Caroline Glick has established “LatmaTV“, a satirical group whose purpose is to establish the righteousness of Israel and the moral illegitmaticy of the Anti-Israel/Anti-Zionist movement.
Here are some videos (in some of these the English subtitles have to be turned on by using the flash viewer’s controls in the bottom right and corner and turn on CC)
My Congressman (D-Chicago) is useless.. so I stopped being respectful in my communications to him years ago.. so those of you who will feel compelled to give me a civics lesson.. I normally would agree with you, so need for you to do so.
This is what I wrote;
All I have to say is this Congress makes me sick. I dont know anyone out here who trusts you guys any more. This entire Government is failing and failing big.
Vote no. God only knows what is in that bill.
That is a bill designed to not be understood
I’m not even going to ask that the Representive read it. No one would be able to read it and understand it..
And accordingly therefore, you should not vote for things you don’t understand.
Nancy Pelosi has to be removed from Leadership.
I wish I had a Representive in Congress who had some balls .. but instead I have this mute who I never hear anything about.
So be it.. vote no.
I propose a Constitutional Amendment to Establish Federal Judicial Review Supreme Court.
I have other Government reform suggestions here
http://www.redstate.com/vincep1974/2009/08/19/much-needed-government-reforms-ideas/
This video of Van Jones by Naked Empeorer news is DEVASTATION
In it Jones is saying how the whole facade of this “Green Jobs” nonsense is a pretext… a step .. towards the Communist (my word) take over of America
This is serious.
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-czars-shock-admission-green-jobs-goal-is-complete-revolution-away-from-gray-capitalism/
It seems pretty clear to me that the Constitutions grants the President NO POWER to create the positions for persons of high authority in the Executive Branch unless such offices are established by the Constitution or by Law.
Impeach him now.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Lets say the 2010 elections are a rout, and the Dems lose their majority big time… replaced by libertarian-leaning Constitutional-minded somebodies.
What should Congress do to begin the process of revitalizing American civic culture?
Here’s my list in order of priority:
Constitutional Amendments:
New Amendment:
Establish Federal Judicial Review Supreme Court.
Government use of Private Property for Public Use
from “…nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation”
to “nor shall private property or private income or privately held money be taken for public use, without just compensation”
First Amendment Revision:
and
At the end of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Ben Franklin “Well, doctor, what have we got?,” The response:
“A Republic, if you could keep it”
So from the very beginning, a challenge from the Founding generation to the all the generations to follow…. do you have what it takes to maintain this Republic.
A Republic has been established in a land with practically no bitter history of war. No established ethnic tribalism. No baggage of centuries of bad blood between the peoples of Atlantic North America.
It was refuge from the conflicts in Europe that the rediscovery of the Bible had brought. A refuge for people who fell on all sides of that conflict. The Puritans, the Catholics, the less Pure Protestants, and even undoubtedly, those who with no faith at all
The Great Thinkers of the 13 newly indepndent and sovereign States along the East Coast had decided that they would need one another to be secure and to prosper. But they hardly agreed on anything more than that.
How were these 13 independent States to join in a Union and yet have none of them feel the oppression of the other 12 imposing upon them a system and its laws that they do not desire.
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They tried the Articles of Confederation… it was failing. It was so weak, the nation could not afford to build a navy. A navy sorely needed because the United States was no longer being protected from Islamic Terrorism by the bribes of tribute that Great Britain was making to the Terrorist North African Islamic states.
Reality compelled the 13 to return to the drawing board and come up with something better.
A Republic
A Republic is a country under the obedience of citizen to the Law. It not rule by Men but by Law. It is not rule by Majority but by Law. It is not Rule by Fad or Passion but by Law.
A Federation
A Federation is when a group of States , having maintained their claim to a substantial amount of sovereignty choose to delegate some of its sovereign powers to a National Govt that it and other States agree to establish and be subordinate to.
The Framers drafted a most unusual form of government in the late 1700s…a Federal Republic. A nation designed to maximize Liberty and minimize Statism.
Both American Republicanism (rule of law) and American Federation were designed to establish systems of Govt that would structurally be designed to tamper the Govt’s natural tendency to enlarge itself.
What were they afraid of?
Democracy
Democracy was detested by the men who gave us our country. The Founders knew history very well and they all agreed on one thing.
When the Govt becomes a Welfare State,.. Liberty is dead.
Democracy ushers in the Welfare State which ushers in Tyranny.
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Thomas Jefferson has said:
Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only, will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them; distinguished, too, by this tempting circumstance, that they are the instrument, as well as the object of acquisition. With money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money. Nor should our assembly be deluded by the integrity of their own purposes, and conclude that these unlimited powers will never be abused, because themselves are not disposed to abuse them. They should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when a corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
Ben Franklin
When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic
Jeffferson
Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.
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John Adams
no good government but what is republican… the very definition of a republic is ‘an empire of laws, and not of men.’
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
John C. Calhoun
The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised… [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.
Charles Carroll
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.
James Madison
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
Daniel Webster
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.
John Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide
Ben Franklin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Alexander Tytler, The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until voters discover they can vote themselves generous benefits from the public treasury. From that moment, the majority always votes for candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
We have not kept what was given to us.
H. L. Mencken in The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
That day has come.
The United States of America (b.1776 d.2008)
