Originally posted by refuter
all i can say is thar i am tempted to say we deserve what we get because we put up with it.
This is not entirely true. Consider that the government (& Corporate Interest) has been slowly & stealthily integrating such Unconstitutional actions
into the legal structure for the past 3 generations or more...Those who are born into the modern generations never had the opportunity to learn &
fully understand what previous administrations had done, and we had no opportunity to refute it either. Only by learning our history & getting
up-to-date info will we have the chance to take back our own right to self-determination. Only we who live in current times can learn the mistakes
made in history & resolve to not make the same mistakes again. The current situation is such that we need to correct the mistakes that are currently
"on the books" before we can move forward on the path from which our ancestors were pushed away. We are under no obligation to
endure the
mistakes of our ancestors (or their governments), but if humanity is to achieve any progress we
are under the obligation to correct those
mistakes.
The US Founding Fathers were the architects of the
real New World Order, in that they had created, for the first time in the history of human
civilization, a system of government that would be
servant to the People while securing certain basic Human Rights that could not be removed by
either the People (during times of high social emotion or mere bad judgement) or the government itself. They also created a self-evolving system in
the creation of laws & enforcing justice that is capable of adapting to the needs of the People. This system they created also placed certain
limitations on the government to prevent the nation from devolving into tyranny...IMO, as our modern politicians tell us that we're heading into a
"New World Order," they are instead working to re-establish the Old World Order (a system of Government over People) in America.
The key to this is Information; I've said this years ago, back in the final paragraphs of
Future Shock. Those who control the spread (or suppression) of information can control
others...So we must first learn then do, otherwise we'll be stuck in the loop of repeated mistakes. I think a thread like this gives us the chance to
learn. Since it's a violation of ATS T&C to become activist here, we can still "learn" here, but must "do" somewhere else.
Originally posted by azblack
This subject matter discussed here is of upmost importance.. The bad thing is you can throw every law ever written on paper in the toilet because
the biggest, baddest lawyers only care about the supreme court's decisions per individual law.
In truth, I don't seek to throw
every law into the toilet...Only those laws that exist in contradiction to the Supreme Law of the Land (ie:
The Constitution). I'll be the first to admit that there are plenty of Laws that enforce, uphold & in some cases even enhance Constitutional
Laws...It's just that I seek to dig them up from the cesspool of "color-of-laws" that buried them & this seems like a good thread to do just that.
I also have links to a couple of other old thread of mine (besides Future Shock) that relate to this goal:
Concerns On Constitutional Violations
Concerns On Amendment Violations
A somewhat more humorous (although the
issues have been treated seriously) attempt of mine along the same goal:
If I Am Elected President
[edit on 1-5-2008 by MidnightDStroyer]