Cry from the Heart : on the importance of the 14th Amendment to defend Life, Liberty, and Peace in the United States of AmericaSubmitted by Cyril on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 02:40
My Dear American friends,
I now have this overwhelming feeling that for the stakes of preserving Liberty and Peace in the near future in this country, you/we the People, SHALL NOT overlook the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE of understanding, and defending the best we can the full extent of application of the 14th Amendment.
This Amendment, and OUR DEFENSE OF ITS TEXT AND SPIRIT, may be our last protective resort against a Federal Government possibly going mad and ALREADY threatening LIFE AND LIBERTY OF ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS on the US soil.
Below, I am highlighting the passages that I feel will be of the MOST IMPORTANT relevance:
(Reread carefully if not already familiar enough)
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
This 14th Amendment, of course, largely speaks for itself, but also within and throughout the entire text of the Constitution.
But the point I am trying to make here, is that I feel we/you, the People, MUST DEFEND with all our heart, sweat, and tears, the notion that the passages highlighted above CAN AND SHOULD, FOR AND BY the People, be understood AS MUCH ABOUT INSURRECTION OR REBELLION COMING FROM POSSIBLE DOMESTIC ENEMIES, INCLUDING SOME IN OFFICE, as about "conventional" foreign enemies, that the former (domestic enemies possibly in office) would like the People to be EXCLUSIVELY focusing on.
Please spread this word if it speaks to you.
PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW OR ACCEPT THAT TRAITORS MANGLE, MUTILATE THE INTERPRETATION OF THIS WISE, PRUDENT AMENDMENT
To read more about the 14th Amendment :
Also, Ron Paul, on how the 9th, 10th, and 14th have been used by some "judges who see themselves as social activists, [and whose] vision of justice is more important than the letter of the laws they are sworn to interpret and uphold" :
(Ron Paul, 2003)
For OUR Life, Liberty, and Peace,
I've eventually come to agree that the People might (or will likely) want to repeal this 14th Amendment one day, probably soon after this Restoration Revolution we're engaged into completes. Till then, I believe this same amendment, esp. section 3, can still be a useful "Judoka" helper for the defense of the Constitution FOR AND BY the People, in an interpretation that includes this amendment.
See : http://www.dailypaul.com/225042/cry-from-the-heart-on-the-im...
(Thanks to Republicae)