Sipsey Street Irregulars: And now, it seems, we are to have a retroactive political litmus test for citizenship.

Friday, October 14, 2011

And now, it seems, we are to have a retroactive political litmus test for citizenship.

Lawmakers seek to strip citizenship from people supporting terrorism against U.S. You know, I never cease to be amazed at the stupidity of the GOP. They simply assume, even in today's hyper-partisan world, that Janet Napolitano might not find it convenient to name THEM as terrorist supporters one fine day. And, having their citizenship arbitrarily struck from them, what then would be their remedy? Submission to prison or death or a resort to arms. Doesn't the rule of law mean anything to these jokers? I guess not.

10 comments:

Mark Matis said...: There is NO "Rule of Law", and there has not been for quite a few years. The stench is overwhelming.; October 14, 2011 at 6:56 AM
Ashrak said...: Mark Matis s right, there is no rule of law anymore, what we experience today is rule of man.

And when it comes down to it, the court of 9 unelected and unaccountable robed kings wield that arbitrary sword on injustice.; October 14, 2011 at 7:25 AM
Anonymous said...: "Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis; October 14, 2011 at 7:42 AM
Longbow said...: Now watch those stalwart "arch-conservatives" Lindsey Graham (amnesty) and John McCain (I'm sure Obama believes in the Constitution, we just have a sincere disagreement on policy...) reach across the isle and support this bill.

Then the story will read, "This initiative, which has broad bi-partisan support..."

I agree with Mark Matis, the stench is overwhelming.; October 14, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Mark Matis said...: Anonymous at 5:42 AM:

You cannot even BEGIN to imagine how much contempt I have for the "Law", and for "Law Enforcement".; October 14, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Anonymous said...: What role does the Oath of Allegiance play in the stripping of citizenship play? Is it okay for a person with allegiance to a foreign nation or group (such as al Qaida) to falsely swear the Oath and then enjoy the protection of American citizenship?

The law permits the removal of citizenship from naturalized "citizens" who are demonstratively treasonous. That's an example of the "rule of law" that is intended to protect us all.; October 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM
pdxr13 said...: A nation can not involuntarily "strip" a natural born citizen of his nationality, without killing him. I would remain "an American" while on the run or fighting against my government or in the service of a foreign military/Private military company. I may well be violating the "law" of the United States Congress, but even they can't change what is a fact of birth and association.

The only legitimate way to get free of being "a United States subject" is to go to your local Consular office to renounce your Citizenship and revoke your passport. You should have enough money to never work again before becoming "Stateless". Congratulations, the IRS is now investigating you, and your children, worldwide.

Congresscritters who consider this kind of junk legislation ought to find themselves unemployed come January after their next election.

The stench is not just from #Occupiers.

Cheers.; October 14, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: "...The law permits the removal of citizenship from naturalized "citizens" who are demonstratively treasonous. That's an example of the "rule of law" that is intended to protect us all..."

In that case, it should be EASY to get the current _resident out of The White House, huh?; October 14, 2011 at 4:11 PM
Mark Matis said...: For Anonymous at 9:30 AM:

At what point in his life does a native US citizen who is NOT a government employee (civilian or military) swear that oath? And just how many "Law Enforcement" officers, who DO swear that oath, would remain citizens if that was enforced against native citizens who took that oath but acted treasonously?

So much for "Rule of Law"...; October 14, 2011 at 6:04 PM
pdxr13 said...: "Service brings Citizenship"

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-real-anchors/?singlepage=true; October 15, 2011 at 12:16 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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And now, it seems, we are to have a retroactive political litmus test for citizenship.

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