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Originally posted by BugZyZuncle
I guess I will be looking for the day when they ask us to register at the post office, then I it will be time to head for the hills, so to speak!
Secy of State Brad Johnson of Montana delivered a letter to the Washington Times about possible outcomes of the Heller decision.
Second Amendment an individual right.
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide D.C. v. Heller, the first case in more than 60 years in which the court will confront the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although Heller is about the constitutionality of the D.C. handgun ban, the court's decision will have an impact far beyond the District ("Promises breached," Op-Ed, Thursday).
The court must decide in Heller whether the Second Amendment secures a right for individuals to keep and bear arms or merely grants states the power to arm their militias, the National Guard. This latter view is called the "collective rights" theory.
A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in 1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana Constitution, guaranteeing the right of "any person" to bear arms, clearly an individual right.
There was no assertion in 1889 that the Second Amendment was susceptible to a collective rights interpretation, and the parties to the contract understood the Second Amendment to be consistent with the declared Montana constitutional right of "any person" to bear arms.
As a bedrock principle of law, a contract must be honored so as to give effect to the intent of the contracting parties. A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract between the United States and Montana, and many other states.
Numerous Montana lawmakers have concurred in a resolution raising this contract-violation issue. It's posted at progunleaders.org. The United States would do well to keep its contractual promise to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract.
Originally posted by kattraxx
Gun control will be first. In fact, maybe that will be the issue itself.
Originally posted by StoneGarden
Concentration camps in America: The consequences of 40 years of fear
onlinejournal.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
If you type the phrase "concentration camps" into your Internet search engine, you will find page after page of references to martial law and the construction of concentration camps in the United States on behalf of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
A close examination reveals that many of these references lack sufficient facts to support their conclusions; however,
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A close examination reveals that many of these references lack sufficient facts to support their conclusions; however, taken as a whole, there is an abundance of factual information showing an alarming trend in the deployment of federal and military forces to restrain and detain American citizens.
Originally posted by kattraxx
A close examination reveals that many of these references lack sufficient facts to support their conclusions; however, taken as a whole, there is an abundance of factual information showing an alarming trend in the deployment of federal and military forces to restrain and detain American citizens.
It's the conclusion of that sentence that matters, that is the point of the article, as is evident if you read it.
Originally posted by freight tomsen
So the guy with the Stone, Hammer, and Key for a picture wants to say "maybe they're training facilities." (learn what those symbols mean, people) Interesting how you "folks" always show up right after my very informative posts to say something detracting or deterant. I can keep filling these threads with real information as fast as you Masons can derail them.
Originally posted by PimpyMcgibbins
If theres one thing you should learn before you leave this earth it's always expect the unexpected...
Nazi's used concentration camps- wouldn't surprise me if Bush does too. America will do anything to contain its secrets...I'm sure they'd love to imprison people who know too much or rebel. You can never be too speculative or conspiratorial in today's world...otherwise your listening to what your being told...and we know how this country loves to lie.
Flagged indefinitely.
[edit on 2/20/2008 by PimpyMcgibbins]
Originally posted by Desert Dawg
From your avatar, the inference is that you're an avid fisherman?