Veteran's Day tomorrow

I will celebrate 11/11 by taking the 1911 out for a run. Seems fitting that one of the guns that won the Great War should get exercised on the day celebrating the Armistice of same.

Ten Years Later

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the act of war against our country by rich, spoiled, fanatical, Saudi Arabian Wahhabist terrorists aligned with Al Queda. My good friend OldNFO asked for reminisces the other day on his blog. What follows is my comment from there, unedited:

I was at home, getting ready to go to work. After the WTC was hit, I went to the basement and began cleaning guns. Then my neighbor came over, crying. The Pentagon had just been hit, and she couldn't make contact with her husband (who worked near the Pentagon impact site). We eventually connected with him. He had been one corridor North of the impact and had spent the day doing SAR in the burning section of the building before being sent home. He and I spent the evening quietly with a bottle of Jack Daniels, while he worked through what he had seen. One man to another, sharing the pain.

I will never forget. I will not forgive. There is not enough oil in the Middle East to justify appeasing those lying bastards. The proper response would have been to turn Riyadh into a smoking sheet of glass...it still is.

We have become a nation of appeasers, more interested in being inoffensive than in being right. Once upon a time, we were a nation of leaders who cared not what the other nations of the world thought. Once upon a time, the rest of the world either feared us or wanted to be us. Now, they only ridicule us while using our own wealth against us. Wealth stolen by spineless politicians and given to the socialists in the UN, or paid to Middle-East radicals in exchange for energy we shouldn't have to import.

Ponder that while you watch and listen to the national dirge, on every channel your TeeVee can receive. Ponder that, and ask yourself if this is the nation your were raised in. Ponder that, and ask yourself why you willingly accept the chains and shackles of an out-of-control government staffed with lifetime civil servants who hate your remaining Liberties and envy your remaining abilities.

Then, DO SOMETHING about it. It is past time to re-engage as CITIZENS. It is past time to take your country back.

Newbius
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July 4, 2011

This is the document that birthed our nation:

This is the document that defines the limits of our government:

This is how our elite media views this document today:

Does it still matter?

Yes.

For if we believe that it does not, then we consign ourselves to a situation where the rule of law is no longer. We consign ourselves to the rule of men. In that fight, might makes right. The strong will overrun the weak. The nation will cease to be.

There are some who will posit that we are already at that place in our history. If this is the case, then we should take heed and review our past. We should reread the wisdom of the men who put quill and ink to parchment and who drafted the first document. We should reread the reasons why we fought to bring this nation into being. We should then compare those reasons to what is going on all around us, and what is being done in our name against our own people, in the name of governance.

Tick Tock, Tick Tock. What time is it, on Claire Wolfe's Clock?

Look around you. See what is hiding in plain sight. Prepare.

July 4, 1776 was the match being held to the powder-keg. We exploded into existence because the ideals of Freedom and Liberty could not be repressed forever. Yet, we have allowed those ideas to decay and wither. Stifled by the rot of Socialism, whose high and noble ideals smother the spirit and crush the spark of individuals under the jackboots of conformity and oppression.

Wake up. Then, awaken your neighbors and friends. Learn your history, then teach it. Time is short. We know what happened in 1776. What will July 4, 2011 bring?

Newbius

150 years ago today

The Federal war on the 10th Amendment was begun in Charleston Harbor.

The handwriting on the wall

מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין

Have the leaders of Babylon West, the United States of America, seen the finger of G-d yet?

Surely, the priests and priestesses, the courtesans and the minstrels, the money-changers and the charlatans, have all had their day in the sun excusing and promoting the bad behavior of our 'culture'. Our nomenklatura, the mandarins of academia and the apparatchik, have all had their time to destroy what is left of our political will and historical memory. CAIR, and their enablers in Persia, have our media on the run. How long until political correctness destroys our ability to fight for what is right?

Isn't this what the Obamunists are banking on? How much longer will it be? How long until we are weighed (twice), found wanting, and divided? And, what then?

Newbius
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QOTD: John Marshall

Today's Quote of the Day comes to us courtesy of the Cornell Law Library's online repository of court cases:

The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land is a question deeply interesting to the United States, but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognise certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it.

That the people have an original right to establish for their future government such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion; nor can it nor ought it to be frequently repeated. The principles, therefore, so established are deemed fundamental. And as the authority from which they proceed, is supreme, and can seldom act, they are designed to be permanent.

This original and supreme will organizes the government and assigns to different departments their respective powers. It may either stop here or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments.

The Government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the Legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act.

Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.

If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.

Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.
Chief Justice John Marshall, in delivering the opinion in Marbury v. Madison

Our Constitution is the fundamental founding document of our Government. It has specific and defined limits of authority assigned to each branch of our Government. It has proscribed areas in which the Government may not meddle. Any actor or agent of the Government who attempts to usurp power not given them through the Constitution is an outlaw. Any person who attempts to enforce laws which are repugnant to the Constitution is an outlaw and a criminal, is violating their Oath of Office, and should be defended against as such. This is one of the reasons that the Statists try so hard to nominate people to the courts who have an elastic view of what is Constitutional. If they twist the plain meaning of the plain text, if they torture the words enough, perhaps anything they can then dream up will be deemed as acceptable to the Constitution.

When I was in high school, our civics class covered the Constitution, including the Marbury v. Madison case. Do they still do so? I would bet not. It interferes with the teaching that the State is supreme...

Newbius