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  • #76
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    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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    • #77
      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
      I would tend to say I know more than you and hence, yet again, have pointed out that you are wrong about something reasonably basic.
      "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."
      - George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790

      "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
      - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776

      "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
      - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

      "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
      - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787

      "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
      - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

      "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785

      "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
      - Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824

      "On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
      - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823

      "I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence ... I think that upon the whole it has been about one half the number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less. This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy."
      - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778

      “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
      - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

      "To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
      - George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788

      "I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers."
      - George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788

      "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
      - Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

      "Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
      - James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

      "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
      - James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

      "...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."
      - James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

      "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
      - William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783

      “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
      - Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788

      "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
      - Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

      "This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
      - St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803

      "The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance ofpower is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
      - Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775

      "The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
      - Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

      "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
      - Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833

      "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
      - Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789

      "For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion."
      - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, December 21, 1787

      "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."
      - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28

      "[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist."
      - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28, January 10, 1788

      "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
      - Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789
      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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      • #78
        Time magazine is comparing Liz Cheney losing by a landslide in the primaries to the Stalinist practice of "disappearing" opponents. Of course when the Soviets disappeared someone they were executed and Cheney has done anything but disappear. And of course Stalin didn't have a public vote on the matter. So, yeah. Just like the way Stalin made political opponents disappear.

        I'm always still in trouble again

        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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        • #79
          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
          Time magazine is comparing Liz Cheney losing by a landslide in the primaries to the Stalinist practice of "disappearing" opponents. Of course when the Soviets disappeared someone they were executed and Cheney has done anything but disappear. And of course Stalin didn't have a public vote on the matter. So, yeah. Just like the way Stalin made political opponents disappear.
          So I guess the Stalinists disappeared Trump...
          Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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          • #80
            Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
            As for human rights... Given how some think that not being called by whatever pronoun they self-identify as this week is a gross violation of their human rights -- and some governments are moving to codify that -- I'd be hesitant to allow broad exclusions to the constitution.
            So if there's an upset in 2024 and President AOC and vice-President Ilhan Omar sweep to power with Democratic supermajorities in congress, and they decide their priority is reducing the population to stop climate change, and implement a one-child policy for the US, you wouldn't want the courts to strike that down as unconstitutional? What about if they also decided to execute all retired folks to reduce their carbon emissions and redirect all social security money to fight climate change? Also not explicitly prohibited by the constitution so you'd also be fine with courts not striking that down as unconstittuional?
            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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            • #81
              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
              So if there's an upset in 2024 and President AOC and vice-President Ilhan Omar sweep to power with Democratic supermajorities in congress, and they decide their priority is reducing the population to stop climate change, and implement a one-child policy for the US, you wouldn't want the courts to strike that down as unconstitutional? What about if they also decided to execute all retired folks to reduce their carbon emissions and redirect all social security money to fight climate change? Also not explicitly prohibited by the constitution so you'd also be fine with courts not striking that down as unconstittuional?
              You don't really understand constitutions and the concept of unconstitutional do you?



              I'm always still in trouble again

              "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
              "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
              "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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              • #82
                Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                You don't really understand constitutions and the concept of unconstitutional do you?
                Rather than admit your position has basic failures in it, you panic and resort to silly insults? Sad!
                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                • #83
                  Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Rather than admit your position has basic failures in it, you panic and resort to silly insults? Sad!
                  If something is in the constitution it isn't by definition unconstitutional.

                  I'm always still in trouble again

                  "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                  "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                  "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                    What about if they also decided to execute all retired folks to reduce their carbon emissions and redirect all social security money to fight climate change? Also not explicitly prohibited by the constitution so you'd also be fine with courts not striking that down as unconstittuional?
                    Well, in the first they'd have to give Due Process.

                    14th Amendment
                    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.

                    So, they simply couldn't decide execute people past a certain age.

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      And I think it's funny when supposed originalists all of a sudden turn post-modernist in reinterpreting the 2nd amendment and in 2008 read an individual right into the 2nd amendment in a way that historical SCOTUS decisions had repeatedly denied existed.
                      Care to give an example? Where did SCOTUS declare repeatedly that it was not an individual right?


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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                        I would tend to say I know more than you and hence, yet again, have pointed out that you are wrong about something reasonably basic.

                        In this post last month I gave a breakdown of the history of the second amendment and SCOTUS interpretation of it. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with it and learn something. You don't seem to have been in that thread, so you probably missed it.
                        You realize that nobody claims that the 2nd amendment doesn't GRANT individuals the right to bear arms, right? It merely acknowledges that we already HAVE that right and that congress cannot abridge it (take it away)

                        Perhaps with that in mind, go back and reread your SCOTUS decisions that "don't give individuals the right to bear arms"


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                        • #87
                          Originally posted by Sparko View Post

                          Care to give an example? Where did SCOTUS declare repeatedly that it was not an individual right?
                          IIRC, he is relying on a decision from c. 1870s where the court declared that constitutional protections aren't applicable to states (i.e., states could deny rights spelled out in the constitution).

                          I'm always still in trouble again

                          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                          • #88
                            Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                            IIRC, he is relying on a decision from c. 1870s where the court declared that constitutional protections aren't applicable to states (i.e., states could deny rights spelled out in the constitution).
                            Yeah.

                            1. They didn't say that individuals don't have the right to bear arms, they were just saying that the constitution doesn't grant the right. The people already have it and the government couldn't take it away.

                            2. The states could until they incorporated the bill of rights. Now they can't, other than if the person is a criminal, or mentally incapable of being responsible (too young or insane for example)
                            and that takes a court to accomplish.

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                            • #89
                              Originally posted by Sparko View Post

                              Care to give an example? Where did SCOTUS declare repeatedly that it was not an individual right?
                              I believe Heller was the first time SCOTUS actually ruled on that particular question.

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                              • #90
                                Cheney is saying that we'll be hearing more from her after the 2022 election.

                                Apparently she didn't get the memo that she has been disappeared Soviet-style.

                                I'm always still in trouble again

                                "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                                "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                                "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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