It’s disgusting how clearly written provisions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights that categorically restrict the government get sliced, diced, parsed, and turned into legal mush. From Andrew Napolitano at antiwar.com:
When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made two grammatical demands. One was that the word “the” precede “freedom of speech” in the First Amendment, and the other was a command in the Ninth Amendment that the “rights retained by the people,” rights too numerous to enumerate, “shall not be disparaged” by the government.
This principle – that our rights preexisted the government – would be played out over and over in litigation in the centuries following the ratification of the Bill of Rights. The ratification itself was insisted upon by five of the new states who threatened to leave the new union unless restraints were added to the Constitution so as to protect the individual liberties that the Declaration of Independence – then only 15 years old – stated unambiguously were granted by the Creator.
Though the colonists deeply valued all the rights articulated in the Declaration, truly it was the freedom of speech that drove the revolution. Yes, the Americans had Kentucky long guns that enabled the colonial militias to shoot and kill British forces from distances that the British weaponry was unable to reach. Yes, the Americans were animated by defending their homeland.
But it was speech – sung in taverns, written in broadsides, delivered in sermons, distributed in pamphlets, adopted by the Continental Congress and colonial legislatures, and proclaimed in town squares from Boston to Charleston – that whipped the brushfires of freedom into a revolution and a new nation.
Lawfare and historic pen and phone?
A society driven insane by the COV-LARP and treatments?
Words will never hurt me is what they taught us along with stranger danger, don’t jump off the bridge with the hive. (so thankful)
Maybe Lefty was lying all along with that I disagree with you but will defend your right to say it?
Ran around with some purple hair spiky mohawk punkers back in glorious misspent youth and I could tell they didn’t really believe that I’ll fight for your right to say it.
Reading about FIB going door to door over social media accounts and law professors saying to keep mouth shut unless a lawyer is present to give you counsel.
All of these SM account nom de guerre names sound pro-gun, pro-Legacy America. (h/t-LTC SM)
There is a high price to pay for keep me safe by any means necessary and it isn’t worth it.