Have Gun, Will Travel

I’ve hesitated to pop the cork on the champagne after learning of the affirmation in the United States Supreme Court case Heller v Washington. In the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia said the amendment protected an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use that arm for self-defense within the home. While good news, what is problematic to me, was the narrow decision. We have four Supreme Court justices who quite simply rejected the United States constitution. This confirms a suspicion I’ve held for some time and it’s deserving of relation. Most Americans and too many judges simply do not understand the inception of our constitution, its purpose and its inspiration. Luckily for you, my devoted readers, I do and am willing to proffer a peek into my intellect and insightfulness.

Ask any citizen where our rights as Americans emanate from and the usual response will be from our constitution. This education is so wrong as to be criminal and the educational system doling out this pabulum need face indictment with prejudice. The sacred words of Thomas Jefferson in our Declaration of Independence; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” To repeat, we are endowed by our creator. Our rights come from God, not government. The bill of rights, including our second amendment, was written to protect those God given rights from government intrusion. The bill of rights is singular, not collective, meaning they apply to the individual, not communally. To understand our constitution one must understand the authors and their reasoning. Our founders were suspicious and fearful of government and felt that absolute power must abide within the electorate not the elected. One must remember the colonies were escaping the oppressiveness of King George.

But, it isn’t that simple. The document conceived by the patriots who pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor had to have been divinely inspired; there is no other reasonable explanation. And, today, four Justices of the United States Supreme court not only cheapened this document that we conservative hold as sacrosanct, they desecrated the memory of those brave men that bore this country.

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Thanks, Justices. Now we are bent over with our pants around our ankles

What in the world is the majority of the Supreme Court thinking? Justice Scalia, writing in dissent, was blunt:

“America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60–61, 70, 190 (2004). On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.”

The majority of democrats and republicans, in 2001, gave the president the authority to do whatever he deemed necessary to defend America against any further terrorist acts. Since 2001 the President has a 100% rating in protecting the homeland. The actions of the United States Supreme court, on this day, guarantees that rating will be much lower in the weeks and months to come.

Ostensibly our beloved court with Elmer Fudd, “Justice Kennedy” as the swing vote, usurped the legislative and executive powers, creating their own judicial junta. This case was brought before the Supreme Court in 1942. The case law, for Raz and legal neophytes is EX PARTE QUIRIN, 317 U.S. 1.

The court held; (1) That the charges preferred against petitioners on which they are being tried by military commission appointed by the order of the President of July 2, 1942, allege an offense or offenses which the President is authorized to order tried before a military commission. (2) That the military commission was lawfully constituted. (3) That petitioners are held in lawful custody, for trial before the military commission, and have not shown cause for being discharged by writ of habeas corpus. The motions for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus are denied. The orders of the District Court are affirmed. The mandates are directed to issue forthwith.

These were German saboteurs, caught within the borders of the United States, imprisoned in the United States and all but one swung from the yardarm; you guessed it, in the United States.

Let’s not kid ourselves, the ruling handed down from on high today simply told the rest of the world that we are bent over with our pants down around our ankles. Combat soldiers, capturing the enemy, on the field of battle will now be, “witnesses” instead of life takers. Isn’t that special

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