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August 18, 2009
War is no longer war! And tyranny is no longer tyranny!
"For the Left, war without Bush is not war at all," argues Byron York. Nor are a lot of things considered what they once were. It's the post-Bush double standard, and while I've been complaining about it, I worry that the problem goes to the nature of power. In general, most ideologues think that power is fine if you have it, but not if they have it. The former is democracy, the latter is tyranny. The only solution I can see is that people who want power should never be allowed to have it. Easy to say, but it takes power to stop them. I don't mean the new and improved kind, but the old, unimproved kind, in the form of two simple but very powerful sentences: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.And: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.The lovers of power must really hate the above, or there wouldn't be a movement to restore it. That's because it isn't really there any more, even though it is. Although I'm guessing that saying it is there when it isn't even though it is might be some form of extremism. posted by Eric on 08.18.09 at 06:53 PM
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It's funny, the Founding Fathers tried to make the Consititution idiot-proof. They did a great job, it took us nearly 200 years to make better idiots. And they also gave us rules so we can fix it. Hopefully we do. But I'm not so optimistic about it, that's why I've been calling it The Funniest End of Civilization Ever (soon to have exclamation points!!) Veeshir · August 19, 2009 08:45 AM Post a comment
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Ah, the forgotten Ninth Amendment. You know, the one that determines most of our burden of legislation is unconstitutional--at any level of government, I might add.