One of the advantages of the German language is that when they need a new word for something, they just stick together a bunch of existing words, forming a new word which is essentially a description of what they're talking about. An english language analogy would be "crankshaft" or "valve guide." Nobody could bastardize "crankshaft" to gull the naive into thinking it meant something other than what it means they way they have with "libertarian." Perhaps we need a word that is more descriptive and less prone to manipulation than "libertarian." Something like "Initiateforceagainstmeormypropertyandillkillyouist" or something. (One of the downsides of German is the plethora of insanely long words.)
I said then that Scalia was no friend of liberty. Why, the old ambulance chaser once said he couldn't find a right to privacy in the C~. Obviously he hadn't read it as far as the 9th amendment. If he had, he would have realized we have the right to carry concealed anywhere, even at school.
Via Heller, the federal government claims it was granted the constitutional authority to determine the extent of the individual rights enumerated in the Amendments and/or impose “reasonable restraints” on those rights.
This assertion is absurd.
The federal government does not have the constitutional authority to ignore, circumvent, modify, negate or remove constitutional restraints placed on its power by the Amendments or convert them into a power over the individual right enumerated in the particular restraint.
A denial of power or an enumerated restraint on the exercise of power is not subject to interpretation or modification by the entity the restraint is being imposed upon.
The restraints imposed by the Amendments, which were adopted 4 years after the Constitution was ratified, override the legislative, executive, judicial or administrative powers of the federal government.
Heller is a great decision: 1) SCOTUS ruled, explicitly and correctly, that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right. That's a very useful thing to stick in legislators faces, and that it outrages the gun grabbers says something about its importance.
2) Levy's NYT essay is an atrocity... that doesn't mean Heller is somehow bad.
We need to fight on every front -- lawsuits, political organizing, informing & awakening & persuading fellow citizens, and arming ourselves in case the rest fails.
Keep in mind that without Heller, common jurisprudence would still allow legislatures and courts the idea that RKBA protected in the 2nd Amendment is not an individual right. We are certainly better off that with rather than without Heller.
And yes, Levy's waving of the white flag in NYT is asinine and shameful.
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One of the advantages of the
German language is that when they need a new word for something, they just stick together a bunch of existing words, forming a new word which is essentially a description of what they're talking about. An english language analogy would be "crankshaft" or "valve guide." Nobody could bastardize "crankshaft" to gull the naive into thinking it meant something other than what it means they way they have with "libertarian." Perhaps we need a word that is more descriptive and less prone to manipulation than "libertarian." Something like "Initiateforceagainstmeormypropertyandillkillyouist" or something. (One of the downsides of German is the plethora of insanely long words.)
I said then that Scalia was no friend of liberty. Why, the old ambulance chaser once said he couldn't find a right to privacy in the C~. Obviously he hadn't read it as far as the 9th amendment. If he had, he would have realized we have the right to carry concealed anywhere, even at school.
Via Heller, the federal government claims it was granted the constitutional authority to determine the extent of the individual rights enumerated in the Amendments and/or impose “reasonable restraints” on those rights.
This assertion is absurd.
The federal government does not have the constitutional authority to ignore, circumvent, modify, negate or remove constitutional restraints placed on its power by the Amendments or convert them into a power over the individual right enumerated in the particular restraint.
A denial of power or an enumerated restraint on the exercise of power is not subject to interpretation or modification by the entity the restraint is being imposed upon.
The restraints imposed by the Amendments, which were adopted 4 years after the Constitution was ratified, override the legislative, executive, judicial or
administrative powers of the federal government.
Our problem is that we have been trained to ask permission from our employees, just like in unions, but we are the only permission givers by default.
Its time we took away some permissions.
Yank lll
Heller is a great decision: 1) SCOTUS ruled, explicitly and correctly, that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right. That's a very useful thing to stick in legislators faces, and that it outrages the gun grabbers says something about its importance.
2) Levy's NYT essay is an atrocity... that doesn't mean Heller is somehow bad.
We need to fight on every front -- lawsuits, political organizing, informing & awakening & persuading fellow citizens, and arming ourselves in case the rest fails.
Keep in mind that without Heller, common jurisprudence would still allow legislatures and courts the idea that RKBA protected in the 2nd Amendment is not an individual right. We are certainly better off that with rather than without Heller.
And yes, Levy's waving of the white flag in NYT is asinine and shameful.
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