There are many things that I can abide, but I just can't stand the Patriot Act.


"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.
-Samuel Adams

also, i'd like it noted that the constitution did not grant this man a forehead.
srsly. someone get a tape measure between his hairline and eyebrow.

don't care for his delivery, but certainly upvote his main message.
and wonder what he actually did about it, while he was a judge.

Blankfist uses a racist, homophobic, anti-choice, anti women's rights nutbag to make his case for states rights (states rights, for those not paying attention, is code for state sanctioned racism).

Pretty awesome blanky!

^Oh really? I didn't know reducing state's rights was the magical elixir to curing bigotry.

A wonderful lesson from a very simple mind. I wish these small minded thugs would drop the fake outrage routine. They are fine with wire-taps, torture and rules about who can get married to who, but when it comes to Obama they are very sensitive about the constitution.

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.

The 10th Amendment is somehow confusing to liberals, who interpret the Constitution as a "living document" on a dry erase board which guarantees abortion, infinite taxation and the protections of the American legal system for international terrorists caught shooting at our soldiers on battlefields.

banky - this is exactly what i was talking about yesterday. ten bucks says it won't make a single fucking difference. fine. i've got some time to kill.

volum - implying that those who don't agree with you are "not paying attention" isn't helping you with a weak generalization. i'm not a racist. i favor more states' rights to avoid centralizing power. i don't know of any libertarians that want to use states' rights to repeal civil rights, and i wouldn't associate with any that favored that. such a person would not only be a bigot, but a moron, because the right to vote is one of the things that the national government has always, and will always, be charged with guaranteeing. which is why formally recognizing women and non-whites as voting citizens could not legally be decided at the state level, and a specific national constitutional amendment was necessary and proper. still think i'm "not paying attention"?

vapor - i'm guessing you stopped watching after about 30 seconds, or else you'd have noticed he isn't "fine with" any of those things, either. so thanks for that "wonderful lesson".

shroomy - don't even pretend that conservatives are any less guilty of that "living document" shit. or improper taxation. or that the legal process for detainees has anything to do with compassion for armed scumbags. maybe this'll make sense to you if you hear it from a republican instead. please note that my description was written well before anyone actually admitted we waterboarded anyone.

"Andrew P. Napolitano (b. June 6, 1950, in Newark, New Jersey) is a life-tenured, Superior Court Judge, in New Jersey, and now an analyst for FOX News Channel."

Note to self -- Never get arrested in New Jersey. I understand that he's a strict Constitutionalist, but there's a point at which accepting any document as absolute dogma is lunacy, and this guy is a hop, skip, and a jump beyond that. On top of that, he goes on to list all sorts of abuses of power, and then he turns the majority of his invective at Congress? He's angry at Congress rather than the President, where there isn't even a remotely acceptable Constitutional explanation for Bush's abuses of executive power, whereas the commerce clause has proven to be a broad brush which paints today's Congress with all sorts of power and responsibility. It's no wonder he's on FOX.

A wonderful lesson from a very simple mind. I wish these small minded thugs would drop the fake outrage routine. They are fine with wire-taps, torture and rules about who can get married to who, but when it comes to Obama they are very sensitive about the constitution.
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That's what happens when politicians can suddenly respect the Constitution again;)

>> ^DavidRaine:
> ...he goes on to list all sorts of abuses of power, and then he turns the majority of his invective at Congress? He's angry at Congress rather than the President, where there isn't even a remotely acceptable Constitutional explanation for Bush's abuses of executive power...

yeah, that was one of the problems i also had with his presentation, and it's one of the reasons i didn't think this was as good a clip as some others that i playlisted, that address some of the same issues.

This was on Fox?

don't even pretend that conservatives are any less guilty of that "living document" shit. or improper taxation.

Conservatives are closer to the mark than liberals when it comes to the Constitution. FDR warped things probably beyond repair.

or that the legal process for detainees has anything to do with compassion for armed scumbags. maybe this'll make sense to you if you hear it from a republican instead. please note that my description was written well before anyone actually admitted we waterboarded anyone.

The Supremes are a bunch of clowns who recently decided a state cannot put a child rapist to death for his crime. However, in the prison yard, child rapists are killed by other inmates. So prison inmates have a better moral compass than the activist morons in black robes who have undermined the Constitution by legislating law from the bench instead of interpreting it.

The new Soopreme standard that terrorist animals are entitled to protection under the GC is a fabrication with no precedent. Terrorists seeking to destroy a society deserve no quarter from anyone and should consider themselves doomed toys if captured.

The left is presently more fascist than the right and both have ignored the Constitution almost from their origins. Welcome to human nature and the ego.

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