I pose these questions to anybody who may read them.
Is government still an instrument for good or is it about every man for himself?
Is there something good we want to reach for or is self-interest our basic instinct now?
Is it the people's government or the government's people?
Banksy
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
The Truth of Democracy Amendment
The 28th
Amendment
Section 1 – Congress will no longer have the ability to pass
laws. From here on out congress will only have the power to propose a law or
bill to be voted on by the people. Furthermore the president will no longer
have the power of executive order. Any law, regulation, or amendment must be
voted on by the people of the United States of America. Exceptions to this are
in times of war the president has the power to make decisions whether or not to
go to war. There must be a valid threat or instigation against the United
States for the president to initiate war.
Section 2- Any person running for president must have a
minimum of 4 years military service or if less time was spent in the service
they must have reached the rank of officer. Any person that is part of congress must either have had JROTC experience, or ROTC experience, or AROTC experience, or be a member of the National Guard, or Air Guard.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Prohibition and Her Amendments
18th Amendment
- Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
- Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.
- Summary- Alcohol shall be for manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption. Alcohol is prohibited in all states and territories. State governments still have the power whether or not to pass the article.
- Prohibition- the outlaw of the manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption of liquor.
- The amendment became law January 17th, 1920.
- The amendment was created because of a large push by groups like the Anti-Saloon League who blamed alcohol for everything wrong with the country and its people.
- Although the amendment has been abolished there are still places like Lynchburg, TN that are dry towns, this also happens to be where Jack Daniels is produced.
21st
Amendment
- Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
- Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
- Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
- The 21st amendment repeals the 18th amendment. It abolishes prohibition and allows alcohol to be manufactured, sold, transported, and consumed. The state governments were still given the vote to pass the amendment.
- The amendment was created because there was a huge outcry from the American people that they wanted booze. It was also created to try to stop the illegal trade of bootlegging.
- Current issues with this amendment is that the production of alcohol without certain licensing is still illegal.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Freedom and Firearms
People
kill people, people also kill animals. People use guns to kill, guns aren’t the
only thing that kill people. Knives, fire, poison, and even vending machines.
The thought of outlawing guns because they “kill people” is foolish, if you use
that principle then it’s like saying you think scorpions tails should be
outlawed. The tail did it not the scorpion, he had no intention at all of
stinging me it was all his tail. If I laid a gun on the table and told it to go
kill someone do you know what it would do? Nothing, because guns don’t kill
people, people kill people.
In 1996,
a gunman killed 35 people and wounded 18 more in Port Arthur, Australia. Twelve
days after the massacre Australia banned guns and instigated a buy back. More
than 1/3 of Australia’s guns were handed back into the government and it was
found that about 90% of Australians approved of their stricter gun laws. This
means that the Australian government said “No more guns”. The Australian people
said “O.K. alright seems fair mate.” Mass shootings happen in the United States
and the government says “Maybe we just ban the really big guns”. Half of
Americans said “Alright, yeah seems fair.” And the other 50% went “screw you
don’t take my guns!” Now I don’t necessarily believe we need a complete ban on
guns but I do believe that sale laws need to be restricted to sporting fire
arms and self-defense weapons. There is no need for assault weapons. One thing that does bother me is these people
that run around saying you can’t take my guns it’s my second amendment right,
which is true, but then they turn around and say they believe we need to
demilitarize the police force. Seriously, it’s like we want to just make it
easy on criminals and street crime. It would be like telling a wheelchair
basketball team to take on the Miami Heat. Either their needs to be a balance
in the guns between the government and the people or there needs to be no guns.
The 2nd
amendment was not part of the original constitution that’s why it’s called an
amendment. I’m tired of people talking about it like it is a law of nature that
never goes away. Amendments get repealed and added it happens and it can
happen. What people seem to not understand is that when this amendment was
passed they were still using muskets. Yeah it sounds like a great idea for the
people to own guns because the likeliness of them even being able to kill each
other is pretty low. Now a days we have much more effective and precise killing
machines. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing I’m just saying that things have
changed we live in a different world now, it’s time to at least revise the
amendment. The second amendment guarantees
the right to “A well regulated militia” great that’s fine we have the
national guard, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” note the word
right, you have the right to doesn’t mean you should. I know plenty of people
who have the right to own a gun but the definitely shouldn’t. This amendment
needs to stay but it needs to be revised for a better clearer understanding.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Lincoln, Obama, and Executive Orders
This is
not a question of who is right and who is wrong. It is never that simple when
it comes to politics, it is however a question of right and left. It has always
been political parties battling each other and getting in each others way.
Nothing get done in this country that actually needs to get done because a lot
of politicians who can’t agree on anything that think they are more right than
the other. The only thing the parties seem to ever come close to agreeing on is
war and how much their own pay checks should be.
Lincoln
wasn’t a bad president, he did what he could the only ways to do it. Most
presidents wouldn’t have made it through the first month of the civil war
without giving up, going home, and letting the union crumble. Not Lincoln
though, He persevered and got done what he wanted to get done. There is no
doubt in my mind that the Emancipation Proclamation was a war move. Free all
the slaves in the South so that they will come to the North and fight for the
Union. It’s a smart play that is sure to get under the South’s skin. To today’s
average person The Emancipation Proclamation was a great thing to free slaves,
which it was, but what is not shown is that it did not free slaves in the
North. The point I am getting at is that every president does something for a
reason and there is always a ripple effect. In Lincoln’s case he won a war and
in doing so abolished slavery.
The
problem I have was when Lincoln is quoted to say “I have decided that I hold
these powers” when he said this he was referring to the “war” powers he
believed he had. He believed that it was his constitutional duty to hold these
powers. I believe this is wrong, the constitution is not written for one man to
decide how he wants to interpret it for his own benefit. It is written so that
we as a people have our guaranteed rights, not one man using it for his own
personal power. I do believe that Lincoln abused his constitutional powers,
however, I believe that it did much more good than harm.
Lincoln
abused his powers and managed to do good while President Obama is not doing so
hot in that department. President Obama has taken it upon himself to pass 23
executive orders pertaining directly to gun control. I have an issue with this
since the right to bear arms is a 2nd amendment right. I do not believe
a president should be allowed to pass orders, that deal directly with a
constitutional right, without extensive voting by congress and or the public. I
believe that many presidents, such as Kennedy, pass executive orders because
the constant bickering between the two parties makes it impossible for
necessary changes to happen to this country. I however believe that Obama is
passing executive orders just to bypass the harassment of going through proper
channels and wind up getting shut down. A few presidents use executive orders as
a last resort, Obama uses them because he knows he is wrong.
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