Not True Plain Ol! If anyone is at odds with America, policy and issues, it's you my friend!
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:53 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > no ... I belong here ... your allegiance is with a foreign nation that > extorts America. > go home. > > On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 2:32:07 PM UTC-6, KeithInTampa wrote: >> >> I would think, based on your hatred of Jews, Republicans, Christians, >> mainstream Americans, and most anyone who supports either of the four, >> (which is the majority of Americans) maybe you'd be happier in another >> land? >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:21 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> To Get the Constitution Back, We'll Have To Rise To Rebellion >>> --- >>> oh ... still wanting more unnecessary wars, reestablish slavery, >>> corporate thievery, and human rights abuses, eh? >>> >>> you'll probably be happier in israel or iran. >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 2:12:06 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: Description: Description: http://www.c4strategies.com/g1.jpg] >>>> >>>> [image: Description: Description: Subscribe] >>>> <http://grasstopsusa.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aca8d391b7110c56628ee19de&id=2ac47cc5d5&e=c506d16e1c>*Wage >>>> Web Warfare Against The Liberal Establishment * >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: Description: Description: >>>> http://www.grasstopsusa.com/donfeder.jpg]*To Get the Constitution >>>> Back, We'll Have To Rise To Rebellion * >>>> >>>> >>>> *GrassTopsUSA Exclusive CommentaryBy Don FederJanuary 12, 2016* >>>> >>>> It's mid-January and the Iowa Caucuses are not quite three weeks >>>> away. We're tired of discussing the issues—like where the candidates stand >>>> on national suicide by open borders. Whatever shall we talk about? I know, >>>> let's consider the weighty question of whether Sen. Ted Cruz is a >>>> natural-born citizen! >>>> >>>> Donald Trump is skeptical. Lawrence Tribe, who teaches what's >>>> alleged to be constitutional law at Harvard, says that whether Cruz is >>>> qualified to serve as president under Article II, Section 1 of the >>>> Constitution is hardly settled law — because the Supreme Court hasn't had >>>> an opportunity to misinterpret it yet. >>>> >>>> Some conservatives think that being born to an American mother >>>> (albeit in Canada) isn't enough to qualify. They believe "natural born" >>>> means that not just you, but both of your parents were born in the United >>>> States. While the left continues to use the Constitution as a battering ram >>>> to demolish morality and representative government, we're reduced to such >>>> silly arguments. >>>> >>>> For Republicans, the Constitution is a political prop. Every two >>>> years, they take it out, dust it off, and pledge eternal devotion – then, >>>> when activist judges use it to bend the people to their will, the elephants >>>> in ladies undergarments do nothing to stop them, other than beating their >>>> gums. For Democrats, the Constitution is a tool to transform society – to >>>> impose on the nation by fiat what they could never get through the >>>> political process. >>>> >>>> On January 6, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an >>>> administrative order instructing probate judges not to give marriage >>>> licenses to same-sex couples. Unlike those who worship or grovel at the >>>> feet of *Obergefell*, Moore notes that such licenses violate an >>>> amendment to the Alabama Constitution, adopted by 81% of the state's voters >>>> in a 2006 referendum, and SCOTUS can't change the order of the universe on >>>> a whim. >>>> >>>> Moore can't do that, sputters Rep. Patricia Todd, state director >>>> of the Human Rights Campaign. Gay marriage is "settled law." When leftists >>>> say something is settled law (or "the law of the land"), it means the >>>> courts have given them exactly what they want, and now the process is over >>>> – permanently and for all time. Dred Scott was settled law in 1857. *Plessy >>>> v. Ferguson* was settled law in 1896. Thankfully, neither is now. >>>> >>>> In its 1971 decision (*Baker v. Nelson*), by dismissing an >>>> appeal, SCOTUS upheld a decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court that the >>>> state's law restricting marriage to a man and a woman was constitutional. >>>> (Was *Baker* settled law?) In *Obergefell v. Hodges*, decided last >>>> June, the court's cultural Jacobins held that same-sex marriage was a right >>>> under the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. Other than the ideology >>>> that guides the judiciary, what changed in the intervening years? Does >>>> judicial mumbo-jumbo transform the intent of those who ratified it 135 >>>> years ago? >>>> >>>> Scalia said the majority opinion was "lacking even the veneer of >>>> law" and constituted a "judicial Putsch." Chief Justice John Roberts said >>>> the decision "has no basis in the Constitution... the majority's decision >>>> is an act of will, not legal judgment." To support its edict, SCOTUS cited >>>> what it called changing attitudes toward homosexual marriage (as if opinion >>>> polls are a tool for interpreting the Constitution), and ignored 33 >>>> marriage amendments passed by statewide votes between 1998 and 2012, most >>>> by super-majorities. >>>> >>>> Before *Obergefell*, Brian Brown, president of the National >>>> Organization for Marriage, warned that it was "1973 for marriage," >>>> referring to *Roe v. Wade*. >>>> >>>> In retirement, Associate Justice William Brennan, the architect >>>> of *Roe*, admitted that the majority of the Burger Court first decided >>>> that it wanted to create a right to abortion and then cast about for ways >>>> to justify it under the Constitution. Building on *Griswold v. >>>> Connecticut*, ( 1965), which found a right to privacy hidden in the >>>> bowels of the 14th Amendment, SCOTUS decided that (like Russian nesting >>>> dolls), one non-existent right (privacy) contained within it another >>>> non-existent right (that of a woman to abort her child). >>>> >>>> From *Roe* came 57.76 million dead children by the ruling's >>>> 42nd anniversary, partial-birth abortions, 14-year-olds getting abortions >>>> without their parent's knowledge or consent, and Planned Parenthood's sale >>>> of parts from aborted babies – among other horrors perpetrated in the name >>>> of privacy. *Roe* laid the foundation for *Obergefell*, which one day >>>> will be used to legalize doctor-assisted suicide and other milestones on >>>> the road to a death-camp utopia. >>>> >>>> Justice Anthony Kennedy (the Supreme Court's Soupy Sales) is the >>>> author of the *Obergefell* opinion. He's also the author of the 1992 >>>> decision in *Planned Parenthood v. Casey*, which reaffirmed *Roe*. In >>>> what Justice Scalia has derisively called the "sweet mystery of life" >>>> passage, Kennedy confided that, "At the heart of liberty is the right to >>>> define one's own concept of existence, of meaning of the universe, and of >>>> the mystery of human life." Thus the United States Constitution has >>>> devolved from the best system of government yet devised to Zen meditation. >>>> >>>> Roberts, who chided the majority in *Obergefell*, himself has >>>> played the Sorcerer's Apprentice elsewhere. He's saved Obamacare twice by >>>> pulling rabbits out of judicial hats. The first time, in 2102 (*National >>>> Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius*), Roberts was so >>>> desperate to find Obamacare constitutional that he decided its fines were >>>> actually taxes, even though the administration rejected the argument in its >>>> brief. >>>> >>>> While the Cruz and Moore dramas unfolded, President >>>> I-am-the-Constitution, announced 10 new executive orders to curtail gun >>>> ownership, including redefining a gun dealer as almost anyone who sells >>>> even a single firearm annually. Obama could never get this through >>>> Congress, so he decided to combine the legislative and executive branches, >>>> with all power in his hands. Similarly, he's declared a number of blanket >>>> amnesties last year. >>>> >>>> Who's to stop him? Not Republicans, who fear that standing up to >>>> this despotism would hurt their prospects this year. And they wouldn't even >>>> have to impeach him (though he deserves it more than any of his >>>> predecessors), just stop confirming his appointments, including his >>>> judicial appointments. >>>> >>>> This is what makes the debate over the meaning of natural-born >>>> citizen so hilarious. The Constitution is dead. The left killed it over the >>>> course of half a century, going back to the 1962 school-prayer decision. >>>> And we’re running around in circles trying to decipher a phrase which will >>>> probably never be defined, definitively. >>>> >>>> This is a game conservatives can't win. >>>> >>>> The left controls the law schools from which lawyers and future >>>> judges issue. (It decides the curricula, like Critical Legal Studies.) It >>>> controls the media which shapes the culture that molds activist judges, and >>>> then misreports what the courts are doing. >>>> >>>> And it controls public education, which refuses to teach >>>> American history, including the Constitution. A survey for Constitution >>>> Week in 1997 found that two-thirds of Americans couldn't name the three >>>> branches of government, and 84% thought the phrase "all men are equal" is >>>> in the Constitution. (It's "all men are *created* equal" and it's in >>>> the Declaration of Independence.) >>>> >>>> The Constitution's framers understood that even their remarkable >>>> creation was only as good as the people who would be called on to defend >>>> it. As Benjamin Franklin replied on leaving the Constitutional Convention, >>>> when asked what form of government America would have, "a Republic, if you >>>> can keep it." >>>> >>>> We could get the Constitution back one day. Electing someone >>>> like Ted Cruz would be a start. But even that is no assurance. We'll need >>>> to raise up a generation — like the one that produced the Constitution — to >>>> rise to rebellion and overthrow a judicial tyranny supported by the >>>> political elite. >>>> >>>> *Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a >>>> political/communications consultant. 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