Gary Stein The Sun-Sentinel

August 12, 2012

Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel

RE: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” - Some comments on the theory posited by you that plaid is the favorite color, the only possible color, of card carrying modern American Liberals when discussing the Constitution in today’s screed in the Sun-Sentinel.

Big Stein,

I know. I know.

You missed me.

In order to avoid the Obamacare Death Panels I chose to have elective surgery last month. A few things happened post-op that prevented me from administering several well deserved floggings for your perpetual use of tautologies taken directly from the sacred script of modern American Liberalism.

I am back because of your typically eclectic m. A.L. interpretation of the Constitution. Also, your subtle, 12 volt battery through the window, suggestion that knuckle dragging, gun loving Tea Partiers having never read the damn thing should begin to read it.

Let’s begin with this.

I read it. All the time. I am never far from a copy in either home or office.

Little nuggets that are favorites of mine include Article 1, Section 10, Part 1. That’s the one that permits the use of letters of marque and reprisal, gold and silver being the only basis for currency, and benign neglect towards the content of contracts but a fierce devotion to upholding the freely entered into parts of same.

There’s another section that guarantees each state a Republican form of government AND protection from invasion. You can look that one up. A little exercise never hurt anyone.

Can we stipulate that some parts are observed more in the breach?

I intentionally have omitted the part known as “enumerated powers” lest it drive you mad.

My crown jewel of the early cases that shaped it is Gibbons v Ogden. It involves New Jersey, of which I am a proud native son, and, mirabile dictum, political corruption. I am pleased to see that corruption is no longer something unique to my Garden State.

Before Snooki and the Sopranos white envelopes were being exchanged in various city halls. It was like tipping the waiter before the meal.

There is a lesson in here about human nature but that’s not why I write. That having been said it is time to focus on the entrée, the First Amendment.

The key to understanding it is to focus on the first five words of the sentence. Let me amend that thus: “The first five majestic words of the sentence”.

“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW…”

This divinely inspired document did not appear full blown in Philadelphia in 1787. 22 centuries before those words were set down a DWEM [and a combat wounded veteran, to boot] said

“FREE MEN SPEAK WITH FREE TONGUES”

Natural law tells us that certain rights are ours “from beyond the stars”. The Constitution did not give us those rights. No government can. In fact, History shows that one of the main functions of government, any government, is to take away rights. Our Constitution simply codified them.

It is indeed fitting and proper to note that the Constitution, a work product of James Madison, spells out exactly what the government can do. The Bill of Rights, with George Mason being the main author, tells us what government cannot do.

If, as you write, the idea of preventing Chick-fil-a from opening stores because of their views on same sex marriage – Could the word irony be better defined than by saying that their views were exactly the same, tit for tit, tat for tat, as the one shared by President Obama as recently as June? – was “wrong” and “was panned by even by liberals, a question remains.

How would you classify Chicago Mayor Foul Mouth Emmanuel? Chicago is a city where 4 year olds are gunned down in drug turf wars. The Mayor actually begged teen age hit men to look before they shoot lest they kill infants. Would Chicago “values”, the ones that Chick-fil-a don’t share, allow an odd/even day gunfight schedule?

How would you classify Boston Mayor Mumbles Mush Mouth Menino? If Chick-fil-a were to open some stores in Boston in this, lest we forget, the 3rd Summer of Recovery, environment would those “created” jobs be twice counted? Is it true that the hardest job to keep filled at City Hall is the one that requires a visual inspection of the Mayor’s mouth to prevent the dopey bastard from putting his teeth in upside down and backwards?


If those two mooks are modern American Liberals woe betide the country.

“And when you cut down every law to get at the devil and he turned round on you where would you hide, the laws all being flat?”

Thank God for the Constitution!




KEVIN SMITH
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