Bill of Rights
The vast majority of American laws that are on the books today were made after 1912. Is that not surprising? 90% of American laws came only after that year. Income tax. Gun laws. Petty Lawsuits. Government-managed regulations imposed on everything and anything that moved. Before then, we were free. America was a free country. Now, it's not.
Before 1912, the only gun laws ever enforced in the United States were laws against blacks owning guns, and later other minorities. These laws were intended to keep Klansmen safe. We know better than this today. And yet, rather than simply repeal the laws restricting blacks from owning guns, what happened? Well, in 1934, 1968, and 1986, we got gun control. Then again in 1994, but that ineffective just-for-the-fuck-of-it law sunset in 2004.
Now, there's this thing, it's a part of the US Constitution. It's called the Bill of Rights. It tells the government what it cannot do, what things it cannot limit. Well, we don't really have much of it left. The Bill of Rights is not like other laws...it is not enforced by the government against the people. It is not enforced at all. Enforcement of the Bill of Rights is up to the people. The people must enforce their rights against their government. The Government cannot be trusted to simply not tread on our rights; they do so constantly. Let's look at some examples.
The First Amendment is "Freedom of Expression." Freedom to say what we want, think what we want, worship who and what we want, without laws enforced against us. Well, we lost that one. The new thing is "Political Correctness." You can't say anything offensive to any minority that the left arbirtrarily determines is neccessarily a victim of oppression. You have to be careful not about what you say, but how you phrase it. It's one thing to shout "Fire!" in a theater. It's another to get sued for racism, with almost no way to disprove it, because you called someone "black" rather than "African American." One student called people from Pakistan "Pakis" (much as people from Afganistan can be called Afgans), and was promptly suspended. "Freedom of Speech" you fucking Liberals. Berkeley has an orgasm for that stuff and yet you still want to force this shit down our throat that restricts it? What is it now, "Freedom of Speech unless deemed offensive"? Yep, the first amendmend is dead.
The Second Amendment, "the right to keep and bear arms." Not "the right to keep and bear semiautomatic arms unless manufactured prior to 1986 and only after paying a $200 tax stamp and waiting six months for the ATF to approve it," not "the right to keep and bear arms with no more than 10 rounds of centerfire ammunition in a nonremovable magazine," not "the right to keep and bear arms with a 16 inch or longer barrel and 30 inches overall length unless approved by the government," the RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. But that's dead, so let's move on.
The Fourth Amendment, freedom from search and siezure. This one isn't dead yet, but it's choking pretty hard. Everybody thank the metaphorical noose of the War on Drugs, No-knock warrants, Sobriety roadblocks.
The Sixth, "Right to a speedy trial," you must be informed of the charges against you and given trial within a reasonable amount of time, unless you tell the court they may wait to give you the trial. Technicality: Does not apply to suspected terrorists. Nevermind if you're a terrorist or not, if they think you are, they can hold you in prison without charging you with anything. And they don't have to give you a trial anytime soon, so enjoy the wait and get on Bubba's good side.
The Tenth Amendment, or the "States' Rights" amendment. Nothing that is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution as a power of the Government is reserved for the people or for the States under it. Where in the Constitution is the EPA mentioned? The FCC? Where in the Constitution does it say that it's the Government's job to pay for our healthcare? To tax our income for Social Security? I thought so. The Tenth Amendment is dead.
So then, half the Bill of Rights has been invalidated or limited.
But wait, that's illegal! The Government can't do that!
Ah, but they can. And they are. Who's job is it to ensure that the Government respects your rights? Not the Government's job. It's the people's job. The people must enforce their rights, the Bill of Rights, against the government.
How? Well the easy way to do it, and by far the preferred method, is to vote for whoever respects your freedom above all else. That said, nobody cares about that anymore. Liberals are all about imposing taxes and socialism, while Conservatives in America are all about imposing their arbitrary sense of morality against us, the people.
So you say, "If there's an easy way, then there's a hard way too, right?" Why yes. There used to be. It's revolution of the government, the people can overthrow the government by force and reinstate a new one. I say there used to be, because that kinda depends on the guns that we're no longer allowed to legally own because of the trespassing on the Second Amendment. That Amendment is our protection against tyrrany.
Government exists for the benefit of those under it. For the protection of those that live by it. When government ceases to acknowledge the best interests of the people, in favor of increasing it's own power, it is tyrrany. This is a failure which can only be stopped or changed by those that live under it. People must choose to live by a government. They can choose to live by no government, but insodoing forfiet the benefits of living under it. If the people are dissatisfied with the government, they can destroy it, and instate a new one in it's place which they believe to better serve their interests. That is how America gained independance.
But now, the America formed 200 years ago in a violent revolution that sent the redcoats running, is dead. She is a zombified shadow of her former self. Still alive, but decaying, still independant from England, but no longer independant because of the UN.
There is a rumor of civil war, many gun owners are sufficiently unhappy with the government that they would be willing to join a revolution to repair it, but this revolution does not exist. If it were, it would be considered an enemy of the state, considered "domestic terrorism," in order to deter others from joining or being called terrorists, in this world where all it takes to start a war, is the word "terrorist" used in association with an organization.
Let's hope it never comes to that, but do what must be done in case it does. Vote for the best, prepare for the worst.
Protect the Bill of Rights with everything you must, at any cost you are willing to incur. America is not freedom. The Bill of Rights is Freedom. America has lost touch with the Bill of Rights which helped spur the country's growth into the 1920s. The Bill of Rights made us strong, and the only reason we are still strong without it is because of how strong we were made before we lost it.
Before 1912, the only gun laws ever enforced in the United States were laws against blacks owning guns, and later other minorities. These laws were intended to keep Klansmen safe. We know better than this today. And yet, rather than simply repeal the laws restricting blacks from owning guns, what happened? Well, in 1934, 1968, and 1986, we got gun control. Then again in 1994, but that ineffective just-for-the-fuck-of-it law sunset in 2004.
Now, there's this thing, it's a part of the US Constitution. It's called the Bill of Rights. It tells the government what it cannot do, what things it cannot limit. Well, we don't really have much of it left. The Bill of Rights is not like other laws...it is not enforced by the government against the people. It is not enforced at all. Enforcement of the Bill of Rights is up to the people. The people must enforce their rights against their government. The Government cannot be trusted to simply not tread on our rights; they do so constantly. Let's look at some examples.
The First Amendment is "Freedom of Expression." Freedom to say what we want, think what we want, worship who and what we want, without laws enforced against us. Well, we lost that one. The new thing is "Political Correctness." You can't say anything offensive to any minority that the left arbirtrarily determines is neccessarily a victim of oppression. You have to be careful not about what you say, but how you phrase it. It's one thing to shout "Fire!" in a theater. It's another to get sued for racism, with almost no way to disprove it, because you called someone "black" rather than "African American." One student called people from Pakistan "Pakis" (much as people from Afganistan can be called Afgans), and was promptly suspended. "Freedom of Speech" you fucking Liberals. Berkeley has an orgasm for that stuff and yet you still want to force this shit down our throat that restricts it? What is it now, "Freedom of Speech unless deemed offensive"? Yep, the first amendmend is dead.
The Second Amendment, "the right to keep and bear arms." Not "the right to keep and bear semiautomatic arms unless manufactured prior to 1986 and only after paying a $200 tax stamp and waiting six months for the ATF to approve it," not "the right to keep and bear arms with no more than 10 rounds of centerfire ammunition in a nonremovable magazine," not "the right to keep and bear arms with a 16 inch or longer barrel and 30 inches overall length unless approved by the government," the RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. But that's dead, so let's move on.
The Fourth Amendment, freedom from search and siezure. This one isn't dead yet, but it's choking pretty hard. Everybody thank the metaphorical noose of the War on Drugs, No-knock warrants, Sobriety roadblocks.
The Sixth, "Right to a speedy trial," you must be informed of the charges against you and given trial within a reasonable amount of time, unless you tell the court they may wait to give you the trial. Technicality: Does not apply to suspected terrorists. Nevermind if you're a terrorist or not, if they think you are, they can hold you in prison without charging you with anything. And they don't have to give you a trial anytime soon, so enjoy the wait and get on Bubba's good side.
The Tenth Amendment, or the "States' Rights" amendment. Nothing that is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution as a power of the Government is reserved for the people or for the States under it. Where in the Constitution is the EPA mentioned? The FCC? Where in the Constitution does it say that it's the Government's job to pay for our healthcare? To tax our income for Social Security? I thought so. The Tenth Amendment is dead.
So then, half the Bill of Rights has been invalidated or limited.
But wait, that's illegal! The Government can't do that!
Ah, but they can. And they are. Who's job is it to ensure that the Government respects your rights? Not the Government's job. It's the people's job. The people must enforce their rights, the Bill of Rights, against the government.
How? Well the easy way to do it, and by far the preferred method, is to vote for whoever respects your freedom above all else. That said, nobody cares about that anymore. Liberals are all about imposing taxes and socialism, while Conservatives in America are all about imposing their arbitrary sense of morality against us, the people.
So you say, "If there's an easy way, then there's a hard way too, right?" Why yes. There used to be. It's revolution of the government, the people can overthrow the government by force and reinstate a new one. I say there used to be, because that kinda depends on the guns that we're no longer allowed to legally own because of the trespassing on the Second Amendment. That Amendment is our protection against tyrrany.
Government exists for the benefit of those under it. For the protection of those that live by it. When government ceases to acknowledge the best interests of the people, in favor of increasing it's own power, it is tyrrany. This is a failure which can only be stopped or changed by those that live under it. People must choose to live by a government. They can choose to live by no government, but insodoing forfiet the benefits of living under it. If the people are dissatisfied with the government, they can destroy it, and instate a new one in it's place which they believe to better serve their interests. That is how America gained independance.
But now, the America formed 200 years ago in a violent revolution that sent the redcoats running, is dead. She is a zombified shadow of her former self. Still alive, but decaying, still independant from England, but no longer independant because of the UN.
There is a rumor of civil war, many gun owners are sufficiently unhappy with the government that they would be willing to join a revolution to repair it, but this revolution does not exist. If it were, it would be considered an enemy of the state, considered "domestic terrorism," in order to deter others from joining or being called terrorists, in this world where all it takes to start a war, is the word "terrorist" used in association with an organization.
Let's hope it never comes to that, but do what must be done in case it does. Vote for the best, prepare for the worst.
Protect the Bill of Rights with everything you must, at any cost you are willing to incur. America is not freedom. The Bill of Rights is Freedom. America has lost touch with the Bill of Rights which helped spur the country's growth into the 1920s. The Bill of Rights made us strong, and the only reason we are still strong without it is because of how strong we were made before we lost it.
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