Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Liberals don\u2019t like the notion that government power should be restrained, because then they can\u2019t use government power to do what they want to do when they want to do it.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they pick and choose which Constitutional Amendments are important, and which are not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which was a central point of both\u00a0A Nation of Cowards\u00a0<\/em>and The Embarassing Second Amendment<\/i>, two of the seminal articles that led from the anti-gun misery of the eighties to where we are today, by the way.<\/p>\n
I digress.<\/p>\n
First Amendment protection of Freedom of Speech is favored \u2013 when the speech is favored.\u00a0 But not hate speech, which is any speech that I hate.\u00a0 That\u2019s not protected so it can be restrained before it\u2019s even spoken, to avoid upsetting people.<\/p>\n
First Amendment protection of Religion is favored \u2013 for Muslims seeking to establish an alternative sharia system in America.\u00a0 But not for Christians who object to baking wedding cakes for Sodomites or nuns who object to paying insurance premiums for abortion coverage; those religious practices must be suppressed so the rest of society can enjoy freedom from religious oppression.<\/p>\n
Second Amendment protection of individual right to firearms \u2013 horrible.\u00a0 Obsolete, dangerous, must be thrown out at once.\u00a0 Only government officials should legally possess firearms.\u00a0 And criminals, so long as they stay in the ghetto and leave us alone.\u00a0 And bodyguards for celebrities.\u00a0 Also politicians and heavy contributors who live in gated communities . . .\u00a0 you know, the important people; not the little people in fly-over land bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.<\/p>\n
Fourth Amendment protection against Search and Seizure is so important we no longer stop-and-frisk the 8% of the population that we know commits 50% of the murders in the nation.\u00a0 Unless we suspect you might have contributed to Republicans, then a John Doe investigation can seize everything you own and prohibit you from protesting the seizure.<\/p>\n
Seriously, it\u2019s as if Liberals don\u2019t want a President so much as a King.\u00a0 Barack the First has a nice ring to it, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 It\u2019d be one way to avoid listening to Bernie and Hilary snipe at The Donald for a whole \u2018nuther year \u2013 cancel the elections and hold a Rose Garden coronation instead. \u00a0That whole 22nd<\/sup> Amendment thing \u2013 yeah, just ignore that.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have this thing where I joke about something for years, and then find out it actually happened.<\/p>\n
I’ve been joking about\u00a0Barack Rex<\/em> for quite some time now.<\/p>\n
You smelling what I’m cooking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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