{"id":84512,"date":"2023-02-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84512"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:38:45","slug":"inimical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84512","title":{"rendered":"Inimical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Rep. Liz Cheney<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant<br>Re:   It&#8217;s Not Me, It&#8217;s You<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep Cheney, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For that matters, I&#8217;m not the most passionate of your detractors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on this issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney\/status\/1627758909019639822\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So let me make sure I&#8217;m clear on this; if <em>our government <\/em>is violating the Constitution you&#8217;re wrapping yourself in, how long are we supposed to go along with it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Our country is governed by the Constitution&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One might hope.  But when the government turns the executive branch institutions &#8211; the FBI, IRS, BATFE, CDC &#8211; against the peoples freedom?  When the government trashes the separation of powers and undercuts federalism, and proposes violating the contract under which small states agreed to share some of their sovereignty with big states by eliminating the Electoral College and making the Senate reflect popular rather than state votes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;how long before dismissing those usurpations with an ofay &#8220;Well, the Constitution&#8221; isn&#8217;t by itself an answer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Secession is unconstitutional<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So was the American Revolution.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saying &#8220;secession is illegal&#8221; is like trying to end a moral argument with &#8220;&#8230;because the Bible said so&#8221;.  It&#8217;s vapid and cowardly.  Is it illegal even if the Constitution has been rendered moot?  Because saying that is like saying the preservation of government is the point, not the system the Constitution establishes and the eternal rights it enshrines.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which do you think it is, Rep. Cheney?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Rep. Liz CheneyFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: It&#8217;s Not Me, It&#8217;s You Rep Cheney, I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene. For that matters, I&#8217;m not the most passionate of your detractors. But on this issue? So let me make sure I&#8217;m clear on this; if our government is violating the Constitution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,377,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-the-second-civil-war","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84513,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84512\/revisions\/84513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}