I CAN'T STAND IT!!!

THE EXTREME COURT HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!! How is it possible that 5 Supreme Court justices can COMPLETELY MISINTERPRET the 5th Amendment of the Constitution to allow cities to simply take private property TO SELL IT TO PRIVATE BUSINESSES FOR PRIVATE USE!!! THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO SUCH AUTHORITY GRANTED TO IT!!! I AM INCENSED!!!

The 5th Amendment to the Constitution reads in part: "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." OK, that means that the government CAN take property under two distinct conditions: it must be for public use, and there must be just conpensation given to the property owner. This seems reasonable enough, if the public needs a road built or some other such thing that everyone will use to their benefit, the government should, under certain circumstances, be able to take such property while paying the owner the current value of whatever the property is. In the case linked above, homeowners were fighting a builder who wanted to put up an OFFICE COMPLEX for their own private use. The city argued that they need the tax revenue from the office building, so that was their entire justification for the case.

Now, let's think about what the impact of this ruling is: Under this ruling, if your home, church, whatever, stand in the way of a developer who wants to put in a shopping mall on your corner, the city can come in and TAKE YOUR PROPERTY!!! THIS IS A COMPLETE REVERSAL OF THE PURPOSE OF THE 5TH AMENDMENT, AND IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO ALL WHO CHERISH LIBERTY!! Am I the only one who sees this? The Extreme Court has just effectively eliminated the right to private property. The (communist, in my opinion) justice Paul Stevens wrote "The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including _ but by no means limited to _ new jobs and increased tax revenue,"---WHAT??? So for the benefit of adding tax revenue the city can therefore simply take over someone's private property??? WHAT ARE WE BECOMING??? He was joined in his perverted interpretation by the other communists on the court, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer.

It is painfully obvious to me that the purpose of this REVISION of our Constitution is to promote the paternal government, more commonly known as Communism and his little brother Socialism. It's completely obvious that those in power want complete control, and this just another stepping stone to accomplish it. If people don't own their property, if it is simply gifted to them by the government and can be taken at any time, then the people must be dependent upon the government for everything. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!

I don't know if it's possible, and I don't read anything about it in the Constitution, but we need to have some way of impeaching these radical judges that fail to interpret laws strictly from our Constitution. If we need to amend the Constitution to do so, then so be it. We also need to be able to impeach these justices that obviously can't read and iterpret simple english--things such as "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed", and "nor shall private property be taken for publice use without just compensation".

This is a complete and utter outrage, and we need people to start voicing their opinions LOUDLY.

Dick (less) Durbin and the Continued Deterioration of the Democratic Party

This past Tuesday night the "esteemed" Senate leader from Illinois made note that an FBI agent witnessed a detainee in Guantanamo Bay Cuba that had been shackled to the floor in the fetal position for 24 hours, had been nearly frozen with the air conditioner causing him to shiver violently, and had his air conditioner turned off resulting in the room temperature to go over 100 degrees. This, the Senator compared to the "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or Pol Pot or other" regime. Hmmm.... let me get this straight. Being bound for 24 hours is the same thing as being gassed? It's at the same level as killing someone in a gulag?? It's the same thing as being tortured and left to die in the jungle?? You cannot possibly be serious Senator. To further state my point, let me put it succinctly: Senator, you should be castigated by your peers and forced to resign your seat in SHAME!!

The Nazis were guilty of approximately 9 million innocent deaths, mostly Jews, the infirm, homosexuals, gypsies, and anyone they considered to be "inferior"--that does not include the approximately 11 million others that died in the war. Stalin on the other hand, was guilty of approximately 20 million of his own people killed under his iron fist, including those with college educations, those that he considered a potential political enemy, and anyone and everyone that threatened to get in his way. Pol Pot on the other hand was "only" guilty of causing approximately 2 million deaths, so he was nowhere near the numbers of the other two, but certainly worth noting. For Mr. Dirtbag (Durbin) to compare this treatment to mass murder is contemptible at it's very least, and anyone with a shred of decency should vocally denounce this waste of skin. His voters should have him recalled.

What bothers me the most about this situation is not the hyperbole that he shows in his comparison, it's the fact that Al Jezeera and all of the other Islamic rags pick this shit up and publish it, inciting additional violence against our troops, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!! DON'T TELL ME THAT YOU SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND THEN SPOUT THIS KIND OF CRAP OVER THE AIRWAVES!! If he wants to make statements like this in private, I don't care. Even a dirtbag has the right to an opinion; however, when statements like this incite further violence against our troops, THE PERSON STATING THEM SHOULD BE HELD AS TREASONOUS, AND AS GIVING AID AND COMFORT TO OUR ENEMIES. Personally, my solution for someone being found guilty of treason is a firing squad at close range, but that's just me.

To add to this situation, I haven't heard of a SINGLE Democrat ANYWHERE come out and admonish him for saying it. NOT ONE. That MUST mean that they all agree, right? I mean, if some Republican came out and said something like this, I can guarantee I'd be saying the same thing. I can also guarantee that every left-leaning paper in the country would be calling for his head on a silver platter. What's worse, is they turn around and blame the shitstorm that's now flying on the White House!! That's right, it's Bush's fault that Durbin made the statement. What?? Oh yes, somehow the "right wing conspiracy" is what's causing all of this bad publicity--not the fact that the man made a contemptible statement in public. It's friggin' ridiculous.

The Democratic party is completely void of any new ideas on how to solve any of today's problems, so they've resorted to obstruction, accusation, obfuscation, and hyperbole. Wow. Now, that's something to be proud of, I'm sure John Kennedy would be proud--just look at what your little brother has accomplished over the past 30+ years.

Another Blow to State's and Individual Rights

Well, the Extreme Court has done it again, overstepped its bounds and continued the oppression of the States by the Federal Government. I'm speaking of the recent decision to ban medical marijuana. Now, where they think that they got their power is beyond me, it seems to me that the Constitution of this great country DOESN'T GIVE THEM THE AUTHORITY TO JUDGE THE LAWS OF A GIVEN STATE--only to (according to Article III) "controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State;--between Citizens of different States;--between Citizens of the same State claiming Land under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects."

This controversy originally arose because California wrote a law that allowed their citizens to grow and use their own marijuana under a doctor's recommendation, typically for pain control or control of nausea due to chemotherapy. Now, I am not proclaiming to be an advocate of marijuana, but if the citizens of the State of California decide that is what they want, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO AUTHORITY in the matter. NONE. Frankly, I think that the governing body of the State of California and all the other states should tell the Extreme Court justices to go take a flying leap!! SOMEBODY PLEASE GROW A SPINE AND TELL THE FEDS THAT THEY DON'T OWN THE STATES!!

In the past the Justices claimed authority to interpret the laws of a given state under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution which reads:
"The Congress shall have the Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and General Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with Indian Tribes;
etc."

So, what they would do is say that the federal government controlled commerce between the states, and since marijuana was made illegal by the federal government, they could then come into the individual states and declare any marijuana found there to be part of interstate commerce (whether it was grown in the state or not) and take control of it and throw people in jail. Of course, most of the states have followed suit and made marijuana illegal as well, so they could do the same thing. What California did, was write the law specifically to avoid falling under the "Commerce Clause" to avoid the same old BS from the federal Courts. Here now the Extreme Court seems to think that they have jurisdiction, which they DON'T. AM I THE ONLY PERSON THAT SEES THIS?? AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT BELIEVES IN STATE SOVEREIGNTY?? SCREW THE COURT!! Tell them to enforce their own law.

The truth of the matter is that nobody will go against this ruling and the continued progress of the elimination of state's rights. I don't know of a single politician that would have the balls to go on television and declare that the Supreme Court doesn't have jurisdiction in their own states' laws, because most of the sheeple (to borrow from Michael Savage) haven't been educated properly as to what their rights really are, and they would therefore declare the man to be insane and vote him out of office. In addition, those in power would go ballistic and do everything they could to villify and destroy the person that stood up for state's rights.

Frankly, I just see this as another in a long line of abuses by the feds over the states, and it started before the Civil War. Anyone who believes that the Civil War was because of slavery is either an idiot, or simply another person who has not been educated by our wonderful school system. The Civil War was over State's rights, pure and simple. Slavery was a part of it, but it wasn't the impetus for the war as so many of today's educators would like us to believe. But, that history lesson will have to wait for another time....

Semper ingenuus, Semper liberum!!

Ramasart

Those who get away with it

When I was a child I was always forewarned about doing anything against the rules with some manner of the warning: "You'll never get away with it." It's true that I did try and "get away with it" on several occasions, including the theft of some kisses from a few of the prettier girls in school (which I actually did get away with), but overall it was true--I couldn't get away with much of any importance. I got caught stealing a (friggin') candy bar, I got caught telling lies, I got caught sneaking off when I was grounded, so I finally came to the conclusion that it was simply better that I not do those things that would get me into trouble, and for the most part I've been a responsible citizen for the past umpteen years.

Now, here comes the story yesterday that the former 2nd in command of the FBI was the informant known as "Deep Throat" for the past 30+ years. The 2nd in command of the FBI knowingly and purposefully took information from private Presidential meetings and gave that information to a couple of reporters. Hmmm.... Sounds kind of like treason to me, but what do I know?

Far be it from me to justify or rationalize Mr. Nixon's staff for breaking into Democratic headquarters, frankly I think the whole thing was beyond stupid and anyone involved should have gone to jail (of which a few did). It just seems to me that if I were 2nd in command of the FBI, and I came across information of this nature, that rather than break confidence (and Federal Law) I would have forwarded the said information to the Attorney General--possibly? Maybe to the head of the FBI? Maybe to someone in power who might be able to do something about it? I don't know, it could very well be that all of the above persons were involved in some way, but I doubt it. Instead, this guy blabs to a couple of reporters, and he's a hero--instead of a convict.

I have a real problem with people who tell things that they shouldn't, to people who don't deserve to know. Spies fall into that category for me, as well as anyone who would betray their country, or put an agent or soldier in harms way because they can't keep a secret. I don't think that this falls into quite that same category, but it appears to me that the mainstream media has made this man a hero for telling secrets to reporters rather than going to those in power. It may have been that the outcome would have been the same, or it might not. Regardless, it just seems to me that one who would go to reporters instead of the proper authority--regardless of the legality--is a coward and doesn't deserve the kind of attention this man has received. He's a scoundrel, not a hero, and I've already spoken about him enough.