Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
    blarman's post is about that "list of negatives" our constitutional scholar Liar-In-Chief has been usurping with his pen and a phone.
    But we all know that.
    Me dino just had to write that anyway.
    As of yesterday, I finally have my somewhat homemade customized 9mm carbine ready to go to the range.
    Wonder when someone of some near future unconstitutional legalized capacity will want to take it from me.
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 6 months ago
      They will. But when they come to get it, just look silly and say"what gun?"
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      • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 6 months ago
        Then he knocks you down and sits on you while a dozen cops tear apart your home looking for those guns. And you don't get so much as an apology afterwards, even if they don't find any.

        About the best I can see good guys doing against this scenario is to spread the word as far and wide as possible, on the Internet and all other available channels, so that at least those who didn't get raided on the first day of Operation Confiscation get a chance to hide theirs.
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        • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 6 months ago
          Well, that opens the whole "no warrant" scenario. Also, I have seen some really bad Change.org petitions where cops did do some of the stupidest things. One case was that a woman with a service dog had the dog shot because it ran out the door when the cops came, the dog got scred as they did the "swat" thing, and had the wrong house. Dog got shot. Goes back to my "too many weird things happening" theory.
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  • Posted by bsmith51 7 years, 6 months ago
    But can't we lie/cheat/steal just a little bit?
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    • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
      lol. That's certainly what the Founders were trying to protect against, but even they recognized that they were dependent on a majority of political operators being decent patriots. They acknowledged that the system would break down if that weren't the case, and I believe that is what we are seeing.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 6 months ago
    It socialism that is outdated, even to the point of being completely obsolete and without merit.
    The constitution as written prevents socialism and the expanded unconstitutional government powers that have been stolen from the people and the states only make the constitution more obsolete by allowing socialism to flourish and grow at the expense of productive people.
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    • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
      Which is exactly why Obama and the progressives want to discredit the Constitution. It works against them.
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      • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 6 months ago
        Exactly, and why they have adopted unconstitutional rules and regulations as their substitute for laws, and made what laws there are so mushy and unclear as to be useless. That allows any idiot judge to interpret everything in their own way.
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        • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
          It allows a progressive judge to interpret things in their own way... mostly based on the defendant's political affiliations rather than according to the merits of the case!
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          • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 6 months ago
            I would also add "how much you donate" as well, as I believe that that influenced the SCOTUS decision, and now the same people want to bury it. It all ties together, donations, parties, judges, laws...all going back to politics and politicians and money. Which was one of the dangers AR was warning of.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 7 years, 6 months ago
    Read Rand's favorite philosopher. His thoughts from two millennia before our Founders were well known to them, as they should be to us. The "Ethics" and the "Politics" contain much that seems distinctly modern.

    Indeed, how many among us spout opinions without knowing more than a faint glimmer of ancient Athens, where our fond opinions were already tested long ago?
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    • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
      Actually, ancient Athens tried a purely democratic government and it disintegrated into mob rule. A representative government in my mind is better because it allows for a degree of specialization. Of course the problem (with representative government) is what we see today: that the voters themselves completely divorce themselves from the issues and so don't vote for people who would actually govern well and protect rights.
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      • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 6 months ago
        I would argue that Athens' democracy continued to function quite well until the Pelopponesian War, when Athens and its allies were conquered by the ultra-militarist dictatorship Sparta. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt here, as you say, but I'm not at all convinced that our present republic will do any better in the next major war, which I expect soon.
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        • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
          There's some truth to that, but one must also realize that the populations we're talking about are vastly different. You can run a pure democracy like Athens did with a very small population, but it's very unwieldy when you have hundreds of millions. And the reason why they got conquered was because they lacked a true executive who could direct the nation during times of war. You can't wage war by popular vote.

          Regarding the next war, its already upon us and we are losing. The very first war is always one of culture. And with our current leaders unwilling to stand up for true American values and culture, we have already lost. Sure, our superior weaponry and technology will keep us in the fight for a long time, but ultimately every battle is a battle for the hearts and minds (Sun Tzu).
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      • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 6 months ago
        In addition, the political party "block" system, just enable one moron (as I posted in another article where the Republicrats want to close down the government over a corporate political disclosure rule) can try to impose THEIR will upon everyone else. No debate or discussion is used, or desired, instead it is always "party policy" that dictates what will be done. Imperialist in the extreme and exactly what the Constitution was there to stop. When the judiciary (such as described in the article) dismisses the Constitution as "outdated" it is a ploy to establish "their ideals" instead of "it's ideals". Part and parcel of the whole takeover of our nation by a select group of morons with power.
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