Waking Up: The Bill of Rights Does Not Grant Us Rights
Melissa Melton
(I wrote this last year; I am posting it now because it is more relevant than ever.)
In 2010, after two years of daily research into crime and the state of criminal justice in America, I received an MS degree in criminology. During that time, I worked as a graduate research assistant in addition to being a graduate student. I spent a lot of time engrossed in all aspects of America’s criminal justice system: juvenile justice laws; the Department of Homeland Security and our nation’s post-9/11 security; drug wars; crime policy theory; and the prison complex. I have always been driven by justice and the fight for truth. Just as there are people who have always been able to draw or play piano, I have always researched, always written.
When I “woke up” as they call it to the tyranny enveloping not only America but the globe, it was like something let go of my brain and I was able to comprehend so much and so much more clearly than before. Many things I only realized for the first time. Scenes from The Matrix come to mind when I consider my experience waking up. That movie is the perfect analogy to our modern society in so many ways.
Tonight, once again, I got asked that question for the umpteenth time:
“Why do you care about this when there is nothing you, as an individual, can do about it?”
Answer: Sure, I’m one person, but I’m one person telling another person — you.
As a criminology major, I am positive I have stumbled upon what could possibly be THE BIGGEST CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF ALL MANKIND. I’m not kidding. Sure, many will throw out the phrase “conspiracy theorist” before they even let me finish. Let’s examine the evidence, though, shall we?
Many people think the Constitution and the Bill of Rights give us rights. Let us be very clear on this point: the Bill of Rights does not grant us rights. Instead, the Bill of Rights tells us exactly what the government cannot take away.
We have these rights because we are free human beings.
Amendment I: Freedom of Speech
Amendment I of the Bill of Rights says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Where has this gone? We no longer have the right to peaceably assemble or petition the government for a redress of grievances. Would you like proof? Watch the arrest of a man at the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks who, in a raised yes but calm voice, merely began asking a crowd, “When will we be allowed to know the truth about 9/11?” Within 45 seconds, police officers were pulling him away to arrest him.
In addition, many places require protesters to file a petition to gather and protest. It is hard not to laugh at the irony in the fact that you have to ask permission to exercise your First Amendment right from the very people you are likely protesting against!
(UPDATE: In February 2012, Congress approved a bill making it illegal to protest when government officials are nearby — even if you do not know they are there.)
Amendment II: Right to Bear Arms
Amendment II of the Bill of Rights says, “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.”
Militias have long been demonized in our mainstream media and by the government in recent decades. Department of Homeland Security’s 58 fusion centers now collect information daily on so-called domestic terrorists. In February 2009, the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) released a report entitled, “The Modern Militia Movement” which basically laid out the idea that militias are a domestic threat out to overthrow the government, militias hate police and consider them enemies, and any so-called conspiracy theorist is lumped into that group. The report then goes on to say if you watch anti-Federal Reserve films such as Zeitgeist, or you display a Gadsen “Don’t Tread on Me” sticker on your bumper, or even if you merely show a general distrust of the government construct (like I am doing right now in writing this), you are also a potential government threat.
But go back to the original Amendment II and read it again: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state…”
Let us not forget that, during 2005’s hurricane Katrina, police forced people from their homes and confiscated the weapons they had the right to own. Don’t believe me? Watch for yourself
(UPDATE: Last month, the mainstream media was caught using the Trayvon Martin shooting to perpetrate racial tension and further divide in our country, but the ultimate target is likely going to be an attempt to further limit our Second Amendment, as even our Vice President has come out against these rights following Martin’s death.)
Amendment VI: Right against unreasonable searches
This amendment says, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
We have the right to be secure. Does it make you feel secure to watch a five-year-old get stripped searched at the airport? Were you all worried that little boy might have a bomb in his Spiderman underoos? Does it make you feel secure that the TSA forces a pregnant woman to be felt up just because she doesn’t want to subject her unborn baby to a potentially harmful x-ray body scanner?
Just how reasonable do you honestly think these searches are? According to Webster’s New World Law Dictionary, probable cause in regard to the Fourth Amendment is defined as, “a reasonable ground to believe that someone is committing or has committed an offense.” Apparently we are no longer innocent until proven guilty in this country; now we are guilty until proven innocent.
(UPDATE: The National Defense Authorization Act Obama signed last December and the National Defense Resource Preparedness executive order he signed a few weeks ago effectively eat this amendment for dinner. And the Fifth and Sixth Amendments too.)
Additionally:
AND DON’T FORGET AMENDMENT X, which limits the federal government ONLY to what is written in the Constitution, because apparently everyone else in our government already has. Obamacare, anyone?
If the government can force us to buy healthcare and fine us thousands of dollars if we do not, that fundamentally changes our relationship to our federal government forever. What is next? Forcing us to exercise because the government says it is good for us, then fining us if we choose not to? Then what? Then what? Then what? Slippery slope does not even begin to describe this 17 trillion dollar unconstitutional bag of fail, and once this door is officially opened on us all, there will always be a “What’s next?” coming.
1984 was not supposed to be a operational manual.
Make no mistake about it; America is sliding into a fascist dictatorship police state faster and faster every single day. You can try to ignore it if you want to, bury your head in your iPhone and go back to watching your sitcoms and playing your video games, but this country as a Constitutional Republic is being murdered. It may not directly affect you today, but there is always tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the next.
Eventually this tyranny will spread so far and so wide, no one will be able to ignore or deny it anymore.
It would appear the United States Constitution is quickly becoming a suggestion rather than the law of our land and the document our whole country was founded on. So many people seem clueless about what it says, or more importantly, what it means to us as American citizens.
I wonder if that is why it is dying with a whispered sigh rather than a scream.
(Source: trusthreammedia.com)
Obama administration diverts $500M to IRS to implement healthcare reform law
“The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law.”
So he’s doing it anyway? Wasn’t there, oh yeah, that whole other body of government called the Judicial Branch he has to wait for? I could have sworn we had a system of checks and balances in this country. Are we no longer a Constitutional Republic? Or are we just a full-fledged dictatorship now… (that last part was, sadly, rhetorical).
~Mel
Judges order Justice Department to clarify Obama remarks on health law case
Excerpt:
One justice in particular chided the administration for what he said was being perceived as a “challenge” to judicial authority — referring directly to Obama’s latest comments about the Supreme Court’s review of the health care case.
The testy exchange played out during a hearing over a separate ObamaCare challenge. It marked a new phase in the budding turf war between the executive and judicial branches.
“Does the Department of Justice recognize that federal courts have the authority in appropriate circumstances to strike federal statutes because of one or more constitutional infirmities?” Judge Jerry Smith asked at the hearing.
Justice Department attorney Dana Lydia Kaersvang answered “yes” to that question.
A source inside the courtroom, speaking to Fox News afterward, described the questioning by Smith as pointed.
Smith also made clear during that exchange that he was “referring to statements by the president in the past few days to the effect … that it is somehow inappropriate for what he termed unelected judges to strike acts of Congress.”
“That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority,” Smith said. “And that’s not a small matter.”
Smith ordered a response from the department within 48 hours. The related letter from the court, obtained by Fox News, instructed the Justice Department to provide an explanation of “no less than three pages, single spaced” by noon on Thursday.
Obamacare is an Abomination - by Ron Paul
Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance or pay fines enforced by the IRS. Hopefully the Court will strike down this abomination, but we must recognize that the federal judiciary has an abysmal record when it comes to protecting liberty. It’s doubtful the entire law will be struck down. Regardless, the political left will continue its drive toward a single-payer, government run health care system.
The insurance mandate clearly exceeds the federal government’s powers under the interstate commerce clause found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. This is patently obvious: the power to “regulate” commerce cannot include the power to compel commerce! Those who claim otherwise simply ignore the plain meaning of the Constitution because they don’t want to limit federal power in any way.
The commerce clause was intended simply to give Congress the power to regulate foreign trade, and also to prevent states from imposing tariffs on interstate goods. In Federalist Paper No. 22, Alexander Hamilton makes it clear the simple intent behind the clause was to prevent states from placing tolls or tariffs on goods as they passed through each state— a practice that had proven particularly destructive across the many principalities of the German empire.
Massive $17 Trillion Hole Found In Obamacare
Excerpt:
Two years ago, when introducing then promptly enacting Obamacare, the president stated that healthcare law reform would not cost a penny over $1 trillion ($900 billion to be precise), and that it would not add ‘one dime’ to the debt. It appears that this estimate may have been slightly optimistic… by a factor of 1700%. Because coincident with the recent Supreme Court debacle, in which a constitutional law president may be about to find that his magnum opus law is, in fact, unconstitutional, someone actually read the whole thing cover to cover, instead of merely relying on the CBO’s, pardon Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs’, funding estimates. That someone is Republican Jeff Sessions who after actually running the numbers has uncovered that the true long-term funding gap is a mind-boggling $17 trillion, just a tad more than the original sub $1 trillion forecast. This latest revelation means that total underfunded US welfare liabilities: Medicare, Medicaid and social security now amount to $99 trillion! Add to this total US debt which in 2 months will be $16 trillion, and one can see why Japan, which is about to breach 1 quadrillion in total debt (yen, but who’s counting), may want to start looking in the rearview mirror for up and comer competitors. And while Obama may have been taking creative license with a number that is greater than total US GDP, he was most certainly correct when saying that Obamacare would not add a penny to US debt. Because the second the US government comes to market to fund a true total debt/GDP ratio of 750%, it is game over, and the Fed will have its hands full selling Treasury puts every waking nanosecond to have any time left for the daily 3pm stock market ramp.
Jeff Sessions’ Full Presentation:
As a reminder this is what One trillion looks like.
…Now multiply by 17.
If Obamacare is ruled constitutional, here are 7 more things the Obama administration may soon require everyone to purchase
(NaturalNews) The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week about Obama’s health care law, which has been challenged by twenty-six states. The crux of the legal arguments center around whether the federal government can mandate private citizens to purchase a product or service they may not even want or need. (I don’t buy health insurance, for example, because I prefer to invest in healthy eating and superfoods.)
If the Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Obamacare, it would mean a limitless expansion of federal government authority to dictate to Americans what they must buy — and then to financially penalize Americans who don’t buy those products or services. This is precisely the model for Obamacare, which financially punishes those who fail to buy private health insurance by fining them through the IRS.
I began to wonder: What else might the government force Americans to buy if they are granted this absurd new power by the Supreme Court? I’m sure there all sorts of things the government would want to push for its selected business buddies who profit from Obama’s new consumption mandates. So here are ten more things the Obama administration may soon require people to purchase (or else!).
#1) A Chevy Volt
Since nobody is voluntarily buying Chevy Volts, for the good of the auto industry we must all be forced to buy them! That will keep Detroit in business and create jobs for the economy. Keep America strong!
Chevy dealers will be staffed with military personnel toting M4 rifles, and those rifles will be pointed at customers to make sure they “comply” with Obama’s new economic program. Those who refuse to buy a Chevy Volt will be punished by being forced to buy a Chevy pickup.
#2) Annual flu shots
With so many people figuring out that flu shots are total medical quackery and are intentionally laced with mercury preservatives, it’s no wonder most people don’t want to buy them anymore.
Without public demand for vaccines, the vaccine industry might collapse! And that would be terrible for the fat cat CEOs who run those companies and also sit on the boards of all the other global elite corporations. The answer? Mandate annual flu shots for every person, every year! Get your flu shot, or we’ll throw you in prison and jab you there!
#3) Terrorism insurance
What? You don’t own terrorism insurance? Then how will you keep your family safe with all the countless terrorism attacks happening every day?
Coming soon: Obama’s buddies will set up a whole new insurance scam called “terrorism insurance,” and they’ll use false flag terror attacks to remind people why they need to keep buying insurance policies. All Americans will be forced into buying these terrorism insurance policies, and those who don’t will be called anti-American traitors.
What? You don’t have terrorism insurance? You must be one of those anti-government nuts who also owns gold. Yeah, that’s a sure sign of being a terrorist yourself.
#4) Pink slime
Given that nobody in the country wants to buy pink slime anymore — that’s the new term for “mechanically separated meat” that has suddenly become widely known across the ‘net (http://www.naturalnews.com/035255_pink_slime_USDA_school_lunches.html) — the government may simply force everybody to buy it!
Yep, every month you’ll have your “pink slime quota” that you must meat — er, I mean meet — by purchasing pink slime at the grocery store, filling out twelve pages of documentation describing your purchase, then mailing it off to Washington with proof your purchase to a whole new federal department called “Food Usability for All” or just “F U All” for short.
#5) Air tickets
Given that the TSA has utterly destroyed the U.S. travel economy with its illegal, perverted “hands down your pants” search and seizure protocol, Obama must mandate that everybody buy one air ticket a month, whether you need it or not.
Supporting the travel industry is patriotic, didn’t you know? And if you refuse to buy an air ticket each month, you’ll be visited by TSA agents in your own home who will conduct a crotch-and-anus search of your entire family in lieu of you actually showing up at the airport for the search. This will be called a “pre-search” for the travel you’re supposed to be taking. You can never be too safe in the war on terror, right? Now bend over…
#6) A gun - but you have to carry it into Mexico and sell it to a drug gang member
This might be called the “Eric Holder” program: Every American will be required to buy a firearm at a gun shop in a state bordering Mexico, then walk that gun across the border and deposit it into the hands of the Mexican drug gangs.
Oh, wait… that program already exists. It’s called “Fast & Furious” or “Operation Gunwalker,” and it was dreamed up by Attorney General Eric Holder to cause gun violence by having ATF operatives buy guns in America and sell them to Mexican drug gangs. (http://www.naturalnews.com/032934_ATF_illegal_firearms.html)
#7) Obama Water - with electrolytes!
Coming soon: Obama Water! It’s got electrolytes! And if you drink it, you’ll get free rent for the rest of your life.
Or should I just call it the Obama Kool-Aid?
Either way, the government will make you buy it, and you can bet it will be “enhanced” with government-approved fluoride chemicals. But they can’t actually make you drink it, so flushing always remains an option for getting rid of the stuff.
(LOL! Read More →)
(Source: addtoany.com)
