The Constitution is not a la carte!
By louisehartmann
This may come as news to some Red state lawmakers, but there's more to the Constitution than the Second and the Tenth Amendments. The background check bill failed the Senate, but that didn't stop several Republican states from passing bills to exempt themselves from federal gun laws.
Earlier this week, the Alabama state senate passed legislation to nullify all federal laws they deem “a violation of the Second Amendment.” They weren't the first though, as Mississippi attempted to nullify federal laws back in January, and Kansas passed similar legislation last month. But, the nullification measures in these states are meaningless, as they violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which states that federal laws, “shall be the supreme law of the land.” Apparently, these states think they can violate one part of the Constitution to uphold another.
Thankfully, Attorney General Eric Holder is helpfully reminding these states that our Union doesn't operate that way. In a letter to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Holder wrote, “In purporting to override federal law and to criminalize the official acts of federal officers, [the law] directly conflicts with federal law and is therefore unconstitutional.”
These Red states can't pick and choose the parts of the Constitution they want to follow. They can't decide they like the Second and Tenth Amendments and act as if the rest doesn't apply to them. And the Supremacy Clause is one of the Constitution's most important tenants. James Madison himself warned that nullification of federal law would, “speedily put an end to the Union itself.”
Republicans constantly tout the importance of our founding fathers, and the Constitution they drafted to form our Union. So, it's about time that those on the Right start respecting all of it.
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#2
Outback ~ Very well! Out of respect for you and my wife, I'll drop it! Besides, what good would it do the country anyway! Thanks, buddy. Good weekend to you all! Ken as well!
#3
Well done.
Think I'll take a little break from this blog. It's getting a little too nuts for me.
Good night.
#4
Yes without any hesitation. Why not fly down here where it is aleast safe for you. I have been to Oakland and it is not a place a white stranger wants to travel too. I will buy your ticket and you can fly down here to lax and I will pay for your taxi to the South Bay. SuckAss....K.W. Or I will fly up there and try not to get mugged..
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DAM - I hope you will reply by tomorrow.
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ken ware ~ You are a joke of the first class. No I don't want to fly down to LA to break a knuckle or two on your thick skull. I've better things to do with my hands. If you can't take what I write on this blog maybe you should take a trip to Alaska and soak your head in the icy waters of a glacier. I think that would do you a world of good. No, don't take your head out too fast. Let it soak real good. And have a fabulous weekend, my brother.
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DAnneMarc -- 90% of the people want background checks. I do not see where any of the 1% are influencing this decision; especially, for any profit. Meanwhile the NRA (actually the gun manufacturers) through ALEC are telling the Red States to defy these laws. By supporting the red states you are helping the 1% fight back against the 90%. to help the profits of the gun manufacturers.
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"You need to see the movie "Lincoln" those functional idiots out voted and bought off the Democrats in order to free the slaves. And I bet that is a fact that PhilpHenderson does not like."
You do realize that's because the parties were flipped then yes? Those republicans are the democrats of today and vice versa. For all intensive purposes republicans used to be the progressives and Dems used to be the conservatives. Personally, i'm still trying to figure out exactly when the change took place -- how and why.
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Tara T -- Thom says the 1% influence on the Republican party started immediately after Lincoln's death with Andrew Johnson becoming president. The major shift was after LBJ pushed through the civil rights act.
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chuckle8 ~ I see and agree with your point. I also am in favor of background checks. I'd love to see assault weapons banned as well. But this is my problem. These are the Government's solution for widespread violent mass murders that involve not only guns; but, the mentally ill. Have you ever heard of "Operation Northwood." If not, please google it. Before you finish typing "Operation" in your search engine "Northwood" will appear at the top of the search list. It was a clandestine black op proposed by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and rejected by the Kennedy administration. It called for such acts to be committed on American streets, killing innocent American civilians in order to justify pursuing an illegal invasion of Cuba.
When I see my Government responding to the acts of these extremely mentally ill people by trying to ban guns I become very suspicious of ulterior motives. In this case the ends do not justify the means. Why are we not reinstating publicly funded mental hospitals? That is exactly what this situation demands? Gun control? Did prohibition stop drinking? Did the war on drugs stop drug abuse? No, they didn't. They simply made the problem worse. Ever since prohibition there have been machine guns available on the black market. No arbitrary mass murders have occurred in history until Reagan defunded mental hospitals. The argument for gun control as a solution to this problem holds no water.
On the other hand, the argument that the Government is behind these acts, or at least using these acts to pursue a hidden agenda of disarming the American People is blatantly sound. The 1%, or 0.01% if you will, are behind this hidden agenda. Of course they can arouse the emotions of 90% of the population by staging the mass murder of children. When our children are threatened we don't think clearly--we react--often times irrationally. I tell you I see the writing on the wall from a mile away; and, this is coming from an anti-gun pacifist. I have no love for the NRA, guns, or any of the red states. But I feel we are all being played like a violin. Don't think with you heart, think with your brain on this one.
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One can read the 2nd Amendment has requiring militia membership has a condition for gun ownership. How many U.S. gun owners are members in good standing of a state militia, subject to the rules and regulations thereof? What part of "A well regulated Militia" is difficult to understand?
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DAnneMarc -- I assume you realize the gun manufacturers are using your paranoia to sell more guns. I believe currently the thing we should be the most paranoid about is the 1%, not the emotions of the 90%. Your statements seem to stand behind a ruling elite that says we know what is best for you emotional people.
I assume the defense department has so many contingency plans like Operation Northwood that your hair would stand on end. I remember back in the 60s reading one of the contingency plans for race wars.
#13
I figured that would be your reply....I will go down to Manhattan Beach and have a swim and then lunch and a beer, it is closer.
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DAM - The Government staging the mass murder of Children! Paranoia must run rampant in your mind to think the Government killed children as a prelude to some type of martial law in order to take away our guns. I am not stating that as a put down on your state of mind, but you really need to think before you make comments of this nature. I know, I am one of those fools that have been duped by our Government because I do not think they killed innocent children to impose their agenda on the American people, nor do I believe they flew remote controlled aircraft into the Towers and used Terrorists as fall guys! What type of medicine was or is mother or father presently on? They have shown clinically that paranoia may be passed on from one generation to the next. It is not your fault; it is in your genes. Get help before you see them coming after you and act out because of your delusions and hurt yourself or some child. K.W. I only react in a violent manner towards adults and the mentally defcient for their own good...
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KW -- That water is too damn cold. Besides that it is raining.
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ckrob -- Based on one of my previous comments above, it 90% of the people want a particular law what does the constitution have to do with it? The constitution says whatever the super-majority wants, I, the constitution cannot stand in their way (also called the amendent process).
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chuckle8: And I bet they even had 'contingency plans' for 911...that they actually carried out this time....like they carried out at Pearl Harbor...like they carried out for the false flag operation on the USS Maine in Havanna Harbor...like they carried out on the USS Lusitania...like they carried out on the Gulf of Tonkin...and I have not listed them all, of course.
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ken ware/chuckle8 ~ What you call "paranoia" I call critical thinking. I simply extrapolate a logical conclusion given a set of illogical and irrational behaviors by the Government; and then, compare them to known facts and historical precidents. I certainly do not want to believe the 'WORST CASE SCENARIO' anymore than you. However, we've already seen the results once in the previous century as to what happens when facism takes hold of a nation. It's not all at once, but one carefully calculated step at a time. Most of those steps have already taken place right under our noses and both of you are more than aware of that fact.
Call me paranoid if you like. To me, brushing my concerns off as irrational sounds as foolish as the German citizens rationalizations of the 1930's. Can we really afford the same consequences of that lethargy again when we know where this trend leads? Consider the pain and sorrow to the world if Hitler and the Third Reich were to be reinvented and given the might of the current US military.
Yet, I hope and pray you are right and I am wrong. I'd much rather be a publically ridiculed fool in this case than right! Remember, It is better to be prepared for a disaster that never happens; then to be unprepared for a disaster that does happen.
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Palindromedary ~ Finally!! Thanks for showing up. I've been getting my butt kicked (literally even) Thanks for chiming in!!!! I've missed you!
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Quote ken ware:
I know, I am one of those fools that have been duped by our Government because I do not think they killed innocent children to impose their agenda on the American people, nor do I believe they flew remote controlled aircraft into the Towers and used Terrorists as fall guys!
I never thought I'd hear you admit it! ;-}
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DAnneMarc -- You need to read my comment more carefully. I agree just because your paranoid, it doesn't mean they are not out to get you. What I said was you need to better prioritize your paranoia. It is the 1% to be paranoid about. The 1% is in full attack mode on the gun issue.
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DAnnemarc: Yeah, I see you have been having fun sparing with Ken. He likes that kind of thing...I wouldn't get too upset. I think he is just having fun. Aren't we all! ;-}
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Palindromedary ~ I don't get the self-centered greed Ken shows sometimes. He wants to launch his own Rebellion when his personal benefits are threatened; yet, when the country is ready to fall into the handbasket to hell, he makes jokes and lobs insults to those who care. Doesn't he even realize that his precious benefits are still on the chopping block and his country as well? Where the hell is he coming from?
#24
chuckle8 ~ You may be right! If so, I'm sorry. I am paranoid mostly about the 1%. However, what do they have to gain by instigating and promoting the legal sale of guns, and fighting against gun sale restrictions? Here is the fuzzy part for me.
#25
chuckle8: But why would the 1% want the 99% to have guns? The 1% has all the gold and they mean to keep it which means they would be more afraid of the 99% having guns because they might start thinking it's time for a revolution.
Some people keep saying that the people wouldn't have a chance against such a well armed military...high tech weapons..and all that. But, you know, we were outgunned by a well-trained and obedient British army who all had more superior weapons than our rag-tag defenders of the home land had. We won because we didn't fight like gentlemen..actually, like terrorists!
I'd say that the 99% have a lot to defend against. I think that both the Democrat party and the Republican party are both trying to play their constituents for what ever they think they want to hear; but neither party, and especially, the ruling elite who control our government, wants the 99% to be well armed.
The Democrats have it easy in arguing against a well armed citizenry because their constituents are largely anti-gun (although not all of us are).
The Republicans have it much harder because they have to argue AGAINST their real position of anti-gun ownership, and pretend they are FOR gun ownership. They have to please their constituents..which is composed of a lot of the military industry and those goober, bible-thumping, jingoist automatons who want to rebel against the latte-sipping homosexuals who they feel largely make up the Democrat constituency.
That crowd feels the pain that is brought down upon them by the ruling elite, just as much as, or greater than, the rest of us; but, they are too stupid to know any better. They are a lot to worry about. But, the Republicans don't have to worry much about them because those dimwits back the Republicans anyway. And all a ruling elitist has to do is say "Look! There goes a flaming liberal homosexual...quick...shoot him!" And they will!
The anti-gun Democrats have a lot to worry about because they have given up their guns or never had them to begin with. They are the ones that believed that the police will save them...I say "believed"-past tense- because they are now being autopsied.
The Democrat party has a lot to worry about because, unless they manage to fully disarm America they will likely see a rebellion, of sorts, by a few dimwits in the Tea Party and then the Republicans will take over.
The era of Democrat useful idiots for the ruling elite will be over and we may very well suffer a theocracy. We'll all be force to go to Church, eat pork (to prove we're not Muslim), and kill more babies in other countries because they are Muslims, or Hindus, or Methodists. The Baptists will come to power and condemn ever other religion... they'll have all the nukes and will likely blow up the whole world just to prove their prophecy of Armageddon and the end of the world would come true after all. Yet another self-fulfilling prophecy.
#26
DAnnemarc: Some people get a high on gambling..others killing...others just sparring verbally. It ramps up the adrenaline. But then to complete the cycle...kiss and make up. Fine, if everyone realizes this is the way it is; not fine, if it goes physical. It's a good thing that not too many people know where the others live...because it is not impossible to dox* people on-line now-a-days. Some people will boast that they are not concerned because they have an AK47 waiting for their unannounced entry. All part of the adrenaline rush maybe to cover some deeply buried insecurity. You know what they say..."Big guns...little p_____!" ;-} I'm just kidding all you guys with little p______ and big guns! In fact, you may just have a little gun and a big p______!
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*"Dox" is a term used to describe a person's personal documentation and information on the internet. The information usually involved is phone numbers, home and work addresses, credit card information and email addresses.
http://ohinternet.com/Dox
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Many people tend to be more civil toward one another if they know where, exactly, a person lives (and vice versa) or knows that he/she may one day meet them face to face. On the other hand, some people are crazy as hell and you just don't want them to know anything about you..let alone where you live.
With Google Earth, you can zoom right down into someone's driveway (if they even have one)..and do a 360 degree panorama of a street view...zoom right up to the front door. That is why it is not a good idea to reveal your real name or even very much other information about yourselves. You don't even have to pay for any service to glean little bits of information that you can use to dox someone. You don't even have to be a hacker, illegally cracking passwords, or breach secure servers, to get this information...it is all legal.
#27
Palindromedary ~ Thanks for that eye opening lesson! Thank you very much!!!
#28
DAnneMarc -- Greed is what the 1% is about. The component of the 1% that is in the gun restriction battle is the gun and ammo manufacturing component. During this debate and ever since Obama came into office they are making more and more money. It is especially profitable to say your government is our to get you; be sure to buy lots of protection. The other laws they are pushing in the red states are laws to eliminate their liability.
#29
"Some people keep saying that the people wouldn't have a chance against such a well armed military...high tech weapons..and all that. But, you know, we were outgunned by a well-trained and obedient British army who all had more superior weapons than our rag-tag defenders of the home land had. We won because we didn't fight like gentlemen..actually, like terrorists!"
One very important difference is we weren't fighting the brits on their soil. So that's not really an accuarate comparison to fighting our own government on our own dirt. And based on history, we've seen how well that type of fighting works out for most people.
#30
Yes, but do you really think that our own military (our own sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, nephews, or nieces) would kill their own sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, nephews, or nieces in the streets of America? As has happened in other countries..soldiers have refused to fire on their own populations...that tank in Tiananmen Square didn't run over that protester standing in front of it. Of course there are always exceptions...like Rachael Cory being run over by a bulldozer in Israel. But hey, the Israelis fired on and torpedoed the USS Liberty...and Israel was supposed to be our ally. They probably even used weapons that the US supplied to them. Talk about "pay back". It was no accident. They knew full well who they were firing at.
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DeanneMarc - I did read what you wrote and perhaps you need to rewrite your comments. You are typical of the conspiracy theorists who think the Government is out to get you and the police state is just around the corner, you are an idiot, bud! It is always the guys that ramble on about nothing, like people showing up at an accident to get their picture in the paper, that actually have no answers, just complaints about everything. I do mean to get personnel, but yes you are a hypocrite. I am not going to ramble on about this because you seem to get off on being the guy with the right answers to what is wrong in America. Stop whining about the police, you are starting to sound like a bitch. A t this point there is no sense in rambling on, it appears commenting on this blog is what you wait for each day. You know and I know the Government has the last word when it comes to the States and the bullshit you’re trying to hand out is nothing more than you needing to see yourself in print. You are starting to sound like your friend Palin and his theories. I really wish you would run into me someday, I think you get my point. You and Outback sound real tough in print, I doubt either of you have any military or combat experience, yet you’re ready for the States to split up! Mindless idiots who are all talk and no real practical experience to back up your rhetoric! You and Outback probably never had to fight for anything in your lives, yet you talk about the States rights to succeed from the Union, inexperienced tough guys! HA Ha!