It's late . . . 1:30 am Saturday morning. I just finished a huge tax return at work and thought I'd check my blog and saw your comment asking for examples of the constitution being in threads. I'll post more on that as soon as I get a chance (prob Sun evening). A friend sent me this video today; towards the end is a clip from Ron Paul at a political debate from earlier this year. In the short segment Ron Paul lists the following examples of destruction of the constitution:
1) National ID card currently being implemented
2) FISA (sp?) courts (The FISA laws allow the government to listen to your telephone conversations and read your e-mails; ie - warrantless searches.)
3)Loss of Habeas Corpus
4) Secret prisons around the world
5) Torture
My small knowledge of the constitution tells me that each of these items are unconstitutional.
A couple more items off the top of my head:
a) Individual income taxes
b) The federal reserve system
c) President declaring war (not congress)
d) Oh, and don't forget that the Bill of Rights states that: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Thus, most of the government programs run at the federal level are actually unconstitutional because they should be run at the state or even better the local level. I've thought about that one quite a bit. For instance, federal welfare programs. Just think of the overhead on such programs. Not to mention, if somebody is truly in need, does it make any sense that the people making the decisions on their level of "need" are in Washington DC? How does this random Joe really know what my neighbors needs are? DC Joe could very easily give too much or too little. I don't know . . . in my mind it just makes much more sense to allow welfare to be run at the smallest level of government possible . . . and I believe this is what the 10th amendment in the Bill of Rights is all about . . . but that's just me.
Like I said, I'll see what I can do to post more later.
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Glen -
It's late . . . 1:30 am Saturday morning. I just finished a huge tax return at work and thought I'd check my blog and saw your comment asking for examples of the constitution being in threads. I'll post more on that as soon as I get a chance (prob Sun evening). A friend sent me this video today; towards the end is a clip from Ron Paul at a political debate from earlier this year. In the short segment Ron Paul lists the following examples of destruction of the constitution:
1) National ID card currently being implemented
2) FISA (sp?) courts (The FISA laws allow the government to listen to your telephone conversations and read your e-mails; ie - warrantless searches.)
3)Loss of Habeas Corpus
4) Secret prisons around the world
5) Torture
My small knowledge of the constitution tells me that each of these items are unconstitutional.
A couple more items off the top of my head:
a) Individual income taxes
b) The federal reserve system
c) President declaring war (not congress)
d) Oh, and don't forget that the Bill of Rights states that: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Thus, most of the government programs run at the federal level are actually unconstitutional because they should be run at the state or even better the local level. I've thought about that one quite a bit. For instance, federal welfare programs. Just think of the overhead on such programs. Not to mention, if somebody is truly in need, does it make any sense that the people making the decisions on their level of "need" are in Washington DC? How does this random Joe really know what my neighbors needs are? DC Joe could very easily give too much or too little. I don't know . . . in my mind it just makes much more sense to allow welfare to be run at the smallest level of government possible . . . and I believe this is what the 10th amendment in the Bill of Rights is all about . . . but that's just me.
Like I said, I'll see what I can do to post more later.
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