What does it take for New Jersey to keep a senator in office these days? Most Americans don’t give a damn, since the Garden State’s senatorial delegation is among the most scandal-plagued in the nation. Unfortunately for the Constitution, Frank Lautenberg has avoided the kind of scandals that plagued former senator Robert “The Torch” Torricelli and current senator Robert Menendez . . .
Lautenberg has long been a sworn enemy of the 2nd Amendment. He’s the man responsible for hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their gun rights forever. The ‘Lautenberg Amendment’ retroactively revoked the gun rights of anyone who was ever convicted of a crime of domestic violence, even for misdemeanors as petty as spitting.
Sadly, his term won’t expire until the end of 2014, so his days of Constitution-trashing aren’t quite over yet. Newark Mayor Cory Booker is his probable successor, and he isn’t likely to be any friendlier to the Bill Of Rights. On the bright side, Booker will be a freshman senator with few powerful committee assignments. And plenty of skeletons in his closet.
Thanks Nick! Muskets were the assault rifles of the day.
“No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. “ – U S Constitution
Definition: bill of attainder
n. pl. bills of attainder
A legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime, usually treason, without trial and subjecting that person to capital punishment and attainder. Such acts are prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.
An action the Constitution forbids the Congress to do by passing a law, with all the safeguards and checks and balances built into that legislative process, is somehow assumed – by the President – to be within his legitimate authority. The power to declare guilt, especially guilt of “treason”, and to punish that “guilt” by death, is exercisable on the basis of his sole judgment.
By what convoluted logic does the President, a single elected official, rationalize his “authority” to do something that is specifically forbidden by the Constitution to the elected bodies of the Senate and House of Representatives, numbering over 500 elected officials in total?
On what basis does he elevate the power of the President to serve as judge, jury, and executioner — in direct contravention of a Constitutional prohibition of such a tyrannical power forbidden to that body of the representatives of the people, the Congress?
If that power is recognized as a form of tyranny to be denied the Senate and House of Representatives, in spite of the safeguards inherent in the legislative process, then – “a fortiori” — it must surely be tyranny if exercised by the President.
Hahaha… as if the President, Congress, or even the Supreme Court gives anything other than lip service to the Constitution. Good one.
The Gun Prohibitionists are in a contest across the nation to see who can come up with the most onerous legislation to harass the public. I don’t know which is worse: the legislatures making these laws or the public that voted them in.
The original proposal to celebrate this on .3/57 was wisely voted down.
We could have one on .4/5 though. Would that one be of a higher caliber than the one on .2/23? Or would it have more “stopping power” to prevent these bad laws?
SORRY. Serious subject, and I’m telling silly jokes. (leaving, embarrassed now) … but you gotta admit, It was funny.
True or False:
A Constitutional Republic form of government is based on ‘Rights’ of the individual Citizen.
The primary purpose for the institution of all government under a Constitutional Republic form is to ‘Secure Rights’ of the Citizens.
Under a Constitutional Republic form of government, the Citizens have natural inherent ‘Rights’, and grant to those Citizens in positions within government — from local through County thru State and finally to the Federal Government — only certain limited powers, and only those powers necessary for the operation of government itself.
The framework for the operation of government is established under Constitutional Contracts.
Each State has its own State Constitution and the framework for the operation of the Federal government is established within the Constitution of the United States. The various State Constitutions and the Constitution of the United States are in effect, legally-binding Contracts between the Citizens as the governed and the those Citizens who occupy positions in government.
Within the majority of State Constitutions and within the Constitution of the United States are provisions which recognize, declare and enumerate certain specific ‘Rights’.
Among ‘Rights’ recognized, declared and specified as such in most State Constitutions and the Constitution of the United States is the ‘Right’ of the Citizens of their respective State and of the United States to keep and bear arms.
These declarations are in fact written laws with at least two primary purposes.
The recognition and declaration of the specified ’Right’ of the Citizens to keep and bear arms, whom those Citizens in government are both Morally and legally bound under Constitutional Contract to ’Secure’.
To serve as declared, enumerated, and specified limitations and further restrictions upon those few powers afforded by the Citizens as the governed, on those Citizens occupying positions in government.
In circumstances in which laws are being considered for enactment on the Federal level, Representatives of the Citizens of their respective States to the Federal government are no less than;- Morally obligated to protect, preserve and defend the ‘Rights’ of the Citizens they represent; Duty bound to uphold the principles, standards and values embodied within their State Constitutions; and
Legally bound under written law to adhere to the limitations, restrictions and prohitibions on powers granted to them by the Citizens of their State.
Under the declarations of ‘Rights’ of the whole people as Citizens of the United States, the ‘Right’ of the people to keep and bear arms is specifically declared and enumerated as such via the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
In part, the purpose and intent for the declaration and enumeration of certain specific ‘Rights’ of the people in the Constitution of the United States as follows:
[The Preamble to The Bill of Rights]
Excerpt:
“Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED…”
Amendment II “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
source: http://archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
They didn’t want to find any. Simple as that. Just wait till all this crap come to a vote and watch how quick main-stream “Republicans” cave and “compromise” in a “spirit of true bi-partisanship”
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
This whole argument seems disingenuous and partisan. Obama + drones = evil police state, fire from the skies. If it were a republican initiative my guess is the sentiment would = ‘MURIKA! FUK YEA!
Just sayin’
It could have been just a mind fart.
Look at those children, happy children that wouldn’t be here if not for BHO signing those life saving papers. And Biden, happily clapping while his boss uses that “big stick” he is in such awe of.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers
He is no friend of gun owners. He said in an interview in 2000 (on video) “if he had the power to ban ALL guns, he would”. Google cory booker ban all guns
http://twitchy.com/2013/01/10/cory-booker-if-i-had-the-power-to-ban-guns-i-would/
So get your facts straight, cory booker is as bad as Launtenberg.
You think that’s bad, did you happen to catch this asshat yesterday?
California police chief: The idea that a gun is a defensive weapon is a ‘myth’
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2521563#.UR046FpwvjY.twitter
A good but extremely vague response. He didn’t specify what he was apologizing for. He was too afraid of having a pro gun sound bite.
So, the answer is to throw another section of the bill of rights under the bus to preserve the 2nd? Awesome.
Not to generalize too much, but why do all of these women politician anti’s look alike? Is there a clothing store and salon that they all go to?
Meh…nothing to see here in my opinion.
A Must See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6R3rx5LfUo
“Less than 20 years ago, I was the target of a terrorist group. It was the New World Liberation Front. They blew up power stations and put a bomb at my home when my husband was dying of cancer and the bomb was set to detonate around 2 ‘o clock in the morning, but it was a construction explosive that doesn’t detonate when it drops below freezing. It doesn’t usually freeze in San Francisco, but on this night it dropped below freezing and the bomb didn’t detonate. “I was very lucky, but I thought of what might have happened. Later the same group shot out all the windows of my home and I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself, because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. When I walked to the hospital when my husband was sick, I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out I was going to take them with me.”
Based on the comments to his article at the LA Times site, it appears as if his readership thinks Mr. Skelton is an idiot.
*applauds*
Here’s a clip of her…
She has “common sense”!
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2165372019001/?playlist_id=928378949001
Sir, the feds will not allow themselves be removed from power. Were the case you describe to come to pass, they would stop at nothing, to maintain their positions. They would sooner turn this country into a petri dish than give up authority.