Friday, December 23, 2005

Well, well - What have we here?.....

UNDENIABLE PROOF THAT
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THE INTENT OF
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THE FRAMERS
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IS THAT
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ALL CITIZENS BE ARMED!
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By Alexander Hamilton
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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,
(Notice the use of the word CITIZENS - NOT MILITIA!)
without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo. The smaller the extent of the territory, the more difficult will it be for the people to form a regular or systematic plan of opposition, and the more easy will it be to defeat their early efforts. Intelligence can be more speedily obtained of their preparations and movements, and the military force in the possession of the usurpers can be more rapidly directed against the part where the opposition has begun. In this situation there must be a peculiar coincidence of circumstances to insure success to the popular resistance.
(Not if they have ALREADY been ILLEGALLY DISARMED by their USURPERS, Mr. Hamilton!)
The obstacles to usurpation and the facilities of resistance increase with the increased extent of the state, provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. The natural strength of the people in a large community, in proportion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater than in a small, and of course more competent to a struggle with the attempts of the government to establish a tyranny.
(I wonder if THAT'S WHY the LARGEST POPULATIONS CENTERS in the United States have been UNCONSTITUTIONALLY DISARMED? - YOU THINK!!!!)
But in a confederacy the people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate.
Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government.
The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate.
If their rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other as the instrument of redress.
How wise will it be in them by cherishing the union to preserve to themselves an advantage which can never be too highly prized!
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.
Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretenses so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the people at large. The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people,
they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community.
They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.
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ALL MUNICIPAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS that have UNCONSTITUTIONALLY STOLEN their CITIZEN'S RIGHTS away ARE PRACTISING ILLEGAL USURPATIONS!
S.C.O.T.U.S. MUST OVERTURN THESE PERVERSIONS - NOW!
OR, GET OFF THE BENCH!
YOU ARE NOT FULFILLING YOUR OBLIGATIONS OR DOING YOUR LEGALLY SWORN DUTY! YOUR FAILURE TO ACT IS A DISGRACE AND CAN BE ASSUMED AS COMPLICITY!

1 comment:

The Conservative UAW Guy said...

Merry Christmas to you and yours, David.

BTW, when have facts ever swayed the left? ;)

Great job.