a blowout.
Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.
It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
Meanwhile, he has kept the union workers of GM and Chrysler employed (with taxpayer money). He has made sure that most government employee union members got their annual raises for sleeping on the job (with taxpayer money). He made sure that his voters got handouts mislabeled as "tax cuts" even though they never paid taxes (with taxpayer money). And he made sure that major campaign contributors collected billions off government stimulus (with taxpayer money).
As far as the taxpayers -- the people who actually take risks with our own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes -- we require protection under the Endangered Species Act.
You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.
I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.
I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.
The days of jobs in the private sector with big salaries, full benefits, and pensions are over. We've all seen where those kinds of jobs get you as a business owner -- in Bankruptcy Court or surviving on government welfare like GM and Chrysler. Or in the case of government itself -- completely insolvent, but surviving by ripping off taxpayers and fraudulently running printing presses at the Fed all day and night to print money by the trillions.
Unfortunately, small businesses don't have the power to impose taxes or print money. So unlike government, we'll just have to cut employees and run lean and mean.
It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come. Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.
The days of believing the Obama propaganda about a jobs recovery are over. The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named "stimulus") may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business is the real canary in the coal mine.
My small business-owning friends aren't creating one job. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. They are creating high-tech businesses that don't need employees. And many business owners are making plans to leave the country. In a high-tech world where businesses can be run from anywhere, Obama has a problem. His one-trick pony -- raise taxes, raise taxes, raising taxes -- is chasing away the business owners he desperately needs to pay his bills.
So who is going to pay Obama's taxes? Not his voters. They want government to pay them. Who is going to create Obama's jobs? Not his voters -- they've never created a job in their lives.
So what is Obama going to do? Maybe he can get Pamela Anderson on the line.
Wayne Allyn Root, a former vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, writes from Henderson. His column appears every other week.
I wonder if all those who voted for the Thug-in-Chief and find themselves in the unemployment lines across America are having some second thoughts about the 'hope and change' they were promised. Maybe they 'hope' to have some 'change' left when this so called president retires.
Not just my thoughts!
I received this article from my sweet daughter-in-law. A great article from Wayne Allyn Root.
Jul. 04, 2010Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama: The great jobs killer
As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, "Obama, there you go again."
The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 -- a blowout.
Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.
It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
Meanwhile, he has kept the union workers of GM and Chrysler employed (with taxpayer money). He has made sure that most government employee union members got their annual raises for sleeping on the job (with taxpayer money). He made sure that his voters got handouts mislabeled as "tax cuts" even though they never paid taxes (with taxpayer money). And he made sure that major campaign contributors collected billions off government stimulus (with taxpayer money).
As far as the taxpayers -- the people who actually take risks with our own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes -- we require protection under the Endangered Species Act.
You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.
I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.
I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.
The days of jobs in the private sector with big salaries, full benefits, and pensions are over. We've all seen where those kinds of jobs get you as a business owner -- in Bankruptcy Court or surviving on government welfare like GM and Chrysler. Or in the case of government itself -- completely insolvent, but surviving by ripping off taxpayers and fraudulently running printing presses at the Fed all day and night to print money by the trillions.
Unfortunately, small businesses don't have the power to impose taxes or print money. So unlike government, we'll just have to cut employees and run lean and mean.
It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come. Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.
The days of believing the Obama propaganda about a jobs recovery are over. The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named "stimulus") may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business is the real canary in the coal mine.
My small business-owning friends aren't creating one job. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. They are creating high-tech businesses that don't need employees. And many business owners are making plans to leave the country. In a high-tech world where businesses can be run from anywhere, Obama has a problem. His one-trick pony -- raise taxes, raise taxes, raising taxes -- is chasing away the business owners he desperately needs to pay his bills.
So who is going to pay Obama's taxes? Not his voters. They want government to pay them. Who is going to create Obama's jobs? Not his voters -- they've never created a job in their lives.
So what is Obama going to do? Maybe he can get Pamela Anderson on the line.
Wayne Allyn Root, a former vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, writes from Henderson. His column appears every other week.
I wonder if all those who voted for the Thug-in-Chief and find themselves in the unemployment lines across America are having some second thoughts about the 'hope and change' they were promised. Maybe they 'hope' to have some 'change' left when this so called president retires.
Not just my thoughts!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Calling On Congressman David Dreyer
By Semperpapa
My third attempt to contact my Congressman, David Dreyer. My two previous ones, over the course of the last six months have gone totally ingored, as I sadly expected.
This is the text of the e-mail I sent this time:
Dear Sir,
I am one of your constituents and I would like to bring to your attention that an Associated Press article is reporting that a federal judge, whose name was not revealed, has agreed to allow the government of Mexico to participate in a law suit against the state of Arizona over SB1070.
In the first place, I would like to know from you on what grounds is a foreign government allowed to interfere with the internal affairs of our sovereign nation and lawful legislation passed by one of our United States.
In second place, I am eager to see you and some of your Republican colleagues in Congress immediately start impeachment proceeding against this so-called federal judge, who obviously has no business sitting on a judicial bench.
Such action would be a welcomed reprieve for you and other Republicans who silently sat in the Hall of MY Congress and allowed president Calderon to attack one of our States and the will of the American people.
It would have been refreshing to see you join your fellow California Congressman McClintock in protesting that dishonorable show of treasonous behavior.
This is my third attempt to communicate with you, sir, my two previous obviously gone nowhere. Hope this time I will have better luck.
Respectfully,
This time I hope that I will receive some sort of an answer, even if I do not expect that the polished Dreyer will be sticking his neck out and do the right thing.
I will keep you posted.
My third attempt to contact my Congressman, David Dreyer. My two previous ones, over the course of the last six months have gone totally ingored, as I sadly expected.
This is the text of the e-mail I sent this time:
Dear Sir,
I am one of your constituents and I would like to bring to your attention that an Associated Press article is reporting that a federal judge, whose name was not revealed, has agreed to allow the government of Mexico to participate in a law suit against the state of Arizona over SB1070.
In the first place, I would like to know from you on what grounds is a foreign government allowed to interfere with the internal affairs of our sovereign nation and lawful legislation passed by one of our United States.
In second place, I am eager to see you and some of your Republican colleagues in Congress immediately start impeachment proceeding against this so-called federal judge, who obviously has no business sitting on a judicial bench.
Such action would be a welcomed reprieve for you and other Republicans who silently sat in the Hall of MY Congress and allowed president Calderon to attack one of our States and the will of the American people.
It would have been refreshing to see you join your fellow California Congressman McClintock in protesting that dishonorable show of treasonous behavior.
This is my third attempt to communicate with you, sir, my two previous obviously gone nowhere. Hope this time I will have better luck.
Respectfully,
This time I hope that I will receive some sort of an answer, even if I do not expect that the polished Dreyer will be sticking his neck out and do the right thing.
I will keep you posted.
Happy Birthday, America
By Semperpapa
Happy Birthday, America, my beloved country!
And today my wishes are more heartfelt than ever before, as my beloved country is in the mix of a national struggle that, in my opinion, is one for its very existence.
The United States of America has endured, throughout its history, some very challenging periods, due to foreign and domestic foes who have put the resolution of the American people to the test.
From the War of Independence to the Civil War, from the turmoil of the 1960s to the turmoil of today and from Pearl Harbor to 9-11-01, America has always responded in accordance to the ideals that were first brought forward by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Happy Birthday, America, my beloved country!
And today my wishes are more heartfelt than ever before, as my beloved country is in the mix of a national struggle that, in my opinion, is one for its very existence.
The United States of America has endured, throughout its history, some very challenging periods, due to foreign and domestic foes who have put the resolution of the American people to the test.
From the War of Independence to the Civil War, from the turmoil of the 1960s to the turmoil of today and from Pearl Harbor to 9-11-01, America has always responded in accordance to the ideals that were first brought forward by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"But never before in our history have the American ideals faced the danger of extinction as today, with the current political leadership hell bent on undoing any of the factors that have made the political experiment called United States of America the envy of other countries and the beacon of liberty for millions.
Those who call themselves the representatives of the people are failing at doing just that, pursuing instead personal agenda of power and control that resembles more the actions of a tyrannical government than of elected representatives of the people. Their agenda is the imposition of their will upon the people of the United States, justifying their actions by taking the position that they, in their elitist position, are intellectually better equipped to know what the people want, what the people need. Is there much of a difference between what President Obama or Nancy Pelosi are telling the American people or what their actions are, and what King George or Stalin or Hitler were saying and doing?
Last night I was watching the mini-series John Adams, in
particular the episode when John Adams joined Benjamin Franklyn in Paris to try to gain the support of the French monarchy for the Revolutionary War.
And as I am watching John Adams shocking introduction to the decadence of French nobility, I could not help but have a feeling of dread for the future of my country.The frivolity and excesses John Adams witnessed in Paris reminded
me of the personal Boeing 757 that Nancy Pelosi got for herself to fly back
and forth from Washington to California, all at taxpayers cost, fully loaded with booze for hundreds of thousands of dollars. All the while telling the American people that they should be happy they are out of work, because now that Obamacare has been passed, they can pursuit their "dreams" with the knowledge that they have medical coverage.And the decadence of king Luis XIV, so immersed in his personal parties and his personal maintenment of power, reminded me of President Obama golfing and playing basketball as our Military is involved in two
wars and the lives of millions are being devastatingly impacted by economic mismanagement.And the somber knowledge of what it took for that particular political system to be abolished (check French Revolution), keeps me up at night.
234 years ago, our Founding Fathers put their own lives on the
line for the achievement of freedom and independence. 234 years later
we witness a nation increasingly surrendering those very liberties to a
despotic government.So I celebrate another birthday of my country, sure with good food, some beer and taking in a firework show, but my thoughts remain vigilant on the future and my hopes rest on the first leg of an hopefully peaceful new American Revolution to start next November.
Just my thoughts!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Contempt For The Court
By Semperpapa
On June 28, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, again, on the Second Amendment right of keeping and bearing arms. Following up on a 2008 decision that stated that the Amendment to the Constitution is an absolute protection of the individual’s right to ownership of weapons, the SCOTUS now ruled on the assertion that such right is federally insured and that individual states and jurisdictions’ ban on citizens’ ability to possess firearms is a violation of the Constitution.
The decision of June 28 was a 5 to 4 decision, clearly showing that the Supreme Court is no longer the sort of institution that Americans can depend for a clear and faithful interpretation of the law as mandated by the US Constitution. Why else would 4 justices, thankfully the minority in this case, be ready and willing to trample the rights that are clearly afforded to the American people by that governing document. The reason is clearly politically based and philosophically derived, completely ignoring the foundations of that particular right in favor of a Progressive ideology.
Of course I see the decision of the court as a victory for the American people and the Constitution, but I also see that there are four justices with such power that are immune to any reservation about disregarding the law of the land and the rights of the people, effectively taking a activist stand contrary to the very purpose of the Supreme Court.
What is even more disturbing is the fact that the difference was so minimal that any mere ideological shift on the court could have spelled disaster for one more of the rights of the people, an effort that the Obama circus seems to be all but too eager to accomplish.
The amusing part of the SCOTUS decision came from the dissenting opinions of two of the minority votes. In their dissent, Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer, who had been joined by Ginsburg and, what a surprise, Sotomayor, could not even bring a legal standing to their dissent. Instead, their argument was based on what they saw as the undermining of the democratic process for the American people.
They sustain that if the people want guns to be banned they should be able to accomplish their goal by electing officials who campaign on such platform. And to that I respond “bull crap”.
The elimination of no right delineated and insured by the United States Constitution should be used by a campaigning politician to entice voters, because, by definition, it would have to be deemed unconstitutional.
Let’s take, for example, the Westboro Baptist Church. By all accounts, these miscreants are considered as low on the scale of common decency as one can imagine. These are the people that have gained some notoriety by showing their vile protests at the funerals of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And let’s imagine that there would be a politician who would run a campaign based on his intention to suspend the First Amendment right of the Westboro Baptist Church. There is a very good probability that that politician could gain considerably in the polls only based on such position, but in reality, as much as personally I would like to shut those people up completely, any attempt to do so should not hold in court as it would be a violation of the First Amendment right.
That said, I can accept certain limitations to the location where the WBC could spill its venom, mostly as to respect the privacy and welfare of those these individuals seek to offend, but not their ability to spill their venom.
Comparably, there are literally thousands of pieces of legislation that control the possession of firearms by the American people. Many are based on suspension of Second Amendment rights for felons and criminally insane people, but so are voting rights, or at least that should be the case (I recently had the misfortune to meet a convicted drug dealer, a felon, who proudly told me he does vote, so I guess there are ways to break the rules, but I digress).
What I find utterly disgusting is the typical liberal progressive attitude. They do not seek legislation for the safety of the public, avoiding infringing on the rights of the people. They seek to deny those rights all together. If they could get away with legislating the free speech of people like me, they would not waste a minute of time.
And that is exactly what the 4 dissenting justices represent and what causes me to have contempt for the Supreme Court. Sadly, just another American institution going to hell.
Just my thoughts!
On June 28, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, again, on the Second Amendment right of keeping and bearing arms. Following up on a 2008 decision that stated that the Amendment to the Constitution is an absolute protection of the individual’s right to ownership of weapons, the SCOTUS now ruled on the assertion that such right is federally insured and that individual states and jurisdictions’ ban on citizens’ ability to possess firearms is a violation of the Constitution.
The decision of June 28 was a 5 to 4 decision, clearly showing that the Supreme Court is no longer the sort of institution that Americans can depend for a clear and faithful interpretation of the law as mandated by the US Constitution. Why else would 4 justices, thankfully the minority in this case, be ready and willing to trample the rights that are clearly afforded to the American people by that governing document. The reason is clearly politically based and philosophically derived, completely ignoring the foundations of that particular right in favor of a Progressive ideology.
Of course I see the decision of the court as a victory for the American people and the Constitution, but I also see that there are four justices with such power that are immune to any reservation about disregarding the law of the land and the rights of the people, effectively taking a activist stand contrary to the very purpose of the Supreme Court.
What is even more disturbing is the fact that the difference was so minimal that any mere ideological shift on the court could have spelled disaster for one more of the rights of the people, an effort that the Obama circus seems to be all but too eager to accomplish.
The amusing part of the SCOTUS decision came from the dissenting opinions of two of the minority votes. In their dissent, Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer, who had been joined by Ginsburg and, what a surprise, Sotomayor, could not even bring a legal standing to their dissent. Instead, their argument was based on what they saw as the undermining of the democratic process for the American people.
They sustain that if the people want guns to be banned they should be able to accomplish their goal by electing officials who campaign on such platform. And to that I respond “bull crap”.
The elimination of no right delineated and insured by the United States Constitution should be used by a campaigning politician to entice voters, because, by definition, it would have to be deemed unconstitutional.
Let’s take, for example, the Westboro Baptist Church. By all accounts, these miscreants are considered as low on the scale of common decency as one can imagine. These are the people that have gained some notoriety by showing their vile protests at the funerals of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And let’s imagine that there would be a politician who would run a campaign based on his intention to suspend the First Amendment right of the Westboro Baptist Church. There is a very good probability that that politician could gain considerably in the polls only based on such position, but in reality, as much as personally I would like to shut those people up completely, any attempt to do so should not hold in court as it would be a violation of the First Amendment right.
That said, I can accept certain limitations to the location where the WBC could spill its venom, mostly as to respect the privacy and welfare of those these individuals seek to offend, but not their ability to spill their venom.
Comparably, there are literally thousands of pieces of legislation that control the possession of firearms by the American people. Many are based on suspension of Second Amendment rights for felons and criminally insane people, but so are voting rights, or at least that should be the case (I recently had the misfortune to meet a convicted drug dealer, a felon, who proudly told me he does vote, so I guess there are ways to break the rules, but I digress).
What I find utterly disgusting is the typical liberal progressive attitude. They do not seek legislation for the safety of the public, avoiding infringing on the rights of the people. They seek to deny those rights all together. If they could get away with legislating the free speech of people like me, they would not waste a minute of time.
And that is exactly what the 4 dissenting justices represent and what causes me to have contempt for the Supreme Court. Sadly, just another American institution going to hell.
Just my thoughts!
Unbelievable!
By Semperpapa
The Associated Press reported on July 2, 2010 that a federal judge has declared that he will allow a legal brief presented by the Mexican government in support of a law suit brought against the state of Arizona aimed at stopping in court the recently passed law on illegal immigration.
So, if I understand this correctly, a US federal judge will allow a foreign entity the ability to participate in legal action against a lawfully passed legislation inherent to one of the United States of America, technically opening the door to a foreign government to directly interfere in the internal affairs of a State.
The judge, whose name remains unmentioned in the AP article, is therefore effectively telling the American people that the sovereignty of the United States is no longer a consideration in the internal decisions of a state legislature, and that political ideology will be allowed to trample the rule of law and the will of the people.
I find this revelation truly unbelievable. The march toward the effective destruction of the United States has taken a new turn that is much more disturbing that the mere slide toward Marxism/Fascism that the Obama circus is engaged in, because in Marxist/Fascist regimes, the last thing that those despots wanted was interference from abroad, while the current occupiers of Washington D.C. are allowing foreign interests to participate in the defeat of our country.
From allowing the Mexican president Calderon to attack Arizona from within the Halls of Congress to allowing Mexico to participate in legal action against one of the States, the current administration is not so slowly, but surely surrendering the very American institutions to Mexico. And all this is done so that the Liberals may gain political traction with illegal immigrants once amnesty is granted.
In other words, the liberal progressives and some of the so-called Republicans in the leadership are, for all intents and purposes, selling out our Nation to foreign pressure for political gain.
I know I have a simple mind and that I cannot compare with the super-intelligent mongrels in Congress and the White House, but in my opinion openly compromising the legal and security stand of our country for personal gain, be it political or ideological or financial, qualifies for treason and all who are involved, be it this federal judge or Eric Holder or Obama, are guilty of conspiring against our Nation.
Yes, for whatever it may be worth, I am accusing those in power of treason against the United States of America. Obama, Holder, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Waxman, Durbin, Schumer, Boxer, Clinton (both), Rahm, Axelrod, Kagan, Graham, Grayson, and the list goes on, are all ready willing and able to move our Nation toward the abyss and are succeeding in doing just so, as the forces of reason and self-control find themselves increasingly outnumbered by those who are just getting fed up with the obvious attempt of the scum in Washington to destroy our once great Nation.
Just my thoughts!
The Associated Press reported on July 2, 2010 that a federal judge has declared that he will allow a legal brief presented by the Mexican government in support of a law suit brought against the state of Arizona aimed at stopping in court the recently passed law on illegal immigration.
So, if I understand this correctly, a US federal judge will allow a foreign entity the ability to participate in legal action against a lawfully passed legislation inherent to one of the United States of America, technically opening the door to a foreign government to directly interfere in the internal affairs of a State.
The judge, whose name remains unmentioned in the AP article, is therefore effectively telling the American people that the sovereignty of the United States is no longer a consideration in the internal decisions of a state legislature, and that political ideology will be allowed to trample the rule of law and the will of the people.
I find this revelation truly unbelievable. The march toward the effective destruction of the United States has taken a new turn that is much more disturbing that the mere slide toward Marxism/Fascism that the Obama circus is engaged in, because in Marxist/Fascist regimes, the last thing that those despots wanted was interference from abroad, while the current occupiers of Washington D.C. are allowing foreign interests to participate in the defeat of our country.
From allowing the Mexican president Calderon to attack Arizona from within the Halls of Congress to allowing Mexico to participate in legal action against one of the States, the current administration is not so slowly, but surely surrendering the very American institutions to Mexico. And all this is done so that the Liberals may gain political traction with illegal immigrants once amnesty is granted.
In other words, the liberal progressives and some of the so-called Republicans in the leadership are, for all intents and purposes, selling out our Nation to foreign pressure for political gain.
I know I have a simple mind and that I cannot compare with the super-intelligent mongrels in Congress and the White House, but in my opinion openly compromising the legal and security stand of our country for personal gain, be it political or ideological or financial, qualifies for treason and all who are involved, be it this federal judge or Eric Holder or Obama, are guilty of conspiring against our Nation.
Yes, for whatever it may be worth, I am accusing those in power of treason against the United States of America. Obama, Holder, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Waxman, Durbin, Schumer, Boxer, Clinton (both), Rahm, Axelrod, Kagan, Graham, Grayson, and the list goes on, are all ready willing and able to move our Nation toward the abyss and are succeeding in doing just so, as the forces of reason and self-control find themselves increasingly outnumbered by those who are just getting fed up with the obvious attempt of the scum in Washington to destroy our once great Nation.
Just my thoughts!
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