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John
Longenecker Safer Streets thru
smaller government.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has a
book out and he's on tour to sell it. Sometimes controversy sells
books, and Breyer is one of the dissenters in the recent second
amendment cases before him.
But liberals who claim to know the mind of
original intent in this country are like an oxymoron almost by
definition. Their entire quarrel is against the founders, arguing
loose interpretations of the Constitution for modern times instead
of understanding that the founders had already had this
conversation for all time. What liberals want today was rejected
and thrown off in the War for Independence and in debates before
ratification: abuse of due process.
Today, loose interpretations of original
intent are abuses of due process in lip service, emotionalism and
anything but knowing the minds of the founders. No liberal
can really know the mind of original intent: what we do know is
what the founders did not want any more of, having experienced it
enough.
The founders then declared the people the
Sovereign, quite a difference from being a subject of the Crown.
From that hour forward, liberals fail to grasp the Constitution,
but abuse it in abuses of due process and in powers not
granted.
In a painful error of his, Breyer posited
two concepts: his mistaken notion of militia and whether people can
have atomic weapons and bombs. I will refer you to how I already handled
this latter smug error of the left in my article here.
When it comes to Militia, Justice Breyer did
not know that militia within the meaning of the second amendment
was every farmer who could carry a stick, since there would be no
organized police force until around 1845 or so and no National
Guard for another 130 years. He remarked about merging the
unorganized militia (farmers) with the armed forces as if they are
the same, and this was attempted several times through various
militia acts, but never really completed. Today, in 2010,
unorganized militia is distinguished in U.S. Code and is
independent of the Commander-in-Chief. The purpose of such
independent militias is civilian preparedness on the knowledge of
limits on government's assets, response times and
effectiveness.
While gun owners are educating the
electorate, we need to spend some time with elected officials as
well. When the incoming Congress convenes in 2011, they need to
meet with selected gun owners. I have a list I would recommend they
summon and consult.
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