Immoral Criminals in Washington
So I haven’t posted anything in awhile. I think it’s time for me to get back to doing so. I continually fall into the trap of getting busy and then moving to tomorrow all the things that didn’t seem so important to do today. This blog has all too often been the thing that could move to tomorrow. In reality it can’t. Things are crazy in
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 18th, in his conversation about habeas corpus with Senator Arlen Specter (R-Penn.):
Gonzales: The fact that the Constitution – again, there is no express grant of habeas [corpus] in the Constitution. There is a prohibition against taking it away. But it’s never been the case, and I’m not a Supreme –
Specter: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. The Constitution says you can’t take it away, except in the case of rebellion or invasion. Doesn’t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus, unless there is an invasion or rebellion?
Gonzales: I meant by that comment, the Constitution doesn’t say, "Every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas." It doesn’t say that. It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except by –
Specter: You may be treading on your interdiction and violating common sense, Mr. Attorney General.
Gonzales: Um.
Of course, Gonzales is partly right. There is no specific "grant" of habeas corpus in the Constitution, because inalienable rights are not doled out by government. America’s founding fathers didn't believe governments grant rights. Instead, they believed (to quote Thomas Jefferson) that "all men … are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." God, not government, grants rights according to the thinking and language of the founders. That’s why George Mason wrote – when framing the Bill of Rights – that "Congress shall make no law" abridging our rights rather than "Every individual is granted" such-and-such a right. The difference is key, because anything government has the legitimate power to give you, it also has the power to take away. The founders said that our rights were unalienable, unable to be removed by the power of government.
And nothing – other than life itself – is more essential than the right to liberty. Habeas corpus simply says that government must produce some proof of a crime before locking up a man and taking away his liberty.
(If you haven’t done so, click the link at the start of that section and actually watch the wicked fool make the statements.)
I called him a wicked fool because I don’t actually believe he’s stupid. He’s simply wicked. He seeks to destroy the Constitution and our liberty right along with it.
This is the same man that had a top aide state that the President could order the torture of children if he wanted to and a list of other heinous un-American acts.
The best part is, most Americans are so pathetically and blissfully ignorant of the great gift granted them by the Founding Fathers, that with latte encrusted lips they just smile, occasionally drool, and say, “Thank you for keeping us safe.”
Lemmings have more sense than most of my countrymen today.
How will that latte taste as a slave? How will it taste when they collapse your economy and you can’t buy one. Better yet, you can’t feed your family either.
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/160407_dollar_new_low_euro.html
or the original AP article if your prefer
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070416/dollar.html?.v=3
Go ahead, drink up, be merry, and trust the Government. (Even though there is no historical precedent for being able to trust ANY government. In fact we were specifically warned by the Founding Fathers NEVER to trust our government, for to do so would be the beginning of the end of our liberty.)
Better yet how can you trust a Government run by people like Mr. Gonzales? How can the top attorney in the country think that Habeas Corpus isn't a right of ALL of us. How can you think that the Government grants us anything?
Oh well then again this is the same man that not only would advocate the torture of children, he'd cover it up.
Gonzales and the teen sex scandals...
It’s time to start holding politicians accountable for their actions.
It’s time to hold them accountable for the people they appoint to positions of power (ie: Alberto Gonzales)
It’s time to ask questions. One such question you should ask is, “If there is a War on Terrorism and we have all these enemies that want to strike at us and hurt us, why can anyone bring anything, any time, across the Southern Border of the
It’s time for YOU to get educated. Understand your rights; understand that they are not granted by the Government. Understand that if you don’t defend them, your children will pay the price.
Learn to determine truth from that which falls from here:
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