Too true. What I find fascinating is that were I to strictly adhere to my own belief that money is an evil, corrupting influence - were I to refuse having it, dealing with it - my property would be seized and I would lose my freedom. The government has established a coercive and inescapable religion - one that sanctifies money.
I'd like to disagree with only one sentence in this post, with all due respect, of course.
"The First and Fourteenth Amendments clearly grant us Rights, and Freedoms to practice our religions."
It's patently not based in fact as, the original framers of The Constitution were writing The Bill of Rights and had intended for each amendment moving forward to guarantee protections to natural rights with which we're born. It's not intended to grant because the framers understood that any government that has the ability to grant rights can take them away.
In this, the framers of our Constitution were clear, the amendments were written as a restraint on government, a clear warning of "keep your hands to yourself lest you lose them in the process" and being that this is the supreme law of the land, the SCOTUS would have to rule as such (re: Marbury v. Madison) that any law, codified or not, that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void.
Not necessarily. In order to challenge the repugnant law, we need to serve on juries and stop trying to skate that responsibility.
I'll concede that yes, someone will probably be arrested, charged and lose precious time in the process, however, that's when we are able to step in and say "Wait, hold on! That's not a thing and it's unacceptable." and when any judge claims you're not there to judge the law, that judge is lying and should be disbarred for it. More than anything, we need outreach in that area, I think.
Now, you can certainly be dismissed for answering the question "Are there any laws with which you disagree?" honestly with "Yes" that can only go on for so long before it catches up to them and then all it takes is for one juror to say "Not Guilty" and it's over and done. That in itself doesn't nullify that law but what it does is, if enough of that goes on, the state will be unable to enforce that law because they know there will be too many scofflaws for it to matter. Over time, juries can nullify the law.
Even if a judge were to just flip completely and say "Okay I'm disregarding what the jury says" then an appeal is going to be absolutely necessary in order to see why that happened and lower court judges are going to be extremely hard-pressed to justify that to a higher court.
In my honest opinion, you don't have rights anymore. you have privileges that can be revoked any time the tyrants want to punish you.
The world has changed a "Lot" in the 53 years that I've been alive.
We have lost the right to travel freely (You have to have a license to drive, you have taxes on the car that you own, you have fines if you get stopped, and you can get sent to jail.)
We have lost the right to keep secrets. (They can no-knock warrant your house and you can't do a thing about it.)
We have lost the right to keep our wages. (Originally, taxes weren't collected on your wages, trades, or property. But that changed with the social security scam.)
You are taxed on things that you already own. (Land, house, car, goods, cars, etc.) and you are double taxed on other things (Social Security. You are taxed on your wages and then again when you get your social security check)
You have no privacy, either in your home, your church, your internet usage, your phone, etc.)
You are told what you can and can't grow, collect (Water, food,) and so on and so on.
I personally don't care what religion you worship, as long as you don't make me participate. My participation should be voluntary.
By that metric, LGBT Marxism should a religion, because it's taught in schools, like a religion.
Too true. What I find fascinating is that were I to strictly adhere to my own belief that money is an evil, corrupting influence - were I to refuse having it, dealing with it - my property would be seized and I would lose my freedom. The government has established a coercive and inescapable religion - one that sanctifies money.
I'd like to disagree with only one sentence in this post, with all due respect, of course.
"The First and Fourteenth Amendments clearly grant us Rights, and Freedoms to practice our religions."
It's patently not based in fact as, the original framers of The Constitution were writing The Bill of Rights and had intended for each amendment moving forward to guarantee protections to natural rights with which we're born. It's not intended to grant because the framers understood that any government that has the ability to grant rights can take them away.
In this, the framers of our Constitution were clear, the amendments were written as a restraint on government, a clear warning of "keep your hands to yourself lest you lose them in the process" and being that this is the supreme law of the land, the SCOTUS would have to rule as such (re: Marbury v. Madison) that any law, codified or not, that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void.
Everything else in the article? *huge thumbs up*
Not necessarily. In order to challenge the repugnant law, we need to serve on juries and stop trying to skate that responsibility.
I'll concede that yes, someone will probably be arrested, charged and lose precious time in the process, however, that's when we are able to step in and say "Wait, hold on! That's not a thing and it's unacceptable." and when any judge claims you're not there to judge the law, that judge is lying and should be disbarred for it. More than anything, we need outreach in that area, I think.
Now, you can certainly be dismissed for answering the question "Are there any laws with which you disagree?" honestly with "Yes" that can only go on for so long before it catches up to them and then all it takes is for one juror to say "Not Guilty" and it's over and done. That in itself doesn't nullify that law but what it does is, if enough of that goes on, the state will be unable to enforce that law because they know there will be too many scofflaws for it to matter. Over time, juries can nullify the law.
Even if a judge were to just flip completely and say "Okay I'm disregarding what the jury says" then an appeal is going to be absolutely necessary in order to see why that happened and lower court judges are going to be extremely hard-pressed to justify that to a higher court.
In my honest opinion, you don't have rights anymore. you have privileges that can be revoked any time the tyrants want to punish you.
The world has changed a "Lot" in the 53 years that I've been alive.
We have lost the right to travel freely (You have to have a license to drive, you have taxes on the car that you own, you have fines if you get stopped, and you can get sent to jail.)
We have lost the right to keep secrets. (They can no-knock warrant your house and you can't do a thing about it.)
We have lost the right to keep our wages. (Originally, taxes weren't collected on your wages, trades, or property. But that changed with the social security scam.)
You are taxed on things that you already own. (Land, house, car, goods, cars, etc.) and you are double taxed on other things (Social Security. You are taxed on your wages and then again when you get your social security check)
You have no privacy, either in your home, your church, your internet usage, your phone, etc.)
You are told what you can and can't grow, collect (Water, food,) and so on and so on.
I personally don't care what religion you worship, as long as you don't make me participate. My participation should be voluntary.
By that metric, LGBT Marxism should a religion, because it's taught in schools, like a religion.