AmberDawn35 Forum Posts (73)

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

Have you met any "hot" aides?

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

I can see it now...they go around and collect all your posts then use them in a mudslinging campaign.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

your not moral! you must be a deviant! recount those votes!!!

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

Just get a truckload of manure and tell them to grab a handful of the promises kept from the opposition.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

Yep its funny how dumb they think we are...promise you the moon and deliver dirt.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

Thats right.
With absolute power comes corruption.
You will be a good represenative as long as you don't allow yourself to be bought.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

maybe start fund raising rallys and such...but don't become obligated to anyone except the people you represent.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

Thomas Jefferson said we need one of those every 30 years.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

Yes, how can they really represent you when they are so out of touch with the people they are supposed to speak for?
Guess you can't grow up to be president anymore...or a congressman, senator.
It's really sad you have to be rich to run for office.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

Stir things up THATS whats needed.

RE: Have you ever wanted to go into politics?

I thought about it but America might get on the right track...then I'd get assassinated.
Too many lawyers in politics..we need to distinguish ourselves to the Republic ideals of government and get out of the Democracy death trap we are in.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

seperation of church and state is in the federalist papers (these are not laws)

the first admendment of the constitution 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.

To define: they will not make a law ESTABLISHING or Favoring any religion over another.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

Moses wasn't the only one who talked to god.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

So Joshua was insane?
King David was insane?
Just adding some humor don't blow a gasket or something.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

Thats the chain of command...didn't you kmow that?

"be careful what you wish for...you might get it"

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

I believe Colin Powell would be a good president.
The truly great presidents have came and gone long ago, but Powell I believe would do a good job.

And Jerry good posts!

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

Notice that in a Democracy, the sovereignty is in the whole body of the free citizens. The sovereignty is not divided to smaller units such as individual citizens. To solve a problem, only the whole body politic is authorized to act. Also, being citizens, individuals have duties and obligations to the government. The government's only obligations to the citizens are those legislatively pre-defined for it by the whole body politic.

In a Republic, the sovereignty resides in the people themselves, whether one or many. In a Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives as he chooses to solve a problem. Further, the people have no obligation to the government; instead, the government being hired by the people, is obliged to its owner, the people.

The people own the government agencies. The government agencies own the citizens. In the United States we have a three-tiered cast system consisting of people ---> government agencies ---> and citizens.

The people did "ordain and establish this Constitution," not for themselves, but "for the United States of America." In delegating powers to the government agencies the people gave up none of their own. (See Preamble of U.S. Constitution). This adoption of this concept is why the U.S. has been called the "Great Experiment in self government." The People govern themselves, while their agents (government agencies) perform tasks listed in the Preamble for the benefit of the People. The experiment is to answer the question, "Can self-governing people coexist and prevail over government agencies that have no authority over the People?"

The citizens of the United States are totally subject to the laws of the United States (See 14th Amendment of U.S. Constitution). NOTE: U.S. citizenship did not exist until July 28, 1868.

Actually, the United States is a mixture of the two systems of government (Republican under Common Law, and democratic under statutory law). The People enjoy their God-given natural rights in the Republic. In a democracy, the Citizens enjoy only government granted privileges (also known as civil rights).

There was a great political division between two major philosophers, Hobbes and Locke. Hobbes was on the side of government. He believed that sovereignty was vested in the state. Locke was on the side of the People. He believed that the fountain of sovereignty was the People of the state. Statists prefer Hobbes. Populists choose Locke. In California, the Government Code sides with Locke. Sections 11120 and 54950 both say, "The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them." The preambles of the U.S. and California Constitutions also affirm the choice of Locke by the People.

It is my hope that the U.S. will always remain a Republic, because I value individual freedom.

Thomas Jefferson said that liberty and ignorance cannot coexist.

Please take note, don't insult scoff because if so you fall under the above quote and I feel sorry for you.

The United States is a republic.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

REPUBLIC vs. DEMOCRACY

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

In the Pledge of Allegiance we all pledge allegiance to our Republic, not to a democracy. "Republic" is the proper description of our government, not "democracy." I invite you to join me in raising public awareness regarding that distinction.

The distinction between our Republic and a democracy is not an idle one. It has great legal significance.

The Constitution guarantees to every state a Republican form of government (Art. 4, Sec. 4). No state may join the United States unless it is a Republic. Our Republic is one dedicated to "liberty and justice for all." Minority individual rights are the priority. The people have natural rights instead of civil rights. The people are protected by the Bill of Rights from the majority. One vote in a jury can stop all of the majority from depriving any one of the people of his rights; this would not be so if the United States were a democracy. (see People's rights vs Citizens' rights)

In a pure democracy 51 beats 49. In a democracy there is no such thing as a significant minority: there are no minority rights except civil rights (privileges) granted by a condescending majority. Only five of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments apply to Citizens of the United States. Simply stated, a democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. Socrates was executed by a democracy: though he harmed no one, the majority found him intolerable.

SOME DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS

Government. ....the government is but an agency of the state, distinguished as it must be in accurate thought from its scheme and machinery of government. ....In a colloquial sense, the United States or its representatives, considered as the prosecutor in a criminal action; as in the phrase, "the government objects to the witness." [Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 625]

Government; Republican government. One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom those powers are specially delegated. In re Duncan, 139 U.S. 449, 11 S.Ct. 573, 35 L.Ed. 219; Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162, 22 L.Ed. 627. [Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 626]

Democracy. That form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation, as distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy. Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, pp. 388-389.

Note: Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, can be found in any law library and most law offices.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

WHY DEMOCRACIES FAIL

A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.(Written by Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago while our thirteen original states were still colonies of Great Britain. At the time he was writing of the decline and fall of the Athenian Republic over two thousand years before.

sorry your so combative over the issue...but the United States is and was designed as a republic.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Staff.

CITIZENSHIP

This manual supersedes Manual of Citizenship Training The use of the publication "The Constitution of the United States," by Harry Atwood, is by permission and courtesy of the author.

CITIZENSHIP Democracy:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy

CITIZENSHIP Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress. Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world. A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of

(1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their government acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Atwood. Superior to all others.--Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered. Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success. Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy * * * and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."



"By order of the Secretary of War: C.P. Summerall, Major General, Chief of Staff. Official: Lutz Wahl, Major General, The Adjutant General.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

just wanted to add we are a republic not a democracy.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

I understand what you're saying Mitchell.

Seems they keep screaming its Bush its Bush.

When in reality (and by the facts) It's not just Bush, the democrats and republican's are equally to blame.


Instead of using your so sharply toned skills of hindsight whats a solution, not someones elses ideas...your own...and please don't start with diplomacy...we all know it never has or will work in the middle east so lets not pretend it will.

And stop the blame game...let's hear some real ideas on the issue and what can be done.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

checkmate. hindsight for them is always 20/20.

RE: Looking for a snowbunny

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

Are you implying that lying under oath isnt a felony? FACT it is.
Are you implying people didn't die at Waco and Ruby Ridge? FACT they did.
Yes the "common barbie" was insulting and you're fully aware that it was.
Oh and by the way...the statements ARE facts.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

Clinton was "under oath" and had just committed a felony.
People died under Clinton as well...in America by his admin. and he lied about that as well.


Common Barbie? I'll stop laughing when you begin to make some sort of sense. And you can insult all you want I don't lower myself to that degree.

RE: Bush is a Duffer (dunce, dense)

They wanted to impeach Clinton for lying to congress under oath.
And were right in doing so.

RE: A British View on the Iraq Fiasco

William Jefferson Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States in 1992

the war was still going on therefore it ended during his admin.

A sharp tongue is no indication of a keen mind.

The last President worth his salt was Andrew Jackson.

Perhaps your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

RE: A British View on the Iraq Fiasco

If you look at the laws in America a hand grenade is classified as a weapon of mass destruction.

9/11 no. It's clear who did that.

If you mean weapon of mass destruction as in a long range missle none were found but the inspectors were not complied with. That caused us to believe they had altered existing missles to increase their range.

SCUD missles can very easily be outfitted to greatly increase their range (and they had lots of these).

As for putting words in my mouth..nice try but think again.

Statement holds true..Clinton pulled out before the job was done. Just informing him who didn't "finnish the job" as it was apparent he didn't know.