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United States News See other United States News Articles Title: Rand Paul to Supreme Court: Drop dead
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URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion ... d-paul20120628,0,4362194.story
Published: Jun 29, 2012
Author: Sandra Hernandez
Post Date: 2012-06-29 05:09:03 by A K A Stone
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TheU.S. Supreme Courts decision Thursday to uphold all but one part of the 2010 healthcare law produced some strong reactions. Supporters declared victory and opponents vowed to keep fighting. That much was to be expected. But Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Pauls rant against the high courts ruling was a surprise of sorts. The physician-turned-elected-official appeared to suggest that the court needs a legal lesson or two. Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be constitutional does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional, Paul said in a statement. While the court may have erroneously come to the conclusion that the law is allowable, it certainly does nothing to make this mandate or government takeover of our healthcare right. The senator is right, of course, about "a couple people" deciding. But in this case, five people, who happen to be justices on the Supreme Court, declared the law constitutional. Those five individuals constitute a majority on the high court and thus are empowered to decide whether something is constitutional or not. Perhaps Pauls beef, though, isnt with this court but with the 209-year-old landmark decision in Marbury vs. Madison that established the basis for judicial review under Article III of the Constitution and cleared the way for federal courts to declare laws unconstitutional. Either way, Paul's comments were the latest in a week of decisions that sparked spirited public debate. First, Justice Antonin Scalia read his feisty dissent from the majority's opinion that struck down most of Arizona's harsh immigration law, and then a freshman senator declared that just because some people on the Supreme Court weigh in on a legal matter, that doesnt mean they know what they are doing.
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"Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." Michael Rivero
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
"Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." Michael Rivero
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
--Such has been the patient sufferance of these United STATES; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present "King" of Washington D.C. is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. ... Am I safe to assume that this is crystal clear to all FREE Americans whose feral gooberment is busy as we are speaking TRYING to make us ALL "subjects" instead of CITIZENS? You do understand what Mao said about power coming from the barrel of a gun don't you? IF Americans cannot count on being treated as CITIZENS instead of subjects by our own government, do you really think we're just going to swallow the USSC's statist shit without a murmur of protest? Really? The STATES will now be forced to fight the feral gooberment. First in the courts, then in the field when the feds TRY to force the states into submission to their tyrannical will. WAR is not hyperbole, the leftists plan on KILLING MILLIONS of Americans in "re-education". WE plan on FIGHTING them with the same sword that they would use on us. I pray to almighty GOD that I am 100% WRONG about this, but I fear that I am not. Those who would be our masters know NO LAW, they HATE AMERICA and AMERICANS so much that they would be happy to destroy us ALL. WE AMERICANS aren't going ANYWHERE. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY. These would be tyrants will find what all such have learned, and they will learn it the same way. We are a LONG way away from not being able to muster the active third. Each outrage gives AMERICANS more to fight for. When you are KILLING my kin folks you better expect some response in kind, because you ARE going to get it; and 450 MILLION rounds of .40 cal isn't going to be nearly enough. In my heart I am convinced that no gooberment can MAKE Americans do anything they really don't want to do. If these insane asshats in D.C. are so stupid to think that they can by "winning" or even controlling a CIVIL WAR. There will be WAR. They will LOSE.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague -- lucysmom (A.K.A. minnigold)
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
"Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." Michael Rivero
"Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." Michael Rivero
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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