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2009-06-01 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by ryuge 2009-06-01 02:36|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 "Times of crisis, however, do not justify departure from the Constitution."

Rush still leads (The One's shit list), but Judge Zatkoff (I feel) is a close second.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-06-01 05:57|| 2009-06-01 05:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope Rahm is listening. He wouldn't want his crisis wasted.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-06-01 08:28|| 2009-06-01 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 "Times of crisis, however, do not justify departure from the Constitution."

Judge Posner in his book "The Constitution is not a Suicide Pact" disagrees.

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The Ninth Circuit has ruled that requiring kids in public school to adopt Muslim names, read the Koran and participate in Muslim prayers is a not a violation of church and state separation. The ACLU, keepers of the separation of Church and State flame, took a case in Florida defending a Muslim woman who wanted to wear a veil on her driver's license photo.

One intellectually interesting problem raised by this whole ~~War on Terror~~ policing human caused disasters thing is that many Eastern religions don't separate nicely into private and public affairs. For example, which is Halal (or Kosher for that matter)? The left is going to have a very fine time dealing with creeping Sharia in the U.S.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-01 13:55|| 2009-06-01 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The left is going to have a very fine time dealing with creeping Sharia in the U.S.

No, they won't! One, (Sharia) is desired and acceptable. The other (all other religions) are not. One set of rules for thee, another for me.

Reaching a political accommodation with the Left is not possible, why the Right continues to try is beyond me. The Left will need to be cut out like the cancer they are, and the longer the Right takes to see and accept that eventuality the more difficult the task is going to be.

You cannot cling to a lets "play nice" mentality when your opponent believes that the means justify the ends and whatever it takes is okay. While the Left may live in some fantasy land vis-a-vis their perpetual quest for Utopia™ and the Workers Paradise™, the Right is equally living in a fantasy land if they think they'll ever be rid of the parasites without violence.

/rant

Posted by Thilet Stalin1523 2009-06-01 14:09|| 2009-06-01 14:09|| Front Page Top

#5 [The] Right is equally living in a fantasy land if they think they'll ever be rid of the parasites without violence.

Reminds me of a good line I read the other day:

'America is at an awkward stage. It's too late to fix things by working through the system, and too early to start shooting the bastards.'

Anyway, I wasn't advocating a play nice approach. I see this as an internal contradiction of the left and a potential petard from which to hoist them.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-01 14:51|| 2009-06-01 14:51|| Front Page Top

#6 and too early to start shooting the bastards.'

From what I read, sales numbers for guns and ammo are quite strong.

Posted by SteveS 2009-06-01 15:38|| 2009-06-01 15:38|| Front Page Top

#7 From what I read, sales numbers for guns and ammo are quite strong.

Yes, like nothing I've seen before. I worry, however, that it won't make any difference. These days no citizen militia stands a chance against a professional army.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-01 16:39|| 2009-06-01 16:39|| Front Page Top

#8 These days no citizen militia stands a chance against a professional army.

True enough. Except that 80+% of the Military is conservative and takes their Oath to the Constitution seriously, as do most veterans.

I've been speaking (away from the flagpole) with quite a few active members of the services and veterans as well. The consensus is that when the time comes the Professional Military isn't going to be firing on the citizenry. The Police, and Federal LEO Agents, probably.

Posted by Thilet Stalin1523 2009-06-01 16:56|| 2009-06-01 16:56|| Front Page Top

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