6.26.2008

Activist Judges

The Supremes just ruled that the right to bear arms is an individual right not to be confused with what the actual amendment actually states.

For those unaware of the exact phrasing of the Second Amendment:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
The majority's asinine and activist ruling:
“The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”
Unconnected with service in a militia? WTF? Yeah, let's just throw out the words we don't like or that stand to confuse a simple populace or that stand in the way of some twitchy, sweaty fuck in Idaho owning as many guns as Norway.

If one takes the time to read the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay as a defense of the U.S. Constitution in the run up to its ratification, you'll find that the word militia occurs nine (9) times. Each of those times it is in the context of a National Guard or citizen force.

I am sure we won't hear screams of anguish from the right about justices reading into the Constitution interpretations that comport with their prevailing political beliefs on this one.

One more example of the fucking hypocritical right. God, O needs to be Prezo now. This is getting out of hand.

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