Yep. Somewhere, sometime, some lawyer will dust it off and use it to bugger some one hard way. Like the RIAA controled Obama Justice Department.If a law goes unenforced, is it even a law?
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Yep. Somewhere, sometime, some lawyer will dust it off and use it to bugger some one hard way. Like the RIAA controled Obama Justice Department.If a law goes unenforced, is it even a law?
A few quotes from the AUTHOR of the Bill of Rights, James Madison, should clarify any confusion.BL,
This is the only point of your thread that I would challenge. It's a discussion forum. Furthermore, it is not specifically a US discussion forum, even in the US Politics section. Anyone can participate.
While on the subject of the Constitution, it has a First Amendment, as well as a Second. The Second, to my knowledge, isn't twice as important as the First. But the First, if I understand it correctly, is big enough to talk about everything -- including the second.
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." -James Madison
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -James Madison
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
The very question shows a degree of naivety that illustrates the point.....the fact that it IS a law, means that it can be enforced at ANY TIME against anyone.....so it very much IS A LAW!If a law goes unenforced, is it even a law?
"The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.” Col. Jeff Cooper USMC
I'm staring to really like Texas, and I haven't moved there yet.
Step 1 buy land
Step 2 drop a couple double wides on it
Step 3 invite all my freedom loving friends to move in
Step 4 repel invasion by FBI because we're a "cult" who "worships freedom"
Step 5 try and look good on TV news, remember to say "Hi Mom!" as led away in handicuffs.
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You won't get led away in cuffs. You'll get burned alive and your flaming corpse will be repeatedly shot at with automatic weapons from helicopters flying overhead.
Your children and wives will be massacered and your friends will be persecuted for the remainder of their lives.
Your property will be siezed, your homes raized, and your reputation destroyed. History will remember you as a monster, and schoolchildren will curse your name.
In the decades to come, people all over the world will see the story of your death as a morality play. They will learn to never resist the state, and that crazy people get the destruction they invite. Your story will be brought up repeatedly by those objecting to any revolutionary ideas as the deserved fate of all who question the authority of the state.
And if, some day, the truth comes out? That you were nothing more than a small group of people who lived peacefully with your neighbors and wanted nothing more than to be left alone? That you were singled out, tortured, and murdered by an oppressive state? That the state and their friends in the media desperately twisted the truth in order to cast you as the villian? Well, that truth won't get far anyway. And anyone who tries to speak of it will simply be painted with the same broad brush.
Then they too can fear for their lives.