tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post223290860614794113..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-91756875668188313802014-01-30T06:47:02.913-05:002014-01-30T06:47:02.913-05:00Supposedly 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&#39;s values and such. Who can control public opinion sufficiently, can pass any law and do anything. (I&#39;m not including dictatorships like N Korea)<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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&#39;s not illegal to eat horsemeat, but it might as well be because it can&#39;t be sold in the US without USDA stamps.<br /><br />Side note, the tactic behind the horsemeat ban is being used to ban abortion. Republicans can&#39;t make abortion illegal, but they can enact laws at the state level to regulate abortion out of existence. This is Pat Miller&#39;s mantra.Unigovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15532072215831286109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-37840133319825875552014-01-29T23:13:56.520-05:002014-01-29T23:13:56.520-05:00:)...and other lives... Blogger Gary R. Welsh said...<br /><br /> I can&#39;t change the people the voters choose to elect. That&#39;s why I would fight to my death to keep our constitutional rights untouched. The founders didn&#39;t entrust their fundamental rights to the voters or the politicians either; that&#39;s why they put those rights in the constitution. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8987683740273098942014-01-29T14:20:50.507-05:002014-01-29T14:20:50.507-05:00It&#39;s a cute stunt, but I don&#39;t quite know where the argument takes you, unless it&#39;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. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-22210520867871161952014-01-29T12:14:15.718-05:002014-01-29T12:14:15.718-05:00Democracy, the god that failed.<br /><br />Hans-Hermann Hoppe<br /><br />Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.<br /><br />H. L. MenckenEric Morrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-74410056073461285702014-01-29T10:54:56.722-05:002014-01-29T10:54:56.722-05:00I can&#39;t change the people the voters choose to elect. That&#39;s why I would fight to my death to keep our constitutional rights untouched. The founders didn&#39;t entrust their fundamental rights to the voters or the politicians either; that&#39;s why they put those rights in the constitution. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-71980915667372505182014-01-29T10:51:51.575-05:002014-01-29T10:51:51.575-05:00These same dopes also choose legislators and executive officers.<br /><br />You&#39;re impugning democracy, though you may not be aware of the ultimate consequences of your sentiment. <br /><br />Why not accept that democracy isn&#39;t the great idea they&#39;d have us believe it is? <br /><br />Why not accept the possibility that a universal franchise doesn&#39;t best serve democracy? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-45018738450656037742014-01-29T08:32:15.425-05:002014-01-29T08:32:15.425-05:00I love the Man Show bit where they went to the Mall to get women to sign a petition to end women&#39;s suffrage because, after all, women have suffered enough.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-17748729676898314422014-01-29T05:48:46.466-05:002014-01-29T05:48:46.466-05:00They are among us!<br /><br />-I call them DemocratsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com