take this pledge and shove it (AKA ‘stephan kinsella is a worthless prick’)
if there’s a more disgusting picture than 5-year-old types in a classroom, putting hand on heart and “pledging allegiance” to a goddamned symbol of state coercion, it would be those “adults” who bust their worthless, traitorous hineys to ensure that this vile, insecure indoctrination not be thwarted.
announcement of the obvious: if this country matched the drooling picture of the indoctrination slobs, coercion and pledges would hardly be necessary. it’s the usual sickness, insisting blindly that good must be forced on people. “it’s so goddamned good, jimmy bob, i’m gonna shove it right up your ass. now git reddy!”
::puke::
no, as the remnants of markets demonstrate daily, people will support strenuously that which they feel is in their best interest. the very existence of a “pledge” is a reliable indicator that someone’s selling something contrary to self interest, or figures the pledger is a dishonorable lout.
oh, in case a socialist moron rolls in and reads this post, i guess i should state explicitly that “self interest” includes also that aspect of humans whereby the aiding of others brings pleasure. far as i’ve seen, there is no concern for others not rooted entirely in self interest. this should be embraced, not pretended away.
anyway, i’m happy to announce that despite me not having written a widely published article for years, my tip to the US congress was executed yesterday by the house of reprehensibles. tip:
Give some blowhard a robe and a title, and before you know it he’s trying to turn himself into a monarch. The worst part, of course, is that people let him. He could have been shut down in short order by a resolute Congress, because a little known gem in the Constitution (Article III, Section 2, Paragraph 2) allows Congress to remove the Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction however it sees fit – even approaching permanence. But you wouldn’t expect a body which routinely begs the president “Have your way with us” to stand up to the Supreme Court, would you?
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For power’s sake, I wonder why some prominent (dullard) Congressman doesn’t attempt to make a name by proposing a bill on the pledge issue in favor of unconstitutionally mandated pledges (or at least the freedom for states to mandate them), but prohibiting (using Article III, Section 2, Paragraph 2) the Supreme Court from ruling on the matter. Though it would be a debacle in the short term, who knows what surprising things might ultimately happen for liberty if efforts were undertaken to clamp down on the Supreme Court.
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] voted Wednesday to block federal judges from ruling [AJS backgrounder] on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance [JURIST news archive; Washington Post backgrounder], which contains the controversial phrase “under God.” The Pledge Protection Act [HR 2389 text, PDF; summary] provides that “no court created by Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court shall have no appellate jurisdiction, to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution of, the Pledge of Allegiance….” Social conservatives strongly support the bill because they say it protects the nation’s religious heritage from unelected judges. Opponents, however, say the bill undermines the separation of powers and denies religious minorities access to federal courts. The bill would still allow state courts to decide whether the pledge is unconstitutional within their jurisdictions.
i don’t understand why steffy “stupid prancing bitch” kinsella hasn’t taken the opportunity to publish at the LRC blog the twenty emails he got from “lawyers” slapping him on the back for two years ago taking time out of his IP one-trick-pony blatherfest to attempt to get up to speed on constitutional law (starting with a public boneheaded blog entry that he was smart enough to strike after i busted his psycho ass on it).
c’mon, steffy. WTF? why aren’t you… oh, wait a sec. i’ll bet he’s writing an article instead (probably with somebody else, so it takes longer), then he’ll follow with the “all the lawyers think i’m the cat’s ass, because i suck supreme court tea leaf cock just like them” passive-aggressive blog posts. never mind.