Hi Da,
DevilsAdvocate writes:
I am sorry ICANT, but that is about the most idiotic thing I have heard you say. You think McCarthyism was good? How about the Jim Crow laws? Segregation was awesome wasn't it! Yeah, lets go back to the 50s when WASP males ran the country and women were kept in the kitchen and blacks in the ghetto and serving our food. What a joyous time.
Well I am sorry but I don't believe all the propaganda that is put out by our government and the media.
I don't know what part of America you lived in, in the 40's and 50's but I would dare say you were not a twinkle in the eye of your parents.
After the war was over things were tough in the area I lived in. But we all survived without big brother supplying our needs. The government did not supply our food, healthcare, or anything we needed to survive. We worked for everything we had.
I lived on a farm and worked on many farms. There was black and white working side by side. Each got paid the same amount of money. We went to the same Churches. We visited in each others homes in other words we were friends.
In fact in the 50's I employed a couple of the ladies that had washed my clothes when I was a little boy. They helped take care of my kids. Later I started doing construction work and moved all over the state of Florida. When I went home on the weekends I had to visit those ladies so they could see the boys and know how they were doing. If I missed them they were very upset and felt I did not love them anymore. Many of my uncles and aunts could care less if I visited them.
In our area we knew nothing of racial problems until it broke on the national scene.
The government did not tell us what to eat or what to buy. They sure did not tell us if we did not buy a certain product they would fine us.
"McCarthyism." Do you believe there were no people in the US in the 50's that had communist or Marxists beliefs? Those and their offspring are the one promoting those ideas in America today.
"Jim Crow laws." Weren't these laws put in effect in the 1800's not in the 1900's?
"Segregation was awesome wasn't it!" You don't think we have segregation today. Listen to the statements of Rev. Wright.
"women were kept in the kitchen." What is wrong with the woman in a marriage staying home and taking care of the home and children? What is wrong with the man being a man and providing a living for his family?
"blacks in the ghetto." Do you believe there are no getto's today?
Do you believe that those who have worked hard all there life are responsible for those white and black living in poverty?
Do you believe the government should take their hard earned money and give it to those that set around and never try to better themselves?
All mankind is created with equal opportunities.
All men are not created equal if we were we would all be as rich as Warren Buffet or Bill Gates.
DevilsAdvocate writes:
When was the last time you got arrested for eating a big mac?
If I ever eat a big mac they might. I don't eat food prepared by people other than my wife, or by myself. When we have food at Church I eat what we prepare.
DevilsAdvocate writes:
Following precedents is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it does not clearly violate the Constitution.
Unless the first ruleing violated the Constitution.
DevilsAdvocate writes:
Can you give me an example where you think the US SC has done this?
Interpertation of amendment XIV, and relavant rulings, which told the States they could not pass certain laws.
DevilsAdvocate writes:
Do you really think the US Constitution, infinitesimally small compared with modern legislation, can adequately address ALL the hypothetical legal, economic, cultural, religious, health, welfare, and other concerns of a complex government system with three branches, 50 states, 2.7 million federal employees, tens of thousand of federal offices and a population of over 350 million people. I think not.
If the Constitution is not sufficient to address a problem there is a way to fix it. The Supreme Court does not have the authority to fix the Constitution. They only have the right to examine what is written down and determine if something matches what is written not what they think is written.
They could suggest to the President or Congress that the Constitution needed amending. The Congress could then suggest amendments to fix any problem. Then if 3/4's of the States ratified the amendments they would become law.
The problem is they want to do things that the States would not ratify in a Constitutional amendment. So they interpet the Constitution rather than follow the Constitution.
That brings us to the Second Amendment and the Constitution.
They try to figure out all kinds of ways to control gun ownership without asking the States for aproval which they would not get. So the government trys to use the commerce law to get their authority which flys in the face of a statement that the government can not restrict the citizens of owning and bearing arms.
I think our forefathers intended for the citizens and States to have any arms that the federal government could posess in case they tried to put the people under a rule like they came out from under in England.
The citizens would be at a disadvantage if all they had was pickup trucks, shotguns and other small arms to go against an organized army that had tanks and bombs.
You say that could never happen in America. Are you sure it could not happen?
Remember absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If you don't think so visit Cuba. Or visit a gentleman that lives in Miami who was second in command to Raul in the 80's and 90's in Cuba. I could introduce you if you desired. He was there when Castro took over in the late 50's and saw what absolute power could do.
If you look at Cuba you will see those in power have anything they desire. There are drug stores that visitors can buy aspirn in. But the local population are not allowed to enter them must less buy anything no matter how much money they have. There is a big fellow about 225 lbs over 6' tall standing at the entrance to make sure the locals do not come in the stores. They have to shop in the stores desginated for them to shop in.
God Bless,
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