Will the government soon quarter troops in your home?
The Third Amendment prohibits that, sure — but if prominent and powerful Democrats are so anxious to toss out the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution, who’s to say they wouldn’t jettison the Third?
Last year, every Democratic U.S. Senator voted to repeal the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and replace it with new, broad powers for them to regulate campaign spending, thereby speech.
Luckily, those 54 senators lacked the two-thirds margin needed for their amendment.
Now, in the face of “gun violence” and (pssst) terrorism, President Obama, presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton, and true-blue MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, want to scrap the Second Amendment. How? By first scrapping the Fifth, which guarantees that “No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” They demand that Americans on the so-called “terrorist no-fly list” be denied the Second Amendment right to a firearm, despite the fact that the bureaucratically created no-fly list offers not a scintilla of due process: no charge, jury, trial.
Would this new regulation have prevented the San Bernardino murderers from getting guns? No — they had recently flown across the world.
The frequent-flying Boston Marathon bombers didn’t make the list, either.
But the list did label an 18-month-old girl a terrorist, snatching her rights like taking candy from a … toddler.
“Just what will it take for Congress to overcome the intimidation of the gun lobby and do something as sensible as making sure people on the terrorist watch list can’t buy weapons?” Mrs. Clinton asked rhetorically at a campaign event.
Answer: an illegal abrogation of the most fundamental and cherished rights in human history.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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This, the progressives know, is the best method of talking rights and destroying the principles of freedom. They are called the “common sense” exceptions. They sound good and appear rational. They rot the principal to the point it is no longer nothing but a suggestion.
As was etched on the best refrigerator magnet I ever owned, “what part of thou shalt not didn’t you understand”. Same logic in protecting freedom. With exception there is no principle.
Those 54 senators lacked the two-thirds margin needed for their amendment, but even two thirds wouldn’t have been enough. They would have still needed to get thirty-eight states to ratify it. The MSM aside, I have to guess there are enough freedom-loving (red) states to block such a travesty. This doesn’t mean that an unscrupulous Congress can’t pass legislation to achieve the same ends. They did it with ACA and the courts backed them up.
They’re already scrapped the Fifth Paul… Asset forfeiture laws declare your stuff guilty without any due process and you have to fight the government in court to get it back.
Check any State or Federal Agency and one will realize that Politicians and voting are not really that powerful.. they are merely .bluster, graft and incompetence. The power lies in the agencies and once people awaken and realize it, the agencies all they operate without due Process. They hold the power of the 3 branches of government.
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Thank you, Sir, for that!
Brian Richard Allen
Pat — Yes, they had other steps as well before they could rip our First Amendment out of the Constitution. Thank goodness. But I like to get scared and warn others BEFORE we;ve lost it all. 😉
Bill — Yes, of course, and the 4th Amendment, too. And the 9th and 10th. Sounds like we have some work to do to.
Plain & simple common sense! The Constitution is in danger! And if Queen Hillary is elected, it won’t be worth the priceless paper it’s written on.
I am alarmed that even a smattering of Senators, that we dumbly elect, would even agree to the modification or abolition of our Amendment rights.
And yes, Lynn is right, there are agencies, like the IRS, that operate without any government oversight. They seize assets until you prove they don’t deserve the cash. And if you’ve ever received a demand for payment letter, the IRS language makes no bones about that. How can any agency have this much power?!