Soapbox Archives March 2007

Soap Box Archives - March 2007

03/27/2007 Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".

In order to survive, we need to bring Jesus back into government. - Fred Hoot

03/23/2007 If you have watched the Smarter Than a Fifth Grader show, this shows that Sixth Graders are even smarter. A group of sixth graders just had a trial and determined that while the earth has warmed, mankind is not at fault. What was the big item swaying them to this conclusion? "Hawaii has volcanoes; volcanoes emit CO2."

Let's send these kids to congress. They'd probably be a lot better than the CO2 bags that are there now.

When I went to school, the same groups of "scientists" said global cooling would put us under a mile of ice by 2000. If the weathermen cannot tell if it is going to rain two months from now, am I to believe nonexperts in the weather can predict 10 years from now? Maybe they still believe that Gore invented the Internet.

03/09/2007

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shot down the D.C gun ownership ban the City Council had implemented. This decision, although great for the citizens of Washington D.C. who need to defend themselves (particularly the poorer sections of the city where crime is the greatest), has possibly farther reaching consequences.

The ruling states that the Second Amendment right is an individual right.

The court ruled as follows on page 20 of its decision:

In sum, the phrase “the right of the people,” when read intratextually and in light of Supreme Court precedent, leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual. This proposition is true even though “the people” at the time of the founding was not as inclusive a concept as “the people” today. See Robert E. Shallope, To Keep and Bear Arms in the Early Republic, 16 CONST. COMMENT. 269, 280-81 (1999). To the extent that non-whites, women, and the propertyless were excluded from the protections afforded to “the people,” the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is understood to have corrected that initial constitutional shortcoming.

In short, this brings back on the table the premise that in the entire Constitution, the word “people” serves to describe the individual citizen.

While the Washington D.C. City Council will likely appeal this ruling, this may bring about the possibility of the Supreme court ruling on the Second Amendment as a right of the people as individuals.