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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGod speaks to you more clearly when you have a gun on your hip and the Constitution in your pocket
Here's an editorial worth reading:
written by Ron Eachus of Salem,OR. He is a former legislator and a former chairman of the Oregon Public Utility Commission.
What you can do with a gun and copy of the Constitution
With a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, you can become a legal scholar and enforce your own interpretation of the Constitution. You can ignore the history of court decisions and language of laws and profess superior knowledge of what the Constitution says.
With a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, the fact the Supreme Court has twice determined the federal government has incontrovertible claim to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge lands is irrelevant.
You dont need a Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution because you have a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket.
When you have a gun on your hip, a rifle over your shoulder and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, you can take over public lands in a remote area that has more cattle than people, even when the people you say youre trying to assist dont want you there.
The two ranchers youre trying to free, peacefully reported for their sentence and repudiated you. The community says it doesnt agree with what youre doing and doesnt want you there. The local sheriff says go home and offers safe escort. The Paiute tribe that occupied the land well before any ranchers says get off our land. County officials wont even let you use the fairgrounds for an assembly so you can explain the benefit of your presence.
But you have a gun on your hip, a rifle on your shoulder and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, so youll stay until they understand how much youre doing for them.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/ron-eachus/2016/01/19/can-gun-copy-constitution/78976534/
With a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, you can become a legal scholar and enforce your own interpretation of the Constitution. You can ignore the history of court decisions and language of laws and profess superior knowledge of what the Constitution says.
With a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, the fact the Supreme Court has twice determined the federal government has incontrovertible claim to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge lands is irrelevant.
You dont need a Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution because you have a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket.
When you have a gun on your hip, a rifle over your shoulder and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, you can take over public lands in a remote area that has more cattle than people, even when the people you say youre trying to assist dont want you there.
The two ranchers youre trying to free, peacefully reported for their sentence and repudiated you. The community says it doesnt agree with what youre doing and doesnt want you there. The local sheriff says go home and offers safe escort. The Paiute tribe that occupied the land well before any ranchers says get off our land. County officials wont even let you use the fairgrounds for an assembly so you can explain the benefit of your presence.
But you have a gun on your hip, a rifle on your shoulder and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, so youll stay until they understand how much youre doing for them.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/ron-eachus/2016/01/19/can-gun-copy-constitution/78976534/
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God speaks to you more clearly when you have a gun on your hip and the Constitution in your pocket (Original Post)
tencats
Jan 2016
OP
He could leave out the parts about the Constitution. It's all about the gun. (nt)
enough
Jan 2016
#2
So this is about freedom, brought to you with a gun and misinterpretation of the Constitution
Jackie Wilson Said
Jan 2016
#3
Is God telling them that He's a bit short on cash and wants them to pass the basket?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2016
#7
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. God doesn't speak to anybody.
It's only delusional right wing fundies w/ severe mental illness that think god speaks to them.
Facility Inspector
(615 posts)4. delusional right wing GRIFTERS
who use peoples' stupidity to get what they want.
enough
(13,259 posts)2. He could leave out the parts about the Constitution. It's all about the gun. (nt)
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)5. The Constitution empowers the gun owners. nt
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)6. Actually, it doesn't. It recognizes numerous rights, including 2A.
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)11. Yes but they draw their power from it like a battery. nt
enough
(13,259 posts)9. But they don't need it in their pocket. They only need the gun.
Given their lack of understanding of the Constitution, having it in their pocket doesn't help them.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)3. So this is about freedom, brought to you with a gun and misinterpretation of the Constitution
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)7. Is God telling them that He's a bit short on cash and wants them to pass the basket?
Response to tencats (Original post)
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Initech
(100,068 posts)10. As George Carlin said - symbols for the symbol minded.
Rex
(65,616 posts)12. Well they don't call him Early Cuyler for no good reason.
Wait is it a good reason? Who cares this crowd ain't big on facts or longterm memory.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)13. k&r