Souter, on America, via John Venlet:
“The republic, Souter said, ‘can be lost, it is being lost, it is lost, if it is not understood.’”
Kelo was but a single empirical data point in your complicity, David. You never understood, and you never will.
Mitch McConnell is concerned:
It certainly sets up the potential for the majority — if it chooses to — to run roughshod over the minority…
The tyranny of the majority was set in motion the day The Declaration died:
The important point here is to understand that we aren’t where we are because the past leaders and legislatures have failed to live up to the ideals of the Constitution, but that those who framed the Constitution failed to live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
The American Revolution in fact *died* with the ratification of the US Constitution.
That idiot McConnell can’t see past the nose on his face.
Become a judge, have your soul excised, and send a man with an IQ of 47 to prison:
For more than six hours Tuesday, as a parade of witnesses testified about the severity of Aaron Hart’s mental retardation and his inability to understand his legal rights, the 18-year-old defendant with an IQ of 47 sat silent and shackled in a chair, alternately fidgeting and making faces.
But in the end, none of it was enough to persuade a judge in this small east Texas town to reconsider the 100-year prison sentence he gave Hart in February after Hart pleaded guilty to molesting a 6-year-old boy.
Here’s an indication of what an IQ of 47 really means:
Under 70 - Definite feeble-mindedness
99.5% of IQ scores fall between 60 and 140
Eric Clifford, you’re a fucking liar:
Clifford, who last week said he had agonized over the case, took only a few seconds to issue his ruling.
Hart’s parents say he has been raped repeatedly by other inmates since he was first arrested last September.
Drop dead, Clifford. You took the coward’s path: you used the “law” as a substitute for rational thought, at the expense of a small child in an adult body.
Spend a day in Aaron’s place. I dare you.
Finished my 2008 self-incrimination servitude, i.e. taxes, last weekend and just today got around to figuring what’s been taken from me over the course of my life: $290,595.45. Last year, the total was $261,369.97. That’s $29,225.48 just for this year, or roughly, a pretty nice new truck. Hell, I could have bought a livable house for that. It’s getting to the point where I could have bought some great ocean-front property in some place that has no winters, unlike the US, where it’s soon going to be winter all year ’round.
I should note that the number above includes my wife’s taxes. It does not include sales taxes or property taxes.
Every year I look at that huge and growing number and imagine what I could have done with that money. Every year I wonder why I continue to be such a victim. Every year I vow to stop being a slave. Every year I fail.
This, from here:
Most people ‘going Galt’ refuse to recognize the final moral meaning of it; it’s a form of nonviolent social protest, and something you do on account of principle, and you should expect to pay a significant penalty for doing it.
Note the ultimatum: “you should expect to pay a significant penalty for doing it.” That “it” is minding your own damn business, and that chiseler presumes that you should pay dearly to someone for doing so.
That girl has dibs on grinding Paul Schene’s balls into powder.
Savages like Schene are a menace to everyone, every day they live.
Kill yourself, Paul Schene.
I’m always grateful for the benevolence of the Monroe News, which hosts the forums Monroe Talks, where I’ve been trying my best to explain what’s at stake to jbs:
There is more at stake than confiscation of property.
Like I said to Smash, would you participate in your own execution?
Another vostista who’s swallowed the voting sham.
I’m guessing my latest reply to “jbs” on the local forums is probably going to get me banned. Here it is, mostly so I’ve got a copy for later.
Huh? It must kill you to live in America where we have a system that allows you take make enough money to be TAXED OVER A 1/4 OF A MILLION DOLLARS. No freaking wonder you don’t like the system, you are flat out greedy.
I revert back to my earlier suggestion that maybe you should find a system that benefits your needs better than the good ‘ol USA, since you have it so bad here.
Been taxed over $261,000…..and I’m guessing you are not an invalid geriatric. Your posts are beginning to resound as if you attempted to cheat the government and got caught. Is this the source of your anger? You don’t want government but don’t feel real bad about enjoying its benefits do you. There should be a damn toll booth at the end of your driveway. Taxed over $261,000. How many years has it been since you voted GOP?
Just as I knew you’d do, you got bent out of shape over that number, even though you don’t know me, and have no idea how generous I am. You wrote all those words and exhibited not one glimmer of recognition that all that money I earned was taken from me on behalf of you and your fellow votistas.
You want to take things that belong to me. You said it yourself: “There should be a damn toll booth at the end of your driveway.” I’d never do such a thing to you. Why would you do that to me? Why should I leave because you want something that belongs to me?
The thing is, you won’t do it yourself. That’s why you vote. You want someone else to do your dirty work. Again, whether you understand it or not, (and it’s abundantly clear that you don’t) the only reason to vote in a government election is the hope that one of the elected will make your neighbors comply with your preferences.
“There should be a damn toll booth at the end of your driveway.”
Fuck you. I’d never do such a thing to you. Why would you do that to me?
My patience for morons like that is gone.
The 56th 4-year plan is almost two weeks old. The Obamaklatura are almost all in place.
The presidential oath, binding the 56th by his own word, is completely hollow.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
No part of that oath mentions any obligation to do what is right, or even any attempt to try to avoid harming others. It’s simply a promise to obey and defend a scrap of paper, without regard to whether or not its prescriptions are right or wrong.
A poster on the local newspaper’s forums is confused about what, exactly, he’s doing when he votes. I tried to set him straight. I have no hope that it will stick.
No one takes anything from you on my behalf.
You voted, didn’t you?
Can you tell me exactly how you have? Maybe then we can get to the root of your issues.
As of last year’s tax return, governments have taken at least $261,369.97 from me in my life.
My “issue” is people who can’t see past their infatuation with delegated coercion.
Every power pig claiming to represent you, sending bipedal rottweilers to collect from you - and me - is a direct result of your lending an air of legitimacy to their actions by your voting, for them, to act on your behalf. Ayn Rand described this as the sanction of the victim. Unfortunately, your sanction has consequences for me as well because there is no way for me to opt out of the consequences of your vote. Whether you understand it or not, the only reason to vote in a government election is the hope that one of the aspirants will act on your behalf to make your neighbors comply with your preferences. No one votes in any government election for any other reason.
Again, I’d never do such a thing to you. Why would you do that to me?
I don’t think he’ll ever understand what it is he’s doing when he punches that voting ticket.