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
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists
and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger
our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for
granted.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing
of
the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful
methods
and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
~ from the
Farewell
Address of President Dwidght D. Einsehower
(click
HERE
to read the transcript or listen to audio of the broadcast)
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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
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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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