[BFix] FW: The new Socialism!

[Stephen Urban]

You got it partly right at least sparky.  The IDEA of elected officials 
is indeed part of the Constitution and protected but as I said the 
actual elected officials aren't .  That is specifically why we don't 
swear allegiance to the current Government instead of the Constitution 
and even the President is mentioned secondary to the Constitution. 

The Founding Fathers were very aware of how power corrupts and that is 
why they signed off on the 1st and 2nd Amendments.  The First so that 
the people could have unfettered information as to what their elected 
officials were doing and the Second so that if things got too far out of 
hand that they could be removed if all else failed.  The control of both 
the Press and ownership of weapons were some of the first ways the 
British had tried to keep the Colonists in line. 

As has been demonstrated multiple times in the past all over the world, 
even when a country's citizens are informed enough to want to throw off 
the yoke of their  "elected"  officials, without the means to do so it 
is all but impossible.  So the first is of almost no real use without 
the second once things have gone downhill but the second allows the 
first to keep the slide from beginning in the first place.

Steve Urban
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sfu at roadrunner.com

Formerjughead at aol.com wrote:
> The elected officials are part and parcel of the Constitution and are 
> therefore one in the same. "Support and Defend the Constitution" does 
> not refer to the document as much as it does to the ideals contained 
> within it.
>  
> Next
>  
> In a message dated 4/25/2008 10:30:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
> sfu at roadrunner.com writes:
>
>     "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
>     support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all
>     enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
>     allegiance to the same...";.  Notice that you were swearing
>     allegiance
>     to the CONSTITUTION and not an elected official (of any party).  No
>     where does it say anything about protecting a political party or even
>     currently serving politicians.  Who by the way also all swear to
>     uphold
>     the Constitution.
>
>
>
>
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