Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Why You May Question Entrusting It To Voters To Decide Your Constitutional Rights
Mark Dice frequently makes these videos that he uploads to YouTube where he stops people he meets on the street and asks them to support outrageous causes just to prove the inability of so many people to discern what's being spoken to them, particularly when it involves their fundamental constitutional rights. In this video, he asks citizens to sign a petition to repeal the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. Yep, he finds plenty of takers.
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They are among us!
-I call them Democrats
I love the Man Show bit where they went to the Mall to get women to sign a petition to end women's suffrage because, after all, women have suffered enough.
These same dopes also choose legislators and executive officers.
You're impugning democracy, though you may not be aware of the ultimate consequences of your sentiment.
Why not accept that democracy isn't the great idea they'd have us believe it is?
Why not accept the possibility that a universal franchise doesn't best serve democracy?
I can't change the people the voters choose to elect. That's why I would fight to my death to keep our constitutional rights untouched. The founders didn't entrust their fundamental rights to the voters or the politicians either; that's why they put those rights in the constitution.
Democracy, the god that failed.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
It's a cute stunt, but I don't quite know where the argument takes you, unless it's simply that you darned well ought to be able to let future voters be able to undo what current voters enact, along with what current legislatures (generally composed of folks of equally average common sense) enact.
:)...and other lives... Blogger Gary R. Welsh said...
I can't change the people the voters choose to elect. That's why I would fight to my death to keep our constitutional rights untouched. The founders didn't entrust their fundamental rights to the voters or the politicians either; that's why they put those rights in the constitution.
Supposedly we are a nation governed by law, but the law is merely a reflection of popular opinion. The law over time morphs in response to our culture's values and such. Who can control public opinion sufficiently, can pass any law and do anything. (I'm not including dictatorships like N Korea)
Democrats use this tactic to reduce gun rights. Republicans used this tactic to start Desert Storm. Shift opinion on any contested issue, and the law can be shifted.
Example - animal rights activists used popular opinion regarding horses, to ban horse meat. Americans have every right to slaughter and eat any animal we please, as long as health rules are followed, and we respect endangered species. But the animal fans got the federal government to defund USDA inspections of any horse slaughtering facilities. So it's not illegal to eat horsemeat, but it might as well be because it can't be sold in the US without USDA stamps.
Side note, the tactic behind the horsemeat ban is being used to ban abortion. Republicans can't make abortion illegal, but they can enact laws at the state level to regulate abortion out of existence. This is Pat Miller's mantra.
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