Loading ...Key reason why the USA
is “exceptional.” We have a Bill of Rights that places restrictions on government. Who else does this?
And who else ensconces the key right – gun ownership? The one right that is the ultimate protection of all the others.
Now if we could just get/force congress and the prez and the courts – dems and repubs alike – to stay within those restrictions. Makes me reach for hemp and a ladder and pitchforks, lots of pitchforks. Congressmen first, lawyers second (but I repeat myself.)
Well stated, Sir Silverboom. Let me repeat the most important, last paragraph: “This also applies to the other ‘Rights.’ They are not granted, they stipulate inherent rights that the government may not prohibit.”
“We have a Bill of Rights that places restrictions on government. Who else does this?”
Somehow, some way, we need (at least) two things to be done in DC.
Legislation already requires a section be added due to the Paperwork Reduction Act.
But what’s really needed is a section on Unintended Consequences.
All potential unintended consequences of new legislation must be expressly identified, from all sources identifying such possibilities. If passage requires that Congress finds certain consequences unlikely, but they prove to be validated, the legislation must automatically be repealed. And such findings should be assessed by the Citizenry not Congress.
Second we need a Public Sector Accountability Act. Positions, staff, pay, and/or pensions (all or part) must be forfeited if The Citizenry finds negligence, etc. This should extend to actions later found to be UnConstitutional by the courts, for one. There have to be consequences for those crossing the line.
Bottom line — we need a system that changes the Incentives for Behavior, before it occurs.
There must be a shift in the Cost Benefit analysis that inhibits their behavior in the first place, otherwise the damage happens and its costly and time consuming to reverse.
If the oaths of office were adhered to, we would have no Dept of Ed, no Dept of Energy, no Fed, no EPA, no Import-Export Bank, no NASA, no income tax, no spending without a formal approved budget, no gun laws, no FDA, no Homeland Security and all of its minions, etc etc etc. Essentially the national federal government would implode. THAT’S what we need.
Forgot to mention: no Social Security, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no “payroll tax…” It’s a testimony to the robustness of the free market that it can create such wealth while carrying all of this useless illegal crap on its back.
The fact that it prohibits what the government can do – unfortunately this is not taught in the public school system anymore. The last few generations have grown up not understanding that fact, and so they do not demand it.
Excellent point. That is why those in charge of public education have removed most basic civics, US history if it doesn’t line up with leftist woke narratives and anything that allows students to be intelligent, independent, self reliant citizens. They want zombie morons dependent on government.
Not true. My generation – I’m an early Boomer – did not learn this. Had to find it out for myself. Went to school in the 50’s and 60’s. How many generations back are you talking about???
My problem is that so much of what I “learned” as a middle boomer, was wrong. Not so much grade school. Middle school and up, for sure. Some omissions, some outright “ideology” driven. Now at least, if you want to search for particular information, you can usually find it but you have to be motivated and CURIOUS, then determined, and wade through mountains of distortion and deceit.
A quip from the Canadian Leader Justina yesterday on guns.
“There are debates, and we have a culture where the difference is. Guns can be used for hunting or for sport shooting in Canada – and there are lots of gun owners, and they’re mostly law-respecting and law-abiding – but you can’t use a gun for self-protection in Canada. That’s not a right that you have in the Constitution or anywhere else.
If you try and buy a gun and say it’s for self-protection – No, you don’t get that