We have three branches of government, we have a House, we have a Senate, we have a President.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D)
Amazing that this person was elected to the Senate when he doesn’t even understand the basics of the Constitution.
Category Archives: Abuse of Power
Obama on Roe v. Wade
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, and affirms a fundamental principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters.
I am committed to protecting this constitutional right. I also remain committed to policies, initiatives, and programs that help prevent unintended pregnancies, support pregnant women and mothers, encourage healthy relationships, and promote adoption.
And on this anniversary, I hope that we will recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams. Barack Obama, January 22, 2011
Let’s examine a few items with his statement, the inconsistencies with words and actions are astounding:
“ government should not intrude on private family matters.” Unless:
a. It is to force you under penalty of law to buy health insurance.
b. It is to tell us what light bulbs we must use in our private family residence.
c. It is to require 1099s for anyone who is paid more than $600 per year.
etc. The government intrudes in private family matters daily. President Obama is right that the Federal government should not do so, but back it up with actions and consistency.
“our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams”
I certainly agree with the quoted statement. By this logic, though, if one parent does not agree to the pregnancy, then they should not be bound to support the child or the other parent. The burden on the “son’s” “rights, freedoms, opportunities, and dreams” is not negligible, in fact it is as much as the “daughter’s”. “Sons” have no rights now to demand an abortion in order to “fulfill their dreams” nor do the “sons” have the right to fulfill their dreams.
Bloggers blame Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords shooting
After seeing bloggers trying to blame Sarah Palin for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting today, a few facts should be stated:
1. Jared Lee Loughner lists among his favorite books Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10). None of those would be listed by any Republican or Tea Partier as favorite books. Both favor a large, central, all-powerful government controlling the citizens.
2. Jared Lee Loughner’s High School friend on twitter (http://twitter.com/caitieparker) says he was a “left wing” pot head.
3. Jared Lee Loughner writes using the terms “B.C.E”. Loughner hated “In God We Trust.” Both of which show he is not a Christian.
4. Loughner is reportedly a registered “independent”.
5. Loughner shot and killed a Republican Federal Judge. Does that make him a Democrat?
6. CNN used the name “Crossfire” for a show for nearly 25 years (1982-2005). That is 23 years of indoctrinating people to think of political debate as “Crossfire”.
[Update] 7. Loughner had sent Representative Giffords a letter in 2007. More than a year prior to Sarah Palin being a household name.
[Update 1/12/2010] 8. “He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio” according to a friend.
Update 1/17/2010] 9. The New York Times reports that Loughner was a Present Bush hater – “His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush”.
Saying Sarah Palin is to blame, the Tea Party, the Republican party – or for that matter the Democratic party – is nuts. It sounds like something that this nut job would say! The blame belongs with an insane killer. No one else. But don’t let any facts get in the way of a good smear.
Concentrate on the victims, not trying to pin it on someone else.
Regarding the Communist Manifesto, Conservatives generally want small government with power widely distributed and closer to the voter with most decisions left to the individual. (The left wing wants larger, more centralized government. Once the differences are stated it becomes clear that one side wants power in government, the other freedom to the people. Groups that want large government are the fascists, socialists, and communists – in other words statists and dictators like the Nazi Socialists, the USSR, Mao’s Socialists. All of whom were willing to kill millions of people in order to establish their social order. All of whom wanted a strong, central, powerful government in order to impose their will on everyone else “for their own good.”
The choice is easy: freedom or government. Life and liberty vs power and control.
Bitcoin is a tool for freedom
Bitcoin is a tool for freedom and will therefore be opposed by any of the statists, communists, socialists, crony-capitalists, fascists – in short any type of authoritarians – who want to monitor and control you. Anyone with a vested interest in the hidden tax on the poor and middle class through inflation will oppose bitcoin. Anyone who doesn’t believe in freedom of movement will oppose bitcoin because it helps people be free to change geographic locations.
The power-hungry politicians and their lap dogs in the press will oppose bitcoin because it threatens them and returns power to the people.
Check it out for yourself.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton
the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments.
“As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been
surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely,
people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject, but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere.”Franklin Delano Roosevelt speech on the Volstead Act, March 3, 1930, New York Times. Two years before becoming President and taking the opposite view.
The great corrupter of the American constitutional republic is government ignoring its Constitutional bounds
Mort Zuckerman makes some good points in his USNews commentary, but misses the boat with his comments on money in politics.
Money is a tool. The problem occurs when the government is everywhere, then politics is everywhere. When politics is everywhere, the fight for political power becomes crucial. With no limits on their power, politicians in Washington become power-hungry. The Founders understood this which was why the created a government of limited, enumerated powers. Once the concept of enumerated powers was lost, freedom began down the long road of decline.
When politics and government are everywhere instead of individuals making their own decisions based in their freedom to do so, the freedom of the individual is lost. Every election becomes about someone wanting to control someone else. Every election will be more polarized than the last because many people do not want someone else making their decisions for them. Polarization is good when one side wants to control and the other side wants freedom. Compromise with your destroyers still results in you being destroyed, just slower than out-right surrender.
In short, MONEY is NOT the great corrupter of “American democracy,” but merely a symptom. The great corrupter of the American constitutional republic is government ignoring its Constitutional bounds which allows power-hungry politicians the opening they need to take as much power as they can.
Everything becomes political when the government is everywhere.
When the government is everywhere, everything is political. When the government is everywhere, politics is everywhere. In short, everything becomes political when the government is everywhere.
Instead of individuals making decisions for themselves – from what to eat to where to smoke – a majority (or not) of the population does so by vote. It is the opposite of freedom. It is fascism, socialism, communism or some other form of totalitarianism.
The “Naked Scanner” will be required, the fondling by the TSA makes the Patriot Act look tame.
1. It will not be long until the “naked-scanner” is required. Even the naked scanners won’t detect bombs that have been swallowed or in some prosthetics, so even more intrusive scanners will be required.
2. It will not be long until the airlines begin to feel the financial impact of the long lines which will provide an excuse for a Federal Government bailout.
3. It will not be long until all video recording of TSA officers and airports is illegal. This will prevent widespread criticism.
The fondling by the TSA makes the Patriot Act look tame.
Sen Jay Rockefeller get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’
“There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’ It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future.” Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
1. FoxNews and MSNBC are not on the airwaves, consequently the FCC has no jurisdiction.
2. Senator Jay Rockefeller must have missed at least part of the First Amendment to the Constitution, not to mention the entire Constitution itself.
What are the people of West Virginia thinking electing a clown like Rockefeller? He is right, without a press that is able to publish the truth, the Federal Government’s big-government, power-hungry politicians, would be able to ‘get away’ with a lot more. The First Amendment protects the country against the likes of Rockefeller.