The
Constitution
The Constitution? Well, it's
like a bull in a china shop. You break it, you pay for it ;)
You want to know the secrets of the
American
Constitution? Listen
closer...
Never forget that
Government Is The Servant
WE ARE THE
MASTERS
AMERICA NEEDS PRACTICE!! :=))
The
American Declaration Of Independence
we've been so distracted by the 'bread and
circus' provided by the ruling elite in this country that we've
forgotten
The
Constitution Of The United States
IT'S THE GENUINE ARTICLE!
(all of these rules apply unless you've taken a few martial arts
lessons)
The
United States Bill Of Rights
(You have some new rules for America? Write them down,,,
they did :-)
(Remember - verbal contracts and unwritten laws are worth the papers
they're written upon ;)
The
Federalist Papers
The Texas State
Constitution and Bill Of Rights
and the one that got it all started, the English
Magna Carta
"in a constitutional democracy, persons owe loyalty to the constitution
rather than to the government. I have long argued that on precisely
this
point, American public attitudes are quite different from those in
Europe."
~ James Buchanan
(Return
to Table of
Contents)
Articles/Op-Ed on
The Constitution
The great thing about the
Constitution is that the Founders made
certain
it could be changed to reflect the needs of future generations and
changes
in the culture, through the process of Amendment. If you have
some
new rules for the USA, such as making a different Bill Of Rights for
people
who have taken self defense lessons, then you have the ability to do so
through
the legislative process. Until then, the U.S. Bill Of Rights
applies
to EVERYBODY.
Listen to
Joe Vitale's "Lady
On The Rock"
How do they know when milk goes bad? Maybe the cows tip 'em
off when they're milking them...
(whispered) "July 3rd"
-- Jerry Seinfeld
"The United States is putting together a Constitution now for
Iraq.
You know, why don't we just give them ours? You think about it,
it's
served us well for over 200 years and we don't appear to be using it so
what
the hell,
you know let them take it..."
~ Jay Leno
"Maybe you've heard they made a movie called 'National Treasure' about
how the Declaration of Independence lesds to riches. You know,
they should make a movie about the Constitution called 'National
Secret'.
Nobody seems to know about it..."
~ Kurt Ericson
As important that symbols like flags are, remember George Carlin saying
that he
"...leaves symbols to the symbol-minded." ;-)
Far more important is what the flag represents
"I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill
of
Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age. The
evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they
exist today."
~ Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
"If democracy resolves on a task which
necessarily involves the use
of power,
which cannot be guided by fixed rules,
it must become arbitrary power."
~ F. A. Hayek
(sorry folks, that's 'WE')
"Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of
passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who
are watchful may again rally and recall the people.
They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political creed."
~ Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 1802.
"The Drumhead (1991)"
A very
good Star Trek Next Generation episode for people who like
to go around saying "We" and "Us"
Shades of The Inquistion and Joseph McCarthy
From a review:
"What surprised me most were countless lines of dialog that have a very
eerie quality with regards to our current political climate and
especially the shift in politics in the US since 9/11. Considering the
air-date (1991), this only confirms how true Picard's statement about
how quickly people are willing to blindly trade their liberties for
'security' really is."
"The answer to 1984 is 1776" ~ Alex Jones
(Go
to Table of Contents)
No
courts, no
judge, no
jury? No thanks...
Or, as the Romans said: "NULLA POENA SINE LEGE"
"NO PUNISHMENT WITHOUT A LAW EXPRESSLY PRESCRIBING IT"
Judge
Scalia's Constitution Comics
(not at all funny, really)
Constitutional
Compromise - Mark Fiore flash animation
Watch
Keith Olbermann's MSN Countdown video "The Death of Habeas
Corpus?"
Not so funny when he starts X-ing out the articles of the Bill Of
Rights which are no longer in effect. :-(
True
conservatives condemn military tribunals for terrorists
- When is a conservative not a conservative? When they do a 180
degree
turn away from their own ideology in order to curry populist political
favor.
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A
comparison of two speeches made by President Obama concerning
Constitutional principles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jshogbjtYs
Listen to a Democracy Now interview with Naomi
Wolf about her new book
"The End of
America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot"
In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our
free America is under assault. She warns us — with the
straight-to-fellow-citizens
urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets — that we have
little
time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.
“If we do not hang
together, we shall surely hang separately.”
-- Thomas Paine
read his
"Common Sense" pamphlet
"You call yourself a patriot, and loyal Subject
to the Crown??", asks the British Officer
on horseback in a crowd of Colonists
"I do not call myself subject to much at all...", says the American
Colonist amidst barely stiffled laughter
-- from the movie
"Last
of the Mohicans"
Remember what Mister Roadkill
says...
"Constitution yes... or Constitution no...
Constitution little bit, get squashed like Texas Roadkill!!"
You are not an American Citizen, you are a belt...
No
courts, no
judge, no
jury? No thanks...
"The privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus
shall
not
be suspended,
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public
safety
may require it."
~ the Constitution of the United States
"Democracy is a messy and inefficient
way for people
to govern themselves,
but it's the best way there's ever been.
Let's not throw it all away, as so many peoples have in the past,
giving
up their liberties, freedoms and privacy to those who would take power
using
the guise of providing security. Too many people have died in the
names
of the The Soviet, The Nazi, and The Cultural Revolution only for the
'winners'
to find themselves not freed from tyranny,
but surrounded by it."
~ Kurt Ericson - 09/17/07
"...when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy,
but,
after
all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they
attacked
the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but still, he was not a
Socialist,
and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so
on,
and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then
they
attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something - but
then
it was too late."
~ from the book "They
Thought They Were Free" 1955 by Milton Mayer
interviews with ordinary
German
citizens about the rise of Nazism in Germany
"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question
mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
~ Bertrand Russell
"We must choose
between freedom and fear — we cannot have both.
If
the citizens of the United States persist in being afraid, the real
rulers of this country will be the fanatics fired with a zeal to save
grown men from objectionable ideas by putting them under the care of
official nursemaids."
~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr., The Blessings of Liberty [1956]
-- "America will never be destroyed from
outside. If we falter
and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
are free."
~ Gothe
Listen to my reading of an excerpt from a Libertarian review of Glenn
Greenwald's
"How
Should A
Patriot Act?"
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