Given the current state of our government and the direction I fear it is taking our nation, I thought it prudent to look back. I am in the process of studying materials and documents from a few years before the Declaration of Independence, to the forming of the Constitution, the French Revolution, and other events which are tied into and pertinent to questions like, "Was this the intent of our Framers?", or "Is this a government the constitution authorizes?"
No one will ever accuse me of being a scholar. I tolerated school. I did not like it and as such I did not participate to my full capacity from about 7th grade on. So I am not going to claim what I share is the proper interpretation. However, I am a voting, contributing, citizen of this country. I feel I am representative of the average american as much as the next person is. I care greatly for this country, I value my God, my family, my freedom, my safety, my property, and the opportunity to create for myself. All of these I value greatly, these are freedoms given to me by god, the creator, that gave me life (with a little help from Mom and Dad!). That I question governments infringement upon those rights is a fundamental responsibility of the people that government was created to represent. Something has gone wrong.
As this is a family website was created to update you on our lives, not to hear me rant, I will be setting up a blog for those interested to read my thoughts, and respond to my ideas of what is right and wrong, and determine what the proper course of action is. With that I give you www.prideofkings.blogspot.com. Feel free to subscribe family, and tell people about it. Love you.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Points on the Constitution
To comment on a point Katie has made regarding Fire arms, I give you the 2nd Ammendment:
"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."
Infringe, by definition, 'to transgress or exceed the limits of'. I certainly think our Congress has infringed upon that right of the people with gun control laws, and continues to test their limits with examples like what Katie has pointed out. As the Constitution states it is "necessary to the security of a free state". The modern Liberal does not want the governed to have these freedoms. As our government continues to infringe upon our liberties and blur the lines which are clearly drawn by our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, they continue their power-grab without regard for the people they hold office to represent or the country they represent.
So what are the responsibilities of the President of the United States? According to the Constitution, the President "Shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States". Also, he "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States". He also makes treaties (with 2/3 vote), has the power of Veto, appoints ambassadors, certain officials, and most importantly, Judges of the Supreme Court. He can also fill vacancies during recess of Senate on an interim basis.
NOWHERE in the constitution does it say he can use tax-payers' money to take over a private corporation, Fire the CEO, and order executive decisions regarding business practices of said PRIVATE business! Furthermore, the 1oth Amendment states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". What does this mean to me? It means the Federal Government had absolutely no right to intervene with these companies. If it is not in the State's constitution, then it is the responsibility of the private citizen-employees of the Corporation to act accordingly. What Obama is doing is unconstitutional. GM, Chrysler, AIG, Merrill Lynch, and all of the companies that are now partially owned by the Govt are examples of infringement upon the Liberty and Freedom of this Civil Society.
The system is further corrupted by our defunct Judicial Branch, a collection of Justices who serve to re-interpret and bend the Law of the Constitution at their whim, to the eventual goal of absolute power over WE THE PEOPLE. The name of the game for the Liberal is Power. It's that simple. They hide behind words like "change", and "reform" and play on the ideoligies of their party members. They attempt to Villify the Christian and God, in an attempt to remove faith from our society, as faith is a major obstacle in their agenda, for Despotism is their religion and Government is their idol.
Liberals are not totally to blame. Republicans have strayed from strong conservative roots. Just how Hoover set the table for FDR's unprecented spending, Bush set the table for Obama. Of course, evidence suggests FDR's "New Deal" proved to prolong the Great Depression for up to SEVEN years. Obama has taken it well beyond the size and scope FDR's power grab, and has done the same in prolonging this recession which experts have said could be over right now, were it not for government's involvement, and our Massive accruing of Debt.
Obama despises capitolism. He despises that which made this country great. He apologizes for this country in the international community, turns his back on our allies, and cows tow to our relentless enemies. He has already proven he does not have the best interest of this country at heart, putting "world poverty", and other "global problems" first. He has no sense of how American Foreign policy is defined by his predicessors, and it is going to cost lives and allies, as Carter cost us an ally in Iran. But this does not matter to him. What is in the interest of the everyday american doesn't matter. We are a statistic, we are a vote. We are a means to an end for him. A Soft Tyranny is being established in America. But there is a precedent for this, government been fought before. Our Government was founded on the premise that citizens are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The Declaration of Independence also states "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it". I fear it will be the task of mine or my children's generation to act upon this right in order to regain the rights endowed by our Creator.
Maybe Barack should have read these documents, and taken to heart the Declaration where it states "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes" and he should be wary that, "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their[The People's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security...".
President Ronald Reagan said this:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Pray for the people of America to win over the tyrannical agenda of Obama and the Liberal. Love you family.
"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."
Infringe, by definition, 'to transgress or exceed the limits of'. I certainly think our Congress has infringed upon that right of the people with gun control laws, and continues to test their limits with examples like what Katie has pointed out. As the Constitution states it is "necessary to the security of a free state". The modern Liberal does not want the governed to have these freedoms. As our government continues to infringe upon our liberties and blur the lines which are clearly drawn by our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, they continue their power-grab without regard for the people they hold office to represent or the country they represent.
So what are the responsibilities of the President of the United States? According to the Constitution, the President "Shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States". Also, he "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States". He also makes treaties (with 2/3 vote), has the power of Veto, appoints ambassadors, certain officials, and most importantly, Judges of the Supreme Court. He can also fill vacancies during recess of Senate on an interim basis.
NOWHERE in the constitution does it say he can use tax-payers' money to take over a private corporation, Fire the CEO, and order executive decisions regarding business practices of said PRIVATE business! Furthermore, the 1oth Amendment states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". What does this mean to me? It means the Federal Government had absolutely no right to intervene with these companies. If it is not in the State's constitution, then it is the responsibility of the private citizen-employees of the Corporation to act accordingly. What Obama is doing is unconstitutional. GM, Chrysler, AIG, Merrill Lynch, and all of the companies that are now partially owned by the Govt are examples of infringement upon the Liberty and Freedom of this Civil Society.
The system is further corrupted by our defunct Judicial Branch, a collection of Justices who serve to re-interpret and bend the Law of the Constitution at their whim, to the eventual goal of absolute power over WE THE PEOPLE. The name of the game for the Liberal is Power. It's that simple. They hide behind words like "change", and "reform" and play on the ideoligies of their party members. They attempt to Villify the Christian and God, in an attempt to remove faith from our society, as faith is a major obstacle in their agenda, for Despotism is their religion and Government is their idol.
Liberals are not totally to blame. Republicans have strayed from strong conservative roots. Just how Hoover set the table for FDR's unprecented spending, Bush set the table for Obama. Of course, evidence suggests FDR's "New Deal" proved to prolong the Great Depression for up to SEVEN years. Obama has taken it well beyond the size and scope FDR's power grab, and has done the same in prolonging this recession which experts have said could be over right now, were it not for government's involvement, and our Massive accruing of Debt.
Obama despises capitolism. He despises that which made this country great. He apologizes for this country in the international community, turns his back on our allies, and cows tow to our relentless enemies. He has already proven he does not have the best interest of this country at heart, putting "world poverty", and other "global problems" first. He has no sense of how American Foreign policy is defined by his predicessors, and it is going to cost lives and allies, as Carter cost us an ally in Iran. But this does not matter to him. What is in the interest of the everyday american doesn't matter. We are a statistic, we are a vote. We are a means to an end for him. A Soft Tyranny is being established in America. But there is a precedent for this, government been fought before. Our Government was founded on the premise that citizens are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The Declaration of Independence also states "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it". I fear it will be the task of mine or my children's generation to act upon this right in order to regain the rights endowed by our Creator.
Maybe Barack should have read these documents, and taken to heart the Declaration where it states "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes" and he should be wary that, "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their[The People's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security...".
President Ronald Reagan said this:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Pray for the people of America to win over the tyrannical agenda of Obama and the Liberal. Love you family.
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