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  49. The NRA's Two Second Amendment Lies The gun industry political front NRA tells two lies about the intent of the Second Amendment. 1. That the Second Amendment protects an "individual" "right" to possess guns. Comparison with the several prior Supreme Court decisions, and the legislative history -- the Congress' Debates of the writing of the Amendment, which are LEGAL AUTHORITY -- shows that Scalia's "Heller" decision is an outlier. In "Heller" he falsely held that the Amendment protects an individual right -- for which he was excoriated by legal experts across the political spectrum for ignoring this adjudicatory standard: When a conflict over the interpretation of a law cannot be resolved within the text of the law, one reverts to the legislative history of the law -- in this instance Congress' Debates of the writing of the Amendment. The facts from those Debates: The subject of the Amendment is well regulated Militia, and its purpose to establish a National Defense, relying on that Militia. The Militia is not an individual, and is a public institution, regulated under both Federal and state constitutions and laws; thus the Amendment is irrelevant to the issue of private, individual gun ownership: James Madison is called "the father of the Constitution," and the gun industry/NRA claims that Madison wrote the Second Amendment. If both of those are facts, then the word "people" is consistent in meaning from beginning of the Constitution to the end of the first 10 Amendments. The first three words of the Constitution are "We the people," not, "We the individual". This is the first draft of that which became the Second Amendment, which the gun industry/NRA calls the "Madison" Amendment -- but which it never quotes. [Here I clarify it for the logic-impaired]: "The right of the people [PLURAL] to keep and bear arms [this phrase is the well-regulated Militia, and was drawn from four state constitution Militia Clauses] shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person [INDIVIDUAL] religiously scrupulous of [AGAINST] bearing arms [in well-regulated Militia] shall be compelled [INVOLUNTARY] to render military service [in well-regulated Militia] in person." Source: Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Paperback, 1991), Edited by Helen E Veit, et al., at 12. (This volume is readily available from Amazon.) Note the word "compelled": Militia service was a DUTY -- not a "right". And note the words "people" and "person": if a person -- individual -- claimed "religious" exemption from that DUTY, his case was scrutinized individually. The only "individual" "right" Congress debated was that last clause -- "but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service" -- and it was obviously dropped from the proposed Amendment before it was ratified. Thus the Second Amendment obviously does not protect "individual" ANYTHING. Only by ignoring the legislative history -- Congress' Debates of the writing of the Amendment, which are LEGAL AUTHORITY -- could Scalia falsely hold that the Amendment protects an "individual" "right". 2. That the purpose of the Amendment was to establish a "right" to "take up arms" against the gov't -- which is refuted by the Constitution itself: Art. I., S. 8., C. 15. The Congress shall have Power To provide for calling forth the Militia to . . . SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS. The Founders themselves twice established the precedent on the point: Under the Articles of Confederation, "Shays's" rebellion was suppressed by the state's legitimate well-regulated Militia, and the rebels charged with, tried for, and convicted of, TREASON, and sentenced to death. And under the Constitution, AFTER the Second Amendment was ratified, the "Whiskey" rebellion was suppressed by Federalized Militia, lead by George Washington, and the rebels charged with, tried for, and convicted of, TREASON, and sentenced to death. The Congress, as a co-equal branch of gov't, has the authority and power to overturn Supreme Court decisions. Overturn "Heller". PLEASE CIRCULATE INTACT.
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  68.  @jlsperling1  This isn't about me, jackass; it's about the rule of law, based on the Constitution you PISS on while LYING when you invoke it. This is in the "Declaration of independence" as a grievance against King George III: "He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power." There is no "right" to establish private anti-gov't military organizations. There is no "right" to "take up arms" against the gov't/RULE OF LAW. The ENTIRE Constitution is in effect at the same time, which includes these two Militia Clauses: "Art. I., s. 8., C. 15. The CONGRESS shall have Power To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute [ENFORCE] the Laws of the Union, SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS, and repel Invasions." "Taking up arms" against the gov't -- based on pseudo-law gibberish and lies -- is INSURRECTION. "Art. I., S. 8., C. 16. The CONGRESS shall have Power To provide for organizing, ARMING, and disciplining the Militia . . . reserving to the States [GOV'TS] the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed BY CONGRESS." Constitutional provisions are implemented by means of STATUTES, in this context MILITA ACTS. The purpose of the Second Amendment, per the Debates of those who WROTE it, was to establish a NATIONAL DEFENSE relying on the well-regulated Militia -- ALWAYS UNDER the control of BOTH US and state constitutions and laws. This is underscored by the Militia Act enacted on May 8, 1792: "An act more effectually to provide for a NATIONAL DEFENCE by establishing an uniform MILITIA throughout the United States." You are not only spewing anti-Americanism; you are your own worst enemy: the rule of law, which you REJECT, secures the very rights you claim to be about defending. You can't BOTH reject the rule of law AND claim its protections. Your cheering on of the fascist right wing has just ELIMINATED the right of privacy. THAT affects YOU.
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  86. The "institution" is the GOV'T, dunce. "We the people" are the gov't -- and WE PAY OUR OWN WAY for the EXPENSES of gov't and therefore the security of rule of law. Don't pay your way, deadbeat, and the gov't will properly, in behalf of all those who DO pay their own way, seize assets you have commensurate with the amount in delinquency. For how it works see the judgment against Trump in the New York fraud case. He ripped off the people of New York -- they were in effect paying HIS taxes FOR him without being apprised of that fact. And it is longstanding LAW in New York state that in order to appeal such judgments -- which cannot be discharged in bankruptcy -- one must post a bond that is equal to the judgment + 20 PER CENT. Trump nonetheless attempted to appeal the decision without posting the bond -- he finally admitted that he doesn't have the "billions" he has for years LIED he has -- and the appellate court denied his appeal, then in effect told him -- Why not ask the banks you defrauded for loans to pay the bond? This is how the BANKS were defrauded: IN ADDITION to it being ILLEGAL to file FRAUDULENT financial applications for loans -- Trump's falsely inflated valuations of his properties on such applications got him FAVORABLE interest rates -- which means the banks were DEFRAUDED out of GREATER profits from the interest than were realized by the FAVORABLE interest rates. Wake up: nothing Trump says is true; therefore nothing he says is to be believed. Period. Full stop. End of story.
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  92.  @JayTX.  You aren't the only person affected by the services, and therefore not the only person affected by your refusal to accept and act in accordance with the RESPONSIBILITIES of citizenship. Your bogus "argument" has been litigated to death and as ALWAYS LOST. So you don't want the potholes in the streets repaired; everyone else does, and they pay their taxes. And you get the repaired potholes FOR FREE. Or you don't want to pay taxes in support of, as example, the local fire department. So when your house catches fire the fire department doesn't show up and save it. So you lose that asset because you're a freeloading deadbeat. But let's ignore all that in favor of your whining against gov't because you're too stupid to have even the most basic understanding of "community" and "society" and how gov't is structured and functions, and that the first obligation of gov't is to meet the needs of "We the people," which costs MONEY therefore "We the people" PAY OUR OWN WAY through TAXATION, and to protect public health and safety. Gov't is by definition rule of law. When you bash gov't you bash the rule of law. That very rule of law secures and protects the RIGHTS you claim; but every right is inextricably entwined with RESPONSIBILITY. Here's how the Founders put it in the 1784 New Hampshire constitution: "Part I--The Bill of Rights "Article I. . . . . "III. When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to insure the protection of others [AND OF THEMSELVES]". There is no "right" to commit crimes -- including non-payment of taxes.
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  122.  @chasinglighttoo  "No Collusion"? Trump's July 27, 2016 Solicitation of Crime with Russia. This is Webster's definition of "collusion": "Secret agreement or cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose". How many Trumpeters lied about their contacts with Russians during the Trump-Putin COLLUSION? THIS IS THE LAW: The Model Penal Code defines solicitation as commanding, encouraging, or requesting another person to engage in conduct that constitutes a crime or an attempt to commit a crime (with the intent that the crime be committed). Model Penal Code S. 5.02(1) (1962). Generally the code provides that solicitation be as punishable as the crime solicited. Id. at S. 5.05(1). Law Dictionary, Giffis, at 446. THIS IS THE EVIDENCE: We have Trump on video, in broad daylight, soliciting Russia: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." To "find" those emails required computer hacking. Computer hacking is a felony. In fact, he solicited a series of felonies, beginning with computer hacking and stealing private property, through to receiving and possessing that stolen property. And we know that on the same day as Trump's solicitation, within hours thereafter, Russia hacked computers and stole the emails. That made Trump a co-conspirator with Russia. That conspiracy is an additional felony. ____________ PLEASE CIRCULATE INTACT. ___ That also applies to Trump's solicitation of election fraud phone calls to Georgia election officials.
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  155. The NRA's Two Second Amendment Lies The gun industry political front NRA tells two lies about the intent of the Second Amendment. 1. That the Second Amendment protects an "individual" "right" to possess guns. Comparison with the several prior Supreme Court decisions, and the legislative history -- the Congress' Debates of the writing of the Amendment, which are LEGAL AUTHORITY -- shows that Scalia's "Heller" decision is an outlier. In "Heller" he falsely held that the Amendment protects an individual right -- for which he was excoriated by legal experts across the political spectrum for ignoring this adjudicatory standard: When a conflict over the interpretation of a law cannot be resolved within the text of the law, one reverts to the legislative history of the law -- in this instance Congress' Debates of the writing of the Amendment. The facts from those Debates: The subject of the Amendment is well regulated Militia, and its purpose to establish a National Defense, relying on that Militia. The Militia is not an individual, and is a public institution, regulated under both Federal and state constitutions and laws; thus the Amendment is irrelevant to the issue of private, individual gun ownership: James Madison is called "the father of the Constitution," and the gun industry/NRA claims that Madison wrote the Second Amendment. If both of those are facts, then the word "people" is consistent in meaning from beginning of the Constitution to the end of the first 10 Amendments. The first three words of the Constitution are "We the people," not, "We the individual". This is the first draft of that which became the Second Amendment, which the gun industry/NRA calls the "Madison" Amendment -- but which it never quotes. [Here I clarify it for the logic-impaired]: "The right of the people [PLURAL] to keep and bear arms [this phrase is the well-regulated Militia, and was drawn from four state constitution Militia Clauses] shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person [INDIVIDUAL] religiously scrupulous of [AGAINST] bearing arms [in well-regulated Militia] shall be compelled [INVOLUNTARY] to render military service [in well-regulated Militia] in person." Source: Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Paperback, 1991), Edited by Helen E Veit, et al., at 12. (This volume is readily available from Amazon.) Note the word "compelled": Militia service was a DUTY -- not a "right". And note the words "people" and "person": if a person -- individual -- claimed "religious" exemption from that DUTY, his case was scrutinized individually. The only "individual" "right" Congress debated was that last clause -- "but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service" -- and it was obviously dropped from the proposed Amendment before it was ratified. Thus the Second Amendment obviously does not protect "individual" ANYTHING. Only by ignoring the legislative history -- Congress' Debates of the writing of the Amendment, which are LEGAL AUTHORITY -- could Scalia falsely hold that the Amendment protects an "individual" "right". 2. That the purpose of the Amendment was to establish a "right" to "take up arms" against the gov't -- which is refuted by the Constitution itself: Art. I., S. 8., C. 15. The Congress shall have Power To provide for calling forth the Militia to . . . SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS. The Founders themselves twice established the precedent on the point: Under the Articles of Confederation, "Shays's" rebellion was suppressed by the state's legitimate well-regulated Militia, and the rebels charged with, tried for, and convicted of, TREASON, and sentenced to death. And under the Constitution, AFTER the Second Amendment was ratified, the "Whiskey" rebellion was suppressed by Federalized Militia, lead by George Washington, and the rebels charged with, tried for, and convicted of, TREASON, and sentenced to death. The Congress, as a co-equal branch of gov't, has the authority and power to overturn Supreme Court decisions. Overturn "Heller". PLEASE CIRCULATE INTACT.
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  172.  @willmont8258  AGAIN: I have an education in law; you are law-illiterate. AND AGAIN: 1. The DEBATES of the Congress -- both House AND Senate -- that WROTE the Second Amendment prove that the PURPOSE of the Second Amendment was to establish a NATIONAL DEFENSE relying on the MILITIA. That fact is underscored by the May 8, 1792 Militia Act enacted by CONGRESS: "An act more effectually to provide for the NATIONAL DEFENSE by establishing an uniform MILITIA throughout the United States." 2. Through the several drafts of that which became the Second Amendment there was ONLY ONE "individual right" debated. It read as follows: ": but no person [INDIVIDUAL] religiously scrupulous of [AGAINST] bearing arms, shall be compelled [INVOLUNTARY] to render military service [in well-regulated militia] in person." O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y, MORON, that was VOTED DOWN BEFORE the Amendment was ratified. 3. FURTHER, the 6 "Federalist Society" Supreme Court FANATICS overturned "Roe," which was based on the right of privacy, by DENYING that there is a right of privacy BECAUSE the words "right of privacy" don't appear in the Constitution. OTHER words that don't appear in the Constitution: "Individual right to possess guns". 4. AND AGAIN: the United States consists of two levels or forms of gov't: Federal, and states. That means that every citizen has DUAL citizenship: citizenship in the United States; and citizenship in their state of residence. And the term "states' rights" is nothing new as a term, because that is precisely as the 6 SC FANATICS did with "Roe": kicked the decision back to the states so each state can decide whether it citizens will LOSE that right or KEEP it as a STATE RIGHT. You should embrace the "states' rights" formulation because it has always been tainted by white supremacists in their effort to avoid FEDERAL protections of citizens, under the SUPREMACY Clause, from STATE gov't oppression of its citizens by yelling "STATES' RIGHTS!"
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  209.  @joevelte4252  This is the LAW on this issue: Trump's THEFT of gov't property is not limited to classified information. ALL information generated by gov't employees is owned BY THE GOV'T. That has been the law since the first Supreme Court ruling on the question in the 18th century. Let's be more particular by presenting the FACTS, oblivious and duped Trumpeter: 1. Several of Trump's WHITE HOUSE lawyers have testified under oath that Trump said of the STOLEN GOV'T PROPERTY, "It's mine, it's not theirs." 2. Because Trump refused to cooperate by handing over the GOV'T PROPERTY he STOLE to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), NARA referred the issue to DOJ. 3. After the first 15 boxes were retrieved, and the DOJ and FBI learned that those were not all of the GOV'T PROPERTY Trump STOLE and was ILLEGALLY WITHHOLDING, the DOJ and FBI bent over backwards in effort to cooperate in the retrieval of the rest of the STOLEN GOV'T PROPERTY. Trump instead engaged in what he called "negotiation" over the issue. Does law enforcement cooperate with a bank robber who wants to "negotiate" over "whether," "how much," and "when" the robber will return the stolen money? 4. Trump denied having additional STOLEN GOV'T PROPERTY so the DOJ/FBI subpoenaed the remainder. Trump provided a few -- proving that his claim to have no mare was FALSE -- and at least one of his lawyers signed a declaration attesting to the "fact" that there were no more STOLEN GOV'T PROPERTY to turn over. 5. Finally, because Trump TALKED about "cooperating" but did not do so, the DOJ/FBI got a warrant for search and retrieved even more boxes of STOLEN GOV'T PROPERTY, in total to date more than two dozen. It wouldn't have been an issue if Trump had simply turned over all the documents at the outset. Instead, the PAPER TRAIL of the effort documents Trump LYING, and blowing off a subpoena. And then his lawyer BOBB publicly stated that she was kept from the premises and didn't receive the warrant. IN FACT, as the unsealed warrant/inventory show, BOBB SIGNED the warrant/affidavit as the RECIPIENT of them. Trump has NEVER accepted "NO!" even when the "NO!" is the LAW. So you are arrogantly and stupidly defending CRIME. Question: Is TRUMP above the law?
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