Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Wedneday, March 28, 2012


I wish I could buy all the happy talk about yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court hearing on ObamaCare.

Here's the deal: Four members of the U.S. Supreme Court simply don't care what the Constitution of the United States says, let alone what our Founders and various Amendment writers and approvers meant.

Four members of the U.S. Supreme Court - Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayer, and Kegan - routinely put ideology above sincere Constitional adherence to when it comes to their rulings. They believe that America is a nation of men (and women), not laws, and that the Constitution is what they say it is at any particular point in time rather than the ultimate Rule of Law to be obeyed or changed via legal means... by which I mean the Constitutional Amendment process.

The fact that by and large this reality is simply "accepted" by most in the legal community, by most members of the Executive and Legislative branches, and most members of the citizenry as a whole, should serve to demonstrate why I constantly remark that the American Republic under the Rule of Law is dead.

Justice Kennedy...? The so-called swing vote? Regardless of what the logic of his questioning yesterday seemed to preview, he - like the "Court liberals" - has a history of ignoring the plain words and evident meaning of the Constitution when it suits his purposes.

I'll be honest with you, folks... the only Justice who I count as a sure vote against ObamaCare strictly based upon knowing the man reveres the Constitution above all else is Justice Thomas.

Scalia? Yes. I'm 95% confident that he'll vote to overturn ObamaCare, but you must understand... unlike Thomas, Scalia reveres the Constitution with an asterisk; Scalia believes if precedent is old enough and strong enough, it alone "changes" the Constitution and "over-writes" Original Intent.

Alito? I'm 98% confident he'll vote to overturn ObamaCare.

Roberts...? Let's say 90%.

If ObamaCare is not overturned... or even if the individual mandate is ruled unconstitutional yet the rest of ObamaCare is not struck down (as it technically "must" be since Congress didn't insert a severability clause into the legislation)... then America ceases to possess any true claim to retain the title of "Constitutional Republic."

Pray with me, friends.

Pray with me that at least five out of the nine men and women who sit upon the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States abide by their oaths and rule according to their sincere understanding of the Constitution rather than ruling on illegitimate "pragmatic" grounds that "just happen" to match their own personal policy preferences.

5 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/key-charges-dismissed-against-michigan-militia-members-charged-with-plotting-war-on-government/2012/03/27/gIQAfUYVeS_story.html

A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government’s case against seven members of a Michigan militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown rural extremists poised for war.

* FOLKS... (*SIGH*)... HOLDER AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ARE OUT OF CONTROL. (AND FRANKLY THIS SORT OF THING WAS GOING ON DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AS WELL.)

U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said the members’ expressed hatred of law enforcement didn’t amount to a conspiracy to rebel against the government.

* AND YET... HOLDER GAVE IT A SHOT!

* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... THESE BASTARDS COULD GO AFTER YOURS TRULY! NONE OF US IS SAFE. REMEMBER RUBY RIDGE MY FRIENDS... REMEMBER RUBY RIDGE.

The FBI had secretly planted an informant and an FBI agent inside the Hutaree militia starting in 2008 to collect hours of anti-government audio and video that became the cornerstone of the case.

* WHAT'S THE "JOKE" - FOR EVERY 10 "TERRORISTS" 9 ARE UNDERCOVER FEDS... (*SIGH*)

* SERIOUSLY, FOLKS... I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT IT'S NOT ONLY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT AT TIMES LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHICH ENGAGES IN ENTRAPMENT OF SIMPLY NUT-JOBS SO AS TO UP THEIR "SUCCESS" NUMBERS WITH REGARD TO "THE WAR ON TERROR."

[W]eapons crimes tied to the alleged conspiracies also were dismissed.

(*SMIRK*)

The trial, which began Feb. 13, will resume Thursday with only a few gun charges remaining against militia leader David Stone and son Joshua Stone, both from Lenawee County, Mich. They have been in custody without bond for two years.

* IN CUSTODY WITHOUT BOND FOR TWO YEARS...

(*SIGH*)

The FBI had put a local informant, Dan Murray, inside the militia in 2008 and paid him $31,000.

* JEEZUS FRIGG'N CHRIST! NOW THEY'RE OUTSOURCING ENTRAPMENT!

An FBI agent from New Jersey also was embedded.

* SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT... 2 OF THE 9 SUPPOSED MEMBERS OF THIS... er... TERRORIST CELL... WERE ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAYROLL?

(*SNORT*) (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* ANYWAY, FOLKS... YOU HAVE THE LINK. READ THE FULL ARTICLE FOR YOURSELVES.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/969867/14/Flash-robs-hit-downtown-Minneapolis

* ANIMALS.

* AGAIN, FOLKS... NO EXAGGERATION... WE'RE WITNESSING THE SLOW BUT STEADY DECLINE OF A ONCE GREAT NATION. JUST CONTEMPLATE THE "TONE" OF THE NEWSCASTERS... AS IF THEY WERE COMMENTING ON HOW STRANGE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE ZOO ANIMALS IS. I GUESS THEY DON'T SHOP AT THAT PARTICULAR MALL.

(*SMIRK*)

* NOPE.. NOT GONNA PULL THE TEXT. YOU FOLKS HAVE THE LINK - READ THE STORY FOR YOURSELVES AND WATCH THE VIDEO.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,823838,00.html

A few months after the U.S. withdrawal, it is clear that - despite Obama's claims - Iraq is neither sovereign, stable nor self-reliant.

* IT'S A TWO PAGE ARTICLE, FOLKS. READ IT FOR YOURSELVES.

(*SHRUG*)

* OR DON'T...

(*ANOTHER SHRUG*)

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294304/sun-also-sets-mark-steyn

(*SIGH*)

* JUST... (*PAUSE*)... JUST... (*ANOTHER PAUSE*)... JUST CUT AND PASTE THE LINK AND READ THE ESSAY.

(*ANOTHER SIGH*)

William R. Barker said...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/state-dept-avoids-saying-whether-jerusalem-capital-israel_634793.html

There was an amazing exchange today at the [Obama/Clinton] State Department press briefing when the press secretary refused to say that Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel.

“We are not going to prejudge the outcome of those negotiations, including the final status of Jerusalem,” State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said in response the question.

* YOU SHOULD READ THIS ARTICLE FOLKS, AS WELL AS READING THE ARTICLE THAT THIS LATEST INCIDENT CAME OUT OF:

http://freebeacon.com/state-department-wont-say-jerusalem-is-in-israel/

The [Obama/Clinton] State Department has altered an official communication to erase the fact that it had referred to Israel and Jerusalem as separate entities.

Keeping up with its longstanding policy, the State Department refuses to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s official capital — despite a U.S. law stating otherwise.

* DESPITE A U.S. LAW STATING OTHERWISE.

* WELL, FOLKS... THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP.