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U.S. Constitution Title: Mythical inalienable rights.? Nolu Chan has just posted another rather remarkable claim.
(It is an) --- insufferable claim that RKBA is an inalienable right given by God Almighty hisself. The Constitution recognizes capital punishment which takes away all rights, including the mythical inalienable rights. nolu chan posted on 2017-02-06 Poster Comment: Any comments? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest A Truth Might Ignorance They If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys ! #2. To: tpaine (#0) Nolu is a bright guy. He has a sharp legal mind, but a Pharisaic one, like Paul of Tarsus. He believes in the rule of law above all other things. Now, what he said there is absolutely true, in the sense that if your right to life truly were UNALIENABLE, then you could not be executed for crimes. (To argue with ME, Nolu would point out - correctly again - that "unalienable" does not mean somebody can't take it from you in punishment for crime, just that you cannot contract it away). Once again, that would be his assertion of the rule of law as the supreme rule of life. Obviously lawyers like the idea of Rule-of-Law uber alles, the "Master Key", because they possess it and, therefore, have greater power than others. All of these things are always about power and fear. On another thread, strict legalism was being used to justify (as if that were possible) the German invasion of France and the Low Countries and Scandinavia and Poland in World War II.
#3. To: Vicomte13, y'all (#2) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Most intelligent people can understand the difference between the concept that, -- - ALL humans have inalienable rights, --- and that criminal acts can permanently (or temporally) forfeit those human rights under the rule of (constitutional) law. Apparently, nolu and his pettifogging ilk cannot, --- or more likely, will not, because they have an anti-constitutional agenda.
#4. To: tpaine (#3) anti-constitutional agenda inalienable that If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys ! #5. To: tpaine, nolu chan (#0) (Edited) What a chickenshit thread. You devote an entire thread to attacking nolu and don't even ping him?
#6. To: Tooconservative, respects nolu's position? (#5) Nolu Chan has just posted another rather remarkable claim.
(It is an) --- "insufferable claim that RKBA is an inalienable right given by God Almighty hisself. The Constitution recognizes capital punishment which takes away all rights, including the mythical inalienable rights".
You devote an entire thread to attacking nolu and don't even ping him? Chickenshit anti-constitutionalists, and their defenders, --- don't deserve any such respect, imho. Why do you want to give respect to a clown who works against the constitutional principles you've pledged to honor and defend?
#7. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
On another thread, strict legalism was being used to justify (as if that were possible) the German invasion of France and the Low Countries and Scandinavia and Poland in World War II. Bullshit. http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=49601&Disp=9#C9
[Vicomte13 #9] The Germans should not have been permitted to conquer Belgium and France. France declared war on Germany. Who was supposed to "not permit" Germany to conquer France? Who could have done such a thing? A country should not declare a war it is not prepared to fight. By declaring war, France made the subsequent German attack on France lawful.
#8. To: tpaine (#0) The invocation of Natural Law is a crock of shit.
NATURAL LAW nonsense Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Ed.
Natural law. This expression, "natural law,” or jus naturale, was largely used in the philosophical speculations of the Roman jurists of the Antonine age, and was intended to denote a system of rules and principles for the guidance of human conduct which, independently of enacted law or of the systems peculiar to any one people, might be discovered by the rational intelligence of man, and would be found to grow out of and conform to his nature, meaning by that word his whole mental, moral, and physical constitution. The point of departure for this conception was the Stoic doctrine of a life ordered "according to nature,” which in its turn rested upon the purely supposititious existence, in primitive times, of a "state of nature;” that is, a condition of society in which men universally were governed solely by a rational and consistent obedience to the needs, impulses, and promptings of their true nature, such nature being as yet undefaced by dishonesty, falsehood, or indulgence of the baser passions. In ethics, it consists in practical universal judgments which man himself elicits. These express necessary and obligatory rules of human conduct which have been established by the author of human nature as essential to the divine purposes in the universe and have been promulgated by God solely through human reason. Constitutional Law, 6th Ed., Jerome A. Barron and C. Thomas Dienes, Black Letter Series, West Group, 2003, p. 165.
A. THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_justice Wikipedia
Natural justice Justice Iredell, Calder v. Bull,, U.S.S.C, 3 Dall. 385, 398-99 (1798)
If, then, a government, composed of legislative, executive and judicial departments, were established, by a constitution which imposed no limits on the legislative power, the consequence would inevitably be, that whatever the legislative power chose to enact, would be lawfully enacted, and the judicial power could never interpose to pronounce it void. It is true, that some speculative jurists have held, that a legislative act against natural justice must, in itself, be void; but I cannot think that, under such a government any court of justice would possess a power to declare it so. Sir William Blackstone, having put the strong case of an act of parliament, which
#9. To: nolu chan (#7) Bullshit. You're not as smart as I made you out to be. Belgium did not declare war on Germany. Holland did not declare war on Germany. Luxembourg didn't. Denmark didn't. Norway didn't. Nor did any of them attack Germany, carry out cross-border raids, anything. They were simply invaded by the Germans, because the Nazis were criminal thugs who broke the peace. That's why they were tried and hanged as criminals, breakers of the peace, when the war was over. They broke the law when they invaded Poland. That gave France and Britain, and Russia and everybody else, the RIGHT to attack them. The UK and France declared war, justly. You say that gave the Germans the "right" to invade France - sort of like a criminal has the "right" to go in an shoot up a police station because they are trying to stop him. But none of that list of countries above declared war on Germany. The Germans overran them anyway, completely without a fig leaf of justification. They were murderers, and criminals. And they paid for their crimes very dearly. I'm surprised that you don't see that.
#10. To: tpaine (#0) One thing I am sure of is that nobody anywhere has any rights they aren't willing to fight and kill for. It is the nature of government,all governments,to seize all the power and all the money can seize in order to gain maximum power. Governments are ran by ambitious people,so how could it be any other way? BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them. #11. To: tpaine, nolu chan, *Bill of Rights-Constitution* (#3) Apparently, nolu and his pettifogging ilk cannot, --- or more likely, will not, because they have an anti-constitutional agenda. Nah,he's just a idiot savat so anal all he has to do is sit around in his mother's home and copy and paste court findings to try to prove to himself that he has a life worth living. Nolu,you really are important,and people really do like you because you are such a SMART boy! Honest! Would I lie to you. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them. #12. To: Vicomte13 (#9) elgium did not declare war on Germany. Holland did not declare war on Germany. Luxembourg didn't. Denmark didn't. Norway didn't. Close,but no cigar. They were tried and hanged because they lost the war. If they had won,everybody else would have been executed. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them. #13. To: nolu chan, yall (#8) Why would anyone want to give respect to a clown who works against the constitutional principles we've all pledged to honor and defend? - An idiot that claims our inalienable rights are mythical?
The invocation of Natural Law is a crock of shit. And then you go on to post a crock of bullshit 'opinion', supposedly proving your point.
Poor little nolu, reduced once again to oddball cut and paste views, whereas our constitutions 14th is definitive.
We have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property, unless we forfit them by criminal acts under our rule of constitutional law.
#14. To: Vicomte13 (#9)
Bullshit. I did not say Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Denmark, or Norway declared war on Germany. Vicomte13 said: The Germans should not have been permitted to conquer ... France. France did declare war on Germany.
The UK and France declared war, justly. You say that gave the Germans the "right" to invade France - sort of like a criminal has the "right" to go in an shoot up a police station because they are trying to stop him. The question is not whether France's declaration of was was "just" or "unjust." Germany had not attacked France and had not declared war against France. Ditto the United States. France declared war on Germany on 3 Sep 1939. So you mean that when France declared war on Germany, Germany was supposed to surrender to France? If France declares war against Germany (or anyone else), the other party has the right to take them seriously and conquer them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
In 1939, Britain and France offered military support to Poland in the likely case of a German invasion. In the dawn of 1 September 1939, the German Invasion of Poland began. France and the United Kingdom declared war on 3 September, after an ultimatum for German forces to immediately withdraw their forces from Poland was met without reply. Following this, Australia (3 September), New Zealand (3 September), South Africa (6 September) and Canada (10 September), declared war on Germany. British and French commitments to Poland were met politically but they adopted a long-war strategy and mobilised for defensive land operations against Germany, while a trade blockade was imposed and the pre-war re-armament was accelerated, ready for an eventual invasion of Germany. So, France offered military assistance to Poland if they were attacked. Poland was attacked. Poland fell. France came from behind the Maginot Line and held a 10-day parade and retreated, not doing much good for Poland. The invasion of Belgium, Holland, and France was conducted in 1940. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
Popular reaction in Germany Germany sought to get to the Atlantic in order to attack Britain who had also declared war against Germany. It appears they chose the path of least resistance. If France was prepared to fight a war, it should have not declared one. Vicomte13 wrote, "The Germans should not have been permitted to conquer Belgium and France." WHO was supposed to "not permit" Germany to conquer France??? The United States had not been attacked and was not at war. It was in a declared state of neutrality until after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
#15. To: sneakypete (#11) Apparently, nolu and his pettifogging ilk cannot, --- or more likely, will not, because they have an anti-constitutional agenda.
---- he's just a idiot savat so anal all he has to do is sit around in his mother's home and copy and paste court findings to try to prove to himself that he has a life worth living. That too. --- But I just can't understand why would anyone want to give respect to a clown who works against the constitutional principles we've all pledged to honor and defend? - An idiot that claims our inalienable rights are mythical?
#16. To: tpaine (#13) Poor little nolu, reduced once again to oddball cut and paste views, whereas our constitutions 14th is definitive. Poor tpaine -- Only two functioning brain cells, one to inhale and the other to exhale. Your perpetual invocation of Natural Law is a load of shit.
We have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property, unless we forfit them by criminal acts under our rule of constitutional law. The Declaration of Independence was never the adopted law of anyplace and any time. The adopted law was and is the Constitution, not your bullshit. Constitutional Law, 6th Ed., Jerome A. Barron and C. Thomas Dienes, Black Letter Series, West Group, 2003, p. 165.
A. THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION - - - - - - - - - - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_justice Wikipedia
Natural justice If you want to invoke that shit, you need to move to another country.
#17. To: tpaine (#15) That too. --- But I just can't understand why would anyone want to give respect to a clown who works against the constitutional principles we've all pledged to honor and defend? - An idiot that claims our inalienable rights are mythical? I disagree on one major point. I don't think he is opposed to Constitutional principles. I think he just likes to argue to "prove" "I really am smarter than all the other little boys,mamma,look!" He is either a lawyer or a wannabe lawyer,and a lawyer is a person ready defend either side of any argument,regardless of right or wrong. Truth is irrelevant to lawyers. They just want to win. Which means a good lawyer is by definition completely amoral. They have no sense of right or wrong,so HOW could he actually be morally opposed to anything? BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them. #18. To: sneakypete (#12) Close,but no cigar. They were tried and hanged because they lost the war. They lost the war because they started the war. They were never strong enough to win it. They were criminals for starting it. And when the inevitable happened, they were hanged as the murderers they were. Murderers and fools.
#19. To: nolu chan (#14) WHO was supposed to "not permit" Germany to conquer France??? The civilized world. Germany committed the crime of starting the war. They defeated Poland, then invaded their little Western neighbors - more crime - and of course overran France. They were too weak to take out Britain, were defeated at sea by the British Navy, and defeated in the air by the Royal Air Force. And so then it was just a matter of time, for Britain to wait while Germany, cut off from international trade, slowly imploded as in World War I. The Germans doubled down their madness and invaded Russia, which they did not have the right to do either. And then they declared war on the USA, also, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. So, at war with every other major power on the planet except Japan, they sank under the weight of the combined forces of their enemies, who swamped them. But when it was just 1 on 1 versus the British, the Germans lost in the air, they lost on the sea, and they lost in North Africa also, where they faced off on land. Starting the war in the first place by invading another country was a criminal act. It was a criminal act that was bound to have war as a repercussion. The Germans were so delusive they actually thought they could win. So, they were criminal madmen. And they ended up swinging at the end of a rope, or against the wall in a firing squad. And that was that.
#20. To: sneakypete, yall (#17) I just can't understand why would anyone want to give respect to a clown who works against the constitutional principles we've all pledged to honor and defend? - An idiot that claims our inalienable rights are mythical?
I disagree on one major point. I don't think he is opposed to Constitutional principles. Well, he's certainly put a lot of effort into trying to convince all of us that those principles can be infringed.
Which means a good lawyer is by definition completely amoral. They have no sense of right or wrong,so HOW could he actually be morally opposed to anything? No one has to be 'moral' to agree to live under constitutional principles. --- All that is required, is that you use self interest, and do onto others as you would have done onto yourself.
#21. To: nolu chan, yall (#16) Poor little nolu, reduced once again to oddball cut and paste views, whereas our constitutions 14th is definitive.
We have (inalienable) rights to life, liberty, and property, unless we forfit them by criminal acts under our rule of constitutional law.
Your perpetual invocation of Natural Law is a load of shit. ---- The Declaration of Independence was never the adopted law of anyplace and any time. The adopted law was and is the Constitution, not your bullshit.
I quoted the 14th amendment to the constitution - just above, you idiot.
Typically, poor little noo!u is so impatient to cut and paste, that he loses track of his own argument... What an oaf.
#22. To: Vicomte13 (#19) Note that Poland was cruisin’ for a bruisin’. It had refused to negotiate on disputed territories in erstwhile eastern Prussia. Poland met requests from minorities under its administration that Poland honor its WWI promises to them with intransigence and force. At the same time Poland was squeezing the international city, Danzig (over 90% German at the time) by restricting rail traffic, thereby depriving the city of food and necessary supplies. Nor can it be said that Poland was innocent of territorial land grabbing. When the German areas in the Sudetenland were ceded to Germany, Poland was more than eager to a good chunk of what was left of Czechoslovakia. (Hungary got a piece of the hapless Czech Republic as well.) In addition, Polish irregulars had been at work throughout 1938-39 on a campaign of arson and looting throughout the corridor and along the border with Germany proper. Germany spent a good deal of 1939 trying to get an agreement over the eastern territories and Danzig with Britain, France and Poland without success. In the end Germany invaded Poland and our ally, Stalin, was more than happy to divide the spoils with the Reich. The following countries then declared war: Great Britain on Germany - September 3, 1939, 11 a.m. Also take note of the fact the France invaded Germany on September 3, 1939. (And not the other way 'round.) The French army occupied the territory of the Saar for nine days before thinking the better of the operation and making a beeline for the French frontier. Before the Germans moved on the low countries, almost seven months ensued, during which time Germany made no less than five peace proposals. This was the so called Phony War. So although France had invaded Germany and retreated, Britain and France had September 1939 to May 1940 to think about the deal.
I will stipulate that the Germans were thugs. However, there was a lot of thuggery afoot both in the east and in the west. Everyone wanted a piece of someone else's pie.
Some choice quotes: "Germany is too strong. We must destroy her." - Winston Churchill, Nov. 1936. "In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results." - Harry Elmer Barnes. American Historian "The war was not just a matter of the elimination of Fascism in Germany, but rather of obtaining German sales markets." - Winston Churchill. March, 1946. "Britain was taking advantage of the situation to go to war against Germany because the Reich had become too strong and had upset the European balance." - Ralph F. Keeling, Institute of American Economics "I emphasized that the defeat of Germany and Japan and their elimination from world trade would give Britain a tremendous opportunity to swell her foreign commerce in both volume and profit." - Samuel Untermeyer, The Public Years, p.347. On September 2nd 1939 a delegate of the Labour Party met with the British Foreign Minister Halifax in the lobby of Parliament. 'Do you still have hope?'he asked. 'If you mean hope for war,' answered Halifax, 'then your hope will be fulfilled tomorrow. 'God be thanked!' replied the representative of the British Labour Party. - Professor Michael Freund. "In Britain, Lord Halifax was reported as being 'redeemed'. He ordered beer. We laughed and joked." - H. Roth. Are We Being Lied To? "In April, 1939, (four months before the outbreak of war) Ambassador William C. Bullitt, whom I had known for twenty years, called me to the American Embassy in Paris. The American Ambassador told me that war had been decided upon. He did not say, nor did I ask, by whom. He let me infer it. ... When I said that in the end Germany would be driven into the arms of Soviet Russia and Bolshevism, the Ambassador replied: "'What of it? There will not be enough Germans left when the war is over to be worth bolshevising.'" - - Karl von Wiegand, April, 23rd, 1944, Chicago Herald American "I felt sorry for the German people. We were planning - and we had the force to carry out our plans - to obliterate a once mighty nation." - Admiral Daniel Leahy; U.S Ambassador
#23. To: tpaine (#21)
We have (inalienable) rights to life, liberty, and property, unless we forfit them by criminal acts under our rule of constitutional law. Another pantsload, easily revealed to be a load of shit. As for your citation of the Constitution in support of your claim of an inalienable right to your property, "unless we forfit them by criminal acts under our rule of constitutional law," you should try reading the Constitution more, and bullshitting about it less.
Amendment V Hypothetically you own property which is situated in the way of where the government decides it is gooing to build an interstate highway, or some building or military base. Using eminent domain, the government takes your property, whether you like ir or not, and provides just compensation as determined by the government. And thus your absurdly claimed inalienable right to your property is shown to be nonexistent, and your property is taken without so much as an allegation of any criminal act on your part. It is also clear that you may lose your liberty without committing a crime. One way is to get drafted into the military. Another is to be detained on reasonable suspicion. Or you can be held in jail while awaiting trial. There are plentiful examples; e.g. martial law, medical quarantine, etc. Your right to liberty is not inalienable; you are entitled to due process of law. A finding of criminality is a requirement only in your imagination.
I quoted the 14th amendment to the constitution - just above, you idiot. The 14th Amendment contains no clause which incorporates your grotesque and laughable concept of natural law into the law of the land.
Amendment XIV The 14th Amendment neither creates, nor recognizes, any of your fictional natural law inalienable rights. It extended the due process requirement to apply to the States, in addition to the Federal government. States can take your shit via eminent domain and provide just compensation; States can put you in a medical quarantine; hold you in confinement awaiting trial, just as the Federal government can. Your diaper is drooping with 20 lbs of crap. Someone told you to it was full and to change, but you insist that the package said it was for 24 lbs and you still have a few pounds to go. And your claim that you "quoted the 14th amendment to the constitution - just above, you idiot," — even that is bullshit.
#13. To: nolu chan, yall (#8) You did not quote anything but your own tired bullshit which does not appear in the 14th Amendment (or 5th Amendment).
#24. To: nolu chan (#23) Our Declaration outlined some of the principles behind the founding of our Republic.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —"
This same phrase was used in the 14th, to reiterate the great truth that had been lost in the arguments leadig to the war between the States.
Amendment XIV ---- All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Thus, our constitutions 14th amendment is definitive. We have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property, unless we forfit them by criminal acts -- under our rule of constitutional law. Why nolu chan insists that these basic rights are 'mythical' is best left to a mental health professional..
#25. To: tpaine (#13) Atheism is a faith-a blind faith that doesn't make sense of world & is not supported by observational science--it's a blind faith religion God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free. - J.P. Morelad www.evidenceforjesuschrist.org #26. To: tpaine (#15) An idiot that claims our inalienable rights are mythical? The inalienable rights you speak of comes from God. You don't believe in God. Why would someone who doesn't believe in God say they have unalienable rights. Which were described by the founders in the Declaration as coming from God.
#27. To: randge (#22) (Edited) I will stipulate that the Germans were thugs. However, there was a lot of thuggery afoot both in the east and in the west. Everyone wanted a piece of someone else's pie Not on the part of Holland. Or Belgium. Or Luxembourg. Or Denmark. Or Norway. Five wholly innocent countries, unaggressive, with no machinations against Germany, no sending troops in pockets on raids. Free, democratic people who wanted to be left alone. The Germans came in and murdered them, because they could. They CHOSE to. Which makes them criminals, just like the neighbor who chooses to invade your house and try to kill you. The other neighbors are all justified in coming to your aid, ganging up on the criminal, and beating the crap out of him. They don't have to WAIT until he comes to attack them individually.
#28. To: randge (#22) Also take note of the fact the France invaded Germany on September 3, 1939. (And not the other way 'round.) BECAUSE Germany invaded Poland. Those things are fundamentally linked. A thug invades your neighbor's home. You rush in and attack the thug. YOU are not the aggressor. The thug is. Once a criminal breaches the peace, everybody else has the right to attack the criminal. Each successive attack on the criminal is not an assault - it is, rather, the bystanders intervention against the original crime. Germany attempted negotiations to get something they wanted: the Danzig corridor. Germany failed in those negotiations. Therefore, Germany does not get the Danzig corridor. Case over. Instead, the Germans turn into murderers and attack - they are now criminals, and everybody else has the right to intervene to defend the attacked, and to punish and bring back into line the criminal who - unable to get his way with words, resorts to violence. The Germans had no right to resort to violence because they did not get their way in Danzig. They had the right to bitch and moan about it endlessly, and impose economic sanctions and diplomatic tit-for-tat. By choosing, instead, to unleash an army to violently take what was not theirs because they wanted it, they became murderers and criminals, started a war they could not win, and got what they deserved in the end: bombed flat, millions dead, leaders hanged or shot, and the permanent loss of MORE territory. There is no defense for the German invasion of Poland. They wanted Danzig. Too bad. It wasn't theirs. So they killed over it. And as a result, 4.3 million Germans were killed and they lost MORE territory - Konigsberg is now Russian Kaliningrad, Danzig is Gdansk, and the Germans who used to live in those places were utterly driven out - meaning that now the Germans not only still have no claim to either place, but ethnic Germans don't even live there peacefully as citizens of other countries. The lesson of the Danzig corridor is that Danzig was not German. It HAD BEEN German, but the Germans lost it as punishment for starting a war. They started ANOTHER war over that, and lost worse. If you start wars, you had better win.
#29. To: A K A Stone, yall (#26) Atheism is a faith-a blind faith that doesn't make sense of world & is not supported by observational science--it's a blind faith religion. --- GarySpFC I am not an athiest, and my agnosticism should not be a factor in my defense of our inalienable rights.
I have no problem that our unalienable rights were described by the founders in the Declaration as coming from God. --- Most believe the founders meant a Christian God, which again is fine with me. --- Believe what you want...
#30. To: GarySpFC (#25) Atheism is a faith... Absolutely,and one of the most dogmatic faiths that insists THEY have the One True Religion,and EVERYONE MUST agree with them. I figured that out decades ago and started calling myself what I really am,agnostic. Organized religion by any name is just one more form of slavery. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them. #31. To: A K A Stone (#26) The inalienable rights you speak of comes from God. The word "God" is a creation of man,and there has been hundreds,maybe even thousands of "Gods" since mankind started forming together in tribes and the leaders started looking for a method of keeping the people under control. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them. #32. To: Vicomte13 (#28) There is a certain catharsis in revisiting old animosities. So if you have an itch to scratch, by all means go ahead. But you know the old saying: "If you scratch it, it will never heal." I won't refight the World Wars with you, and I'll agree that there were a lot of things the Germans shouldn't have done. There are lots of things that shouldn't have been done either by Germany's neighbors. Some of these neighbors would have done the same things to Germany if they could have. With the passing of Pilsudski and his reasonable regime for example, Poland went on a tear and wiped out thousands of Galician Ukranian farmers because they were in the way of the Polish generals' ethnic program. I haven't read anywhere that Polish generals were hung for these atrocities. Those farmers were living peacefully and hurting no one else. Their hangmen were not punished. Many who have conspired against the peace and commanded the hangmen themselves were not hung. The Russians rubbed out the entire Polish officer corps, or as much of it as they could get their hands on, in the forests of Katyn, and they blamed it on the Germans. No Russian generals or commissars were hung for these executions or called to account for it in any way. Speaking of commissars, it's difficult to know where to begin. I was educated unaware of the sheer scale of their work. I had no idea of the human cost until after I left high school and read Solzhenitsyn. It seems that the commissars and their puppet masters came away unscathed - except for those that fell afoul of their Georgian master. They were covered by a sort of "truth and reconciliation" that transpired after that rotten empire expired. Napoleon wanted to be the Emperor of Europe and many thousands of innocents perished in his wars. He was exiled twice, but not hung though many certainly desired his death. Americans prosecuted wars in SE Asia long after it was apparent that they were fighting losing campaigns. American generals didn't pull out until the nearby oceans were thoroughly mapped for petroleum. We left behind a mess. A decade of large scale homicide ensued. No generals or politicians were hung. We've been on a tear too more recently, motivated ostensibly on the basis of an attack on the City of New York in 2001, and we've smashed to bits nations that had nothing to do with that assault. Now Saddam WAS hung. "Weapons of Mass Destruction." "Mission Accomplished." When you go balls out that way, you have to hang someone. And it wasn't on account of the Kuwaitis. It was because we had so little to show for the cost to us in blood and treasure. The effort required an orgasmic denouement. Saddam's trial was a foregone conclusion. The conquest of continental America was also not accomplished without breaking a few eggs. The US Army along with other of our state institutions made war on native populations, very often without regard to age or sex, waging what we would regard today as criminal campaigns. No generals were hung. I sit on land once occupied by the Karankawa people who were by stages rubbed out by the Mexicans, the Spanish and by migrants from Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. No one has ever been brought to trial for that genocide. I sit out back and drink my wine and sometimes think about those hunters of shellfish and deer in the woods and bayous around here. One of their descendants is still alive in these parts. I should like to meet him. I have met many people whose ancestors have fought with mine. I have lived, worked and broken bread with Poles and Russians and French. I lived with two French guys for a time. We didn't think about or talk about wars. (Except perhaps my friend Jean whose grandfather's furniture factory outside Paris fell victim to American bombs. Gone to splinters. Never rebuilt. I fear he nursed a grudge.) I have an uncle who was born and grew up on his family's farm in what was long ago German territory. That farm in time became part of a government communal entity and now now belongs to a Polish corporate farming enterprise. My uncle went there for a visit years ago after the fall of the Communist government. He was fed and feted. No one talked of war. He and his hosts talked about what farmers always talk about - the price of eggs and beef and pork. So much shit has gone down within living memory that folks have developed perspective. And that's what I would hope for everyone. Perspective. That's a cast of mind sometimes lacking here where I live and for sure in certain enclaves where the headchoppers live. I believe that they will shortly be eliminated for the lack of it. But that is another story. (Apologies to other posters for ranting off topic.)
#33. To: randge (#32) I agree with you.
#34. To: Vicomte13 (#33) Thanks for your attention.
#35. To: randge (#32) The conquest of continental America was also not accomplished without breaking a few eggs. The US Army along with other of our state institutions made war on native populations, very often without regard to age or sex, waging what we would regard today as criminal campaigns. No generals were hung. Apology accepted, as I too agree with most of what you posted... Perspective is sadly lacking in the disputes about our constitution from guys like nolu. --- It's his way or no way. --- In reality, our constitution has little in it that can be disputed. Sure, it can be amended, but it cannot be amended in a way that takes away, --- or infringes on, our basic rights.
#36. To: tpaine (#35) but it cannot be amended in a way that takes away, --- or infringes on, our basic rights That is the big battle that is already well under way.
#37. To: randge (#32) Thank you for sharing. Indeed perspective.
#38. To: tpaine, sneakypete (#20)
I just can't understand why would anyone want to give respect to a clown who works against the constitutional principles we've all pledged to honor and defend? - An idiot that claims our inalienable rights are mythical? If they hang your sorry ass until dead, you will have your inalienable right to life, but not in this world. Your inalienable right to life will be in the hereafter with your 72 virgins cloned from Yasser Arafat.
#39. To: nolu chan (#38) Wasn't that Keynesian in the long run all theory - fact - reality is suspended - superseded ! If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys ! #40. To: nolu chan (#38) If they hang your sorry ass until dead, you will have your inalienable right to life, but not in this world. Your inalienable right to life will be in the hereafter with your 72 virgins cloned from Yasser Arafat Gotta love it when you blow your cool so much you forget to cut and paste your usual bullshit. Thanks.
#41. To: tpaine (#24)
Our Declaration outlined some of the principles behind the founding of our Republic. It is blatantly obvious that the 14th is derived from the 5th which I quoted at my #23, and not from the DoI. The DoI talks of a creator and inalienable rights. The Constitution talks of privileges and immunities of citizens, and that persons may not be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law or just compensation.
Amendment V The DoI was a call to arms to hold a revolution. It as never a constitution or law binding upon anyone. The language of the 14th Amendment does not follow the DoI. Had the DoI said free Blacks were citizens, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment would have been unncessary surplusage. They would have been citizens the whole time up to the 14th Amendment, which would have done nothing. Your whole argument demonstrates cracked mind spouting bullshit. TPAINE IDIOCIES tpaine "COMMON SENSE" http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46639&Disp=104#C104 [nolu chan #104] As you say, everybody can legally just ignore SCOTUS decisions which bind nobody, and infringements of the Constitution and determined by the people, and corrected by the people who see that judges are appointed that honor our Constitution, so they can issue opinions that everybody can legally just ignore and which bind nobody. http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46639&Disp=105#C105 [tpaine #105] Your being sarcastic, and simplistic, -- but yes, that's the way our system of checks and balances is supposed to work. - - - - - http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46847&Disp=7#C7
In the long run, SCOTUS opinions don't mean much, as people,and the legislators they elect have the right to ignore them, and write new laws that circumvent their supposed edicts. tpaine posted on 2016-06-27 18:44:47 ET - - - - - http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46277&Disp=49#C49
The 2nd [Amendment] has always applied to the States, -- the 'incorporation' bull has just been used by statists to avoid compliance. tpaine posted on 2016-05-25 12:08:35 ET - - - - - http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46639&Disp=72#C72
I admit that our various levels of government have the power to make reasonable regulations on the bearing of arms (taking care that they do not infringe upon the right). tpaine posted on 2016-06-16 22:47:22 ET - - - - - http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46639&Disp=74#C74
-- If SCOTUS issues an opinion that infringes, the people, over time, --- ignore it, --- and see that judges are later appointed that honor our Constitution. tpaine posted on 2016-06-17 20:27:12 ET - - - - - http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=46771&Disp=28#C28
The US Supreme Court has the authority to "interpret" the US Constitution, but their 'authority' is to issue opinions, -- opinions which are NOT binding on the legislative, -- or the executive branch. tpaine posted on 2016-06-23 21:26:13 ET - - - - - http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=40620&Disp=68#C68
nolu chan erroneously claims: -- - - - - - http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=40732
During a discussion with Nolu Chan, he asserted that an amendment repealing the 2nd could be ratified, and become a valid part of our Constitution. I contend such an amendment would be unconstitutional. http://www2.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=40620&Disp=136#C136
Does the Court strike down this part of the Constitution as unconstitutional? = = = = = = = = = In tpaine world, the legislature and executive are free to ignore U.S. Supreme Court decisions they disagree with. The Court has the power to strike down a Constitutional amendment passed by the people. In other words, tpaine is detached from reality.
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