Is Our Constitution Gone?

The 1^st Amendment to the United States Constitution

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

HR 347 does restrict free speech, there is no doubt about it but what most don’t realize is this is what happens every time we get a big government, , their first order of business is to take away your Constitutional rights, their first order of business is to take away your Constitutional rights.  

In my lifetime there has only been two presidents who brought our country close to being a dictatorship, the first was President Richard Nixon (Republican) who first signed Public Law 112-283, the father of HR 347 and President Barack Obama who signed HR 347. Both these laws violate the US Constitution’s 1^st Amendment, and both of these presidents violated every law they could and can get away with but where is the congress? If you look at the vote in the house, only three congressmen stood up for what was right; Justin Amash (R) from Michigan, Keith Ellison (D) from Minnesota, and Paul Broun (R) from Georgia. The other 339 congressmen voted for it or refused to vote which is just as bad. What really tees me off is every one of my representatives voted for it; I can’t even say one didn’t vote; but it gets worse.

I am a big backer of our Border Patrol and usually a backer of Homeland Security but as I said before, anytime you have a big government, their first order of business is to take away your Constitutional rights. Homeland Security has created a, ”Constitution-Free” Zones, where you have no US Constitutional rights. The 1^st and 4^th Amendments according to them have no standing so they can search you, detain you, and seize your personal items without a warrant or probable cause; I thought this was America, home of the free!  What about the Freedom of the Press?

A reporter could go to jail for reporting the truth and refusing to give up her sources. Jana Winter refuses to name the confidential sources cited in an article she authored about Colorado movie theater shooter, James Holmes. Nothing she wrote was false; they just don’t want the public to know.  Colorado has a long history of violating freedom of speech, if it doesn’t conform to what they want to hear they shut you up. No one had this problem when the New York Times printed how we were killing 100 Al -Qaeda's leaders every month even though it compromised National Security and put our troops in harms way. The biggest problem was the liberal press didn’t even want to report on this because it wasn’t a liberal reporter. What other violations can we find?

1. President Obama hasn’t submitted a budget it four years which is mandated by the Constitution.

2. The Independent Payment Advisory Board (a.k.a. “The Death Panel”) with their decisions which automatically become law without going through Congress and are only overridden by a three-fifths majority vote in the Senate.

3. In April President Obama drafted an executive order requiring businesses to disclose independent expenditures on federal elections if they had federal contracts (which means if you give to any party but his you would receive no more federal contracts, it’s illegal and goes against Citizen United decision made by the supreme court).

4. At the White House, 54 people were arrested for the worse violation on earth; Praying.

Now what did the US Constitution and the 1^st Amendment say?

The 1^st Amendment to the United States Constitution

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

When our government and president can violate every Amendment in the constitution or pick and choose which they want to follow; the US Constitution is forfeited. Our president refuses to enforce the laws on the books. I don’t care what party you claim but if you back circumventing the US Constitution then you need to leave our country. This is just to name a few. How much destruction does our country need to endure before people will stand up for what is right? Do we need to loose our freedom before we will wake up? That is where we are headed.

Stupid People, Fill Good Gun Control Doesn’t Work!

Limiting the “Law Abiding Citizen” does nothing to stop gun violence by criminals, this has been proven throughout history but once again people are playing political games around the tragedies in our nation and the politicians are only really worried about getting reelected, not fixing the problem. These tragedies happened in “Gun Free Zones” but criminals ignore the law. As we have seen this type of law only kept the “Law Abiding Citizen” from bringing their guns, but it didn’t stop the criminal, and it has been shown to actually attract them. It did however stop the “Law Abiding Citizen” from being able to protect themselves. Has anyone in the news been talking about how James Holmes in his statement to police said he passed up several other theaters because Century Aurora 16 theater had a sign “No Weapons Allowed”? NO! Let’s look at some statistics. What is the average people killed in a mass shooting when finally stopped by police? The answer is 18.25. What is the average people killed in a mass shooting when finally stopped by civilians? The answer is 2.2.Which would you prefer? There was 12 killed and 58 wounded in the Century Aurora 16 shooting. By statistics at the most 2 would have been killed and 7 would have been wounded; which sounds better?

Many people do not realize the thought process many of these murders actually put into the preparation of their crimes. Any criminal will go where they have the lease chance of being caught, stopped, or confronted. When you put a sign up that reads “Gun Free Zone” or No Weapons Allowed” this is like candy to a baby for criminals and sooner or later they will come calling; it is plain common sense.

If the politicians really cared about your safety they would be more harsh on criminals committing offenses with guns and less intrusive to “Law Abiding Citizen”. A lower capacity magazine does nothing to stop a criminal, James Homes in Colorado. He was never confronted so if he would have had a 10 round magazine instead of 20 round magazine it wouldn’t of mattered; he would have just reloaded more. If someone would have brought their weapon in the theater and put James Holmes down before he could have killed so many, they would have been thrown under the bus by the anti gun crowed in Colorado. They would have saved lives but that would not have matter; it’s a catch 22.

The anti-gun crowed will do anything to take your 2^nd Amendment rights away; just look at the first “Assault Weapons Ban” put into place in 1994 after President Reagan was shot. What is the problem with this, he was shot with a .22 revolver pistol so why did they go after assault weapons? How many mass shootings have been in “Gun Free Zone” or No Weapons Allowed” areas? Pretty much all have been in “Gun Free Zone” or No Weapons Allowed” areas; this should be telling you something.  

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot twenty children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.  Connecticut's new law would add more than 100 types of guns to the state's list of banned assault weapons; limit the capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; ban armor-piercing bullets; require background checks for all weapon sales, including at gun shows; establish safety standards for school buildings; allow mental health training for teachers; and expand mental health research in the state. Now what is wrong with this?

First why are you banning so many weapons, they didn’t commit the crime, the person did. This is like saying a fork is responsible for you being fat! Second as for 10 Round magazines, as I pointed out before you can just reload more often; it wouldn’t have made a difference at Sandy Hook. Third  many Armor piercing bullets are banned federally to manufacture or import but were they used here? NO! Fourth, establish safety standards for school buildings; you mean the gun free zone didn’t work. This should have been done in the 1990s and an armed security guard as suggested by President Clinton. This was excepted but not implemented under President Clinton's presidency. A caveat; this is the same exact suggestion from the NRA which was said to be idiotic; why wasn't it when President Clinton suggested it? They are both right.  And here is my favorite; allow mental health training for teachers. What would this have done? Nothing! Reaction is never a wise or proper fix to a problem; it usually only covers a symptom while leaving the problem to remain.  None of these measures would have stopped this crime with the exception of establish safety standards for school buildings which was suggested years ago.

Did this work in any of the shootings we have had in the US? NO! You may have a feel good feeling but it is all superficial and the reality is still out there of what the criminal committing these atrocities thinks when seeing these areas.

The FBI enforcement can confirm that criminals look for these type areas because (get this) it is safer for them to commit their crimes. Most gun killings are gang bangers or previously convicted felons but all the new laws do is remove rights from the law abiding citizen. I think Ben Franklin said it best or at lease his carton did.

The choice is yours, to keep being a victim or protect your family and yourself. I love the police to death and I'm not trying to berate them but in reality they are mainly a reactionary entity, and it is usually all over by the time they arrive.

So what can we do to prevent mass shootings like this? Why do our children have no conscience? Why do they kill with no regret, or remorse? Look up school crime rates and it might be very unsettling for you. If you looked up school crime rate from 1950 to now, the rise is flabbergasting. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. When all the moral founding subjects were taken out of our schools and replaced with political correctness, 12 years later is when these type of shootings started taking place (I wonder if there is a correlation). I know many people out there don’t want some sort of religion forced down their children’s throats but if you take the religious morale foundation out of the schools you need to replace it with another generic one which teaches moral value to replace it or you will have chaos which is what we have currently.  The school stats sense taking this moral compass out is as follows:

1970s – 5 school killings

1980s – 8 school killings (up 60% from 1970)

1990s – 40 school killings (up 500% from 1970)

2000s – 46 school killings (up 551% from 1970)

You can say what you want but political correctness is killing our kids.

 

Why Big Towns are Going Bankrupt

Have you ever heard the phrase “you must live within your means?” Many of our big cities have no idea what that means and if you take a look at the biggest offenders you will notice three glaring commonalities. First, in the US what are the five most indebted big cities? I will go down the list from the biggest to the smallest and give you the general deficit and the unfunded liabilities and at the end I will give you the commonalities.

 

1.     Los Angeles, California with a population of 3.82 million people. It has a general deficit of $222 million and unfunded liabilities of $27 billion. http://ivn.us/2012/08/14/los-angeles-bankruptcy-may-be-coming/

2.     San Diego, California with a population of 1,326k. It has a general deficit of $2.1billion and unfunded liabilities of $45.4 billion. http://farquharlaw.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/should-the-city-of-san-diego-file-for-bankruptcy-it-has-45-4-billion-in-unfunded-pension-liabilities/

3.     Detroit, Michigan with a population of 706k. It has a general deficit of $45 million and unfunded liabilities of $12.7 billion. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130314/METRO01/303140443

4.     Long Beach, California with a population of       465k. It has a general deficit of $18.5 million and unfunded liabilities of $1.164 billion. http://lbbusinessjournal.com/component/content/article/202-13-02-26/1336-long-beach-has-1164-billion-in-unfunded-personnel-costs.html

5.     Oakland, California with a population of 396k. It has a general deficit of $50 million and unfunded liabilities of $494 million. https://www.baycitizen.org/news/pensions/no-resolution-oaklands-unfunded-pension/

Have you noticed any oddities yet? California has four of the top five and you can guarantee they are just following their leadership. Of all the states, California is the number one state with the highest deficit. It has a general deficit of $21.3 billion and unfunded liabilities over $500 billion. I don’t want you to misunderstand; this isn’t their complete debt, just two of the highest areas. http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/states-pension-liability-tops-500-billion-stanford-study-finds-1641

The state in second place is Illinois It has a general deficit of $96.8 billion and unfunded liabilities over $275 billion. http://survivalandprosperity.com/2013/01/31/illinois-total-unfunded-liabilities-275-billion/

These two states by themselves have almost $1 trillion in deficits do to nefarious and destructive management. Remember what I said in the beginning, you must live within your means; well this is only part of the problem; the biggest part is poor or criminal leadership. So who are the leaders and their affiliations?

2013 Cities with Highest Deficit	Mayor	Party
1. Los Angeles, CA	Mayor Villaraigosa	Democrat
2. San Diego, CA	Mayor Bob Filner	Democrat
3. Detroit, MI	Mayor David Bing	Democrat
4. Long Beach, CA	Mayor Bob Foster	Democrat
5. Oakland, CA	Mayor Jean Quan	Democrat

Well what about the two states with the highest debt:

2013 States with Highest Deficit	Mayor	Party
1. California	Governor Jerry Brown	Democrat
2. Illinois	Governor Pat Quinn	Democrat

I don’t like Republicans any more then I like Democrats because neither party is doing what is best for their citizens, state, or country. That being said the Democrats are doing a worse job then the Republicans if you look at the stats. The ten most violent cities are also ran by all Democrats.

2013 Most Dangerous City	Mayor	Party
1. Camden, NJ	Mayor Dana Redd	Democrat
2. Detroit, MI	Mayor Dave Bing	Democrat
3. Atlanta, GA	Mayor Kasim Reed	Democrat
4. St. Louis, MO	Mayor Francis G. Slay	Democrat
5. Gary, IN	Mayor Karen Wilson	Democrat
6. Washington, DC	Mayor Vincent C. Gray	Democrat
7. Hartford, CT	Mayor Pedro Segarra	Democrat
8. New Orleans, LA	Mayor Mitch Landrieu	Democrat
9. Richmond, VA	Mayor Dwight Jones	Democrat
10. Birmingham, AL	Mayor William A. Bell	Democrat

Both parties, especially the Democrats want to give hard working peoples money to those who refuse to work to get votes. As a libertarian I am a firm believer you work for what you get; if you don’t work, you don’t get. People refusing to work and staying on welfare is the main reason for people living in poverty; like it or not poverty is directly related to crime.

2013 Poorest Large Cities	Mayor	Party
1. Detroit, MI	Dave Bing	Democrat
2. Cleveland, OH	Frank G. Jackson	Democrat
3. Buffalo, NY	Byron Brown	Democrat
4. Milwaukee, WI	Tom Barrett	Democrat
5. St. Louis, MO	Francis G. Slay	Democrat
6. Miami, FL	Tomás Regalado	Republican
7. Memphis, TN	A.C. Wharton	Democrat
8. Cincinnati, OH	Mark Mallory	Democrat
9. Philadelphia,  PA	Karen Freeman-Wilson	Democrat
10. Newark, NJ		Democrat

 If you turn the cities, states, and our country away from being full of entitlements and return to manufacturing and working, we the citizens will have a higher quality of life. If you are elderly or truly disabled, we as a nation need to take care of you. If you are an able body person you need to work. What really gets my blood pumping is when you have someone receiving a free cell phone because “it’s their right”. I am sorry it is not a right and when I grew up we were so poor we had a party line; now let’s see how many out there know what I’m talking about. Entitlements are killing our cities, states, and nation and it’s not just the welfare and free hand out entitlements, but also our government worker entitlements, something is wrong when the a government worker receives twice as much as a non-government worker doing the same job.

So why has so manufacturing jobs left so many states and even the US? Our city, state, and federal government have applied so many regulations to the manufactures they cannot compete in the global market so they move their facilities to a country where they can make a profit. In some cases (not all) it’s because unions become ridicules with their demands to a point that if the company doesn’t meet their demands they strike; it’s a loose, loose for both sides. If the employer stays and the union strike the company can loose contracts which makes them loose work and profits. If they give everything the union wants, they won’t make a profit. A company is in the business to make a profit.

Another question I have is why do these big town which are in financial trouble keep electing the same idiots to the elected positions if they haven’t fixed the problems? Are they so ignorant they don’t realize when the government goes broke all your free stuff will be gone. If the government you elected can’t pay their own bills and live within their means without taxing everyone to Kingdom Come, they are not good stewards of your money and should never be reelected. If you want to wake up one day and realize you can’t eat or feed your family because no one will take food stamps knowing if they do they won’t get paid; keep electing these financially irresponsible people. The choice is yours. They are not helping the poor; they are oppressing the poor.