Comments on: What is ‘Rational Management?’

By lysander on 07-24-08

Kudos to Mr. Skinner.  Finally, a journalist who gives life to the only operative verb in the 2nd Amendment:  “infringed” (in this case “shall not be infringed").  Questioning why SCOTUS couldn’t face up to “shall not be infringed” should be the topic for another day.  Maybe the Marbury v. Madison (1803) ruling will become applicable one day: 
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”

By RobertG on 07-24-08

“What is ‘Rational Management?’’ My father and grandfather teaching me gun safety, weapon maintance and marksmenship? Now my turn to teach my grandchildren? Rational.

No honest man needs to know anothers business without permission; too many of our elected leaders and their overpaid senior bureaucrats have no faith in us at all which is proof that they have no intention of PROTECTING our Rights. If the law is wrong and violates my rights as a citizen and freeman I just might have to ignore that law. These elected leaders and their overpaid senior bureaucrats might want to dust off their copy of the Decleration of Independence.

By mrbuck1911 on 07-24-08

Nice points. Regarding the Patriot Act, the Constitution and the rights that it protects should not be used to protect those who really want to destroy it, i.e. terrorists. That said, one should be allowed his day in court to prove that he is not one of those terrorist. Mistaken identity should not be glossed over merely because we are fighting a global war on terror.

By E. Zach Lee-Wright on 07-24-08

I am amazed at how often people lose focus when reading the second amendment.  Consider the phrase “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.  The operative word is “right”.  States do not have rights.  People have rights, states have powers.  Only powers.  By protecting the right of citizens to be armed Madison was making available a citizen militia for the states needing one.  At the same time he was protecting our rights to use guns in any lawful fashion including hunting, sport, self protection, or the occasional overthrow of a over reaching, self serving, non-representative government. 

What do the mayors of the District of Columbia, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco have in common?  Well, lets see.  Over reaching, self serving....

By Santee on 07-24-08

We have patiently waited while our government, local, state and federal have chipped away at the very freedom, which they are called upon by oath, to protect and uphold.  The rights of the citizens found in the Bill of Rights are limitations upon the government at whatever level to infringe.  The Constitution is the law of the land as stated in Article IV of the United States Constitution:

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

An attack or weakening of any right of the people, is an attack upon liberty and should be viewed as such.  The rights in the Constitution are not to be infringed at any governmental level or by any governmental agency.  Any legal restriction of any right of the people becomes operative only when an individual uses an individual right to infringe upon the individual right of another.  Thus, the legal injuctions against libel, slander, murder, larceny and etc.  No other restrictions are needed per the rights of the people and no others are justified and are thus unconstitutional.

“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that `if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.’ It is a very serious consideration...that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.” --Samuel Adams, speech in Boston, 1771

By Santee on 07-24-08

Correction:  It is Article VI of the U.S.C. and not article IV.

By mat on 07-26-08

its too bad the revolution wont be televised, which means most of you will probably miss it.

By RobertG on 07-27-08

>>By mat on 07-26-08
its too bad the revolution wont be televised, which means most of you will probably miss it. <<
Which YOU will miss it mat? While conflicted about civil unrest here there are elements I think need attacking. I do have acountry to protect and children and grandchildren.

Revolutions do often get out of hand and Eat their Children.

By Russell Joseph Wilson on 07-27-08

Ahem....... These several United States were founded
by “The Revolutionary War” . Sooo, what has gotten out of
hand ? The ‘leaders’ the establishment of autocratic bureaucracies and self-serving special interests’ ‘laws’ and
regulations..... “gonzo journalism” that includes in its’
arsenal of deception ,’to print out right lies and fabrications’,
to ensure politically correct public response and more
importantly to ‘them’—reined public and political proaction.
How Machiavellian !
‘at’s part and parcel as to ‘why’ there exists this
Amendment, we call ‘The Second!’
History is our guide, clarity and justification.
Till then,locked and loaded,SittingMoose,Shaman.

By mat on 07-27-08

I wont miss it, i’ll be camped out on some land with my sniper scope focused in on my next meal… Whoever that might be.  I love the term civil war, its an oxymoron, just like “the united states.”

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By RobertG on 07-28-08

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