While you LOL at your predicament ...
This is Part 5 of
THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID. You will find the first three parts of this in posts 1445, 1448, 1460,1477 and 1516
I left off with making the point that Liberty is a God given -
unalienable Right. It is a foundational principle upon which America was built.
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Our Consolation must be this, my dear, that Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it." (Excerpt from a letter written by John Adams to Abigail Adams 7 July 1775)
There is a misconception by both the right and the left.
BOTH sides believe that Liberty is tied to citizenship. It isn't. Citizenship, like voting is a privilege. Neither are
unalienable Rights. We may call them rights (sic), but they lack some important attributes that are unlike
unalienable Rights. Some of what we call "
rights" are actually privileges. Unlike
unalienable Rights, a government "
right" is given to you by a government, not a Creator. It is revocable and an
unalienable Right isn't, and the majority can vote your government into oblivion.
Unalienable Rights are
NOT subject to a popularity vote.
In the THIRD part of this ongoing ran (see Post #1460) catsteve2012 wrote:
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We built America, not you. You exist here because we allow you too. and based on its history, we have the right to determine if YOU should be here or not"
Of course, since for the most part, EVERY tax paying American citizen who was born here and resides here, has a right to be here..."
Here, catsteve2012 makes an inaccurate (and racist) statement. We do not see blacks stepping up to the plate and offering the Israelites reparations for their hard work while held in slavery. And now, the blacks claim they "
built" America. Well, they may have put in the labor, but, unfortunately, that is
NOT the meaning of the word the way we use it. See my previous posts for more info.
Today, we find ourselves in very precarious predicament. The Preamble of the Constitution states, unequivocally,
WHO that document pertains to along with the first Naturalization laws saying that in order to become a citizen, one had to be a white person of good character. That is all fact. Then history records that the Dred Scott decision confirming that inspired the Republicans to pass the 14th Amendment... which was done illegally:
The Fourteenth Amendment is Unconstitutional - Judge L.H. Perez
14th Amendment is actually ILLEGAL as it was never RATIFIED!
http://www.constitution.org/14ll/no14th.htm
Legality of the 14th Amendment (Congressional Record)
When you have judges, lawyers, historians, civil libertarians, news outlets, and constitutionalists calling the 14th Amendment into question, the matter deserves to be discussed.
IF the 14th Amendment was not legally ratified, then the black people who are claiming citizenship are no more "
citizens" than migrant worker who slid under the wall from Mexico. Now, my personal position is that even
IF whites ever addressed the legality of the 14th Amendment and over-turned it, there is
STILL the issue of whether or not all men have
unalienable Rights. Today, the Trumpeteers make this asinine argument that the 14th Amendment did not include children who were born here, but their parents had no papers.
I can promise you today that argument
will fail in the Courts. It has nothing to do with what side of this argument you perceive me to be on, but based upon the
FACTS as I know them. WHEN that crazy argument fails them, the Trumpeteers are left with two choices: challenging the legality of the 14th Amendment or an internal and civil war. The alternative is that the liberals and non-whites will vote the conservatives and whites into oblivion.
IM2, stay tuned. Things are just beginning to warm up.