Excuse me while I go to my neighbor’s barn and begin shoveling... [More]MOWCA Blog takes exception to this.
He realizes, however, that he's dealing with a dedicated and patriotic man, and offers this by way of explanation.
Let there be peace among our peoples.
It seems the fellow behind the MOWCA Blog is correct...
ReplyDelete... but the powers that be have grown less and less interested in maintaining the facade giving the impression that they care that they're operating outside the bounds of black-letter law, the Constitution.
- Department of Education
- war on drugs
- every single law pertaining to firearms
- Kelo vs City of New London
- Federal Reserve (private bank) buying junk assets in direct violation of law
Thus, I see William Grigg's post not as an endorsement of illegal activity, but as a warning framed from the point of view of the criminals... giving insight into what the motivations are and what their next contemplated move might be.
William Grigg?
ReplyDeleteDavid, for the record, there was never any animosity on my part toward Paul at MOWCA. I suppose I understood what he was getting at, and I knew that I never suggested that I believe an EO can ever trump the Constitution. Of course, some of the people I used as mainstream sources for my article believe exactly that, as does Obama and his minions. And I think those are the ones the MOWCA post was attacking, not me....or at least I didn't take it as an attack against me.
ReplyDeleteAnthony G. Martin
Columbia Conservative Examiner
Whoops, crossed wires. Instead of William Grigg's name, I'd intended to write Anthony Martin's, the Columbia Conservative Examiner.
ReplyDeleteJust curious why Paul felt it necessary to mention my name in connection with this article. My memory must be getting really bad. :( I don't know who he is - at least by that name.
ReplyDeleteI most often find myself in agreement with Paul, but not this time. He argues theory, which I agree with, but ignores the reality we have already experienced. I had this to say:
ReplyDeletestraightarrow says:
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You are correct in theory, but not in actuality. If what you say were absolute, none of our recent presidents were officeholders, because each of them have violated the structure that provides for the office. In reality they have exercised power that is not theirs to exercise and now are extending that power to others outside our nation.
Reality always trumps theory until the theorists impose, usually by force, the pure essence of the theory. As did our founders.
Wayne Fincher as anyone with even a modicum of intelligence knows was in the right and is supported by the Constitution of These United States. Yet, he sits in prison, because the real exercise of illegitimate power was used to put him there. Had the proposition you forward above held, Jimm Larry Hendren would be in jail, the presidency would have been vacated and the Department of Justice (ha) would have been disbanded. Sorry, it takes boots on the ground willing to do unpleasant things to force adherence to the rules. So far we have not enough people willing to do unpleasant things.
Therefore, the constitution means whatever those in power decide what it means at any time . We have seen words bastardized to the point of unrecognizability, to glean the meaning any and every despot wants it to mean to accomplish whatever transitory whims they may hold to rule us. Rule us, not govern, rule.
While I normally am in alignment with most of what you do here, this is one I cannot buy. The point in our history has passed when we can hold their feet to the fire and make them do right, unless we literally hold their feet to the fire. But, again we hit that wall. The one where not enough of us are willing to do unpleasant things to set the nation aright. Until that changes we will continue to suffer the indignities of the ruled.