support the Right to keep and bear arms, you're a gun nut, militia member or wingnut...among other names.
Now if you advocate states resistance to federal government encroachment, you're a Tenther, part of the Tenth Amendment Movement.
"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."
--Tenth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.
When I worked for the government, when honey joined the military, we always took an oath to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America...
California has a section in the Government Code that prohibits public employees from being paid if they do not sign an oath,
§ 1360. Necessity of taking constitutional oath
Unless otherwise provided, before any officer enters on the duties of his office, he shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation set form in Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of California.
(Amended by Stats. 1953, c. 1250.)
I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitutions of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter
Does so doing make one also subject to derision as a "Oather"?
More things bugging me lately...
Why does the media like to hype the fact that Timothy McVeigh, who was executed for the Oklahoma City Bombing, was a military veteran?
Is Military service now a precursor to being labelled a danger to the country they swore to defend??
Remember a year ago when Secretary of Homeland Security caused a furor for saying just that?
The problem is (and the administration knows this) that if you move too fast and too broadly you can create a resistance that becomes more than just political rallies and tea-party protests. Those are just harbingers. Beyond these harbingers is the darker realm of what is politely called "civil unrest."
This is especially the case when things are collapsing economically and your plan initiates, daily, policies that accelerate the collapse. In this situation, even nations with a long history of political patience and stability can rapidly devolve to the point where a government, to maintain itself, has to look at plans for placing the army in the cities. And all established governments have these plans. They would be negligent if they did not.
Have you ever lived in a city when the army is present?
I have. It was Berkeley, California in May of 1969 in what was know as The People's Park Riots. (History at the link.) What began with about 250 Highway Patrol and Oakland police being sent in to take back control of a disputed piece of University property escalated to a situation where 2,700 National Guard troops were placed in the city to restore order.
It's a strange thing to see a soldier on every corner with a loaded rifle. Something so rare that it is pretty much unthinkable to the average American today. But it did happen and it can happen. All it takes is, in times of collapse, a spark and a paranoid government.
(Note: In thinking about this, after 9/11 they posted the National Guard at the entrance to the San Francisco Bay bridge and other bridges- pretty weird, seeing troops with a roof mounted machine gun on a Hummer in the toll plaza...or when I went to Germany and there were machine gun armed soldiers patrolling the terminals...but I digress)
What are your thoughts?
I agree. Obama's plan is falling right into place and he will soon have his on private army that dose not answer to the constitution, but only to him. The provisions for it are right there in his new national health care. That's right, our tax dollars for this health car policy will pay for it. They are supposed to be an emergency response team for national disasters and what have you, for when our military is unable to respond. But they will have the same training and equipment as the military.
ReplyDeleteAs for the names they label us with ? It helps make us look like dissenters, blockers to progress and the much need change that they claim we need. It makes us look like the enemy so they want look so bad when they squish us.
I've heard it said all my life that history repeats itself, Does this sound like a piece of history you've read about ?
I was living in Hayward,Ca.about 15 miles from Berkeley.I was 15 years old at the time.I remember it vividly.
ReplyDeleteBut who is working to establish a society in function of what human beings were created to be? Is it not all mixed up with power, domination, exploitation, us vs. them?
ReplyDeleteWe are hearing the word "sedition" now. What an odd situation, when people's actions are described as seditious, when they are advocating adherence to the constitution of the country?
ReplyDeleteAs for soldiers in the streets and riots; I noted with pleasure back in 2003 when Iraq was invaded that there was looting in Baghdad (this is not what made me happy), yet in that same year there was a big blackout in New York city and almost no incidents. Back in th 60s-70s there was a big blackout and the city was chaos with all kinds of looting. This to me is a sign that society is better, that the citizens are of better character than back then, respecting each other. We saw in Baghdad a part of the citizenry having no respect for law and order. I suppose that they had been restrained by fear, not by their own moral character. I expect that their society now has a chance to improve now, partly because they can choose their own government.